Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-08-14
A Double
Exchange
By REGINALD D. HAVEN

one Jay aIter l nad taken q lunch
con in a restaurant the waiter handed
me my overcoat- | put it on and left
the place. While walking along l put
my hand In a side pocket of the over
coat and grasped a letter. Not being
aware Of having anything in that
pocket, l pulled 1t out and looked at
the letter was not addressed to me at
all. 1t was postmarked the city where
l then was and where lived and was
written III a feminine hand. / put 1t
back where I found it, returned to the
restaurant and told the proprietor that
I had changed coats with some one.
He said that whoever had taken my
coat had not yet discovered his error,
or at least had not returned it l gave
him my address and went away, re-
solved to keep the coat had until l
got my own
The same evening after dinner !
read the note l had come upon. with
fellow who had taken my coat. Whist
was any surprise to find a promise
from a girl who signed herself ANNE"
to meet the man to whom the letter
was addressed On a certain corner at a
certain hour that very evening and to
marry him.
This was the only eiew / found If
I wanted my coat back could go to
the place Of rendezvous and demand
1t / thought it would be rather hard
on a man who was about to be mar
ried to call on him to rectify such &
mistake. Such a commonplace pro-
| ceeding would spoil a romance. New
ertheless l concluded to SO for this
reason: Probably the man, having dis
covered that the letter had passed into
lother hands. would call OF the elope-
ment, but would go to the place OF
rendezvous, presuming that ! had read
1.-THE note and would go there myself to
find him and get back my coat
The meeting was to be at IL o'clock,
The place was a crossing OF two streets
Lon which were only dwelling houses
land at no time much f~requented. At
III o'clock at night only some late home
goer would pass It I went there at a
I quarter to IL. or, rather. ] walked up
1 one of the cross streets. around the
4 block and passed the corner by anoth-
er. I kept this up until exactly at II
I passed d lady, noticing that she wa
yelled. ] walked on, turned and took
position behind a tree box.
The lady was doing the same thing
/ had been doing, and she kept 1t mp
still nearly half past II. Then saw
her 60 to a street lamp, look at her
watch. hesitate. and by the way she
started OF I knew she had made up
her mind to give up whatever she was
there for.
l hurried up to her and said, Par.
don me. but yon may be looking FOR
some one who having lost q note men
itioning the time and place of the meet
ing has been Enabled to keep the ap.
pointment." Then ! told her the reason
for my being there. To prove my story
II handed her the note she had written
She was very much agitated- Az
soon as sfe had convinced herself that
I had given her what ! pretended Is
Give abe tore It into bits. She didn't
seem to be thinking OF me or The story
II had told. Her mind was evidently
on tho man she was to hare met ans
NOT yery~ pleasantly On him.
ne doubtless lost your note &c
marked. sssbefore having liked In hi
memory the time or
nN~olsense.. she exclaimed. stampini
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