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lmspiiaf-wow By Morris Marg olies Ever since ThaT unTorTunaTe caTasTrophe which Tor quiTe some Time perplexed noT only his reIa+ives and Triends buT also The enTire police Torce, I have been repeaT- edly aslced To shed some IighT on Borden's mysTerious suicide. For reasons which I won'T boTher To enumeraTe, I was aT TirsT reIucTanT To reveal whaT I knew abouT The aTTair and as a resulT aroused The ire oT many misundersTanding persons. Now, ThaT obiecTions have been removed, owing To The TacT ThaT more Than a year has elapsed since The incidenT, I am in a posiTion To saTiaTe The more curious. When I was awalcened one morning by The doorbell and Tound myselT con- TronTed by a Telegram boy, I own I was noT a liTTle sTarTled. I could noT undersTand who would wire me aT This unearThly hour,6 A. M. I had long esTablished a repuTaTion as an unsocial and misanThropical auThor. My repuTaTion was achieved because oT The TacT ThaT I was very moody. I would someTimes Tall inTo Trances Trom which I could be exTricaTed only by a sound box on The ear, which some oT my closer com- panions were loaThe To do. I am Told ThaT I someTimes wenT Through The moTions of dancing wiTh a lady wiThouT once opening my mouTh To uTTer a syllable. Thus, iT was noT long beTore people began To avoid me, noT, I shame To admiT, wiThouT some inner hilariTy on my parT. Accordingly, I removed myself enTirely Trom The depressing ciTy environmenT and selecTed as a home a liTTle coTTage on a Tarm less Than 50 miles Trom Town. My amazemenT, ThereTore, upon receipT oT The Telegram, is well To be imagined and I was even more sTupeTied aT iTs conTenTs. IT read as Tollows: MeeT me Grand CenTral Tomorrow 7:00 A. lvl. sTop UrgenT We're leaving on Trip. Borden. Now Borden and I had been liTelong Triends. I readily recall our days To- geTher in elemenTary school. We seemed To acquire an exTreme Tondness Tor each oTher righT Trom The sTarT-which TacT can be explained by The sTriIcing similariTy OT our naTures. As a maTTer oT TacT, iT was he who influenced my enTire career. I-lad he noT chosen iournalism as a vocaTion I should have pursued my proTessional sTudies aT The I-Iarvard school oT medicine, ThaT being my inclinaTion aT The Time. Owing To The TacT, however, ThaT upon graduaTing Trom college, we did under no circumsTances wish To be parTed, he decided ThaT l, Too, Tollow his calling. In ThaT manner we en- Tered a souThern school oT journalism whence we boTh graduaTed wiTh high honors, AT This poinT ineviTabIe TaTe came beTween us, TransTorming him inTo The Tamed George Borden, novelisT and newspaper columnisT, and leaving me a sTruggling young auThor desTined To be chased Trom publisher To publisher, in an eTTorT To geT a sTory Twen Ty-eighT EiLCl-IAN ITE
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in prinl. Ever since lhal parling we had hardly had occasion lo see each olher and al the lime ol my receipl ol lhe lelegram I had nol heard lrorn Borden lor over lwo and a hall years. I believe my reader is being bored wilh whal he probably lhinks are inconsequenlial delails. Bul lhese are vilal lhreads lo lhe slory. I was eager lo meel Borden. Packing my bag I lell lor lhe slalion early lhe nexl morning. When I arrived he was already wailing and wilhoul any prelimin- ary greelings he declared lhal we were going on a vacalion. I remarked lhal al- lhough lhe lerm vacalion mighl be applied in his case, il was cerlainly misleading lo use il in mine, as I had been on a vacalion ever since I had gradualed. I'Ie merely frowned and said nolhing. In mulual silence we alighled in Oakville live hours laler. We had apparenlly been expecled al Oakville, lor no sooner had we arrived lhan we were mel by an old couple, a larmer and his wile. They kissed my lriend and greeling me, bade us lollow lhem. From lhe very lirsl I was slruck by lhe beauly ol lhe landscape and lhe relreshing aspecl ol lhe enlire vicinily. The place was scenled wilh lhe lresh odor ol green grass, and lhe long rows ol loresl lrees presenled a heavenly vision lo lhe eye. I will nol dwell upon lhe delails ol our lwo weeks slay lhere. This much, however, may be said on my parl and on lhe parl ol lhe unlorlunale deceased. We had lhe lime ol our lives! The place was peacelul and serene and served as a soolhing balm lo our weary minds. We wenl hunling and lishing and swimming every day. Al nighl we look long walks inlo lhe deplhs ol lhe ever secrelive yel sublimely beaulilul loresls. We were always silenl, seeming lo express in lhal very silence whal could nol as elleclively have been said in words. The Iasl nighlol our slay was in lrulh lhe climax. A lull moon lil up lhe horizon and as we slrolled down lo lhe lake our hearls seemed ready lo overllow. I was very much inclined lo bursl inlo lears, lhough I knew nol why. Sealing ourselves on lhe soll grass and smoking our pipes, we slared inlo lhe placid lake lhal was so beaulilullv illuminaled. I lell lhe lake was lrying lo lell me somelhing noble and heavenly, which my prolane llesh and blood ears, slrain lhem as I mighl, could nol overhear. I could nol help bul nolice lhal Borden was slaring hard al lhe genlly llowing waler wilh ils occasional ripples. We musl have sal lhere lor a long lime, since I did nol sleep very long lhal nighl before I was awakened by Borden and lhe brillianl sun. He lold me lhal we were going and as we lell, luggage in hand, I lell indeed sorry lo lorsake lhis heaven on earlh. l'Ie obviously shared lhe same emonlions lhough by no sign did he indicale his leelings. As lhe lrain lell lhe prelly counlryside, he sal lhere slaring al lhe llying mounlains and lrees, silenlly musing. I lell asleep lhen and did nol awake lill lhe lrain suddenly came lo a dead slop al lhe slalion. Il was nol lhe ELCHANITE Twenly-nine
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