Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-10-13

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Wilton 20 herself. I'm not half
good snough 10 him. l wonder
what this is IN his pocket; il bungles
il all out Of shape"
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pocket rs she spoke aud drew out q
little package wrapped up in silver
paper and tied with blue ribbon
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/ expect, said Eva. / wonder what
it is. 1 think I won't open it un-
Ill he comes home; then she laid the
silk across the hole and cut it out
and baste it down. "Iwonder what
it is" said she. "Tom did mean to
get me an opera glass, ! know; but
this is not the shape of the parcel.
II doesn't seem like O book. It
might be lace on q card-real lace"
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tear much longer. He caught it on
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take q peep. Tn sure it is for me-"
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keep my old letters next his heart,
as he has told me-"
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saw that at q glance. s..s .. E..
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she loved his mother so"
Then she began to tremble little,
for the letters did not begin: "My
dear son" nor anything like it.
She cast her eyes over them. They
were love letters. .- ..
Tom has loved some other wo-
man before he met me-" she said.
beginning to cry. "Oh what shall I
do?" Then she cried out: "Oh,
foolish, foolish creature that I am.
OF course she died, and he only
loves me now. It was all over be-
fore we met. I must not mind
but there she paused, gave scream,
and threw the letter from her as
though it had been o serpent and
bitten her. It was dated the past
week. 1t was not four days old. p
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what shall I do? Oh where shall I
goY At every cry a thought pierced
her breast like an actual stab.
Tom!-he be false! Oh, have !
gone mad! No, there they arel
They are.really there-those lettersl
Why do / not die ? do people live
through sach things as thesef''
Then she knelt down on the floor
and gathered up the letters and
steadily read them through There
were tea Of them. Such love letters,
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