The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Indiscreet Letter, by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Indiscreet Letter Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Release Date: April 29, 2005 [eBook #15728] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INDISCREET LETTER*** E-text prepared by Robert Shimmin and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team 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 ingenuous and so nonchalant. There was nothing dressy, however, about the Young Electrician. From his huge cowhide boots to the lead smouch that ran from his rough, square chin to the very edge of his astonishingly blond curls, he was one delicious mess of toil and old clothes and smiling, blu-

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