The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-01-25
ErImm's secretary.

Miss Kent laid down the letter and
frowned at an engraving OF Esculapius
which hung over her desk. She could
see the man of business In his richly
appointed office turning from his tele-
phone long enough to give the secre-
tary some curt directions. She could
also see-and the memory of that sight
brought queer choking sensation In
her throat-Jack Stanton's eager face
each day when the mail was being dis
tributed
ANY line from the GOVERNOR
Marion Kent gave the mail to an
other nurse to distribute, and then she
sat down to her desk. 1t took her a
long time to frame the letter she had
decided to write She wrote 1t In lead
pencil, erasing and interlining, and then
copied It, She set the stamp upon the
envelope with triumphant uplifting of
her head Something told her that this
letter would make Henry Grimm, bach
elor, think
1t did When he had read II the first
time he showed back his chair from his
rich mahogany desk and stared through
sunlight was dancing on the roofs of
skyscrapers. 1t seemed as II sudden
new light had flooded the cyrie In
which Henry Grimm had been content
at the game of making money and
more money. He read the letter again.
Then he laid 1t down and leaned back
In his chair 1t was womanly letter,
oil al N fnFen M char
acter In every gentle phrase. And aft
err reading 1t the third time Henry
Grimm wrote TO his nephew. He did
not even dictate the letter to his Sec
rotary, but wrote 1t long hand. Oddly
enough. at the same hour the very next
morning he found himself ut the same
desk. The answers to these letters
came in her handwriting, but they bub
bled over with boyish expressions of
the patient to whom the mail hour was
now the happiest of the day.
Then the tenor of the letters changed.
There We're only daily reports from
Miss Kent setting forth the trlfiing va
rlations of temperature and respIra-
lions. Young Stanton was wandering
In the land of delirium.
Ii was only natural that Miss Kent
should write a few words of comfort
to the now anxious man and equally
natural that he should watch for those
daily crumbs of comfort, but his seere-
| tary was amazed when the man of af-
fairs suddenly announced that he was
going south. Miss Kent had written
that they expected the crisis In forty
eight hours
Mr.. Grimm leaned back In the chair
of the parlor car and closed his eyes.
"0f course he Will get well. He's been
keeping up this gait ever since his first
! degree of measles. II is foolish OF me
to chase down there" Then he added
| quite inconsequently, an wager she's
forty-iive and wears corkscrew curls."
Young Stanton had been carried out
on the conyalescents' porch. He was
waiting for his uncle, who had gone
down to White Sulphur Springs for
weeks stay. Il say, governor. he said
when Mr.. Grimm had finished his ac-
count of his trip, don't you think we
could fix II so that Miss Kent could
have a little vacation? She looks aw-
fully tired. | think we could fix II on
the score that | need her TO take care
OF me on the trip"
Henry Grimm looked up Mt the
mountains. They were calm and stead
fast, like Marion Kent He rose sud
denly
yes Will ask her now. l think l
need her myself"