Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-09-28

She read it over and over. 1t partly i'm
pressed, partly puzzled her. 1t wasn't
a bit like Aylette.
Three days later there came another
astonishing missive.
That time Molly read seriously.
Again the tone of the letter puzzled her,
and she wondered if he had not received
her rejection before writing, and thought
it strange that he did not mention it.
Men in love are such FOOLS" said
Molly, and, taking the two letters, she
went over to see her dearest chum. Mar
tina, and consult with her about it. Mar
tina read the letters, and then she said:
Molly, If a man ever wrote to me that
way Id love him just in spite of myself"
I'm afraid I'm beginning to like
him. said Molly. Maybe | m~isjudged
him before" Then she wrote him a
kinder, sSeeter reply, telling him that
she hardly knew her own heart-and to
come to her the moment he returned
from Richmond.
The following day there came another
letter, tenderer, more exalted. higher in
tone than the other, breathing the de-
spair Of an unloved lover exalted by the
purity of his love.
And Molly was conquered. Il never
did like the man. she said to Martha,
81 am afraid l lost the beauty of his
character through my blindness. I'm
not sure l love him now, but I'm glad
these letters have opened my eyes and
shown me the depth of his love. Any
girl can learn to love a man who loves
her that way"
Engaged But Not Happy.
So that night Molly Entrekin, in her
own boudoir, sat down and wrote her
first love letter. and became engaged to
Walter Aylette. For the first time in her
gay, happy, 10 years she looked seriously
uSon love. Yet she was surprised to find
that she was not happy. She confessed
to Martha that she was uneasy.
There was no announcement of the en-
gagement. Two days after she accepted
Aylette by mail there came from hin
another letter; SO different that Molly's
un%easiness grew great. i was a nict
letter, overlooking with reioicihg-bpt
there was something missing. Molly
felt that her surrender, her gift of her
sedf to the man who had seemed to de-
spair. was not received in quite the man
ner she expected it. 1t seemed to hel
that the mar was gloating rather thar
exalted by his victory.
All that night she was uneasy. She
felt that she had made a mistake, anC
she read and reread the first three let
tiers before she fell asleep, happy ant
treasured. The thought came to her that
perhaps she loved the letters and no
the man, but she did not believe that ar
could infuse such feeling into writer
words.
The next morning Molly came down tt
breakfast late. She looked a little wal
and pale a little anxious. 1t was the da.
thatAylette was to return to Baltimore
the day on which for the first time Moll.
was to surrender to the kisses OF he
lover. She was reading the paper i'd.
while waiting for her coffee and orang,
when suddenly her eye fell upon a littl,
want ad." that made her gasp.
II knew It,; I knew it," she said, hal
aloud. "Oh, the w%retches!"
KNEW what? What wretches, sis?'
asked Bobbie.
Never mind, Bobbie, but / want 70,
to 60 on an important errand RICH
away"
All right; but say, sis, do | get som
Of that candy Nick sent UP last night?
Yes, all OF it. But i want you 4
take a note right away. It is important
Everything depends on IT."