"A journalist! Certainly not! What made you think that?"
"Then, Sir," I cried, indignantly, "what right had you to force yourself into my presence, and waste my time in asking a number of useless, and, I may add, impertinent questions?"
"I had the right, and the questions were neither useless nor impertinent."
"Explain yourself, Sir."
"With pleasure;" and then he added, with a smile that did not provoke its fellow on my own countenance, "you must know that I am an assessor of income tax!"
Comment would be superfluous!
(Signed) A. Briefless, Jun.
Pump-handle Court, October 10, 1895.
OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
