The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-04-04

had passed out Of her life foreyer.
But her heart was very sore.
The next day she said she was
homesick and in spite of Aunt Marcia 5
protests she went back to Marsnville
and her old life.
Aunt Jane saw that she had had
some experiences that she did not
care 10 talk about. and asked no
questions. But she could imagine
what they were.
Months went by. Again John
Hartley leaned across the window sill
and offered Lcttie handful of pinks.
This time she took them
They are the sweetest flowers.
after all, she said, hiding her face in
them.
Have YOU got back to your old
opinion, Lettie,' he asked: ''if YOU
have changed Your mind about pinks.
perhaps YOU have about other things
perhaps have" he answered.
with ross face. whose color was half
of shame At remembrance Of her wear
old folly.
About me. for instance suggest
ed John IF asked YOU to marry
me. Lettie. what would your answer
be-"
81 couldn't >av I'LL YOU asked me"
answered Lettie
"Well, then. will YOU marry me-"
cried John, desperately.
IF You want me 70, knowing how
foolish I've been.
Then John came in and kissed her
Aunt Jane, who was going by the
kitchen door, declared 10 herself that
Lettie had come 10 her senses after all.
Falconer's Love Letters to Miss
Hale
This case of Alexander h. Falconer,
the member of Plymouth church, who
was arrested for writing annoying
letters to Miss Katie l.. Hale, of No
81 Column ,ia Heights. was called YES
terday before Justice Walsh i'm the
city hall police court in Brooklyn.
and the examination was set down for
next Tuesday. Falconer's bail was
fixed at 81 900, i'm default of which he
was sent to the Raymond street Jail.
The following is sample Of the let
tiers he wrote, three of which are en-
bodied in the complaint against him.
They were written while he was in
Washington recently:
465 PENN-AvE. WASHINGTON, ID. &.
My Darling Miss Hale: | hasten
to tell you that | think my attention
to you is the most ridiculous piece O.
fOOlishness that ever entered a per
sons head. a complete delusion which
you have treated very properly in
deed. 50 / will now stop all love
letters, etc., as see you have so many
beaux that you cannot attend to me.
| think YOU will he left all alone some
day by those. | cannot afford to wait
any longer for YOU you are too smart;
YOU will know more when YOU are
older. | love YOU all the same. how
ever, and always shall i'm spite Of
everything, and | will never cease to
love you and will watch your move
men,s i'm future if YOU want to be nv
wife. / shall be satisfied for YOU to
marry some good young man. You
are TOO naughty not to answer my let
tiers. l suppose the more YOU whip
me the more will love you. and |
think you are right. Besides this,
your dear mamma, | suppose, has her
mysteries over il. | will return to
Brooklyn and take you out driving
next month some day. Will YOU GO?
1t would be too hard to have me come
from Washington and then be disap-
pointed. | watch and wait every day
expecting a letter from my dear. L
long for the dav To come, when | shall
brush the lovely locks from your brow
and plant a kiss upon your forehead.
| am almost wild, my love, for you
are above everything in the world.
What shall | do? | remain your
loving and devoted admirer (wish YOU
would say what you intend to do with
me will do as you say; it is all
there is in life worth living for. l am
a pe,f feet slave. A. IL. FALcoNER.
His couusaI GAYS the Letters do not