The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-02

since We parted, I mast send
4 you line just: to tell you
how I miss YOU and how dull and
IoreIy. everything seems. coming back
here. SN weeks Of il at least before
b. ] shall ses my LITTLE Midget" again.
CNhat a shame that they should have
turned your sweet name into thatD
But you Viii come 10 the big review.
won't YOU? Bring any one you like.
III give you lunch al the mess and
wei nave q look round afterward. Tell
your cousin. Millicent, that 1 shall
expect her. too. although she was SO
LOFTY 10 me all that last day. 1t
struck me-but perhaps this is only
ny fsncy-that she did not quite APP
prove Qf our engagement 1 expect
she thinks you ought TO have done so
much better, / can scarcely believe
that a week-uo. two days ago even
YOU were only Miss Hume" and /
.'Nr Peuibertou." We made up our
minds very suddenly, didn't we. Mid
g-t- Perhaps II your horse had not
bolted and ! had not saved your life"
a. YOU called il. and you bad not
tainted in my arms and looked So
wel. never mind hat you looked
and II YOU had not said Godfrey
me- with tears in your sweet eyes. we
might never have. discovered that we
It'd fallen IN love.
had not an idea OF it myself L
confess. I thought ! was just enjoy
ing a jolly house party ia my usual
4ppy-go-lucky way and couldn't have
told YOU why everything seemed SO
much more worth while than before
Well. I know now. Don't forget me.
Nioget-and don't firt. and-anOther
don t-yOu need not include that arch
bounder Miles in your party TO the re-
view. We can do without him; at
least I can and hope you can. under
me circumstances. How L do dislike
that fellow, It's d matter Of amaze
nlent 10 me that your stepmOther
tolerates him coming 10 the house. If
h. had less brass" OF all kinds. he
wouldn't ever have been admitted, 1
should think.
Well. little girl. this has spun out
into a. TeEu al warn. Write 10 ME by
return and tell me everything YOU
are doing and thinking and all the
news about every one: also whether
your stepmOther Is more reconciled to
parting with her Midget 10 "A gunner
with moderate means" as / heard her
saying disparagingly TO your uncle
Tell me you have not changed your
mind since Ileft, and remember, am
yours ever,
GEOFFERY PEMBERTON.
The Manor. June 2e-.f
Ny Dearest Geofrey: I wonder II
p you viii ever know what your first
love letter was to me- When 1 woke
this morning / felt as if there was a
cloud over everything. though il is
such a lovely day. and then 1 remem-
bered--No GeOferyi No one to
bring me my favorite roses; no one
TO pick stra berries for; one to
quarrel with over croQUett Godfrey
is miles away. drilling and grilIing IN
der canvas, and il would have been
so deliciously cool under the willows
on the backwater." And then / said:
''Win he write soOn?" I couldn't re-
sist running down TO the gate TO meet
the postman. and there il was-the
top letter Of all: Miss NJ. Hume,
Oakleigh Manor. Rodsworth.'
knew your handwriting. though I
had never seen 1t before. Wasn't that
clever OF me? And l wondered
whether it would be tender and true
and sweet like-like il was. The
words went right into my heart and
STAYED there.
So you did not guess why this fort
night has been such a hppy one to
you and 70 Tne. until the last when
I had 10 part with you. But perhaps
did; perhaps i knew even better
Than you why the roses and the river
and the summer had never been so
perfect. II WAS you. Cfeofi (You told
me once that AL the people who cared
for YOU most called you .'Ceoff-') You
came IKE fairy prince and turned
everything into sunshine and sweet
ness. You Wakened the whole sleep-
ing "orld with kiss, as fairy princes
always do by right and privilege.
What shall I tell you of every one
'hereZ There has been very little talk
about you and no one has said anv-
thing unkind, except perhaps the
Arch BOunder" Old YOU know his
name is Archibald, or was that an in
advertent pun2) He spoke aggressiveIv
Of gunners IN general and ..gassfng" in
particular he seemed to think you had
-'Sassed" about stopping the colt apd
saving the riders litei And you made
so light Of ii really Well. I am unite
sure Mr.. Miles won't come to the re-
view with me.
As TO my cousin how absurd IF ba-
TO give herself airs and be lofty to
you. She does not seem to be worthy ~
your notice. Don't let us talk Of her or
] shall feel more jealous than I am al
ready. j don't think she will come 10
the review either.
I have not changed my mind about
anything since you left. and if 1 ever
1iTted-which ] don't admit-you have
cured me of il for good and all.
There is a tennis party at the MiIeses
to-day, and the power that is DEGREES
that We must go. If only you had been
still here. we might have managed TO
evade II together
AN my love goes with this, and / am
always yours, NJ.
"a compromise between the nickname