Gtt Author:Edward Everett Hale Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. 'THHE two young men were named Haydock and Brinkerhoff. Neither of them was named Honora MacPher- son, nor had either of them ever known any on... more »e who was named Honora MacPherson. It was Frederic Haydock who took Effie's letter and posted it. It is an open question, not yet decided by casuists or writers on etiquette, whether he had the right, or had not, to read the address; or whether, having the right, it would be quite gentlemanly for him to read it. For the true gentleman is distinguished by his abating something from his right. However this may be, Frederic Haydock did read the address, after he had run along the platform, and while he opened the box to post the letter. When he returned to his seat, his friend Hiram said, " Who did your inamorata write to ?" " She wrote to Philip Abgar, 199 i-gth TremontStreet, Boston. I suppose it is her husband," said Haydock. The two young men were not accidental travelling companions. They were boy friends who had been parted for many years, had met by accident in New York, and had gladly stretched and squeezed their appointments a little that they might manage to start together on this journey. They had been fellow-students in Antioch College when they were fifteen years younger, when indeed they were scarcely more than boys. The college had been broken up by the war, and they had not seen each other again now for fifteen years. Well-nigh thirty years old, they ran against each other in Broadway. Whiskers, moustaches, Ulsters, look of care, change of expression, all were not enough for a disguise. They were boys still. They stopped as if it had all been a dream ; as if there had been no Five Forks, and no Crook's Mills, no Battle of the Clouds, and no Beaufort; as if both of them had left recitations in...« less