Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1909-12-31

ne out Us<s0 HATING
"well. 90 90 and read Il Don't iet
me keep ycu from IT, soue charmer.
I'll wager. Here pour all my adven-
tures Into your ear. and on my side
never % much ~ get hint OF yours
Go On. rad n
Adventures. 6ddlesticks. The letter
can walt II h probably . BILL
"a bill In fashionable envelope like
thaty.
HIilard only smiled. tipped the era.
die aud refilIed Merrihew's glass with
some excellent Romance Cont When
does Kitty sailY' he asked after awhile
OF silence
a week from this Saturday. Feb 2
What the deuce did you bring up that
forg I've been trying 10 forget H..
Where do they land p
NAPLES. They open IN Rome the
FIRST week In Msrch. All the arrange.
ments are complete" After coffee
Merrihew pushed back his chair .I'n
reserve table In the billiard room
while you read your letter
"i'll be With yon shortly" CRATE
fully.
So with the Inevitable black cigar
between his teeth Merrihew sauntered
of toward the billiard room. while
Hillard picked up his letter and
studied IT, His fingers trembled slight
" as he tore open the envelope. The
handwriting. the paper. the modest
size. all these pointed 10 woman of
culture and refinement. But a subtle
spirit of irony Mrvaded It all. She
would never have answered his print.
ed inquiry had she not laughed over
II. for pinned TO the top Of the letter
was the clipping. the stupid. banal
clipping. "Will the lady who sang
from Nine Anget' communicate with
gentleman who leaned out Of the win.
dowg j. H.. Burgomasier club
There was neither formal beginning
nor formal ending only four crisp
lines. But these implied one thinR
and distinctly tho writer had no de
sire for further communication with
gentleman who leaned out of the win,
dow He read and reread slowly:
am sorry to learn tina, my singing dts
turbed you. There was q reason. At that
particular moment was happy.
That was all. II was enough. She
had laughed. She was lady humor-
orsiy inclined. not TO say mischievods
A comic opera star would have sent
her press agent round TO see what ad'
vertising could be got out of the Incl
dent: a prima donna would have ap
pealed to her primo tenor for The
same pprpose. A. gentiewoman surely
moreover. she lived within the radius
the official radius, Of the Madisor
square branch of the postofiice. foi
such was the postmark Common
sense urged him to dismiss the whole
affair and laugh over II as the lad,
In the fog" had done,s but common
sense often goes about &kh d pedant's
strut and Is something to avoid on oc'
casions. Here was harmless pastims
to pursue. common sense Botwith
standing. The vein OF romance In. him
was strong and all the commerciai
blood of his father could not subju-
gate It. He rang for paper and q
messenger and wrote. Nine. Angot
There is letter for you In the
NAH department II this Office. This
time bis Initials were NOT necessary
Once the message was on Its way he
sought Merrlhew. whom he found
knocking the balls about In a spiritless
manner
a hundred to seventy-ive. Dan"
For WHAT.
.For the mere FUN Of the game. Of
course
.'siake n cigars. Just to add inter.
est"
.Cigars. then"
But they 10th played a very indif-
ferent game ~ 1890 Merrihew's
eyes began 10 haunt the clock. aud I'LL
lard grew mercifui for various rea-
sons.
what time does the performance
end e he asked
eat 1880. but II takes about twenty
minutes To serape OF the makeup"
MerrIhew put bis cue In the rack.
He made OFF for the coat room.
HliIard laughed and went up to the
writing room to fnifili part Of his
destiny. He took the letter out and
read II again He replaced the letter
In its bine covering. and then for the
arsf time his eye met the supersefip-
ton Like uan enfraneed be sat
there staring. The steward had
brought the letter to him. and 10 bis
first excitement this had made no iIn-
preston upon his mind lie had seen
nothing peculiar nor strange And
here II was. not his Initials. but his
name In fsllt
sh. knew who he was.
liz faxHi4usbie quarter or the city
ther. stood brownsteDe hnaee. with
grofesque rnrfets. winding steps aHd
elaring pelixssedz red tiles There
was fo8f-h 81 fhe gothic. Of the
renalssaarr. II THE eli English man.
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mouths Fl rhe year BE- ard htz family
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world and wtfh heu<e like this on
his hands. one ruasid searre blame him
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