New-York tribune., 1904-05-30

7 shan nave pleasure in sending you caecqus
for III which believe was The price ssreed on-is
lola GAMBLE
"EusinessIke eh2- ana Lutterworth aid the
letter aside ard continued viva voce.
private address 7 received an Irvi5a,ion to raks
Tea with her the following SlnGay. scaEeeS ss.
Two notes were-wen what shall Z call it-raths7
ton was worth IN efoSt. twenty suiaeas was
sum and there might De more ~ follow i pGS "a
in ass reetly lighted drawing room can't tel
you exactly what haDrened-rotalng happened,
that J was expected 10 kiss Lola She s1id notn-
point that interpretation but-you're man.
presume. and can supply the hiatus. As was
- l vS- 81 - -. n 80 go S-r-;r - r. - --li-s
so-Guite SO See9 IN lraTe Sane51 is TOO goo6
Now way dld she say we. and why dd she say
US 1 remember her words disttactly and tho
emphasis and The hanGsA;-ke, and the ghost OF a
Nanetti's forgeries-aobody could prove them. Have
behavior-tt must feel Ike that Too good for
us-the phrase made common ground II was elev-
iaperce2uible baseness existed-or did not exist.
a lsncy you may say We'll I believe in fanSiss
those days~but one draws a line what is it-seIf-
respect or Dridea There Is no need to labor ths
hing II was impossible. The last week of The
so man5. she said I gave it TO a friend and he
next 70 Lo.2 Gam5ie for an act She LEFT az 10
again. JanUsry ended and the first week Of Feoru-
been so explicit on that point
II wrote for them No answer. week later
wrOte aga ain I was working on The Redeerers az
the time and novels cost money 70 write You earn
nothing TIL they do =. and had run II pretty
NE three weeks as we'll Yes. had ecnscience
at the beginning. but little cash
AT the END OF February wrote again-a blunt
things then The Redeemers' all but finished.
ard the twenty Su1neas would have seen
debt at my lodgings, and row IL pawning day
Ie let Lola have it. And this IS what happened,'-
spoke, ard declaimed as under
acknowledge Mr. LutterwOrth's three notes and 20
say that II Mr.. LutterwOrth cannot wait FOR pay
IN the oriina- course ~ b-s1es@ me rSIi-or wiz
be very napp- 70 return the Ms at once"
"No-not at al How could To- asked Lutter-
worth Il owed rent. my watch and pin were IN
pawn pawn, and TT The Redetemers wanted five more
cIiaptsTs; ! ntd % swallow Y -; But all the
same. had her fast Delightful Illusion, quoted
pay during the first week Of next month i r1sTs-
toned my solicitors Chucked as posted thfS-
twenty suireas! Had she reIentea9 That evening
1 sent her a most charming note cashed the check
Next month my book finished. and
af4uent I dned out several times. and took
wo16erfuIIv cyil-b7t dSneero,Is rad fartsred
myself thar had scored in little encounter:
the contrary Again one could not prove IL Thers
was sornething feline and ser9entine about THAT
cult 70 seize on and attack You may have met tho
had It's in the thtrties. as rule" was ny
when one meets ft-yes" said Lut1er7vorth
and at last srrIck the trutk. She had bought
/ 'Nanetrt and had caShed he- check Naletti'
what our friend Tom Hardy calls "a bee
/ You kept a COPY. though I interpOSed
NO: that was the difficulty. I told YOU OF my
tn1pulse-how. to avoid further temptation. I pus