Show reply to jacks letter by 11 IRVING KING aien a cian man proposes 3 to 11 gill WHEN who 11 lia should do it by word 0 mouth but jack be ile ton lion wrote bis his declaration to arabea arabella porter and come near dying fl a lac belor la in consequence it be budna had a taste for low compary b P mould have done so 0 o it la 12 oni fuir to jack to say ay how howler tier that be he had a ante taste for lo 10 low w company because low company was profitable to him jack you see a as a writer and had devolved a kuack of starles of 1 th ba underworld which made his til stuff saleable to maga lines sines and sunday nevi ne 1 ha t lie applied to ft rite was wa love stories tor for heavens sake Benton Bent drop lovers and tick stick to caroots eald bald whitmarsh the editor of tile sun day trumpet ai as he lie handed jack back we one of his hi stories dealing with the tender passion ad ati jack tit all tick stick to crook crooks though he be ft as a de ter mined that tome day he would write a lote lose story that make the editors sit cp up pd P cd d take notice it waa wag ix bause ause of his hi firm belief bellef in spite or of all that had been told him by people who ran and news that he lie waa was able to just charm tre bird off tile busa when he wrote on love that he put his proposal prop osil of morrI marriage age to arabella in written fol fonn M lie read it over pronounced it perfect mailed it and awaited a reply A week ent by and he was still wattle lie lit waited confidently at first than hopelessly faith gilded elided into an agonized sni penie and BUS sus lanse into an agonized certainty certainly the cruel delia bellit had not even eye deigned to acknowledge bli pis ahwal of love N aid ald then t h horrible thought would cimo to bim bial was it passive that viat the me editors were right tight and that he was wits i oot not such a crackerjack at writing on baoe lose as he thought he is but tie be the thought as its ull w raby of his keen literary perception once or esice he be consI derel going up to delias bellas house and de manding anding rn to know ft what hat was the matter rut but no nohe noile ile would not humiliate imIl late fo so far lie ile bad poured out his heart in that letter of lils LN and it she had not appreciated atwell then life henceforth va was as to be a it dreary waste faste kut but jack was wits doing arabella an injustice she hid received bis his let ter berand and she bad answered it in her reply she had said all that could be said to rejoice the heart of her she elie put the letter in the mailbox calculated just how ion it would take for it to reach jack and then sat gat down to wait his coming but be he came not could it be poa possible ible that jack had been playing a jole 1 on ber herto ing with her affections meanwhile jack west oa on writing about crool she le bid to live in to spite of blasted ipes topes and fre qu enting places where he cod could meet crooks and get local color 1 in the underworld ie ke had made many friends who kneff knew that beas he ft as carmle i s and would never emueal Eq ueal on crooks dout doyt mind read ing about crookhorn Crook dom dorn at all they rather like ille 4 t provided nothing Is then glen away that should not be given away laway jack used to meet hia his crooked friends in resorts of a perfectly re spec pec table appe appearance arane frequented ily by perfectly respectable respect respectable ale ble appearing people unless you were in the enow you would never sniped what und of a place you had got into lie ile was seated in one of these reports resorts gloomily eating chop suey one night when nifty jim st strolled in faultlessly dressed us as 0 and wearing searing upon his face that charming amli smile e which had been the financial undoing of EO so many confiding persons I 1 hello said sald nifty taking a beat sent oppa opposite site jack how goes the merry whirl of literature speaker tr of literature I 1 ive ve got so methin to abt you IOU a corker one ot of our crowd Js now and then illa to do a little inside post alf a work for us A week A eck ago bo be brought down a bunch of letters chica we went over down at loftus place pretty poor pickings but I 1 came across this and have been keeping keepin it for you as a literary curiosity did you ever read such idiotic addiel as that and he handed across he vie table amabello I 1 reply to jacks letter jack read I 1 it t through of what it v was as grad bally dawning upon him nifty said he lie rising ertsin to his feet laou l aou have been a college man I 1 know but IOU on roust mud have have been rotten in inglish that Is the lie most and touching thin thins I 1 have rr tam 1 hilf H 11 an hour later tack and bella 11 wire istre discus sli i and orange blos blossoms |