Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-07-06

iney | sent yours and some others. Do
you remember?n
Yes" answered. Il remember very
! well, and we thought the characters sent
back were wonderfully true.'
we did," said John emphatically, and
that was the mischief of it. Some time
after that | had II housekeeper whom
suspected of cheating me, and sent a note
OF hers to Miss Harris by way of clearing
up my opinion of her. Miss Harris wrote
back that she was civil and plausible, but
not to be trusted, and sure enough after a
time | detected her in downright robbery.
| Upon my word Mary, ii did believe in
! Miss Harris, | had good reason, and I'm
not so YER sure yet that she doesn't de
serve to be believed in. Well, now, what
do you think did? determined to get a
note from Miss Woodroffe and send it to
Miss Harris before | took another step in
the affair. Miss Woodrotfe, as it happen
ed, was to stay at the Joddrells' for two or
three weeks, and before "A week was over
! had managed to get a note of two or three
! lines from her. This sent to Miss Harris
and can show you the answer | received.
Here John took from his pocket "A letter
case or pockctbook, from which, after some
| turning over of tho papers it contained, he
| drew ont much worn letter. and handed
!
! it to me. 1t began: The handwriting of
| the note of which you have requested my
| opinion is a very remarkable one; it eX-
| presses in the strongest degree the quail
| ties of a noble and refined character. The
writer has clear praln, an aiecllohaIe
| heart and great rectitude Of mind; she
talks well, ana neither too nluch nor 700
| little There was good zeal more III the
same STYLE describing Such Il paragon OF
| our sex thaC really Iell an men or Two
taller Tor tht reaulhS Oh IT,
| III Miss Noodrotle was al that' / salu,
y can't imagine now you ever let her 90. %
she was, he answered Az any rate
have no reason To doubt It,
He put the paper back in its place and
went on
Il think may say that ! lost no time
after that. She was friendly from the
beginning. About four weeks after our
first meeting asked her to marry me, and
she said Yes. Upon my word Mary II |
| had been twenty-five instead of htty-ilve'
don u think could have been happier.
She was just going away from the Jod-
drells', and before she went | told her all
about Miss Harris and what thorough
belief had in her skill Miss Noodrotfe
laughed at me, but unfortunately was
! quite convinced Ihab my oeliei was wei
| founded aud qulte determined TO persuade
her to think so too.
she went away and OF course wrote
to her In one OF my hrst letters l sent
her the one | have Just shown you and |
begged her to send my handwriting also to
Miss Harris for her own satisfaction 1on
see, felt quite safe III dong tins. because
the description OF me winch had been sent
. | at the time. Won remember, had been rather
hatterlng. On that occasion Miss Harris
had declared that was OF an amiable tenn
per, liberal, hut trustworthy | remember
the words well, and thought it could do
| me nothing but good if such AN account of
me found its way to Miss Woodroffe
What fools people are! The woman was
a rank impostor of course, as found after
ward to my cost and as ought to have
known then, but ana really belleNeln her,
Could you have guessed it?'
We'll, no." answered. Il really don q
think | should have believed it-only you
know, john you shrewd men can be so
dreadfully credulous. Why, remember
friend OF my husband who doubted every
thing, and vet he believed in Nine. Blavat-
sky"
John grunted. He did not seem to like
the comparison, which was foolish of him,
poor fellow
she said, " be went on, that she could
trust her own Judgment and did not want
anybody else's. That might have satisfied
anybody, but it cid not satisfy me. | wrote
again and begged her to do a~ | wished,
telling her about the housekeeper At last
she wrote that she had done to please me
what she never would have done for her
self and she said, 4 suppose you expect me
to abide by whatever Miss Harris may
say
Do you know that those words gave me
a fright? l mad never doubted IN theh
that Miss Harris would give Just the same
character of me as she had done before,
and also had only thought OF 1t as giving