The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-21

SUNDAY EVENING, Feb. !, 1870.
MY DEAR Josig-l received your let. /
ter The tenor does no, surprise me much. !
You alone sought the issue aud the reward !
VIII belong to you. cannot allow YOU
TO depart believing yourself what YOU
write, ANA must say to you, which YOU
know full we'll that all the differences
could have been aettled by Mss in the
right spirit, and in after days | should
ieei very kindly toward you out of men,
Org Of the great love | have borne for YOU.
! never was aware that you admitted
fault. i have many-God knows, too
iha, has brought me to the
trouble OF the day. / will not speak of the
future, for full we'll know the spirit YOU
take it in. "You know me. - and the in
stincts Of your heart will weigh me out in
the right scale. l will give you nc parting
advice. You have been well schooled in
that, and can tell chaff from wheat, and
probably are as strong tonight as the
humble writer of this letter. The actions
of the past must be the right way to think
Of me; and from them, day by day, / hope
any comparison which you may make
from writing in the future, will be favora-
Bile for me. A longer letter from me
might be much of an advertisement Of my
weakness, and the only great idea would
impress on your mind is, how wrong you
are when you say that have grown
tired of you" Wrong, wrong Never
excuse yourself on that in after years.
Don, try TO teach your hears that, for it is
lie, anu you are classifying yourself to
your own soul.
No more. Like the Arabs, we will fold
our tents and quietly steal away. and when
we spread them next we hope il will be
where the woodbine twineth, over the
river Jordan, on the bright and beauregl
banks Of heaven. From yours, ever,
JAMES.
TOGETHER AGAIN
a few days after Fisk wrote the last let.
ter, Josie sent for him; then she went to
see him, and the trouble was ali made up
again. For months afterward, Fisk sen,
her money, as thus
My DEAR JosIE-Inclosed find your
request. / will send to the Fifth Avenue
for the things. / cannot 90 to the house
as much as l would like TO. Yours,
May g. 1870. JAMES.
New YORK, May 1870.
| DoLLY-What do you think of thii
man? / told him you would talk to him
and then tell him to come back TO me
next Monday, and | will taIk to you abou,
it. Yours ever JAMES.
Who the above man was we do not know
THE BIG DIAMOND.
Fisk trusted his $4,000 diamond pin
with Josie, for he thus affectionately sends
for it:
May, 81, 1870.
Please send me the diamond brooch and
necklace, my dear. JAMES.
GOODNESS.
Now he begins to grow cold Monts-
land has arrived from Paris and he is pay
ing court TO her. Josie had Stokes and
Fisk had Montaland. 1t was all fair.
August, J, 1870.
MY DEAR JOSEF send you letter I
found TO my care on my desk. / can not
come to you tonight. shall stay in
town tonight, and probably tomorrow
night, and after that l must go cast. On
my return, ! shall come to see you. ! am
sure you will say, "What fool q But
YOU must rest and So must |. The thread
is SO slender i dare not strain il more.
am sore, but God made me So and ! have
not the power 10 change it.
Loving you, as none out you, / am, yonrs
ever, jays
JOSIE DESERTS FISK.
Josie now deserted Fisk because he
would not give Ecr life competency.
Notwithstanding he paid her bills gem
orally, and furnishes her with all the
money she needed:
AUGUsT IA, 1870
lnclosed you will find 500 for your
little matters. You told me when / saw
you last you would send me your bills.
which i would be pleased TO receive, and
they shall have my attention at once.
Your letter would require little time to
prepare a RICH. answer to, so 1 will an
twer it more fully by tomorrow, when /
can look 1t more carefully over. l am
very happy to know that YOU have acted
from no impulse in leaving me, hut that
IT was long-matured plan. ! hope you
have made no mistake Yours truly,
ever, JAMES FISK, JR:
JOSIE WRITES TO FISK.
Hero is the letter which Josie wrote to
Fisk, and which he desired time to reply
to. 1t is Josies last:
SEPTEMBER, 1870.
JAMES FISK, JR:
That your letter had the desired effect
you can well imagine. ] am honest
| enough to admit 1t cut me to the quick,
do not know if it is so, but that NAV he
| able 10 shape my affairs permanently
for the future, that part OF the amount
would place me in position where / new.
or have to appeal to you for aught. !
have never lad one dollar from am
one else, and arriving here from the
Branch, expecting my affairs with
| you to continue, l contracted bills
that ! would not otherwise have done.
| do not ask for anything have not been
led to suppose was mine, and do not ask
! you to settle what is not entirely convent.
ent for you. After a time | shall sell nv
house, but for the present | think it
best to remain in it. The money | speak
of would place me where should need the
assistance of no one
The ring take back ms fairly as gave il
you; the mate to it l shall keep for COM
pkny. Why you should say i obtained
this house by robbery 1 cannot imagine ,
however, you know best, am sorry that
your associations with me were detriment.
al to you, and / would GLADLY, with YOU,
| (were it possble), ebliterate the last Three
years ofmy life's history; but it is not pos
sible, and we must struggle to outlve our
past. trust you will take the sense of
this letter as it is meant, and that there
can be no mistake send this by Ella, and
| what you do not understand she will ex-
plain.