The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-30
Continuation of Chapter XL.)

AS for the letters they could hardly
be called love letters. They had more
the character of essays on scientific,
social, economic, and industrial ques-
tions. They were entirely devoid of
any personal history or of any person
al aspirations whatsoever. This puz-
zled the man of business greatly. He
was wont to tell Olive that the boy S
letters were as good as a magazine
article, but that he wished they
would contain more of his personal
history. "What / would like to
know" he would say els how he
makes his living. How he is employ
ed. He must have a source of income
for even the most sanity among us
need money. 1t is necessary evil y,
but we must have it. wish you would
find out just what his income is, and
where from. 1t would help us to get
better insight into his real character
than anything else.
Instinctively Gus Anderson associat-
ed character and income, yet he dis
cussed it all so reasonably, so impart-
tally that he won his daughters en-
tire confidence. She agreed that she
would write and ask the boy the de-
sired questions. This she did just
before leaving her native village for
the sunny cline of the city at the
foot of the rockies.
Her uncle, prosperous farmer and
bee keeper, lived little TO the east
of the town of Boulder, and it was
here, that shortly after her arrival
she made the aceainance of coup
lie of young men, students at the Co.
dorado University School of Mines,
who were spending their vacation on
her uncle's ranch. These young meu
were not radicals in the sense that
Jack and Collins were radicals They
did however, have advanced ideas
concerning labor organizations, and
kindred subjects. 1t was now that
Olive became busy arguing politics
and economies, from her entirely un-
trained view point and naturally oc.
cassionally getting the worst of it,
but her defeats were only temporary.
Every evening before she retired she
would write to Jack and tell him of
all her problems, and the way the
college men stated theirs And at the
other end of the line, Jack was ans
wering her many questions with the
more than willing cooperation of Ed.
Collins. In fact Collins wrote quite
as much of the letters as did the boy
In fact he was the more seriously
in love with her for he was several
years Jacks Senior, and while out.
worldly rough and unsympathetic
he was, inwardly of on affectionate
nature. He admired beauty in woman
kind, but more than that, did he re.
we're intellect, and it was becoming
ever more evident from Olives letters
that she possessed intellect in no small
degree. Then, Collins admired that
peculiar type of intellect that dwells
on the problems of social life, and
that was pre.eminently hers. So it
was, that the big man was often
more anxious to hear from the girl
then vas -Iack,-and Ae lost no ep-
portunity to enclose little note in
the boys letters when ever he was
invited to do so. In these he expressed
his personal view of some particularly
knotty social problems.
These notes were always well word
ed, and to point; they could not helI
but impress the girl, and cause hel
to form the habit of writing separate
notes to him, which finally developed
into separate letters.