The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-09-13

Gs,89 81 y3f#i lAdflH5
~ <sesssss..:.:';',.ss. !, y " :
II HAVE HAD THE SELF CoNCEIT TAKEN OUT
OF NE PRETTY EFFEcTUALLY TONIGHT
"Well, should not have been very
easy about you"
aDone?" said VIII; 1--WE should have
gone to bed and slept as usual.
81 know you wouldn't; my mother
would not have slept wink. and you
would have set out to seek for me-"
IF you have lost come self eonceit,
you have still some left. Katie" said
Will.
at IS not self conceit. J know quite
well you would have been dreadfully put
about"
II don't know that l shall ever let you
go away again alone; you show neither
presence of mind nor resource. You
might have got into the train and paid
the fare when you reached Coldburgh,
or you might have waited for the next
train and taken cab from Coldburgh,
her brother said.
Il did not think they would let me
tlESEl WAI9tOAt q b4LhkC0s - NeAS - ClkA0
have been very expensive.
ssYou could have had wedding IN the
garden for a fnrtnight at ninepence a
day. and that. would have paid it, but
suppose you prefer begging to honest la
Dor. I hope you see your error"
"No, don't. Who would have thought
they would not give change at a railway
station? Inever heard Of such thing
before. don't believe it is common, and
I still think did the best could do in
the circumstances.
'sYou must at least be convinced now
that women are not equal to men-that
they have neither the large hearts nor
the broad faith nor the very gray brains
that men have"
the shilling had a good heart-I am sure
of that--but / don't see that he needed
brains for the action"
"His brains must be very curiously
twisted, though richly fed with blood
vessels, to enable him to take your meas
ure correctly, which he seems to have
done; and feel Obliged to him.
every well. give me dozen postage
stamps and I'll address them to him;
you'll post them tomorrow morning."
She took out her note book and read
for the first time the words, flames
Jameson, Justinlee, Kingsburgh' He
is James the son of James. JustinIee--
that's rather pretty name; did you ever
hear it before, WHIP"
~ think have; it's farm as far ON
the other side of Coldburgh as we are on
this.
How shall write it," she asked
'Mr. or ESQ.,"
''Oh, Esq. to be sure" said VIII. n
address every human being as ESQ, from
the queen on the throne to the beggar on
the dunghill, unless they have some other
title; good words cost little and are worth
much"
'.Well, I've just said, Tuesday night.
Oct. 10, with hearty thanks, have
dated it, for Isgant him to see that have
lost no time. VIII that DOR
"Oh, yes; dare say you might have
omitted both date and thanks, but it is
no matter"
but it is matter; it would be blank
thing to get only the stamps: and l was
very thankful, can tell you."
VIII put the letter in his pocket to post
in the morning, but his memory regard
ing some things had folds in it as well as
his brain, and when an article got into
them it at times did not get out in a
hurry, which was the case with this let
ter; he never remembered more of it till
about a fortnight after, when he was
searching his pockets for a bit Of paper
to light the gas. He pulled it out, and
hooking at it said, 81 declare, Katie,
James Jameson, Esq, will think you are
n swindler as sure as anything; here are
his stamps lying snug in my pocket yet
THAT is excessively vexatious,n said
Katie, and the tears almost sprang to her
eyes.
"Never mind. Katie, ? said her mother.
ut does not signify; they'll do yet.
Il said would send them next day.
and what viii he Think Katie said
"Just that you're q swindler. He
! should have asked for reference be-
/ fore he parted with his coin: he has
only himself to blame,' said Will.
Come, It's not worth while vexing
! yourself about it. III post it when 20
out, and keep it in my hand till I do
! post it."
Give it to me- she said. land TIL
explain tho delay to him; can't do
lcss. : And she wrote on the outside of
the envelope: II gave this to my brother
to post fortnight ago, and he forget;
please excuse the delay, thsn inclosed
i in another envelope and said: u
! would take it to the post myself. If
] thought you could possibly forget it
Nagain-
/! Il shall not do that, for have other