“Give me as much notice as you can and I’ll do my best for her.”
The other nodded. “Did you get any newspapers by the train?” she inquired.
“Yes; there was a mail in. I had a letter, too,” he added after a little hesitation, due to the fact that he had intended telling Miss Welland about that letter first. Thus do confidences, once begun, inspire even the self-contained to further confidences.
“You know there was a reporter up from Angelica City writing up the wreck.”
“Yes.”
“Gardner, his name is. A nice sort of fellow. I showed him some nonsense that I wrote about the wreck.”
“You? What kind of nonsense?”
“Oh, just how it struck me, and the queer things people said and did. He took it with him. Said it might give him some ideas.”
“One might suppose it would. Did it?”
“Why, he didn’t use it. Not that way. He sent it to the New York Sphere for what he calls a ‘Sunday special,’ and what do you think! They accepted it. He had a wire.”