New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-05-23
he Admirable
Mr.. StarkW,eather
By EDWARD T. STEWART

90. z ( 1 a 5s a Z s i
In the autumn was invited to visit
/: my friend, Mrs. Swinburne, who never
returns to the city till November and
sometimes later. l found there Miss
Edith Harley, a young lady friend of
Mrs. Swinburne. Miss Harley was
]. very attractive, but she seemed to be
absorbed in something. It was not
long before 1 discovered that it was a
young man. Whenever the family car
came from the railway station she
would rush to the door, then turn
away disappointed
! When she and l were together she
was constantly saying: "That reminds
me of friend of mine, who is very
clever. He does everything so well.
He was graduated at the head Of bis
class in college and at the law school.
Not that he is a boolSworm or a grind
or anything like that; he goes in for
athletics. He has taken a lot of cham
pion prizes at tennis and golf and is
considered the best billiard player in
his club"
- AL AuiNliiple OIlCHLOu, put IN. 3
"a What?'
! ''Did you never hear of the Scotch
man of that name who a couple of
hundred years or so ago could out
jump, outfence, outride any other man
in the world q
I. felt much irritat ted at this fellow
| who was standing between me and a
very pretty girl, and l suppose my
| words and the tone in. which they We're
spoken Indicated a desire to make a
supposititious case real one. Miss
Harley made no further remark. and,
looking at her face, I saw a faint
SMILE which I interpreted as indicat-
ing something between pity and con
tempt for one who even limited that
he might in any respect down this re
| markable friend of hers
There was a little room in Mrs
SWinburne's house Off the dining room
containing a writing desk and mate
rails for correspondence. l went in
there one morning to write letter,
and there on the desk was a sheet Of
note paper with the following words
on it: -"a~
| Dear Alonzo-When are you coming i?
We have no end of things to do when you
arrive which we are keeping till you. IL
The note stopped here It had evil
IDENTIFY been left by mistake. Looking
down into wastebasket beside the
desk, I saw an envelope addressed to
AlonZo l.: Starkweather, 10 North
Walnut street This, too, was unf1n-
ished, but Miss Harley had told me
the city (which her admirable friend
honored by his presence, and / was
thus led to believe that.the unfinished
letter had been intended for him. 4lE
| If she is too modest to send for her
| paragon, thought 1 will help her
out wished to get sight of one who
was fast becoming my rival, for,
though I did not know it, was fall
ing in love with Miss Harley. con-.
! cluded to send the note to Mr.. Stark
weather, unfinished as it was. Doubt
less he would understand that he was
! pined for, but the piner was too modest
to tell him so. There were some en-
velopes in the desk with the Swim
burne address on the corner, and put
| the unfinished note in one of them,
addressed and mailed it. This was
something I had no right to do, but l
was mad with love and jealousy and
scarcely responsible
! A few days later, after spat with
| Miss Harley over her friends accom-
| plishments, to let off my ire walked
| ir,fn fho r
| ped into the postofice for the mail.
was handed the letter 1 had mailed to
| Mr.. Starkweather, returned with
carriers mark on it, "No such person
there"
Slowly there came into my stupid
noddle something that was scarcely
credible Mr. Starkweather was
myth. But why had this myth been
conjureds up? Was it for my benefit.
and if so why had he been thus in
f1icted upon me? came to no con-
clusion as to this but I concluded to
conjure up female myth to match
him. wrote letter to myself and
sent it to town to friend to mail to
me- When received it opened it in
Miss Harley's presence, read it, put
my hand to my forehead and groaned.
whats happened?" asked my COM
panion anxiously.
''She's very ill.,
"Who? Your mother?''
mo"
"Sister?"
'sNo;>a very dear friend''
cast a glance out Of the corner of
my eye at Miss Harley and saw COM
bination Of emotions.
II must go to her at once added.
"You have not told me Of this very
| dear friend
"You gave me no opportunity. You
were too full Of your own dear friend .
! She looked at me inquiringly, then
smiled
"Do you take the next train?''
"That depends upon when Mr.. Stark
weather is to arrive
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