The Washington herald., 1907-12-02
CHAPTER xxx.

Education by Correspondence.
Valley Manse, Nov. l6
Dear Mr. Morris: The letter which you
were so thoughtful as to address TO me
gave my father and all of us much pleas
ure. We were glad to hear of your safe
arrival In Spain. and my father charges
me 20 thank you for the money sent 20
his poor folks. whom he finds all too
numerous AT the beginning of winter. He
appreciated highly the mistakes and
Scriptural Interpretations in your letter.
Indeed. l have rarely seen him i'm such
high spirits of late. Please write again.
He advises a sound course of Bible
reading To you; and if you have not a
copy by you. my father has a friend in
the Bible Society distribution work at
Madrid, who viii send you one. carriage
paid But he wishes me TO add that ig-
norance Of tie original languages will
seriously handicap you in your researches
in which case he processes himself very
much at your service.
This. I have already pointed out. IS
not genuine Protestant doctrine, but II
is whatany father says. and have faith
fully reported it TO you You complain.
dear Mr. Morris, of the lack of conversa-
ton In Spain, and yearn, so you say. for
mine. The lack of 1t certainly did not
seem to trouble you while here. But.
since you cannot see my plain face. per-
haps we shall get on all the better be-
cause OF the intervening distance YOU
and J.
AT least we shall try-upon conditions.
Foreign paper is cheap. ] can use
fathers ink. and my handwriting. care
fully restrained, viii look as well on pa
per rs another s-fathers for instance, I
mean. Then the charge IS one shilling
per sheet. which. if you find the article
supplied worth the money, you will kind
~ remit-no more, no less-to be used for
the benefit of my poor-gloves!
We'll, KirtOwn Is Kirktown again. The
storm has passed over The company
hashot yet turned out the widows. No.
= is standing fun Of water, and they say
IL viii be four or five months before the
poor fellows IN the East workings are
got out
Phil CalmOnt is proving the truth of
your instructions. He has defed Kahn
on two occasions-but he had. they say.
Grinding and Mr. Romer behind him he
visits all the pits every day. and the new
exits in No !, No. 3, the Carron. and the
Long Dock are all being finished accord
ing TO your plans. Father told me this
He is writing his sermon. or Che savs) he
would write 10 you himself
I'd est. He would mean to. but he
would never really do it-writing is 2
pain 10 him. Not so to me, so TO be lust
/ have taken enough out Of his Poor
drawer 10 pay the postage or this 10
YOU. If you do not consider me poor.
or II, appreciating the value of nv con-
versation so suddenly and violently. YOU
are not prepared to refund the postage
of my letters 10 yOU-please tell me. and
/ will hereafter forever be silentv But
the present fvepence ODD YOU will never
recover-never. never. never, never! Not
even by an action NJ law, So there,
"Raif has gone off to college and taken
his terrier-named after you-with him
The youngsters. Alt, Tim. and Violet
fight most of the time. and poster me the
rest. II I were Niobe. and had lost my
family, I should not be all tears No
Mr.. Morris. ! should-well. il is no use
saying what 7 should dQ-for are they
not all three beneath the window, yelline
like young hyenas, and my father at his
sermon? He will be calling out to know
what / mean by # in a moment Comic
you not export a good 'empOsoned dag,
ger or bowl of poppy or mandragora.
warranted 10 bring about enduring peac,
in a Christian home. without causing
awkward police interference?
yet. I should miss them. too For
cannot be all the time conversing upor
paper with you-and they do not have tC
go 1900 miles of in order to remember tho
color Of my eyes,-I am, dear sir, YOU
obedient servant.
JANET FOWLER.
ITO LudOyic Norris, Esq
Such WAS Miss Fowler's first letter
Simple foolng. 7 daresay and very for
ward and uncalled for. But. then. Vie
Morris had been looking for the coming o.
that letter a long while. And every tim,
one like il did come something swan
across the heavens bluer than the blue
II was not Vida's swarthy. glowing fact
of falcon brood with dark, flashing
eyes. that he thought Of. But. on The
contrary. he saw eyes mild and swee
and dreaming-the sole feature. except hel
wavy hair, which Janet Fowler had re-
ceived by ordinary generation from hel
handsome father.
The hard sky OF Southern SPAIN a SKY
which had not known rain for months
arched over the brown hills and tawny
ruSSet rocks OF fklO- ne mali came NI
on the little English-built railway witt
the spiky agaves and "Figs-of-the-M Moor
growing between the rails. Every morn
ing Vic Morris went over TO the office tC
get his letters. They we're purely OF
business. and sitting down at desk il,
had them answered in a quarter of ar
hour
II was with kind Of joy that he hat
left the Hotel Colon and the port o.
Huelva. 20 put himself again al work
But after week or two the barrer
wilderness Of Rio Tinto and the high-set
nesting towns, niched and plnnacled
among the sierTas, palled upon him. Al
the works all was going well, save thai
he had had one frst-class row with
his home directors This occupied hin
In the absence Of an answer from Janet
Fowler.
The matter was this. There was a
mode or smelling which consisted in
sprinklIng the ore at a particular state
with salt and water-nothing more and
nothing less. The discovery was supposed
10 improve the quality Of the product