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but do not form too solitary habits, for
you can teach others IL you do not
learn much from them, and humanizing
relations are essential to the best OF us.
November Z, 1874.
NEAR Miss Ester: am sending you
- the book promised. You will find
half a dozen pieces in 1t which you will
like more or less, and as for the rest, /
hope they will not be quite so bad as
the famous win a trois hommeS," "
which, you remember, 1t took three men
to drink--one to swallow, one to pour
1t down, while the third held the men
that swallowed 1t. am very sorry
about your eyes, but perhaps that may
save your brain from overwork. Did ]
tell you that Miss T spoke very
pleasantly of you to me? And she is a
lady who represents what Is commonly
considered Boston-fastidiou in typi-
cal sort of way.
~ -
January 81, 1875.
DEAR Miss Ester: I was more pleased
~ with your last letter than with any
1 had previously received from you
Why? Because you tell me that you
really are in better health and better
spirits than you have been in for long
time. It pleased me all the more, per-
haps, because had just been visiting a
connection who was full Of complaints
and wailings over infirmities and inva-
hdism of long standing, and because
had just finished reading the sad letter
giving the account of the death Of my
friend Motley's wife, herself a very dear
friend of mine from her girlhood.
wrote a brief notice, by the way, in the
Boston Advertiser. Why people seem
better and worse, worse and better
ill and we'll, well and ill--it is often i'm
possible to tell, but health is in many
persons subject to seemingly capriciou:
alterations, like the weather. / have
noticed changes of this kind in myself
and others for a long time, and have
given up trying to account for them
One cause Of temporary depression anc
languor I have long recognized in my
self, namely. a southerly wind. Often
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times I have known before getting up
that the wind was coming around to the
south by Wakefulness which could
not be explained until found out this
cause. Oftentimes In thaWing Winter
weather / have felt that / was sad
failure and a mighty poor creature.
I could not lecture, could not write,
nobody cared two cents for me, and all
that sort of feeling Then would look
up at the vane and see that it was
southwest, and say to myself, Yes, you
are a fool, but fool because you give
way to all this depression when you
know that good, high northWester
would blow it all away and make you
feel as grand as turkey cock the week
before Thanksgiving or major general
in the militia on training day. Per
contra, nowadays when feel particu-
larly bright and well / say to myself.
Remember, now, you have got to go
down again and feel as II you never
would be good for anything one OF these
days, and see that you do not give way
to the foolish fancy.
You ask me what am doing. have
been very quiet for a long time, until
yesterday, when went TO the Saturday
Club, met Emerson, Lowell, Parkman
and others; then to the theater; then
db Ii RAIisy 0AAA q AAC0NeNNAAI ~ONAy
to pay for all this. I am lecturing. as
usual, fiv2 days in the week. Then 1
have a long article on hand which 1
think I shall finish by and by If like
it-treating some matters Of psyche
logical as well as practical interest. 1
smiled over your kindred confession
about the theater It is a very old
story to us city habitues, but there are
a good many young folk and few old
ones who are fond OF it. As 70 Horti-
cultural Hall, I never go there, because
I am a cat in my worshiping habits
and go to places more than persons. l
have sat In my seat in Kings Chapel
for good many years. was married
there. and my children were christened
there, and do not feel at home any
where else suppose they have some
nice talking at the hall. and nice
Professionalism has substituted the popu-
lar lecturer for the priest. That is what
Professionalism means, in my opinion.
one has perfect right 10 go where they
give the best lectures.
NAHANT, August l3. 1875.
NEAR Miss Ester: have got 20 sleep
II ing well and am beginning to en-
JOY this wonderful promontory or
| peninsula as well as anything can be
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written nothing except some verses In
the Atlantic. have read few plays and
articles in the heavy journals and
Middlemarch and scraps OF science
not much to boast of.
Write me q three or four page letter
and tell me how you have planned your
Winter and what you think OF doing,
whether you are well, as l trust you
. are. and cheerful, as I think you have
. right to be--for you have been a
brave girl and / feel always as II you
had fought your way through an army
of little trials which were as hard to
deal with as regiment Of greater ones
would be.
write little jauntily, but / am
fasting and just now practical tee
totaler. This is the friskinesS Of hav-
ing thrown off my harness l am like
lv to cock my hat on one side today
and flourish my cane as an Irishman
does his shillaleh. I shall sober down
in a day or two, no doubt, but do feel
wonderfully coltish since getting on
that last lecture. ,
Now is the time to write me little
account of yourself and wour doings.
I am in a very receptive condition and
it always pleaSes me to know that you
are occupied and contented and steadily
improving yourself as you always have
been up to this time.
Il II
May 25, 1873.
NEAR Miss Ester: am not going to
~ let you off after reading the two
articles you sent me--the verses on
Cora" and the account Of the H
family. I am going to scold you very
briefly by telling you that such a
change of meter as notice from the
first to the following verse is 1nadmls-
sable and does an irreparable injury TO
the poem in which 1t occurs. AS to the
account of the H family--I read
it all through from beginning to end
and was exceedingly pleased with IT,
not because / recognized traces OF your
recollection of something Of my own
in 1t. but because 1t was an interesting
family history, very we'll told. 1 have
hardly any fault to find with 1t. One
or two sentences were rather long. /
thought, and might have been broken
up to advantage. but l assure you 1t
is a very creditable performance In a
literary point of view and shows good
taste and discriminating eye for the
points of q narrative. which would give
YOU a good chance of success as local
historian. 1t Is very pleasant to see
the name and fragment or two of a
noble life almost unremembered rescued
by loving hands from oblivion. In this
case I think / can see where you got
| some of those qualities which, without
meaning to flatter you, I think, no,
| feel sure, you possess. 1t is a good
| thing to count a few strains OF really
not conventionally, generous blood
among ones ancestors. / shall watch
| your papers with interest and hope you
will keep we'll and cheerful and diligent
| ir the use of your powers of acquisi-
| ton and expression.
\
March 25. 1874.
! NEAR Miss Ester: What do you thinl
II pleased me most in your letter?
| It was not your expression OF kind
| feelings toward me and gratitude for
what little service / had rendered you
| or you thought 1 had. may be foolish
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myself noisy in some way or other
possibly take TO the more quiet business
OF writing letters to all my corre-
spondents once week or so, in which
case you will have TO go to the P. o.
oftener than you do now.
What have to tell you? Nothing, /
fear, that you care much for. can
give advice TO those that need 1t, but
/ think you are wise enough not to be
in much want of it-~at least, such as l
can give. When you do want counsel
I always try TO give you such light as
/ may be able TO throw on your per-
plexities. have been little better than
a pendulum for seven months between
my house and the medical college, have
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once, to write you these few lines. partly
because / am gratified to have this
token from you and partly because /
feel good natured. having just finished
three hours ago my Ii6th lecture since
the first of October and wound up my
college work for the season in so doing.
It has been a little tiresome of late
and am thankful to stretch my mental
limbs at last without feeling the fetters
of daily routine upon them. suppose
I shall get enough of this lecturing one
of these days and then. If am alive
and keep my wits and am not too in
dolent, / shall write, or go to lectures.
or Join the brain club" or become a
champion of women's rights, or make
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April IN, 1879.
NHY Dear Miss Ester 1 got the
W Wakefield papeF This morning
with your pleasing poem IN II and Tas
very gIad ~ mad that you were well
snd happy enough. 81 sny rate, 70 en-
JOY the shaping of a legen1 into grace
f,Il verse, / am sitting dIkn nov, a.
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January II, 1873.

January IL 1919
MY Dear Miss Ester. ! must write
w single line At Least To tel you
that ! got The Providence Journal WITH
me very pleasing lines in IL which
an sure I am not greatly mistaken ~
attFibutIng ~ yourself They reminded
me ~ you IN a most agreeable way. and
convinced me again that reading and
study had wrought upon your natural
gifts 80 a. " give you a power Of en-
preston that always has struck me IN
yoiH recent letters and now shows IN
this smOoth-fl0wing and tender shred
NJ verse am always afraid Of en-
nouFsging my younger friends 10 hope
too much tram authorship, but ! can
say that have recognized great SIM
plicity and purity ~ style IN your prose,
a. I do here In the more delicate form
~ verse. ~ which you send me THIS
delicate specimen
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March 25. 1874.
NEAR Miss Ester: What do you think
II pleased me most in your letter?
1t was not your expression OF kind
feelings toward me and gratitude for
what little service had rendered you,
or you thought 1 had. may be foolish
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BY ANNE HARD.

so many years that 1t becomes
L almost ungracious TO count them
on a lady, TO say Mabel Board
i man" has meant Red Cross
and TO say Red Cross" has
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Boston May 5. 1879.
nEkE Miss ESter: ! shall forget ~
- answer your question about the
meteor u o. not begin with it, Mo
! 6ldnl see IL, though Lhe window ~
my library commands a lafger slice of
SKY than any have looksc through tn
9 house " my own. But, then, oile
coesnt Io0k out II tfe windows a. the
stars aE much as he ought Owile h.
l0okiHg down, instead ~ bp. Ike nls
man win the ulRlckFake-
I resd your paper straight through
and found - remarkably we'll ~fltiAD.
truthful showing au eye fos nature and
the g3sceptlbi,ltles u heart u Hhich
nothing IS knG@n anyway
MoSG 81 the young Hofnen
g-fo sAnd me sketeDes ~ fesa are pDE-
tng fog effect Ia fDejr own eyes, ~hefe-
e. II seems " nae. y0I ere quite natb~
70! AID. a. far ~ one car te Ia flef
eeif ~cTsticlzlng Eye unconscious. j a.
FloG lblHk IL worth Bt4lIe. tiDl"iJflstbt''
gl,a ny Communications. " Send t1e
Ener IL tne Atlantic. TO many @Titers
4 efeady ce!ebFsteo, - many Wtlo haye
lie R{ft ~ meter and verse. ~ many
As54o gge Dgactieac aF3d mature, ~ many
yyao have strange new things ~ All
ste cr0Bdlpg its pages NAT ~ me nni'
ff9lne ~ articles sent me ny sa0les
egyffle " tlAem ~ 10 iilconsidef a'}if
merit. ] % not remember more thar
oue tglat eyer saN the Iight ~ tbal
glagszsue. AID the writer ii that ofif
Ias suffered many disappointment
iei8ee. II which she tsA complained v
pae 81 various times.
! have SOMETIMES counSeied youDt
pefeDDs vino have 81 ambition W De'
10fne writer's ~ ~ tilif 70 give ~ ~
sres 81 ssflfrs fhetf first efforts Dut n
s4nd them 10 fhs Deet weekly papef III
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HER FIRST work. In the early nine
teen hundreds. was In the re-
organization of the national system.
Along with the rest Of the executive
COMMITTEES she helped t0 establish It's
close connection with those cabinet
posts which have TO do with national
defense to have sts books audited by
Evening star., 1928-04-29
BY THOMAS n. HENRY.

A HITHERTO unpublished series
" of letters from Oliver Wendell
IA Holmes. distinguished New
ENGLAND man Of letters and
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Of his movements he went
through the activity of bathing
and dressing himself afresh.
The cards had fallen against
him ana he was at the end OF
his rope. Somehow, despite his
best efforts, he had come into
the final stretch Of q. race, and
he was the loser. The future,
where he would so and what he
would do, seemed OF no concern
to him at all. Soon enough. he
would find out all about that.
Whatever 1t was to be. wouldn't
matter Nothing nnattered.
lie heard the telephone ringing
downstairs, and he could conceive
Of no reason why he should an.
smer 1T. What could anyone say
that was of tile slightest impor.
tance? The thing could ring till
the bells fell off 1t II It wanted
to. Slowly, with infinite care, he
selected a necktie without having
any real choice in the matter.
Trivial things like leckties. after
all. were the only things that
could concern him.
He heard Tobe's voice below
calling him to the telephone.
Tel 'em I'm not home" he
called down llstlessIy.
The old negro came half way
up the stairs. TITS Miss Marian
on de wire, sub" I"
CHAPTER LIV
1t was new lease on life
welcome. thrilling sound OF Ma
rian's voice on the wire. How
ever hopeless the future. nothing
could take away from Eddie these
isolated moments or joy. Out of
a universe dull with unhappiness
he drank in the vital elixir of her
personality, diluted in distance but
potent enough to send his heart
beating faster.
Even though the dear voice
came to him nervous and dis.
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The futility or arguing with him
rendered Eddie meager Of speech.
How can Justify myself Il
you won't listen?"
II did not came here to listen
to any rigged-up explanation
The facts that everybody knows
speak for themselves. I'm pef-
fectly cold-biooded about this,
young man; the happiness of the
most precious thing on earth to
me shall not be jeopardized her.
purity shall not be narred by
even the presence OF q man who
fIaunts his immortality In the face
OF the Hhole community. Per-
sonally. / don't care what you
do with your life, so long as 1T
does not touch anything Belong
ing to me. This II my last warn
ing to you and can assure you
there will be no second
Eddie felt the blood rush to his
face.
Does Marian know anything
about tllis?" he asked.
What Marian knows or does
not know II no concern of yours
from now on. sir. Your atten-
tions to her have been a disgrace.
NY advice to you, sir. is to for
get that you ever met her.
The father turned abruptly and
walking away left Eddie fumbling
with his axe. Any further work,
now, was impossible, was useless.
Not until he had entered the
house and gone up to his he'd
room did he realize that he had
walked like man In trance,
from the woods.
He found himself sitting on the
edge OF his bed and rubbing his
head az though he had just
awakened from the wanderlngs
of somnambuIist. He noticed
his new suit OF clothes hanging
over a chair. When he left he
would have very few things 10
take with him. Slowly. scarcely
comprehending the Significance
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dear presence was SHARP
anguish
Il was like an amputation with
out ether.
When he was gone, what hope
could he hold for the future?
Would she think of him as only q
blighter and a bounder who had
once temporarily crossed her path!
Would she remember him at aIl2
The only possible consolation he
could think Of was that he might
write her letters and hope for
replies. But this ray Of hope was
so thin. so fragile, that It served
only 10 magnify the hopelessness
OF his situation. Nevertheless, he
chung to 1t. and tried to imagine
that some slight connection might
be maintained with her. wherever
he went. Very vaguely. he con.
ceived that time would work in
his favor--tflat day possibly
would come when he could return
and live down the calumny Of
gossip.
III he left, the chances were
hundred to one against him-if
he stayed his chances were zero.
Marian's father came to him in
the midst of his labors of wood
cutting. Despite Mr.. Thorndike's
age, Eddie noted the proud, up
right carriage Of his body--the
yirile fire in the willful eyes.
Instinctively. he knew there, would
be no pleasantness In this abrupt
visit.
Il want to talk to you, Regan,"
Mr.. Thorndike said. Are you at
leisure?s'
"Shoot." ]" Eddie put down his
axe. The other looked at him
with hot. steady eyes.
"I have come TO forbid you to
come to my place again or ia see
nv daughter. l warned you that
YOU might expect this IL you
varied so much as a. hair-breath
from the standard | expect from
any gentleman" Eddie felt that
he was pale and trembling, but
he looked scuarely at her father.
II haye done my best to keep
that standard, Mr.. Thorndike," he
said in a voice that struggled
TO be firm. "Of my own free
will nothing has occurred that
could help"
..,rne facts that have come to
light sneak for themselves" the
other blurted out. Il don't know
ali the sordid details--and ] don't
want to--vou are mixed up with
a loose woman who has come
from New York-And you dared
to force yourself upon my daugh-
terri
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must necessarily be guarded. be.
cause Of the party line telephone
system. There was no telling how
many listening ears might be on
the wirerbu perhaps NJ might
express himself so As to render
anything overheard quite harm
less. There was the chance that
no one was oyerhearing them, but
the possibility stifled expression.
TIE things that Eddie and
Marian had to say were too poig-
nantly intimate to be spoken for
other people, perchance. to hear.
Yet, there was so much that had
to be said
m leaving he told her.
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turbed, ne imagined 1t carried
some hidden tenderness.
Father just came home. she
said. and told me about about
his conversation with you. Z
He knew that she was aware
OF her fathers ban upon him.
Doubtless Mr.. Thorndike had
warned her. too, to have nothing
further to do with him. IT gave
him throbbing satisfaction to
know that Marian, even 50, cared
enough to call him up In defiance
of the edict that separated them.
Did he tell you everything?
Yes. I'm so sorry--it's terri.
BILE.
Their conyersation. he realized.
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Non GO on With I'he StOry,

Dear Pal Eddie Arno had
written. Il pulled off that busi-
ness transaction spoke to you
about in Richmond and ii was
very satisfactory. Nothing doing
here IN the big town right now
and it occurs to me that 1t might
Be good idea If + ran down
and paid you little visit.
have been working pretty hard
10 put that deal over and it
wouldn't do me d bit Of harm
"a get out in the sticks and rest
up for d while. In fact want
20 drop out of sight for q couple
OF weeks for certain private rea-
sons Of my own and II think your
place down there would be a
great hidewey. You can look
for me in day or two. d0n't
know just what train I'll come
on. SO YOU needn't bother trying
to meet me as e will hire q car
at the station and drive Out.
Maybe you've changed your mind
and might listen to a proposition
to hook up with me in the fu.
ture Wen talk it over when
I see you Always your pal
AdthS lAIHO.
Eddie. as he put down the let
Ter. noticed that it had trembIed
between bis fingers This WAS a
new spear thrust. and it reached
him with piercing pain. There
was no escape! His past fraught
with lingering menace, pursued
him with the rIalignancy that
was beyond his power to combat.
Mike Arno-a crooka conf.
dence man
The food II his plate remained
untouched. 1t was no good tell
Inc himself that Mike ArnO WAS
q square gtly--as squareness was
rated among people Of Arnn's
stripe. Yes, Nike whs All right.
IN his way. Eddie even liked
the tall. suave fellow who was
perfectly honest about everything
except money. Despite his bad
record Arno had q charm. an ex-
pansfve personality that was
really attractive. But herewith
the love OF Marian Thorndike at
stake Eddie vas filled up. sud
denly, with a bitterness against
Arno that amounted almost to
hatred.
As il didn't have trouble
enough already he groaned.
It was no use protesting de-
Feat was all around him. Which.
ever way he turned. he ran into
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rsluctantIy. I'm called awayon
business !"
He hoped despeately that she
would Understand what He really
meant.
1T seems the only thing To do e
do you mlnd II write you
from wherever I'm goingg"
He could feel the strain Of her
silence before she answered him.
Her words seemed to trenble.
Yes, write"
Fl won't be able to see you b.
fore / gog''
lTo Be continued torncrrowl
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the same stone wall. Even if. the
country side did not already know
about Bernfce Neressi, It soUn
\ would. Mike Arno might fool
them ana pass for d gentleman
hut Eddie himself would know.
He would be carrying around an
inner consciousness that he was
secretly cOnsorting with q man
whose friendship would damn him
In the eyes OF everybody II u
were known The knowledge
would work on him in secret dark
ness and would be as 4 poison
to his conscience.
There's no way out, ne
decided aloud. I'll have to clear
out myself and get sawayit's
the only escape
CHAPTER LII
Very slowly. then the idea of
flight began to seep through Ed
dies consciousness. The more he.
thought 0f 1t. the palmer 1t he.
came that it was the only method
of freeing himself from revala-
tions that would end forever the
cherished hope of his heart.
gN94ltIItOIlI SE1ASG NQtG AtAAAA
Bernice's continued presence in
the community would wreck cYery
chance he had with Marian
Thorndike. And there was no
hope OF persuading the girl TO
60 back to New York. Indeed.
Ii was too late now: no doubt
the whole country was already
abuzz with the news Of her
presence and had already linked
their names together.
With Mike Arno on the place.
there would be an undermining
OF morals. subtle and dangerous.
Flight was q towards weapon
but what else was there
As accurately as his fevered
mind was capable. Eddie weighed
the chances Of disappearing. For
one thing. the scandal would be
checked where 1t was---at least.
there would be no new destructive
developments. AS soon as he was
gone. he was certain. Bernice
Veressi would 70 back to New
York He would escape the visit
OF Mike Arno. Marian Thorn
dixie, If she thought OF him at
all, would, at least. recognize that
he had pride enough not to make
shameless parade OF himself
virtually before her eyes.
The thought Of putting hundreds
OF miles between himself and her
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Caught in the Meshes Of a Forgotten
Past, Can Eddie Regan Redeem
Himself and Reform?
Read This First :

Eddie Regain once gang broken
bclends Penfied Parndin
to Eddie Eddie has been Ia
thought
IhOrndike Marian
Richmond, Mike
Eddie refuses and RETURNS 20 his farm ne
to ThOndie ME- InOrndIb queSOnS
him Is to past Eddies home and IN
mp0ssOle,
escong back the village when he
with Marian and her father
NOIC Go On With The Story.
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Emy looks the world like
coffe It's called the chignon hat and it's made o brown
the flat
black Dmas turban Of those
rolled into ball and handbag Of wool cot
Napoleon wouldn't
Of black felt with uae in
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HO1C the Word Sincere" Originated
The word sincere originated Latin words "ne
eeraO meaning In the days Of ancient Rome
cracked and chipped made good new by filling
up the cracks with