Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1916-07-27


frhsi that I uHy retain q ~ spite Of tHe
fact that 7 cannot bcfafue your wife You
VIII ftanh me for y aafae daF- when vpp
hase found sape riil more worthy ~ yph
twfe YaM sanfu rs Imagine mH Rr assured
MS HrsF Mr. Sidpni That have npt mute
lids decision wiilIeut fei9ectiqn ma ti'tt
hnpiug naa6e 81 nniijinr can alter ~ Your
I'VE @'' RRSrsrrwE DuRY
Hasfng concluded THE eplstie, Miss
nury read II over two or three fines
nensvsly chcwIng the end nf the fate
nj pen.
she pus on her hat and lacket
walked hriekly 10 the mail box NJ the
corner ~ The street. dropped The lot
ter therein and closed the slot With a
reamudine Sam.
"Therele sae aali.
WHY she said Il IN chat vIndiesiye
@aY il FIRST az much ~ mystery
aH her bursting into tears when She
rogaiuad her room. Iler sister heard
her eahblna i've miauses later and
Threatened 10 kick Ia panel ~ The
,loor AMI rouse the household n she
were not admitted.
twen.~ asked fhr sister whom w.
Eeetine unlocked the door. ''what's ~
fhie atantg'
Charlie wrote me nrep9gql and
fse just written refusing him ana
malird the letter.r the art egrgicd boz
iWmn sais
What are you boo hupins about
ihp0, II vou didn't want hlmw M
unioed ihc sister Il THOUGHT YOU liked
ldm though
= liotn 80"
~rllea Why dld son rcfase blrnYr
4 ann't know on, wins, shHA !
daqe
The SISTER taakea III her with ROM
ieuIs. step me letter, Silly
l.raiine iyuBped rree fhe hqg her
asee sHnsne "can ~ she cried,
~wbg, u course. you ean.~ replied
Che sister elllrr you just hRthe yanr
eyss and I'il SNEAK dnwn ia the teic-
ptoue aaa eAll up ihr post 0iilccn
slie eafne baes III O few minutes.
eif's all right" SHE suid "nnly You'll
have 20 80 down 70 the post office
yourself and sirn On application les
On fonm Twelve
Afls bury made her record time
dressing for downtown trim Ii room
~ ~ ghe iptN office building she found
nice Observation-Disclosures ald gentle
man. who asgtd her why she wnnted
% step the letter aud then plying
her confusion. gave her blank 30
nan aud told her 70 make her Mind
east ihat The letter would be
stnrpri
Mics pury departed greatly comfort
"a mud On the way home began q out
line another lefier ~ different tenor
Tho next morning She awaited the
arrival u the postnan with mere than
erdinary eWccrness md her heqrt sunk
when she found that her letter was
not returned 10 her. Sun. II might
enne At noon, II did not, nbr dld Il
rome on the -four o'clock delivery, She
was naturalFq worried. hut after al
the rreat thing wae that the letter
waa siapf,ed
"iVhy. they won't return II TO you.
ynn big goesc." said the SISTER "You
haye a. cail for II lie told me that r
50 earIy III the morning Miss nury
made another trip 10 the post Office.
Her benevolent friend was not there.
A Young mud husIneSslike official list
cnea to what she had TO shy. then
went away and returned with the in
Formation Tint the letter had been for-
wnrdea 81 10 III address
Z thought II pas stopped she
cried.
1T WIS stopped sald the young
iaan, crisply; stopped. held for TWEEN
ty-four hours unealled for, and for.
waraed. Tlmfs the rule. You shonll
have called Tor IL"
This time Miss Jury went home
With dun despair II her heart She
remained IN her room All day on the
plea of a headache.
At about eight o'clock The maid
raped at her door MIR. sidcot IL
downstairs. miss. she said.
Miss Dury not down somehow.
Somehow u happened TINT without
anything helng said BY either pewon
she fonnd herself mfeslstlngly In Mr..
Sdcof's embrace
A long time after that she said :
''Tlut. chnrlIe, don't understand yet.
You got thut nwfili letter ] wrote"
'Yas" answered Sidcot. a got II
and for -four hours WIS the most
miserable man On earth II hadn't
accidentally picked up the envelope
pnd examined II / should be still"
lie took an envelope fronrhls hrcaBt
| pocket. The bacl Of Il Was decorated
wlfF laTgc blue stamps. One read
STOPPED An TITE REQUEST or
I sENIER
The either
uNCALLED FOR. FORWARDED
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