River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-05

She read it over and over. It 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
herrejection 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 aTput it. Mar
tina read the letters, and then she said !:
molly, if man ever wrote to me that
way I'd love him just in spite of myself. y
I'm afraid I'm beginning to like
him. said Molly. Maybe I misjudged
him before" Then she wrote him a
kinder, sweeter 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. II never
did like the man." she said to Martha
ct am afraid / lost the beauty of his
character through my blindness I'm
not sure I 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 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
upon 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 him
another letter; so different that Molly's
uneasiness grew great. 1t was nice
letter, overfowing with rejoicing
| 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 heI
that the man was gloating rather than
exalted by his victory.
All that night she was uneasy. She
| felt that she had made a mistake, and
| she read and reread the first three let
| tiers before she fell asleep, happy and
treasured. The thought came to her that
perhaps she loved the letters and moi
the man, but she did not believe that art
! could infuse such feeling into writer
words.
The next morning Molly came down tc
| breakfast late She looked little wan
| and pale, little anxious. 1t was the day
| hatAylette to return to Baltimore;
| the day on which for the first time Molly
was to surrender to the kisses of heI
lover. She was reading the paper idly
while waiting for her coffee and orangs
when suddenly her eye fell upon little
want adj that made her gasp.
81 knew it; knew it." she said, hall
aloud. s'Oh, the wretches!"
Knew what? What wretches, sis?'
| asked Bobbie.
Never mind, Bobbie, but want yoI
to go on an important errand right
away"
ssAll right; but say, sis, do get some
of that candy Nick sent up last night?'
/ yes, all of it. But want you tt
take note right away. It is important
Everything depends on it,