The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-07-13

u suited the romance she was beginning
70 weave about him. She must have
written her cousin about me, for not
long after she said she had q message
for me. and then read from 4 letter she
had just received something about his
81 ~ desire 70 meet bis cousins lovely
friend.
Of course. you will say that | ought
70 have treated this message with cool
contempt. but Il seemed very ~inoflen-
sive. What harm could there be IN II?
thought. SO ! merely replied in q
bantering way: "Well. he won't get
his DESIRE But other messages iol-
lowed. until one dry Ellen. in great cx-
citement. took me aside and said:
20 Aura! ! sent Guy your photo
graph. just 70 look at IL. you know. and
thingt'
"Sent him my photograph" ex-
claimed. in dismay. why, how could
| you do that?"
"Oh. il was not 70 keep. just to look
at, that's all. Why. anybody has the
right 70 look II = Photograph. ! suppose.
You have the qneerest. old-fnshioned
notions. I've given away dozens Of
mine 70 young men.
l was really heightened. but 10 be
pronounced beautiful. when ] have only
a moderate share Of good looks. fatterrd
me 70 the point Of forgiving the pre-
sumption Of my room-mate. Message
followed message after this, until one
day q letter came 70 me IN 'losed IN one
70 Ellen. Ny iirst love letter. II was a
miserable piece Of bomhast. but / was
n I disposed TO be critical. though / read
il with a timid. guilty feeling.
Ellen. a. we talked about il that night
mo-" / replied. hesitatingly. ~
think you'd better send II Lack 70 him,
and tell him he mustn't write again."
I'll do no such thing Ellen an
swercd. angrily. lyon We given him
encouragement. you've been send
ing him nice messages and raising his
hopes. and now YOU want 10 turn
round and insult him. You can tell
him yourself II You choose. / shall not
hurt the poor fellows feelings"
In q day or two | wrote. trying 10 be
very firm and decided. He replied TO
that. urging reasons for writing. and
one better brought IN another. until In
the excitement and del 'ght Of a scnti-
mental correspondence. i expressed
myself more strongly than intended.
In fact. ] might as well tell the truth; ]
wrote 70 a man | had never seen and
knew nothing about that there had been
stranger things than learning to love a
favored correspondent.
was very foolishe do you saye: Yes.
Crazcd with excitement and not re-
spoons blcp No. For l had been led toll
against the protest Of my good sense.
Let il serve rs 4 warning 10 other
girls. These written folIies somehow
have the knack u coming back upor
their authors. like ghosts that VII not
be laid.
was 70 leave school about the tims
Of my seventeenth birthday. a. thai
period Jrrw i1rar, l began % feel mors
deeply I; Jolly 81 what l Lad done
and 70 see the necessity Of getting ont
If The ENHANCEMENT into which ! hat
been led. To tell the truth. TOO. ! BE-
gan 70 get tired of the correspondence
/ found that my admirer letters wer,
often ill-spclled and badly expressed
AT times IL became 80 hirh-iown tina
could MOI quite understand him. II
nv ignorance l thought ! could end Thu
matter when l pleased, and the yer.
idea that father or that my brothe
Harry should find ont anything abou
IL terrified me. / had no mother. hu
nv GOOD. kind father was mother an,
father both. though sometimes he coul,
bc very stern when | did wrong.
told Ellen that l was going hom'
the next week. and should not writ
riga y 70 her cousin. She must tell hin
that wanted the correspondence =
cease. and Il he wrote 70 me a. my hom
should be compelled % return IN
letters.
lyon know It's been in fun. any
way." said. And | want you 10 e.
nv letters from him and bu n them up
Here are his handing her . package
To nv aston;shment. she burst into
race. she. who had taught me that !
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