Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-11
CHORDS AND
DLSCORDS
BULY'S LETTERS.


belong to her, and wether she is telling
the truth or not / am willing to leave |
to you after / have tolled you all about /
the trouble I had and the money
blowed In my ernest effort 10 have her
lost property restoared to her after it
had been frisked from her by Ambrose /
Murphy. the guy with the red sweater
and the long hair and the big chest.
Her letter speaks londer than any
words that / could write to you. So I
give it TO you herewith. only Chas
do not show it to nobody else and don't
tell nobody about it, bekose l don't
want to be accused Of being peddler,
but maybe she has tolled every body
in town about ii already. so you would
be late anyhow;
Esteamed SRI was so nonpuised
the other mite when you give me that
cheap peace Of jewelry in the pitcher
show that words failed me Snd not I'M
til / reached the privacy Of my bud
woir did ! fully realize what a fmposi-
shun had been worked by one who I
always had supposed to be perfect
gentleman right under my very eyes.
OF coarse ] know / am only a weak
woman, but felt my character was
such that one who had been posing as
a man would take me at my known
value and not think me so soft as to
stand for bit Of sentimentality that
a macaroui factory mixer would be
dignifed enough to resent.
My mother had warned me that
there was something about you that
satisfied her that you would reveal
your jitney calibre when you was put
to the test. had been holding up your
hands in the belief that prehaps she
was like SO many other m0thers-she
was expecting too much Of young
man who was just getting over the
bump places in life's race. I can tell
by the way that he paris his hair that
he is never going TO amount to moth
ing, mother said to me so many times,
and I stuck up for you, explaining
that the reason that you coambed your
hair in the middle was to cover a scar
that YOU got so you tolled me, when
you was milking cows on YOUR fathers
farm, one Of the cows hitting you in
stead OF a fly that was botherlng it. No,
Nav said, don't take no stock in them
stories, lie most likely got hit in the
head with a beer bottle at some rough
neck dance. So you see I have been
fair with you when my hui family has
had the anvil operating on YOU.
You scanned TO think that / had been
robbed Of my ring by Mr.. Ambrose
Murphy, which was farthest from the
facts, and I am afraid that you will yet
have to settle the acct. with 1Ir.
Murphy. fer I have t0lled him every
thing AS you probably know he has
returned to our city and intends to
make it his home for good He is a
high minded person and has a different
social status than has young men Of
yOur humble station in life. He went
threw Harvard, and belongs TO the Hi
pin TO prove he is not bogus. Father
favors his little girl being seen with
young men who are supposed to know
something Of education. I tolled faith
er that you had been threw school,
too, but he said he bet the only place
you had ever been threw was some
body's house in the dead Of the mite.
Wassent that awful OF pawpaw, bur
there is no law to stop people from
thinking bad thoughts about others.
And it wouldn't have been such a
crushing blow to ne if the ring you
give me was worth nothing: It's not
even a good imitation Of real one,
and, and TO prove to myself how bad
lily had been hoodwinked I TO it to our
family jeweier and he LATED right in
/ my face and asked NE what auxion |
had been to. But I was smart enough
not 10 tell him that it had been gave
( TO me by fren. I said that I had
found the ring one afternoon when I
was on my way home and if it was a
valuable one I was going to adver-
tise so that the Gamer could get it back.
The leweier said the ring when new
retailed for so cents. And you had the
audacity to think that it was once mine
and that it had been taken from me by
Mr.. Murphy and gambeled away by
him in a card game. Mr. Murphy nut
his right hand up in our parlor the
other mite when we was discussing the
case and swore that he never used no
cards for money during his whole life.
He knowed how to play. but had
promised his mother when he was 10
yrs old that he would never touch
liquor and would never be a gamler.
Where do you suppose that guy got
such a hunk Of junk, Ambrose asked
me Was he trying to fool you kid or
/ is he Just materially one of them
buns that think they can win a girl
by hanging band around their in
ger. When he was at college, Ambrose
said, he used to get better rings with
a package OF chewing gum He said
some harsh things about you. and he
wanted to go down town and look Won
up and make you apologize for the re-
Elections that you made on his honor
and If it wassent for me he would have
carried out his threat. He said he
knowed where he could find you he
kose he said you hung round the
pool halls and saloons with a lot of