The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR APRIL :. 1919

tomorrow, and will call upon you day after to-mor-
row for what purpose you may guess | won't say
that hope you will like him, for sure you will.
l hardly know how to describe him, but he is just
enough like you in many ways TO be man after your
own heart as well as your daughters. What | do
hope is that you will approve, and will not feel too
unhappy at the thought of losing
Your devoted daughter
MYRTILLA.
P. S.-You might telegraph me Just word after you
have seen Mr. Roblinpton shall not tell Won what
| hope you will say for know almost to a word
what your message will be-
"a Telegram from Miss Myrtilla harrington to Her
Father.)
CAFE MousAM, MAINE, July rs. 49,.
JAMES BARRINGroN Esq,
Broad Street, New York City,
Don't see Mr. r. IL you can help it. II you can't
help it say no. Can't stand maden-aunt. All off.
See letter mailed this morning
MYRrILA
"a Letter from Miss Myrtila Darlington to Her
Father.)
THE SEA VIEW, CAPE MousAM, MAINE,
July 26, 49,.
Ny PooR OLD DADDY;
felt terribly to give you all that trouble about Mr..
Roblington, but ! just had to do something 1t is
better to have peck of trouble than ten bushels
of it later. After Mr. r. had left the other night
that disagreeabe old sister of his began to get in her
fine work, and she did it so successfully that ] am
convinced that being dsagreeable is family trait,
and that underneath all his delightful courtliness of
manner Mr. Roblngton conceals aptitude for the
sort of thing that should find unbearable. You
such sarcastic person his sister is in all
your life Her whole conversation last night
the subject OF the difficulty of getting widowers
through their second summer, especially in these days
when the unconventional summer-girl, combination
of siren and kdnapper, she put it, univer-
sally loose in the land She remarked that for the
past six months she had to watch him like hawk,
and had been alternately amused and annoyed by the
way women generally had flung themselves at Mr.. Rob-
hngtons head Down at Palm Beach last March, she
said there were at least fourteen girls who had
formed Roblngton Club, the constitutional purpose
of which was to land her brother for one of then
the lucky person to be decided by lot at rattle to be
held soon the hour for definite action ripe
And then she went to describe the artful methods
of what she decatey called "The Snatcher" These
involved a first attack upon the Robington heart
through the medium of the children. That, she OBJ
served, the easiest of approach to wild
overs heart, and invariably brought about an intro
duction of a nature informal that it placed the
Snatcher and the Snatchee upon terms of immediate
friendness which, under conventional cond-
tons, could not have resulted from years acquaint-
ance and when | rather tarty inmated that perhaps
if she paid more attention to the children herself the
replied with perfect appearance of amiabity that
she was too busy looking after her brother and keep
ing him out of mischief, to have much time left for
the youngsters-"It is not they who need it most
when the Snatcher is around my dear" she said Civ
ing my hand hypocrcal little pat with her fan, and
smiling nnocently as though she thought / didn't
knGw she was driving at me- So just couldn't stand
am not, and won't let anybody think that am,
and can't help feeling that as she and Mr. Robng-
ton brother and sister he must have of those
qualities by the mere influence of consanguiny which
make her the most dsagreeable woman met in
all my life. Besides | don't care to marry family
row, and thered be one within ten minutes of the
wedding il she dared much to say boo to me-
That is why ! sent you that telegram, Daddy, my