Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1919 — The Wrong Man. [ARTICLE]

The Wrong Man.

When I was an eighteen-year-old I girl I was keeping house In my motlir er’s absence and received word from an old friend of the family, of whom ; I was very fond, that he was to be our guest for a day or two. Toward evening when the doorbell rang I “told, our little colored maid to. answer it and show Mr. Blank Into the' living room. *1 rushed into the room which was half dark, some minutes later and threw my arms around the gentleman who rose to greet me and kissed him soundly only to hear a strange voice say,< “I called to see If I could Interest you In a wonderful set of books I am showing today.” I backed to the light and turned It en to view a perfect stranger —a book agent. But Mr. Blank’s timely arrival just thep saved a little of my embar- 1 rasslng explanation. —Chicago Tribune.