that was agreeable. Woollcott put his coat of arms on the message by sending it collect. That was on a Sunday. Awaiting Woollcott when he arrived at the theater the next night was a letter. It read:
"I was alone in the house this morning when a telegraph-office employee telephoned that she had a telegram for Dr. Barnes, charges collect. I explained that our financial condition made it impossible for us to assume the additional responsibility and I declined to accept the telegram. She explained that it was from such an important man that I should call Dr. Barnes to the phone to take the message.... My reply was that Dr. Barnes was out on the lawn singing to the birds and that it would cost me my job if I should disturb him at his regular Sunday-morning nature worship."
The telegraph-office girl is evidently a person either very sympathetic to my lowly station or an individual who knows that to thwart a man of your eminence would be flagrant
