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W‘mf me/mm I_Il but, one gettingointo! ”entanglement only to“ V [0 duper, into the next; but the feeling that I experience for Anni: Birdsey (Nathan’s sister) has 5 different metal!!! I am in love. too, with Doro~ thy Lee; for she ‘is none of your ordinary- sort. Aye, if the had been other than she ihâ€"pure, true, and nobleâ€"she. ‘with her bright mind'nnd her clear wit, {would have sifted my purpose in being here. She is a dninty, womanly little soul, and she is helpful and thrifty, and sweet; children cuddle close [,w‘hsr. pus! dons-“lowly. Aurtheflavender seemed to Have a human voice and"t6“be ‘c‘l'yini’btit to me. "the. maids strew me among the fresh" linen ;” and the sage, and the firm Him}?! mmm prbcliiminz, " we are often fled ; into bopots, Ilqng with the pifiks and the '20 fi\-‘ . “ f. w the posies do came crowding back to my me. \‘ 7 11m. with a petulant toss of their dainty buddy.“ 3.; set doyn in this letter of mine! was no IICI.IQWI , _ ' * 1 r“ O the pempemeflâ€"the pempe'me'fl' leaves, which we love to tags into a. tankard of cool dd?!” flavoring. ‘ ‘ drink, for its 11‘!”pr famed in Sanchqis time-+1 can see the me, that old Burton in his book doth insist haih the power (ifbtewgd in- pmpcr manner, and taken at certain hours of the; day and night) “to expel the temptations of the Devil :fr’bm afflicted souls.” I recall how the dark amen of the summer savory shaded itseliimo’ the pilot coloring of its neighbor, wily ' T _ .I “ll not (ail, yet: any be sure. to make hay vbile the-mm of Doiothy’s favor beams 'upon me, “It! llfiil‘entice her on, but always "(I pray) at a {tie Gianni; for she is more than charming, and I misfit keep my heart whole and yellow my head! And now let inc spuk to’ you of .Annis-râ€"and my mention other“ as'rewrenl. as is the thought that I give to the memory of my mother, dead and gone. Days have comeahd passed away since I laid down my pen. and out of its‘secure hiding' place I take my letter,'not, I fear me,‘ for yOur pleasure, as I have nothing new'io set ‘dowx conteming'the enemy, but to pour out, my great. great joy. FatICy a June mornâ€" ing: thousands of‘beer» running riot in the “posy Inns?! narrow box~hedged walk, warm under foot, a. parsonage garderi.“wher‘e_ there‘iis a oommingling of fruif, flowers and fragrant herbs. I can feel min, yas’ I write it down, the delicate odor of the rosemery' stealing through my nostrilsâ€"the rosc~ (Who-M tuck) lulu. lint, right to bl) you. By LA I “no. you hm hmoud Inc with thin I'd-pat, flat in up!“ at my Mos-any. I bun thou-ally idlingoifaluna ‘- l_._- --, Volume 1 7 DOR 07H?” “flared B] LAURA! DAYTON FESSENDEN tilingotfallhg [lament only to ' feeling that I 1311’: sister) has OM -I:OL ha... 'W.MhLmDouq'Ic~o-du There was sweet cicily, that some call cheveril, or speedwell, and there was bail, and balm. md ' sweetwilliam, hollyhock and honeysuckle. johnnr Jump-ups, and poppies, and twenty different kind: has been ma; Tho-no. who In the Itudy door t4 sud Huh-n; HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS, APRIL 8 moods. Ofte‘n‘ have I stood with it in my band, ready to rend it in . thousand-bits, but something stops the act, and I take up my pen and so on. . It is evening. Strangek‘hiflgrm suddenly coin: :6 pass.’ The friendship' of long years between Nn‘than and me is smr‘ed for aye. Than“ and I will pass this nightfit the Inn had on thc marrow we must, through such aid as is known to us, make our way to our qvm people, I’M] look Eek to this night, in aim-nun, with I feeling of sadness: But, when the ecstasy was spent; when she had gone, and I was come down to arth again, I cursed my weakness and my madness, that had well nighj made me forget duly‘t'o my countiy. I would gladly have killed the girl, .for so nearly causing my undoing. Then little by little joy began to rout'despair, for I saw that- this love-making had been in rcaiiiy an excellent move. It would serve as a blind, it would quiet nil Nathan’s suspicious and Dorothy Lee should plead our suit; it would be easy, I knew, for Anni: to pérsu’adeLDorothy to break the matter to Nfihm ‘ ,This is‘no ordinary litter, dur cousin, and not the sort Of a missive thnthon'e writ» to send with great secrecy and stealthgthrongh the enemy’s‘lines. 1th.: been. penned at various'times, and in “tied . w, ,- . v ' ‘T'T' ~"'_‘ ’W m?” showing all théfinemu 6! WWW as though in sooth she‘had been-born in the Mother. land. "J~ knew in that moment that she was My bet- ter self. I forgot for the first time’in my “madam life that I was crippied. I felt, all 'the strength of my sturdy race. She was my .Madonn‘a land my Queen. I read her love for me npou her silent lips, in the depths of her glorious eyes. I knew that she would offer tribute of love to none ‘otlser while her life should last. ‘ ~ And thus, 'be'my wife: fluid.“ tne'flgm mi; éoilih'g‘ «finds 61% Msiarax I an her has through the-bed of flower}, feel- ingjm that she had ndt touched to it: hurt the lowlicst bad or leaf. . ‘ . earth for min, to-‘show him the goodpgs; of God,â€" the black currant trees (like mholites) swung to and Ira, their golden comers, filled to ovetflowing with spiced Rainma- And I, ‘urgn "g ,Q‘QFQS'! 1:93:11, ,dfian, a. «v m, of roses! And there she stood before me, in all her, youth our :11, ‘this altar, set us on the it was asked Anni: BirdSey to bi. meetings. That his hand: had been "gape; tightly I saw, Incense of the marks deeply dented his But in that moment when I scorned her, she read 91! my true new?!" she knew in: as \mie knows it 61:1!me book, from cover to cover. ; when the first dmmtic-inciifcnts foflowing Na- than's mum;- in our midst had been maxed. DOW made her ékit and Nathan and I were left alone. , ' ' ‘ It vi: a 'trying (im‘e. I had to call to my aid film .W 401nm with seeming indifl‘ercnce thi's. nan thope kindness and hospitality I had and to further my own ends. . ' ‘ Thee mm gitduy had been upon his knees f knew from the gum. lint gin; wa_s clmging to :‘ _.;'__|a an. A win feliow, any you? But if you arev honest, M will not {gilwto confess that I-am- no.mor¢ vainthan youw’vhoread what I write. We deem it Margo. cove? ou‘r s’elf knowledge with cloaks, made' exit a?!“ texture called humility or deception; but when"we disrober we make note of our proper; tions, and wondetgreatly that'our fellow creatures are so ,dulloi appreciation as not to give us our rml value, so I speak no lie when I say that Dorothy Lee. did worship my mind, which is worthy of her admiration.- ' ' ' V; . r-o v-r; . . .l‘. - -.'.v ‘7"; :,,__ ‘ Shall I ever in me 166% in the little 1w6'man’s, face when I hurled her from my ‘arms, pouring out as I didso {torrent of cruel words to keep my (:de action company. She may never know‘ ‘(how shouldshe) what‘l set down here; but just I must be to began this page. Dorothy Lee has for same time Felieved that she loved me, while 'all the time I have known that it was but a tender womanly pity for my bodily infirmities,‘ 'and an admiration for my cultured mentality. ' ' -V -mu' of the opening of the study door. '1 i The hour drew neu, and I seated myself at the library table and took up a volume. I heard the voice of Annie (like some faint echo of a sweet song) as she read her grandmother to sleep in the room nhove me. I heard the rustle of petticoats, gs Dorothy passed by to fulfil her mission for'Annie ”4 me. I heard the stalthy itep of Thomas, At lent the sweet, expectant silence was broken. and Dorothy Lee come to me. She had never loohed to beautiful. She had never been to close to me. ‘ I felt her breath upon thy cheek. I was tempted to go he beymdthehmhlhfidvalmfl k_.'-L._':':mt.m. .. .,- "In well-t“ h". but W to _;y‘:5:muon. even to M who III to don his dlppen Ind listen st «to My door to um um .houm be uid by Dorothy Ind Kuhn; , 1905 b“ now, u is 1.06 “min a con. mingling» be toad for em... born or Inna. All loomed to Number 19