The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-03-23

"HE Womens Hotel Of
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New York is sacred to
the unattended woman.
The clerks and the cooks are
women; women wait on the -
tables; and women convey
Enthusiastically feminine
trunks to virgin apartments.
No man, attended or unat-
tended, may spread his name
upon it's register or settle
himself within it's sacrosant
precincts. Scarcely may ne
win permission to wait in a
paror while a feminine bell
hop carries his card to the ar
cana above
In this parlor Caruth await
ed an answer to his CALL Fear
ing that a card alone might
meet denial, he had inscribed
it with the words, "On most
important business, before he
sent it up.
He had the parlor to him
self and carefully he chose a
position partly screened by sid
towering plants where he
might hope to talk unheard sss
and undsturbed by any one
who might enter. What he n
had to say was not too pleas ~
ant and he did not wish
chance eavesdroppers.
He waited a long time-so
long in fact that he began to
fear that his note might be in
effective and was contemplate
ing a further appeal and Won
dering, in the event that this
too failed how long he could Sh
roost on the steps OF the OPP
posite house watching for her
to come out without being ar
rested For he was determined to see hel
But at last she came.
She wore an evening dress of some glitt
terial rich and black. Her clear-cut pl
delcately arched eyebrows reminded
cameo or an old French miniature. 1t 81
credible that she and the girl OF week bel
be the same. He bowed in silence dumb
He was recalled to himself by her voic.
SIR" she reminded him. You have som
say to me? Have you forgotten your line
Caruth shook his head NO" he answe
ly Il had only forgotten my cue | was
in the fifth act, while we are yet Still in
However, you have help me one. My
these: Your letter has t""ned up. Wiki
er called on me today with copy of it,
Ii Caruth intended to startle the girl by
announcement, he undoubtedly succeeded.
so white that for a moment she feared
about to faint Then a sparkle came into
HIS DfOtnef! Sne repeated ne
wrote the letter.?
"Oh. No! MOI Another brother One
been living in the west for years. A typ
erner
How did it get into his hands?'
81 can only guess. Probably wilkins re
your warning words to heart, for he sc
brief letter on Z envelope, and mailed u
probably by the chute in the building
mark shows that the letter was collec1
three a. IN. that same morning. 1t went
to the brother whose name is Thomas.
dropped everything and started east. He
this morning and came to my rooms TO
brother He had heard nothing OF the
death.
And then?'
when he found it out, he came to me.
And he showed you the letter? You
it?" The tones We're quiet, but Caruth
the suspense lurking in her eyes.
Yes! He showed it to me. That is, b
me a copy of it-with certain words cut
have brought it with me. But before l s
YOU, | must-forgiye mel must be cow
your rights in the matter"
My rights!'
yes! Your rights. 1t seems outraged,
to question you; and yet-since that Mig
been miserable"
you poor boy" The woman's eyes '
soft and her tones low.
81 never saw any one like you before
fo,lou wont IN "Our girls are all right