The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-18

you wrong, may God forget and curse
me-. Believe me. my darling. you shall
| never have cause TO regret that you
passed the pathway of CHARLES
Ny Beloved Girl:
Have 1 offended you, my precious Liz
| zie? Are you sick, or what is the mat
| ter? Have you deserted me? / shall
| cherish your bright eyes in my thoughts
will cherish your beauty and your love-
| lIness in all my troubles
You asked me to pray. Alas, nv dear
girl. l never. no, / never do; but you
have my hope. my sympathy and my sor-
row blends in your own. Your face alone
i love to think of and gaze at in mem
ory's vision, and at which. when my last
by, my precious girl, good-by. r
Ny Darling:
well. / am working twenty hours out
OF the twenty-four. How long will / last
my beauty? What shall We name her?
Liz? That is the name of the girl i love
with all the love of devotee 1t is the
rame and the woman I love with all
the intensity of my nature. Remember
me TO your good. kind, forgiving moth
er. Tell her she has a daughter who is
al the world to CHARLES.
Ny Good Lody: Since the day I spent
in Winchester with my angel darling L
lave been thinking of her You must
7 falling of erir
who has entranced and enraptured me.
/ love her and she lives in Jersey. She
has a beautiful eye and laugh that
would do some good. She gave me one
kiss last Sunday and / gave her a thou
sand. She trades on Broadway and is a
tip-top splendid girl. l wish tears in
my eyes that / belonged to her. May
the angels of heaven love you. When
/ die | want to meet her there. Good
Ky, my dear girl. Come and sepnd an
hour with the Broadway Buzzard. Come
whisper one golden word in his ear. +.
Liz: ! thought of you yesterday at
church time-was wondering how i would
look in pew beside such a graceful
locking beauty, and whether the police
wouldn't wonder why that shaky looking
buzzard was sitting there beside Miss
Slattery. Do you hear the air whistler
That was good. You are positively de-
termined to have the ride at my ex-
pense. Well, You are a bird, and a very
pretty and sweet one. May the love l
have for you and hope you have for me.
never be less: and when the battle is over
fo~
boy, CHARLES.
Lizzie: 1t gives me great pleasure to see
such a dattering notice of our little pre-
cious. / will keep it to look at when she
gets old enough to head it herself You
wonder if / ever will go TO church with
you. Not unless j become converted or
turn crazy or some misfortune falls me,
which is likely enough. / often get al
most distracted and / think L am losing
my mind. r.
Lizzie; 1 am glad to know that both
you and Lizzie are well. l guess she's
getting along well in the country. Write
often and destroy this. Take care of your
self and Lizzie. l hardly know how to
direct this letter. 1t was understood
Gordon before leaving; Mackle and Rouss
and | hardly thought you would use that
name. r.
Lizzie: l guess you will have to pay
your way back. Can't you get a little
out of Harriss before you are done? Give
the store up to Mr.. NJ and thea maybe
he will make you and the little angel a
present. r.
In this letter Rouss refers to a store
in Scranton in which he was partner
and where he placed Lizzie Slattery to
look after his interests.
Rouss failed in 1879 and was thrown in
Ludlow Street Jail for bankruptcy pro-
ceedings. On the wal lof his cell he
wrote: When | leave here | shall be-
come a rich man" But at times he was
bitterly discouraged. He wrote Lizzie
Slattery many letters from the jail and
in one of them he says: There is no
chance of my getting out of here on
this side of eternity The girl was de-
voted 10 him then and he appreciated
it, for in one of his letters he SAYS:
1T is seldom that woman's faith and
fortitude is put to d severer task and it
* seldom that faith shows SO broghtly
in the very tooth of irreparable misfor
tune Wait while we will all meet
together. or We will all sleep the eternal
sleep that knows no awakening. one or
the other Let us hope, and you. who
have more faith than |. will believe at
ir will be the former. CHARLIE
The break between Miss Slattery and
Mr.. Charles Broadway Rouss occurred IN
1899. She says that until that date they
lived together as man and wife. They
ouarrelled frequently over his attentions
To other women.
1t was in 1892 that Rouss was sued b.
Elizabeth Todden. an Irish girl of sixteen
or seventeen who had been employed In
his home at No. 90 Fifth avenue as a
waitress. He told her 90 come to the