Mr. Beecher knew of Edward's relations with the
ex-President, and they had often talked of him together.
Nothing more was said of the incident. When the Beecher home was
reached Mr. Beecher said: "Just come in a minute." He went straight to
his desk, and wrote and wrote. It seemed as if he would never stop.
At last he handed Edward an eight-page letter, closely written,
addressed to General Hayes.
"Read that, and mail it, please, on your way home. Then it'll get
there just as quickly as the New York papers will."
It was a superbly fine letter,--one of those letters which only Henry
Ward Beecher could write in his tenderest moods. And the reply which
came from Fremont, Ohio, was no less fine!
CHAPTER IX
THE FIRST "WOMAN'S PAGE," "LITERARY LEAVES," AND ENTERING SCRIBNER'S
Edward had been in the employ of Henry Holt and Company as clerk and
stenographer for two years when Mr. Cary sent for him and told him that
there was an opening in the publishing house of Charles Scribner's
Sons, if he wanted to make a change.
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