Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-12-24
THE LOVE
EPISTl-E
Mr.. Ramfounqer Firds . Letter st the
Front Door,
BY John n. McHooiv.
Front 0ooF-
BY John n. ~ ON ooiy-

Mr. Ramfounder, didn't ] see you
pick up something just now as you
| came in the front door," asked Mrs.
Ramfounder, a portentous tone in her
voice.
Pick up something" calculated
Ramfounder.
That's exactly what l said. 1t
looked to me like letter. Now you
need not try to dodge my question by
pretending surprise. l will repeat 1t
for your benefit. Didn't you pick up
something as you came in the front
door?"
IF your eyes" replied John, with
great courage, ARE falling you,
would certainly insist that you go to
an oculist''
Il want you to understand. Mr.. Ram
founder, that my sight is as good as,
If not better than, yours. l will not
allow you to cast reflections upon it
even while you are attempting in your
petty and mean manner to practice a
subterfuge and evade the answer.
Didn't l just see you pick up letter
as you opened the front door?"
Il suppose you did"
All! So l have trapped you, Mr..
Ramfounders at last. So l have cor
nered you in a despicable trick.
felt all along that was being wanton.
lily and willfully affronted. And now
you openly admit that you are guilty
of picking up letter from under the
door and hiding it in your inside peck
ct. although, of course, in the begin
ming you tried your nefarious and
heinous fraud and deception. When
you found that ! had discovered your
contemplate and sordid scheme you
lost no time in confessing Why?
ask you, Mr.. Ramfounder? OH Do
not try to fool me! Do not delude
yourself into thinking that l cannot
see through your mean and base trick
cry Can you answer my question?
You would be only too delighted to
blurt out in your coarse and ugly way
the truth just to get the pleasure OF
Insulting a faithful wife, who labors
until her finger nails almost drop out
making your home comfortable and
pleasant when you come home from g
days toll down in that office where
you claim you work. ! have my doubts
on that score, too. But / shall Ger
tainly not give you the opportunity.
can say that much. 1t was merely one
of your mean plots. You wanted me
to know that you picked up the letter
and concealed 1t away in hopes that
would ask you for it. But j would
never do such a thing i would not
contaminate my mind by reading any
thing that was written to you. | am
! not anxious to lower my character by
satisfying your insolent purpose. OF
course, you thought in your weak and
| insipid mind that / would let my curl
osity get away with me and demand
, ! mat you expose the letter You were
trying some more of your trickery. II
gives me profound satisfaction to say
Mr.. Ramfounder that you are de
feated and that you will not have the
, pleasure of mistreating me any longer
| have always done the right thing. NJ
, one can accuse me Of
MY dear. here is the"
> Don't you dare force that horrit
, letter upon me. Mr.. Ramfounder. Did
MT / just tell you that I would no
touch the awful thing for a million
dollars? Mo- You need not entertain
any hope that / will ask the name o
the writer. I have my suspicious ant
them. The shame ~and disgrace il
; upon your conscience, not mine, You
monumental arrogance has exceeded
all bounds. The highest pinnacle O
insult has been reached assure you
Mr.. Ramfounder. / can compreben,
clearly now why the letter was place,
under the door. You had hopes tina
| would discover 1t before you al
rived home. You were anxious that
!, should pick ii up and read it merel,
TO give you an excuse to hurt your Low
ing wife ] suppose IL is a keen disar
= pointment to you that one of tn
neighbors did not happen in durin
the afternoon and find it. The humil
alton would then have been more cut
ting and your satisfaction would hay
= been greatly Increased, being familiar
as you are, Mr.. Ramfounder. with tn
habits of the neighbors to take Vi
every little thread of evidence and es
aggerate until 1t develops into a regr
!. lar scandal. But never mindi Their
is an end to this fragrant Haunting O
!, your violent attachments in my"
IF you will listen"
6 That's right Mr. Ramfounder. q
ahead insisting upon my looking a
c your love epistle. But 1t will not d
o you the slightest good. AS / said be
!, fore, you are not satisfied to hide you
: intrigue in the secrecy of abashment
= You want me to know all about Il
!. You are determined that / shall hav
q every iota of knowledge, so you al
range for your victim-mind you, sa
! victim, because any one who has tn
/ VIII io lot
, TO be victim of your small and ruth
] less oh ra cfar-fn cIf, tho 1otf<.. -. 4 :,