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Proof of the Pudding
Gramercy neighborhood. Within its high iron railings
the little park had put on its smart coat of vernal green,
and was admiring itself in its fountain mirror. Outside
the railings the hollow square of crumbling houses, shells
of a bygone gentry, leaned as if in ghostly gossip over the
forgotten doings of the vanished quality. Sic transit
gloria urbis.
A block or two north of the Park, Dawe steered the edi-
tor again eastward, then, after covering a short distance,
into a lofty but narrow flathouse burdened with a floridly
over-decorated facade. To the fifth story they toiled, and
Dawe, panting, pushed his latch-key into the door of one
of the front flats.
When the door opened Editor Westbrook saw, with feel-
ings of pity, how meanly and meagerly the rooms were
furnished.
"Get a chair, if you can find one," said Dawe, "while
I hunt up pen and ink. Hello, what's this ? IIere's a note
from Louise. She must have left it there when she went
out this morning."
He picked up an envelope that lay on the centre-table
and tore it open. He began to read the letter that lie drew
out of it; and once having begun it aloud he so read it
through to the end. These are the words that Editor
Westbrook heard:
"DEAn SIIACKLEFORD:
"By the time you get this I will be about a hundred milesI I
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