The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-21
TIE EKENING STORY
What F7risbee Lost and round.


the desperate haste that only news
paper man can quite understand, looked I
up for an instant nodded or gruntedy |
then fell to work again with renewed I
energy
Every man of them knew, as wei as
did Frtsbee, that he had landed the /
beat he had gone after the day before
1t was written on everv feature OF his /
tired but satisfied face. He had tramp /
ed innumerable miles, had not slept a |
wink the preceding night, but he had I
done what his chief had sent him to 90, /
and the work that had made It posi- /
BILE was one of the pleasures of his lite |
An inner door opened, and the city |
editors Office boy jerked his thumb over
his shoulder. He wants you in there"
An understanding look passed over
the faces of the men at the desks one
of them took time to say;
You're up against it again, F'risbee
He's going to send you for something
no one else can get.
stantly, as he answered: "All rlghts I'm
game"
An approving grin touched each face.
This tall heady young Westerner, with
his dark, thin, clean-cut face, and husl-
ling energy, had so charged them an
with his own personal magnetism ina
toward him, even when he pulled sue
cess out of their defeat, as he very re
quently did.
When Frisbee entered the city editors
I
to him with quizzical smile.
Got it ~
The answer was as laconic as the
"Of course" And Frisbee laid his
copy down on the desk. The city edl-
/ tors hand closed over it eagerly, put
! he must not even examine 1t TIL ne put
this man to work again.
f'Frisbee, there is q very devil to
pay-in the shape of a woman at the
Scrantons on Fifth avenue, who VIII
not be interviewed. I GU know the
MAGAZINES have had a lot to say lately
about Kate Bristow, the author OF the
most popular novel of the season. she
came to visit the ScrantOnS last Week.
and although they tried to keep II
quiet it got out yesterday, and part OF
/ the STAFF of every paper in the city
have laid siege to the Scranton place
ever since. I have sent three men
| there today, but to no purpose she
/ will not even see a reporter.
The editor turned to his desk again
II don't know how you are going TO
manage it, Frisbee, but you are GER
tainly going to bring me an lntervleW
/ from Miss Bristow-also her picture.
I He glanced at the clock over his desk.
ct is only o'clock. I'll give you an
/ hour"
/ AS Frisbee again passed through
the room where the busy men still
sweated, Hawley, one of his own espe-
cial chums. called out:
BET you a tenner you don't get
.
and I might as well have been trying
to make peace between Russia and
Japan, for ali the attention I got. No,
as Frisbee's hand went down into his
pocket, "wen each keep our own
stake, and when you come back you
can just hand me ten SPOT"
Sure? Maybe not" And with the
smile that was never chased from his
face for very long, Frisbee swung out
When he rang the bell at the scran-
ftons about Is minutes later, the gas
light glinted down upon very differ
ent looking Frisbee, refreshed with
bath and dress suit
TAKE my card to Miss Bristow,' he
said auth oritatively, when girl an
swered his ring. Il am an old friend,
know she will see me- He told his
lie with an air that compelled belief,
and the girl obeyed him.
He went into the Darlor to wait. It
was familiar ground to him, for he
knew the Scrantons well. The night
was sultry, and the doors and windows
were open.
Suddenly one of the doors framed
something so exquisite for him he went
forward with outstretched hand.
Just a woman. but the one woman,
and he had not seen her for five years
"a tall, slender woman, gowned in
white, with bronze hair and dark brown
eyes-very luminous just now-and the
color of the wild western roses they
her face.
rs it really and truly you, Walter?''
she asked as he took both her hands in
a glad clasp. II was afraid to let my
self believe it when your card was
brought to me-"
Every feature of her lovely face was
radiating pure joy.
when my card was brought TO your"
Frisbee repeated, his eyes never leaving
her face for an instant.
I,o 7 W. n
hurry to see you, just tucked it in my
dress and came on down."
She drew his card from the folds OF
her bodice Beneath Ms name was writ
ten a line: please let me see you II
only for five minutes"
But I sent that to Miss Bristow.'
Considering he was star reporter for
one of the largest papers in the city,
Mr. Frisbees mind was working very
edna Winter laughed and it seemed
to the hungry-hearted man that he had
not really lived since he last heard
that laugh.
plafn. OF course you dot not know that
kate Bristow is only a name 1 have
borrowed because it sounds more force
full than my own"
Frisbee was wide enough awake
and I came here tonight to make |
Won talk to me whether you wanted |
to or not" His gray eyes looked down |
into hers a little sternly. Edna, the |
| last time I saw you I tried that same
thing and failed. I never had the re-
hottest idea why you broke with me. I
win YOU tell me now?"
aBecause / wanted to develop the
talent knew I possessed and. Wal !
ter her voice faltering for the first
time at loved YOU so entirely I knew |
If we married I would be SO complete !
" happy I would not heed the small |
voice that said work and I also knew /
If / gave you my reason for breaking /
bard for me to resist you. I have /
often wanted to ask you to forgive me, !
Int did not know where you were. t
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