The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-15
SECOND SIGHT.
CHAPTER. III


me shudder. But her caper Of going
through Sans desk gives RE an idea. l
don't half like having his COMPOUNDED
letters around here. Suppose Flossy
should some day take it into her head
to play the same game and find theml
Ten to one they are, like most girls let
tiers, without address or signature. and
she would be justified i'll thinking they
were written to me. I've q notion to see
if they do not expose Inc to that risk
not TO read them, Of course, bat just to
know what chances l am taking. {"
While soliloquizing lie took the package
from the drawer, slipped off its rubber
band and shufiled over The perfumed bill
let's douX. LAS expected. Not one Of
them i'll an envelope addressed to him.
Sammy is cunning" He opened one,
Big lump Of sweetness, -" he read,
and muttered to himself: "A pretty
way to address man. Might apply to
any fellow. Your own loving Cuddlesr
Loving Cuddles! Oh, this won't do at
all 1 would rather keep dynamite
bomb lying about loose They will have
to go into the safe until can see Sam
and tell him TO take his frebrands
away.
Huddling then together and doubling
the elastic On them, as if he feared ono
might get loose, he polled them away
back i'll priv compartment of thu
safe. He would lave done better had he
burned them at cnce. Love letters, new
or cid, are always dangerous, even
though they may be these of stranger.
Those who extol the golden age" do
not lay anything like sufficient stress
upon the general ignorance of letters as
a factor of popular happiness in that
felicitous era Where few could read or
write, there were not many love letters,
and no wife in those days would have
been likely to suffer such shock as
Flossy had on her way Down town from
an astral view Of her husband handling
what her feminine instinct promptly
recognized as love letters, and her wife
ly power of unreason at once assumed
were his own pernicious and incendiary
property.
Mrs. Thimbcrly was in an elevated
railway car thinking so intently upon
Algernons treachery that she was more
than half unconscious of immediate sur
roundings, when her impish second
sight caught a glimpse Of him at the
very instant of his hearing, Your own
loving Cuddles, and the line was aus
plain to Flossy as to him. go, " she
thought, that was how the brazen
creature called herself-the woman who
paved Algcrnon and made eyes at him
-Cuddlesi' She ransacked her mem
Dry to find if he had ever inadvertently
called her Euddles, for she rightly
surmised that man addicted to pet
names is liable to use them carelessly at
times, making new and inadvertcnt
combinations of names and women. Nc,
she could not recall that he ever had.
But that only showed how sly he was.
Slyness would not save him now, how.
ever. She would get hold Of Cuddlcs
letters and then let him tremble-shc
would tell I'll to her mother
Flossy found her husband at his desk
writing a business letter Cuddles
had left no visible trace of her presence
no dropped glove, forgotten handker.
chief or other trifle. 1.-THE perfidious
monster" Mr.. 1himberly, professed az
unexpected pleasure i'll seeing her.
81 was lonely at home-bored, she
said graciously, "and yielded to the
temptation of paying you visit, but
the car l rode down III was so crowded,
hot and stuffy that it has made me fee
quite faint Close the door that no one
may come i'll. l must give myself &
! chance to breathe. He did 80, and SHE
loosened her corsets. Then she wanted {
glass of cold water. OF course he coult
not call the office boy to bring it in
when his wife was ell deshabille, anC
must needs go for it himself to the cool
er at the farther end of the outer office
He went out, closing the door behint
him. Quickly as a cat bouncing upon {
bird she sprang to the drawer she hat
seen open while he looked at Cuddles
letters, and from which she rightly sup
posed they had been taken. 1t was empty
With the celebrity of a magician she rum
mayed the desk. but nowhere could FIND
that which she sought. Hearing his re
nj lu