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Title: The Indiscreet Letter
Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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Language: English
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THE INDISCREET LETTER
by
ELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT
Author of Molly Make Believe, The Sick-A-Bed Lady, etc., etc.
New York The Century Co.
1915
THE INDISCREET LETTER
The Railroad Journey was very long and slow. The Traveling Salesman was rather short and quick. And the Young Electrician who lolled across the car aisle was neither one length nor another, but most inordinately flexible, like a suit of chain armor.
More than being short and quick, the Traveling Salesman was distinctly fat and unmistakably dressy in an ostentatiously new and pure-looking buff-colored suit, and across the top of the shiny black sample-case that spanned his knees he sorted and re-sorted with infinite earnestness a large and varied consignment of "Ladies' Pink and Blue Ribbed Undervests." Surely no other man in the whole southward-bound Canadian train could have been at once so ingen