The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1920-07-22
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The courtier took the check in the
same jocular spirit IN which It was
offered scarcely glancing at its figure.
After little they parted, Hunt hasten
ing to the private office Of Burton,
senior.
Fitzhugh went straight To his bnnk
and deposited the thirty thousand dot
lars. Immediately afterwards he
started back TO the Board of Trade.
When nearly there, however, he
stopped. paused irresolute, then turned
and walked slowly I'm another direc-
ton. For over an hour he rOamed
restessly about the loop. He seemed
infirm Of purpose. uimless of destlna-
tiOn
Once, without exactly knowing why.
he entered the post office and strOlled
absently about the dark corridors. He
was leaving by the western entrance.
| when. happening to glance to his left,
he saw on the glass over a doorway.
General Delivery"
He came to a dead halt. hot
| blush Of shame prlcked him. He felt
suddenly mean. contemplate He en-.
tered the room md asked II there were
uny mall for Daniel Fitzhugh. The
clerk handed him a half-dozen letters
postmarked from a small town In Rus
sin.
He opened and read them one by
one, standing near the window. In all
| of them Esther breathed her love for
him, yet there was a difference as the
| letters progressed. In the first two
she wrote chiefly of him and secondly
| Of the work she was doing for the
Cause. The next one was solely about
him and there was a more insistent
note In her passionate declarations,
! In the third was a tone OF despair a
hint Of fond hopes fast slipping away;
and the last two were filled with bit
ter reproaches, piteOus pleadlngs-
jealousy
From q word she let drop in one OF
the earlier missives he OWNED she
was In dire need of money. Even at
that moment she might be suffering
from lack of necessities.
He stuffed the letters in coat
pocket, went to his bank and procured
Il bill OF exchange to her order for a
thousand dollars.
At one of the public desks he wrote
on the back Of a deposit. slip: 1.-The
goal Is not yet In GIght bat I'm run
ming fast"
This he attached to the draft and
sealed in an envelope, which he al
dressed and mailed to her while re-
| pnnrSa 1,ag hot ttVnu him
From the post office he went to a
hotel In Randolph street, asked for
stationery and wrote the following:
/ have just received bad news. My
brother Is at the point of death. Must
hurry to his bedside. May see you in a
couple OF weeks. Meanwhile, good luck
Yours. +.
He directed this to Hunts home ad.
dress, took it to the district messenger
office in the hotel and left orders for
its delivery at nine o'clock.
Had anyone looked for F!tzhugh
that night in his apartment, or In the
theaters or hotel Hobbies, or In any o;
, the other places where he usually
spent his evenings, 1t would have been
in vain. He would not have been
found.
, But in a vile saloon in lower CLARK
street tall, tramplsh.looklng man
with a pointed beard, Httlred IN ragged
, habillments and wearing low upon his
. brow an old sloUch hat fully half q
, size too large, was carOusIng deliriOus'
~ with the muddled denizens, leading
them in muudlln song. and melting
; them to drunken ribaldry.