The acme magazine . AN ENEMY TO THE CZAR THE STIRRING EXPERIENCE OF A YOUNG ENGLISHMAN By A. HERBERT BOWERS. T Ik^H- HE study of Personals inour metropolitan dailieshas long been a hobby ofmine. It pleases me to recon-struct in fancy the variousdramas suggested by theirmeager wordings. Sometimes,indeed, I have by their meansbeen enabled to follow an in-trigue, or simple love affair,from its inception to an end—tragic or otherwise. Harmless in itself, this hobby,or passion—which you will—hasin one case, at least, been pro-ductive of good; and, in tellingthe story, disguised as it will beby fict
The acme magazine . AN ENEMY TO THE CZAR THE STIRRING EXPERIENCE OF A YOUNG ENGLISHMAN By A. HERBERT BOWERS. T Ik^H- HE study of Personals inour metropolitan dailieshas long been a hobby ofmine. It pleases me to recon-struct in fancy the variousdramas suggested by theirmeager wordings. Sometimes,indeed, I have by their meansbeen enabled to follow an in-trigue, or simple love affair,from its inception to an end—tragic or otherwise. Harmless in itself, this hobby,or passion—which you will—hasin one case, at least, been pro-ductive of good; and, in tellingthe story, disguised as it will beby fictitious names, I violate noconfidence, I invite no animus. It was some eight months agothat I developed an unusual in-terest in a series of advertise-ments emanating from suggested a mysterious dis-appearance. Wanted—Information as tothe whereabouts of John SilcoteBosanquet. Liberal reward. Ap- plv to V. G., in West St., New York. By thunder, I have it! I ex-ulted. John Bosanquet was thename of that young Englishmanwhom I had met more than once
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