Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-11-09

n
u band put three handbags
on the seat beside her in
the train and handed over her ticket,
Il want you tot be sure and write to
me every day, and tell me everything
you think how much you miss me,
and all about tile way the servant get
along-don't ON lit any of the details,
thinking that shall not be interest
cd, for every word that you write,
dear, will be precious to me. Put
plenty of local color in your letters. ~
ooh, Ill keep you posted" he re-
piled. "YOu have good time, and
don't worry about me. I'll get along
somehow. OF course, it'll be lonely
and all that, but I'll manage to pass
the tirpe. It'll be rather dismal for
me to sit in the garden alone when
it begins to get dark, thinking of you
in the gay crowd having a good time,
and never giving n thought To-"
Arthur" his pretty wife interrupt
ed, ''if you continue to talk that way,
j just shan't go. You know 1 shall
think of you every minute I'm away,
and If the doctor hadn't said the sea
air would be good for me | wouldn' t
have thought of accepting Aunt
Laura's invitation. Please don't fret
me, love, will you? Remember that,
wherever l may be, and no matter
how gay my surroundings, shall be
thinking of YOU"
They threw kisses at each other as
the train moved away. Then Barring
ton went to his office and began writ
ing letters They were to his wife,
He wrote fourteen of them-enOugh to
last for two weeks.
In general outline the letters were
about the same. He started each by
filling a sheet with endearing words
and declarations that he was very
lonely without his darling. Then fol-
lowed the local color she wanted, in
the form of comments on occurrences
of the day in and about their home.
The letters were not dated, but he
sealed and addressed them, and ar
ranged them i'll Il pile so that his lady
clerk could take off the top one day
after day and drop it into the letter
box.
Then he went off with a male COM
panion, determined to have Il good
time for ten or twelve days.
He had been gone nearly a week
when there came telegram for him.
OF course, kilograms had to be
opened. and when Miss Wildreth, the
lady clerk. read the message, she turn
cd pale.
"Why don't YOU answer my ques-
tons about the housemaid's ankle and
your liver? Am awfully worried
That was what Elizabeth harrington
had telegraphed.
After studying the matter for a
while, Miss Wildreth decided that it
was necessary for her to act. She was
clever enough to hold a position that
not more than one man out of fifty
could have lilled, and she had the hab-
it of keeping her eyes and ears open.
Still, she said 10 herself:
The housemaids ankle? ! can see
how he might know something about
Fvn IfScr, but-and why should
fi6e, Of al people, want him to
bout it? Well, if ever get mar
instead of finishing what she
Started to say, she wrote the fol
be- Dispatch
lee and liver o. X. Don't worry
was about ten O'Clock the next
when another telegram for Arthur
Dgton was received. 1t read:
esterday's letter contradicts tele-
Why are you deceiving me:
tou better to-day? Shall come
lady clerks reply was as fol-
true as steel Don't think of
lg home
s Wllreth mad just begun 10 feei
she had succeeded in settling the
reeable business, when Il mess
boy arrived with another tele-
in which her employers wife
1T understand. What do you
by being true as steel? Some
tells me you are worse. Wire
ately.'
mind reference to steel. Am
- !"
harrington watched eagerly
= bOstman on the following day,
\ he handed her Arthur's let
opened it with trembling
Eagerly she scanned the first
was about half through the
when she jumped mp and
aunt, crying: