Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-23
Why He Came Back
 B,b's Letter Brought Him
 a w,th Rrsh


 This afternoon" said the young man. Three hours late Thought gas never going to get here. We eere delayed at every station"
 Wasn't it rather sudden. your com ins back? thought you were to be away all winter"
 So did l."
 Win you be in New York long?"
 That depends" he said. If things % wrong, l shall take the 11:25 back tonight. If motif it were possible la; they would go well with mel should stay over Sunday" "Oh. you business men!" she laughed. How hard you work to make the women believe you are wear ing yourselves out, | We've been having great fun plan rins our winter doings lately" she went on. Tt seemed queer not 10 have you here to help us" | You miss me?" | They all do. know Louis- said it seemed as if we'd have 10 give up the german because you weren't here"
 What did you saye"
 T said l thought Mir. Fuller could do it
 -oh, Who's this FuIler?y lies a cousin of the Oshornes He ! came from Detroit. and is a great addl- ton to our circle. Why. he's the most | gifted man I ever saw-:nusical. ar tistic and literary and the best organ izer I know l s'That Snrf of pna .f. to anything. Jack of all trades and master Of none" | 'Oh. no. indeed, He's made great success of his business. too. l wish you could meet him. I know you'd like him. He's taken some splendid group | pictures of the crowd"
 If there's anything hate it's a man who goes around snapping people 1 in awkward positioIs and uncomforta- ble places and then shows them to everybody"
 'I don't think it's very Kind of you to talk that way"
 What way"
 You know perfectly well"
 "Oh. come now. I'll be good. I'm s, worried l don't realize what say. l suppose. Please forgive me"
 I'm so sorry you're worried" she said. sof;ening. Was the letter as bad as that?" | Tt was tad enough to bring me hack here when I got it. and now I find 1t was so very bad that it will send me away again tonight"
 How mysterious. IL sounds like a novel"
 What do you call novel? A man, girl and another man? I guess I'm one of the characters then"
 "A girls at the bottom of it?" she asked. T didn't mean to pry.' ! ''I want you to pry. You see tits sUch a confoundedly new experience, I don't know just how toto get out Of it."
 | "Oh, but you want .o-get out of ft7'' l No. no. ! don't 1ean that. Bob's letter bowied me over so completely that I was half crazy. never knew li-I cared before. And now it's too late. I was awfully stupid not to re- aize it, but man gets so used to girls he forgets it's dangerous. You know" | Yes. of course. Sort of hardened. Immune in a way"
 Now you're making fun of me. Honest. don't mean anything like that. I am feeling far from conceited and everything ! say you twist to | sound as if were. I'm very humble %
 Poor man, l shouId think you'd be so accustomed to girls you woulda [ mind me- | Don't," ] Don't you want 10 be teased2"
 Not when I'm in dead earnest. 1t hurts
 ~Mr. Fuller says a man is never i dead in earnest who makes q conf dant of a girl.'
 MT. Fuller doesn't know what Ee is talking about I'm in earnest and you've got to listen to me" | Really"
 "Yes; really. suppose your mil ionaire friend would say a man is never gross when he's in love, wouldn't
 Ny what?"
 Your millionaire friend" "who?-
 This brilliant Fuller" aHe isn't a millionaire" "oh. yes. he is. Hes everything Bob praised him. too"
 The man who wrote you? What did he say about AIr. Fuller?"
 The whole letter was about him" "I hope nothinss wrong. Wbars the uouble?" T don't mean to make you anxious forgot for the moment It was on FulieT's account I came east" T thought you said you didn't know , him
 Bob wrote me of your enga4 sment l of course" My engagement"
 sYes. to Fuller He said it wasn't announced, but that it didn't have te ; be. It flashed on me all of a sudden ) what an idiot | was. and took the next train" Why" Well. there's a melancholy satis faction in telling how one feels. ever if 1t is too late Besides. there vas 2 chance that I'd want to stay over San , day" There is"
 There Is what7" . "A chance" 2 'Then you're not-you are" "No-yes Anyhow. Ira like q have you stay over Sunday"