The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-06

ts-G-s<Ss0-s@-s-@-.0
My name is Clover" he said, then.
OF course, as you never saw me be-
fore. you want to know that first Of
ALL
I'D choose to know" she said. And
then the uncompromising neutrality of
her expression deepened so plainly that
he FASTENED to add:
I'm H. Wyncoop Glover"
oh" she said. And then smiled,
too; having heard the name before.
81 go to school with your little
brother" said H.. Wyncoop. land the
reason of my presence in your house is
that, as he is rather under cloud just
at present, and as 1 was coming to
town, we dubbed together to bring you
letter about him. He was going to
dictate it, but in the end Mitchell wrote
1t all. Here 1T isl
With that he put his hand into his
pocket, drew out an envelope, and
handed it to her
How awfully good of you ALL she
said, gratefully. DO excuse my read
ing it at once, won't you? You see, I've
been so anxious
He nodded understandingly and she
hastily tore open the envelope and ran
her eyes over the written sheets inside.
Ny Dear Mrs. Rosscott: Being the
prize writer of the class, I am chosen
to take down the ante-mortem confess
sions of our shattered friend It is in
a sad hour for him that I do so, because
I am so naturally truthful that 1 shall
not force you to look for my meanings
between the lines. On the contrary.
shall set the cold facts out as neatly
as the pickets on a fence. And In evil
dence thereof open the bah by telling
you frankly that they both look fierce.
If they had looked less awful, and Bur
nett had had more lime In his bones,
we might have escaped the Powers
That Be by simply admitting a sprain-
ed ankle and carefully concealing
everything else. But If one man cracks
where you can't finish the deal, even
by the most unlimited outlay of muci-
lage and persistence, and another blaz-
es his whole surface-area in a manner
that seems to make the underbrush
dubious to count on forever henceforth:
why, you then have a logarithm the
square of which is probably as far be-
yond your depth as am beyond my
own just at this point of this sentence.
The long and short of my fresh start
is, that your brother wants to write
you, but he is so handicapped forgive
me, but you're the only one who hasn't
had that joke sprung on themD with
bandages, that it's cruel to expect much
of him. 1t is true that he has his
bosom friend to fall back upon. but if
you could see that friend as we see him
these days you wouldn't be sure wheth-
err it was true or not. The old woman,
who had the peddler-and- petticoat epI-
sode, was not in 1t the same day with
your brothers friend! I do assure you.
And anyhow-even If he still has brains
his writing apparatus is all done up
in arnica, so there you arei
But do not allow me to alarm you
unduly! When alrs said and done,
they're not so badly off physically. Hair
and ribs are mere vanities, anyhow, and
We're here to-day and gone tomorrow!
Something much worse than mere
Disbursements and broken bones hasi
sprung forth from chaos, and has al
most stared them out of countenance
since. 1t is the wolf that is at their
door. and the bowling and prowlin;y of
their particular wolf is not to be sneez-
ed at, let me tell you. To put a modern
political face upon an ancient Greek |
fable, the wolf in their case synbolizesl
the bitter question of whose roof is GO
ing to roof them when they get out 81
the plaster casts that are bed and board !
to them just at present. Where are
they to go? All those which used to
be open to them are suddenly shut
tight They've both been expelled. and
both been disinherited. If I was in
clined to look on the blue side of the
blanket, I should certainly feel that
they were playing in very tough luck
Burnett, of course, can come to you,
and his soul is full of the wish to bringi