Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-10

Noaeu an ANONYMOUS letter -her
nii. ID received. He had de-
,nsndsd n Of her father and OF her
moiher She sometimes opened ms
no,ss she open This and read u.
~ ,js was taken home and preserved.
Ifnrnnn told her he had letter IRON,
Eaton. Had reposed II great deAl oi
confidence in him. In the carrier par,
oftheir acquaintance they hau 'g'eeu
TO he
ONLY FRIENDS.
WAS surprised that he should bring
Ills note. He told her she need not
tske n unless she wanted TO. Tie next
day was Sunday, the day on which
EATON particularly annoyed her. He
gave her father letter for her. TOOK
The letter home and after dinner read
H. II was nothing but silly love
litter asking her. or telling her, she
was going To Bryan 10 marry him
showed these letters. Furman satd
he Thought the fellow was crazy. Fur
man cane one day and asked her to go
riding with him in order tn transfer
Eaton,s nerseculions from her 20 him.
on another occasion lie said he
would "whip Eaton with n coWhide
on the street il she would say &C."
Mr. Flu man had said that any man
that said 80 was liar. she was
woman. she was not liar. Eaton
came TO their side gate on that sunday
night and asked her to come out ma
get "A note, but she would mol. In
Ezelj's furniture store she uneSpected-
ly met Eaton the next day. He was
excited aud said to her, You have got
To leave here with me tonight" she
said, ~ will mott He told her she
had better marry him, che would
find out that he was the best friend
She ever had.n He continued, by
tomorrow morning your own father
will turu you from his door" He
asked her again If she would not 20
with him. She replied NO" he
said, "Nuu will see the time when you
win be glad to marry me-" she told
him she would not marry him to save
her life With wave of his hand he
"l'vo already commenced
my hellish work, +" multercd an oath
and left. Told her escort what had
passed and he wanted togo and have
Eaton arrested. She said NO" she
would 20 tell her father. He was not
at home, but came In II few minutes.
She was little surprised 10 think that
lac did not say, "Go have him mr.
rested He said, however, I've
seen Eaton myself and think can tell
YOU something Her father then
showed her the letter. saying Eaton
said she had writ ten 1t. She laughed
immodera,ely. She told her father
she believed the man was y
lunatic Her father said Mr..
Eaton had as much sense rs she.
She started TO tear the letter up. Her
father said no, he had promised to re-
turn it. This was identified rs the
letter X (''Here's my story.")l She
said she would show it, Her father
said "Well, it's not your writing"
They spoke of the letter. There was
Just enough truth in it to give them
something to think about. They knew
a gentleman in Missouri named Tull.
Charlie Hall and another gentleman
had travelled the city over, showing
these letters. they were
told by many parties.
Mr. Caps came in and said lie sup.
posed they knew OF the difference be-
tween her and Eaton, and he had
come there to recover over 5000 he said
Eaton had given her Mr.. Capps
asked If she Ind the letters of Eaton.
She s9id she had some, and started 10
yet them, hut remembered Furman
had them. He said no, he hal them.
Furmau had given them 10 Eaton.
The watch was spoken of w very fine.
Didn't remember II nj first, hut nnally
remembered II little nickel-pIate watch
given secondhand, with the crystal
broken, and worn by her
brother some time. When lie
was shown the watch he
said he would leave the watch FOR "A
niger to get. \ gentleman friend OF
hers came in and MIR. CHpps tried TO
interview him. After that gentleman
came in and said that Eaton was doing
! the town with about twenty-five let
/ ters. 4. was fuliya day before they
| recognized the fact that wrong was
| being done them. She had refused
| 10 e ieve that her cOntideu.
tial friend Mr., Furman lad given heI
letters to Eaton. Wednesday morn.
! ing her father came back from town
aud asked her If she had filrted with
Furman. She had told furman one
or two things in confidence. II,
called about one o'colck Wednesday
and said he had given the letter tC
Eaton aud told those things. The
reason he had become angry when
Eaton came to him was on account
of something In the summer.
Eaton had said that she told him that
Furman had kissed her. AT tn,
house, Furman expressed himself very
much hurt because he had told. Their
Mr.. Henry Furman called on hel
father and said he would not take ihC
case, When y. NJ, Furman had called
in reply TO question, she told hin
that che might contide in him, but sh,
could never again have the confidence
in him that she had before
He asked her this several timea
The next morning Mr., Henry Fur
man took Eaton's case, The CONVEX
satiOn referred 10 was before the re
ceipt Of his letter. Asked him befor
this II he thought her guilty and II,
didn't answer. Told him ON one occA.
. sion to put his feelings IN his pocket
She demanded an answer and the mex
morning he left an answer at tn
school-room. He allied again, and sh
told him he was queer fellow. that h
could write IL, but he couldn't look il
her face and asy he believed he
gpilty. She had added, "If you do, /
ia because II Is your business to- Sh
told him she had heard that Eato
paid him $40 Tor the letters
In telling the kissing scene, she SAT-
HAT one night hc came home with he
from church, babe her good night OF
; the porch, aud leaned forward an
, tried TO kiss her. She said, "Nc
! never. there ave but
TWO MEN ~ THE WORLD
! will ever kiss, my father and IN,
future husband y