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Show ner aDout it, and all she says iu that In future she shall visit me without any warning at all. I read her note, and at once grasped the fact that my wife might come in at any moment. The presence of a stranger, stran-ger, even of my wife, who is really, in her way, a very kind woman, would, of course, have been nnwelcoine to my typewriter in her distress; so I said, without looking up: "I will not press you further today, Gertrude, but on Monday I shall expect to be treated with more confidence. I am expecting someone here on important impor-tant private business, so you may go at once." She made no answer, and I could hear her breath coming in ahort, quick pants. I turned to look at her. She was standing stand-ing with parted lips and widely staring eyes, her tear stained face tightly pressed against the dingy window pane. I took her by the hand; then she turned, uttering utter-ing aery: - "Charlie, Charlie, my darling. At the moment she did so in fact, before the words left her lips-I was conscious of the dewr opening, and that estea me mucn witn accounts or ner experiences ex-periences as a beautiful and meritorious young woman fighting the battle of life in London. Some of her adventures were almoBt romantic enough to have interested in-terested the readers of The Family Heraldto Her-aldto which, indeed, I believo she had contributed. Others might have amused students of a more frivolous class of literature; but, except to account for the interest I still feel in her, they have nothing to do with the present narrative, I am not in the kabit of "taking the office home with mo" and worrying my life with "shop," bo naturally I never mentioned my typewriter type-writer in the domestic circle. That simple omission has been thrown in my teeth many hundreds of times during the past two days. I begin to fear it always will be. My typewriter, as I have said, worked admirably till within about a fortnight ago, when she became restless, melancholy melan-choly and abstracted in manner. F or a time I took no notice of it; but last Saturday, Sat-urday, business being dull, I called her to mo aa 1 sat at my table, and placing her near the window looking oyer oli my wife was there and must have neara her with as much surprise as myself, and even more horror. But before another word could be said there was a rush across the room, an ink pot, a pen or two, a sheaf of letters aud a typewriter (the machine) were lying overturned upon the floor, and a typewriter (the operator) had dashed into a small closet where she kept her hat and cloak, seized them, and, almost upsetting my wife in her flight, vanished down stairs, her little heels clattering in a wild tattoo on the stone flagged stairs. Then a scene took place which was only the prelude to the ordeal I have spoken of. It was useless for me to argue and aver that 1 was innocent myself, and as unaware of any passion for me indulged in by my typewriter (a mere clerk, as I repeatedly Said)aa 1 was of any insanity in her family or in her individual constitution. Now I suppose the worst of my misery has been practically put an end to by the following letter -not which I have just received at the office, and am taking home to show my wife: DEiK Jtn. Jobsson-I hope you did not thmk me ouite crazy when I left yon so abruptly on totffescially after your very kind eonver-sationwithmT eonver-sationwithmT Th. reason of my anxiety and atdns was that the man I have for two years was comimr home from Austra ha, and his ship was much over due, owing to the gal,r He never let n.e know he had arme but int straight to my home, and followed me to the d , to todlw office, where I- window which was the cause of my hurried et.t r..u h. to typewrite any more, and I Broad street far below, where 1 coma get tho light on her face and observe her expression, I began to interrogate her m a kindly way as an employer always should interrogate his clerks if he thinks they are in need of his help or advice While I was doing so my 1 o'clock pose came in. 1 did not look at my letters for a moment, as I was saying to my ty"GerSe" (I make a rule of calling my younger clerks by their Chnshan Zes, and, as a rule in rule, I was resolved fV rJ? make no exception in her favor), , "Ger-We "Ger-We " I said, "there is something on your mind; you are anxious and d,s- tressed." , "It k nothing," she answered. 'Nothing be hanged!" 1 said, m my frieX way. "Nothing does not make Sri I Pale and absent and silent for ten s at a time. 1 simply do not believe vou." sure that I ever called young Bob Smith; ers, my junior clerk "My dea Robert Sttiter" "Then tell me what is the matter. S have not opened your letters. H TYPEWRITER 'lie last faw days I have been a injured and much enduring man. persons, when crushed beneath a ' circumstantial evidence readily ' A by the tribunal which in more 'hail one is sitting upon them, take 8 in knowing that they are inno-nd, inno-nd, vii tute sua involuti, await the luittal or free pardon, of which ' ; certain, with tranquil minds, T in some cases finding enjoyment ; sensation of martyrdom. I am 30 of them, for I have not felt at !Isure of my acquittal, and even n it should be practically se-''is se-''is possibie that I shall not leave '"together without a stain on tf&ta'. Besides which, even in nay bo a matter of regret to one as sufiered for a crime, or, let us 3 act of indiscretion, without hav-'"Jed hav-'"Jed the pleasure of committingit. :aPPened in this way. Some few L. ao 1 had occasion to require in emess the services of a typewriter, oado my wants known. As a con- I was visited, by no fewer than ri candidates in person, without 'ttie hundred and odd who ap-7 ap-7 ktter. Of the forty-seven, daresay you have discharged me; but you have bee! so erf kind to roe that I must come with "al We may both thant you personal y. and remove the remans of the typewriter I ttjk Well thre is her letter; it spea" Vr itself, and I must show it to my wife and convince her of my innocence. But I do wish it said little less about my kindness; in this censorious world natural nat-ural humanity U liable to misconstrue-tion.True misconstrue-tion.True Flag. opened it, to give ner i tZ. i,or Hvident emotion. a ,iT,sr It ran as foUows: mormng. " 1 toke you to the shop I" C1 Vhe I in the city where I saw w e you about. "VliTt a new one. I L Mrs CU. but it you know the WJ"" me when I oaU for you. can ZyTi Val do it Youraffecaon. a Uttla before 1 .30, we t. tLlsl Jobnsos. te wife, . ,. jd your pocket xVNOrhSs.Tohnson. who, as her letter is a woman of decided purpose JrinTher could not have made when it rtn0se.lskin before Were of the weaker sex; and as ijanandcd a slightly lower wage Mir male competitors I decided Jt reason, and that only to em-of em-of them. Now the thirty-six "ought 'samples of their work, "1 possessed the needful qualifi-u: qualifi-u: ' nd one typewritten letter is pre- another, 1 did what every yan Would have done under the ;ance and' chose the bestlook- She was a very handsome girl, eri" charming one, too. I say it J of the trouble sha brought me. 'ffio she was a complete success, i "ur the fact that I had to dictate fonUnaaliy, it was obviously un-"e un-"e that she should sit with my ' rs. Some of them I know are ' wd as a married man I had a .'" responsibility; so I allotted her 31 m my own room, and she set ; Machine there. Pleasing to have some one to 7en one was not busv, and Miss of a lively reposition, ipttX- |