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He never alluded to his evening with Stanton; and when Minckle, who was certain the ice had been broken, put his arm around his shoulder the next day, he looked and drawled, "I say, old top, I wish you wouldn't." Of course that finished him with us. "He can go to the devil," we said.
We heard that Shelby went every night for a week to see some part of the play he couldn't, because of his assignments, view the entire performance; and it was Minckle who, after the piece had been running a month in New York, found a photograph of the star in the top drawer of Shelby's desk. He had gone there for a match you know how informal we newspaper men are.
Moreover, the picture had been autographed. "I wish you wouldn't touch that." It was Shelby's voice. Of course he had come in at the very moment poor Minckle made his startling discovery. With quiet dignity, and with a flush on his cheeks, Shelby took the photograph from Minckle's hand, and replaced it in the drawer.
"I always keep matches on top of my desk when I have any," he said, in a voice like ice. There was no denying his justified anger. No man likes to have his heart secrets disclosed; and Shelby knew that even the Associated Press could not give more publicity to the discovery than Minckle could.
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