The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-06-22
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a fine, formal, little. oldfashioned
hand. and | needed no glance at the
signature TO know that II was from
Mrs. Lathrop. She had dated II ire
pressibly The Fake Looney-house,
May 18th and all we'll
My Scoundrelly But Dear Nephew:
I'm the first place, everything is go
| ing 10 come out all right. In the Sec
ond place. you're pretty poor actor
! but a little better than ! expected. In
the third place. | would have been
having the most beautiful time OF my
life, II | weren't SO sorry for all the
other people here. When you had
gone, that pink young Doctor Mayhem
led me upstairs TO see the pretty
room he spoke OF, and when We got
there, he Just opened the door gave
ne a shove in, and turned the lock
ON the outside. II he'd had his first
months instalment, | guess he would
have kicked me in, and | love TO think
OF what is going to happen TO him
some day. Just the same. was pref
! " glad TO get TO my room; for all the
way through those long halls, my
knees were knocking together for fear
we'd meet that blonde nurse. you said
so truly, and with such presence OF
mind, that | did not like And, Till
my own maid came, kept on being
scared; for. OF course knew that the
doctors promises did not mean much
OF anything, and that he was just as
apt 10 send in Mrs. Olsen If she came
handy.
Don't be afraid | am writing you
too much, for | have nice, new bot
tie OF ink and a whole box of paper.
We'll. pretty soon the door opened,
and my maid did come in. She Is a
nice looking, thinnish girl OF about 80.
4 should say. and she was real kind
to me even before | spoke of money.
| I kept her talking as long as | could,
and worked around TO our plan gradu-
ally First, / offered her fifty dollars
! for getting this note out OF the hos
pital and things TO write IL with. She
/ laughed, at first, and | guess she
didn't think | had the money; but
when | counted ten fives OF that big
roll. she stopped laughing and took
them quick enough.
| It's a mystery 10 me, Nephew John.
what queer people go to make up a
world Here was a young woman
with a good heart and pretty tender
| feelings, who just because she needed
money for somebody else, was willing
to do almost anything 10 get II. I've
had a long talk with her, and find
her hard to understand. She was born
near this place and knew all about II,
yet, knowing what she did, she came
here to work. She couldn't make
enough money anywhere else, she
said. She has four or five little
brothers and sisters and the regular
useless mother and father, so that
suppose there Is some excuse for her.
Yet II does seem queer that such a
nice girl should be in such business.
III was she, John, who mailed you an
other letter you know Of, and she did
that, not for money, but for love: for,
I, from all | could find out, she just
about worships your Nancy. When
| | told her why | was there and what
we were going to do, she took the rest
OF the money. TO be sure, because she
said she needed II and stood pretty
good chance OF losing her position,
but she Is as enthusiastic as can be
about the work I have set her to do.
| think that perhaps she might have
done II for nothing. but did not quite
have the heart to ask her. nor did
quite dare TO run the risk. She loves
your young lady, but, after all, she
loves money first; and when We give
her q chance to follow her own in
clnation, and at the same time get
paid for IL, think that we may be
pretty sure that she will do her work
we'll.
"Of course the first thing did was
to send her In TO Nancy, TO tell her |