San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-30

NOT 70 use-m the UrD wnaJ MISS Le
bourgeois had written. rs she must have
sent tie Letter without her mothers
knowledge; and had he y right tc
take advantage of ii generous impulse
OF youth and inexperience? On the
other hand, a note simply thanking
her, however strong the terms used
while declining her prefer, would be
sure to be construed by so high-strung
a girl as a tacit rebuke of her uncon.
ventional conduct. This thought de.
cided Paul. Whatever else he did, hs
would not for a m allow her ia
think that he saw in her act ANYTHING
to be criticised. After all, there was
no reason for squeamishness. Nobody.
need know-no, MOI even guess-that
there was any connivance on her part.
with the publication of the descrip
ton of her gown. 1t would be
laid to a g~ossiping maid. So Paul,
taking up the first paper that lay
ready to his hand. wrotes
THE ST. LOUIS CLUB,
Tuesday Evening.
MY DEAR Miss LEBoURGEoIs-I can
not express to you, and / shall not try,
how deeply your delicate kindness has
touched me. Some day possibly
though l do not count upon it, may
meet you on equal terms and thank
you as well as ! can personally,
Should this opportunity never come, I
feel sure that l can trust to the same
gen intuition, which led you to sc
fearlessly champion a stranger, to ap
p~reciate my sense of obligation and
gratitude, which is better thus limited
at than expressed, when any expression
must be a failure.
l will simply allude to my deep re
greet that your mother was not in when
my card wa sent up, that her most
j~ustiiable misrepresentation might have
been avoided. At the same time, since
to that unlucky accident l owe what
will be n of the most carefully cherk
ished memories of my life, l can only
say that my regret is solely for th
transiently false position in which VI
were placed. In cas- a simll
strange freak of chance should
again give occasion for a not
yourself, l would suggest that p
1t had better be directed in care
cousin, Col. Charles White, al tn
than sent to the Orb office. No
it would be tempered with the
only as a matter of absolute 81
can only add that l sha
to use the information 2
disposal as .'inconspicuo
BILE, and that if a rare
should ever put me in tt
ing you, you of counsel
to command my seryiS
extent.
Very sines-s'y andalJ
Pan
Paul was not entirely sat1
this reply. 1t seemed constrS(
in very marked contrast 20 the
tone of Miss Le~bourgeois. At the }
time he intended it to be forf
SHOULD the NOTE ever fall into otA
hands, especially into those Of hen
brother and his friend, Frank, he meant
to make sure that It should be PERFECTLY
free from possibility Of misconstructine
even a prejudiced critic could
not say after reading it, that he had
taken advantage of his opportunity to
lay the basis for a clandestine CORE.
or aequa!ntaiSs This much
he owed to a proper self:respect, apa
must be achieved at all hazardE
From this Standpoint his note seemed
.~.-zs-e ssS
1t struck him, upon starting to adj
dress the envelope, that Miss Lebour-
geois had given him no address. Her
mother, of course, could not have
known that she had written II. The
reply, either sent by mail or messen-
ger, would be Likely to fall under the
nother's eye, and lead to disagreeable
questions. The mail would attract
ess attention than a messenger. Per-
laps it was lucky, after ell, hat he
lad written 1t at the club on club
'aper. Miss Lebourgeois must have
riends. il not relatives, who were
nembers, and a letter from the club
you'd probably attract as little atten-
as any in a strange hand. So he
directed the note to Miss Lee
ourgeois' name, rang the table bell
Or a servant, secured a stamp and had
letter posted. He looked at his watch
nd found that it was already IL
clock. He had spent a great deal
ore time over the matter than he had
ny idea of. He must be back at the
ID office by half-past II at the farth-
t, and to do that he had no time to
The Colonel was probably
isy, and he would not disturb him.
q xro..ld laaHa L.