Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1916 — IN THE WRONG APARTMENT [ARTICLE]

IN THE WRONG APARTMENT

Satire Based on the Plots That Appear to Be Popular With the Modern Reader. Equal parts of Henry James and Robert Chambers. He steadied himself for a moment, looking upward with that dogged persistency which had served him so well all these years; then, resolutely in the mist of a half consciousness, he mounted the steps. Seemingly not knowing the stern fate that held him captive, he took out his key ring. It seemed almost like a mockery, but after one or two trials the massive door swung open and he entered. The light was 41m. *' . He stared about him, but-even then, with utter fatuity of his extraordinary escapade, he did not sense his mistake; he did not know that he had used the wrong key. ... He groped along the upper hall, a wild premonition of coming disaster haunting him. But that dumb persistency, that luckless urging, kept him going. Suddenly he opened a door. There was a slight scream, then louder. He stood face to face with- — Her! . * Then quieter she looked at him in utter scorn. ", ■>. ■ “My husband!” she said., — “My wife!” he muttered. “Forgive me! I did not know thia was my own home. I got the wrong key.” He started out, abashed, but she called him. "Better leave that key with me. Then you will not be likely to make the same mistake again! ” —Life.