Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-12-27

est II 1 might only hope I should work
so hard to make myself worthy Of you
you are a perfect treasure. You may al
" W - JACK"
With u deepening flush on her cheeks
and tender light shining in her eyes
she opened a second letter with fingers
that trembled slightly-such a sea of
memories was surging over her.
1t began without date, but that she
could easily supply:
My Darling:
To-day you have made me the happiest
of mortals. for you promised to become
my wife! Who would rot be happy under
the circumstan ces-for the man who gets
you gets a prize, indeed. shall not say
what shall try to do for you except that
IL love and devotion can make you happy,
sorrow ard sadness shall never know you
Tonight you looked so pretty-your
eyes were brighter than ever i have seen
them. You looked happy. oh, that you
may always look as you did tonight!
Sweetheart, / love you so much more
than can tell-more than 1 ever thought
myself capable of loving anyone. and
when 1 think 1t over, L wonder how 1t all
came about You did not try to make me
love you, neither did try to make you
love me, until 1 found myself loving you
found that must be with you to be happy.
Now l am going to answer the precious
letter my own sweetheart wrote me to-day.
How lovely 1t Isl 1t is just like her from
beginning to end.
"If as you say, my love makes you
happy, it must be because you love me.
If it were only love that you love, then you
would be happy in the love of any one Of
your many admirers.
Nothing that you say can hurt me.
dearest, for 1 know that you speak for the
best interests of both.
"Yes, my darling, want you to be sure
of yourself, for l would not blight your
life ever so little.
Should 1 lose you. life would be little
worth the living, yet I would rather lose
you than ever see you unhappy.
You are unjust to yourself in many
ways and rate yourself too lew You say
that you don't understand yourself Did
you ever know any one who could say:
L know myself? Dearest others know
us best-others see our faults and virtues
| in q clearer light than we can see them.
shall not pretend that understand you,
| for 1t has long been conceded that TIE mind
!. feminine is incomprehensible to man, but,
| oh, my sweetheart, all the faults you con-
| fess to are dearer to me than other wom-
| ems virtues. You are you. my darling, and
| l love you as you are. That is clumsy,
| but at best l can Ill express how dear you
are to me-
Your heart pleads for me, but your
| head does rot. That shows good sound
| sense, and can only hope that the heart
| will get away with the head.
And now, my sweet, as a guard against
| fickleness 1 want you to give up to a GER
| tain extent your male admirers. 1 don't
mind their calls, I rather like them. for
am proud to have my sweetheart favor
ite. but you must let them know that you
| belong to me and that 1 am a monopolist
| 1 can love you enough alone, they may
like you. 1 can love you as much as you
love to be foved-so remember, no trifling
81 know, dearest, that you might have
chosen many men handsomer. nobler
| richer than l, but you will never find one
who will love you more than does
"Your own devoted
JACK"
The third letter ran; 4r
my Own Darling:
II believe the happiest day Of my lif