New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-13

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could the letter meant:
She had not time to answer before the door of the
next house opened, and a buttoned up IN a fur
trimmed overcoat came out. He stopped moment
to raise an umbrella, and they could see that he was
a stout pasty faced German of some fifty years,
with a curling yellow mustache He wore spectacles
and seemed to be near sighted
There's the that wrote the letter! Follow
him. Valeska Find out who he Is and all that pos
sibe! We must follow every lead.
Ealeska was off the instant, running down the
steps and walking swiftly up 2Sd-st-
Astro lit a cigar. turned up his collar and waited
another haf-hour in the doorway Nobody having
entered or left No. 100 by that time ne rang the
bell of No. III. y Swedish maid came to the door
I'D like to see what rooms YOU have. SAID Astro
The only one is on the third floor rear she re-
Piled and showed him up two flights OF unAshted
stairs, steep and to small square room
rneagerlv furnished Walking to the window. Astro
saw that level with the floor tin covered root
over extension in the rear 1t stretched along the
whole width of the tour houses IN the row Ol IIllS
he might easily stand and look into the adjoining
windows. Saving that he would move IN later tstro
paid the girl for week 5 rent IN advance and IeIt
the house and walked home.
NALESKA next morning came full of news The
German kept right along 25d-st toward
Broadway. she said. and 1t occurred to me that
might get him to make the first advances, and get
acquainted without being suspected. 50 passed
him, and very gracefully slipped on the snow and
dropped nv purse Then l began looking about on
the sidewalk for the money that might have dropped
out. My German friend came along and offered to
help me. Ii took sometime, and the long ana snort
of it was that we had quite a conversation, and l
convinced him that l was respectable He walked
along with me and asked me where L was gong.
said that had intended going to the Hlppodrome
with a friend: but that L had been detained, and
it was so late | thought | d go home. He proposed
having something eat and OF course L refused L
had to be urged and urged; but the more refused,
the more anxious he TO have me come Finally,
i reluctantly assented to his invitation, and we went
10 the Cafe Richie.
Well YOU ought to have seen that German eat
| mean YOU ought to have heard him eat! L COuldn
eat ANYTHING myself; but slipped the wine he ordered
and coyly led him on chatter1ng away about myself
ingenuouslv. | had engagement with Richard
Mansfield and a three years contract at one hun
bred dollars a week when he died, and was awtully
anxious TO get another chance All the money L had
was tied up in one of the defunCt trust companies,
and so on He kept eating, taking the biggest
nlouthfuls | ever heard of and leaving half of 1t
his mustache. Oh, put in some hard work, as
sure you'll
Then he began asking me questions and wanted
70 know if | would like to some money on the
side. Did / | jumped at it five thousand actor
folk out of job this season, YOU know and all that
He said | reminded him of his dead daughter,-you
know I'm always reminding people of somebody
and he thought he could trust me. l cast down my
ewes and let him go
He said there a he knew who h.t,t