Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-20
A FEW LETTERS.
They Tell an Interesting Story of
 Love and Duplicity.

They Tell an Interesting Story of
 Love and Duplicity.
 From Herman Dorman, of Detroit, to Miss Sadie Menton, of Cleveland.]
 MY DEAR Mss MENToN-I thought of saying to you what now intend to write. l meant to say it the night before you left for your visit to Cleveland, but somehow my courage failed me. A friend of yours told me that you had rejected many suitors be- cause you believed their motives to be mer- cenary. I could not bear to have the deep love feel for you tingcd with such @ suspi- cion and had resolved to be silent forever. But since you have been away this city seems to me so utterly dreary and desolate that I have made up my mind to at least learn the worst. I may say--and my only excuse for saying it is the remark have alluded to-that believe my own fortune is nearly if not quite equal to yours. do not say this boastfully, but merely to show you that in offering you my hand and heart I am not actuated by any other desire than to hope for yours i'll return. In case you should look favorably upon my suit shall be only too glad If your wealth is so ar ranged as to be entirely beyond the control of any one but yourself.
 My dear Miss Menton, l love you truly, devotedly and unselishly, and 1 love you for yourself alone. What is your answer!
 With deepest affection, yours,
 HERMAN DoRMAN
 From Miss Sadie Menton at Cleveland to MT. Herman Dorman at Detroit.
 MY DEAR MIR. DoRMAN-I can assure you that no such thought ever entered my mind regarding you. think am somewhat of a judge of character and can tell the false from the true. l shall be here some weeks longer, and if you happen to be in Cleve- land before return, shall be very glad to welcome you. Yours,
 SADIE MENTION.
 IFrom MT. John Menton, Detroit, to his sister Sadie, in Cleveland.l
 MY DEAR SAD-Might respectfully ask if you've gone crazy? Herman Dorman of all men in the world! Now, did think once that you had some sense, but I see you are just like the rest of them. Trust girl for picking out the very worst man in her set every time. Dorman wants your cash, that's the brutal long and short of it. Now, Harry Raymond is worth ten thousand of such as that shyster Dorman. If you were poor you would have married Harry, you know you would. You liked him, and he has been ill love with you ever since you were in tho high school. Now you have driven him out to Texas ranch and have dCGudl1S CuSdSCu yOul SClI IO tude IdoCttl! My dear Sadie, have no patience with you. Why is it that an honest man generally has no chance with a plausible scoundrel in the favor of a good and high-minded womans
 Anyhow, don't let the engagement be an nounced for awhile yet. You will do that much at least for me.
 Your brother, JOHN.
 From Miss Sadie Menton, Cleveland, to John Mentor, Detroit
 MY DEAR BRoTHER-You must not write to me again in the strain of your last letter You know that mean what I say. I will overlook it this time, because doubtless what wrote you took you by surprise. You are entirely mistaken in your estimate of MT. Dorman's character. He has admitted to me with sorrow that men rarely understand and sympathize with him. His has been a life of earnest work and unselfish devotion to duty. There is nothing of the boon com panion about him as there was about MT. Raymond. If Herman had received the answer gave to MT. Raymond, he would merely have buried the sorrow in his heart and devoted himself to his duty instead of going dramatically off to Texas and making an absurd cowboy of himself. You must not say drove him there. Herman is en- tirely disinterested, and to prove it to you l have only to say that his fortune is quite equal to my own. shall do as you request about keeping the engagement secret for a time Your affectionate sister,
 SADIE From John Menton, Detroit, to Miss Sadie Mentor, Cleveland
 SADIE-Do you know that there is an esti- mable and valuable, if som ewhat uninterest- ing volume named "Bradstreets?" Look up the standing of MT. Herman Dorman. "Fortune equal to your own." Bosh! Dis trust a man whom women like and with whom his fellow men don't sympathize. JOHN. From Harry Raymond, Slaughter Ranch, Tex, to John Menton, Detroit.I
 MY DEAR JoHN-rm a wild and woolly cowboy, and don't you forget it. There is more buckskin than culture about me now. My chief recreation is shooting holes in the air around a tenderfoot when he comes to visit the ranch. He generally thinks was born this way, and that have an unquench- able thirst for innocent blood. John, I'm afraid haven't gone far enough west, or am too far south, or something. don't for get as easily as thought would. I've ev- idently struck the wrong latitude. If you | notice the slightest trace of lingering regret at my absence don't stop to write, but tele- graph. There is a telegraph line to the fort near here, and some of the boys are in every HlSHG IO HI up WILL 1Ofty Iou, iuu | they'll bring a message out. The rcoment | get dispatch I'll take a vestibuled mule train to the nearest railway station so quick | that the mules won't know what struck | them.
 | I'd about as soon ride Woodward avenue car as bronco, anyhow. Yours, HARRY. From Herman Dorman, Palace Hotel, l Cleveland, to Isaac Van Bruntstein, pawn | broker, Detroit.
 MY DEAR VAN B.-Send me $500 as soon | as possible to the Palace Hotel here. I'll | pay you within three months at any rate of interest you like to put on.
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