The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-09
THE COUNTERFEIT CAB DRIVER.

I'd. @. Paine In New York News.)
Il sent for you" said the city editor.
to ask If YOU had seen the Sunday
Photograph"
l confessed that | had somewhat
more than casually glanced through il.
Did you read this article?'
And he handed me a section of that
| highly colOred volume with a two-col-
umn story violently indicated with the
editorial red pencil.
II did" l acknowledged. without
having 10 look at the scarehead, The
Counterfeit Cab Driver, or the De-
| tected Detective-How the Morning
Phonograph Scooped the Daily Tele-
| phone on an Important Assignment. ."
Every man in the city room had
asked me the same question.
Well. sir" remarked the city editor,
ITS up to you"
And this is what he got:
For reasons largely economical
and entirely personal / have been put
thing up at-and with-a refined family
/ boarding house in East Thirty-seventh
/ street In the same house, oddly
enough, resides Miss Annette Grace,
the charming and attractive daughter
/ OF Judge Grace of Memphis, a young
| lady of large dramatic ambitions and
| promising degree of fulfillmept. In
! spite OF the fact that | am employed
I on this paper we are the best of
/ friends. Her kindly disposition toward
I me ] do not pretend TO account for. but
/ her antipathy to the Daily Telephone
/ Is based on an article headed High
| Living and High Kicking, i'm which
1 Mr.. Vale gave an untrue and libeIous
| account of the accident in which she
/ broke her ankle while practicing the
new dance she was to have introduced
! in her part in A Stay-at-HOme Girl.
/ / was not on the stan at the time, and
/ Vale sailed for Europe the next day,
! so / was unable either TO secure a re-
/ traction or 10 punch his head. But
as all the other papers gave her sym
/ pathetic and complimentary notices.
/ her unfriendly feeling for this journal
| Is perhaps not unnatural.
] a few days ago Miss Grace besought
my counsel and assistance in a matter
/ that was troubling her. A letter which
| had been delivered at the theatre for
her had evidently been opened and. in
ferentially, read II was impossible TO
tell by whom. The stage d0Okeeper
| swore that IL had come TO him in the
| same condition in which ii had gone
/ TO her. The note was from a male
relative OF hers who was anxious 10
! keep his presence in the city a pro-
| found secret.
He was known TO people at the
] boarding house and at the theatre, and
/ 50 had written 10 her to pick him up
/ in her cab on a side street and go with
/ him TO some quiet restaurant. the
! Golden Buck. unless she could suggest
a better, where in one of the small
/ rooms they could talk unobserved and
/ 90 over certain documents. As he had
l not given his address she could not
warn him that his note had been inter-
/ cepted and tempered with. She would
have to wait until she met him. she
\ was afraid that somebody might be
1 trying to make trouble for him. and
/ she was not in the least DESTROYS OF
being mixed up with IT, and getting
any more newspaper notices of the
High Living and High Kicking va
riety.
II suggested that II nothing had
| happened by the time he hailed her
cab any future trouble could be avoid
ed by going not to the Golden Buck.
but TO Franks oyster house, where
each table il in small alcove
she decided 10 follow my advice
but begged me TO go there, too, and in
case OF any unpleasant encounter 10
put her into her cab and send heI
home, and then do everything / could
TO keep her name out of the papers.
agreed. of course. and secured an as
slgnment for that evening which sim
ply necessitated my telephOning a few
words 10 the ONCE about II o'clock
1 was greatly annoyed by being held