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This is an episode in our weekly series titled 'Primary Source Tuesday.' Each Tuesday we have a reading from a particularly interesting historical item. Sometimes it's a historical tidbit that wasn't quite beefy enough to make a full column out of; other times, an especially interesting old newspaper article; frequently it's a short story from one of the frontier literary magazines that thrived in Oregon at the end of the 19th century. Today it's 'It Might Have Been,' a somewhat innovative short story told in the form of a transcribed conversation between a man and a woman at a garden party, by David Burr Chase. It was published in the December 1898 issue of Pacific Monthly magazine, a Portland-based literary magazine that was one of the precursors of Sunset Magazine.