Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-18

tore 1t open and found that It merely
contained another letter which the
publishers had forwarded. This was
addressed to Miss Shirley Green and
ran as follows:
Dear Madam-If convenient, / should
like to see you at my Office, 36 Broadway,
in relation to your book, 1.-THE American
Octopus Kindly inform me as to the
day and hour at which may expect you.
Yours truly.
JOHN BURKETT RYDER.
Per B.
Shirley almost shouted from sheer
excitement. At first she was alarmed
the name John Burkett Ryder was
such DOGGY to brighten bad children
with, she thought he might want to
punish her for writing about him as
she had. She hurried to the porch and
sat there reading the letter over and
over, and her brain began to evolve
ideas. She had been wondering how
she could get at Mr.. Ryder and here
he was actually asking her to call on
him. Evidently he had not the slight
est idea Of her identity, for he had
her publishers, and no doubt he had
exhausted every other means of dis
covering her address. The more she
pondered over it the more she began
to see In this invitation a way of help
Ing her father. Yes, she would go and
beard the lion in his den, but she
would not go to his office. She would
accept the invitation only on condition
that the interview took place in the
Ryder mansion, where undoubtedly the
letters would be found She decided to
act Immediately. No time was to be
lost, so she procured sheet of PAPER
and an envelope and wrote as follows:
Mr.. John Burkett Ryder:
Lear Sill do not call upon gentleman
a. their business once. Yours, etc.
SHIRLEY GREEN.
Her letter was abrupt and at first
glance seemed hardly calculated to
bring about what she wanted-an inyi-
tation to call at the Ryder home, but
she was shrewd enough to see that if
Ryder wrote to her at all it was be-
cause he was most anxious to see her
MIN from trying again. On the contra
ry, the very unusualness of any one
thus debating to him would make him
more than ever DESTROYS of making her
acquaintance. So Shirley mailed the
letter and awaited with confidence for
Ryders reply. So certain was she that
one would come that she at once be-
gan to form her plan Of action. She
would leave Massapequa at once, and
her whereabouts must remain a secret
even from her own family. As she in
tended to go to the Ryder house In the
assumed character of Shirley Green. IL
would never do to run the risk of no.
ing Followed home by Ryder detec-
i've to the Rossmore' cottage. She
would confide In one person ONLY
Judge Stott. Ho would know where
she was and would be In constant con.
munication with her. But, otherwise
she must be alone to conduct thu cam.
palgn as she judged At. She Womb On
at once to New York and take rooms IN
q boarding house where she womb ~
known as Shirley Green. As for funds
10 meet her expenses, she had her d,s.
nonos' and would they not be filing a
more useful purpose II sold To defrav
1ne cost OF saving her father than IN
mere personal adornment? So that
evening while her mother was talking
WIN me Judge she beckoned Stott over
10 the corner where she was sitting
Judge Stott," she began. "I have a
plan"
He smiled indulgently at her.
you said that no one on earth couId
resist John Burkett Ryder, that no one
could night against the money mower
wen 90 You know what I am going to
What will you DOR be .aslsd WITH .