New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-18

and ramooyant- ivan Melton, sxclaimins ny
dear old chap" My dear old Charlie" after hav-
inquiries had been made as 70 dear old Charhs's'
chances OF future existence accompanies ~ many
know whatever I shall do without you"
''Touu be all right You'll find plenty Ike
Every has his master. lucky Il ne never meets
him You might help Clara Il you feel Ike H.
Hard times old chap. Yes even for ne; as
keep right with the right people 4 you don't cocker
trust IN me; By the way. there's something due to
a hundred and thirty-tnrse pounds"
"Phew that's a lot! I've got a tsn-pound note IN
my pocket. old chap. Il that's any good to 90 on
7 don't want a ten-pound note"
bTs f rEs Gear boy Cod SsJ FORGET ns come ONE
IKE ne 10 send YOU a pinsappIs or sons nics
grapes Ell? And or Ivan Melton went
''vagabOndr' nnuttered Charlie as the door shut
after his friend-yag abond! Little enough Will
trunk. on. Lord, I hope she win Be firm"
Meantime he musing thus Ivan Melton
had got Up into the phaston. and was driving back
he aid SO he mutsered to himself: Its ali right
Not line OF manuscript IN existsncs. I took care
OF that. and typescript tells no tales. Only what
The deuce Is 70 become Of ne II he pops oG3
iaS a'v'F ind another one Ike him to take his
Poor Charlie did pop or IN the middle OF a
months later, Clara returned &c town from her
mothers, and began 70 dismantIs the house. Ire
70 her Jpon which she went up to the study. and
proceeded to open -
When she had done so she started back as 4 an
adder has sprung at her. For IN 'front.' Or below.
script m her late hus5an- handwriting and each
heap bore rs front page the title OF OF Ivan
Melons novels. from his first IBID Ne Good
By and Co. down 20 bis last "a Monarch'S Bride
NY God-' Clara exclaimed What does q
Then she picked out OF the top heap a letter sd-
dressed TO her and opened II. and read as follows;
Darling: I have been Ivan Melton's ghost for
years. I have written al tis novels. He gave
e IS. per thou say. and got 80 10s.. and
the kud0s I sent them 20 him chapter BY chapter:
he had them typed IN the country under his
name. and then burnt my MS. But IN spite % the
labor which turned every thousand words tntC
two thousand I made a copy OF them all IN my
own hand. Here they are ] would have
given him away-even 70 you. my pet-only 70 was
he who set all bis friends on 20 slate Pomsyranats
Kisses wherever they could DO 50, to notice
II al all: and he lent a hand himself the game.
He used 70 boast that he let rival IN whsrs
with whom he had quarreled wrote to me- and
told me al about Il Their letters IN the trunk
below the last Ms. I told you thers was an an
nuity here II you manage things well GOOdoy my
own. You win aid me waiting for you n the next
world. CHARLIE
same she never got anything out Of Ivan Melton
His next novel but one created stir among bis
friends. y nowhere else, since they, with the
best will IN the world, thought that his powers
must have left him suddenly; and even their stu
Dendous efforts 70 write the book up failed before
The one after that even worse. II possible.
and they say that he now prOclaims novel writing
70 be a pursuit unworthy OF OK gsnt1A. And
Is going into Finance.-tThe King