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"I'm sure she does--when she loves anybody"

"And yet it e I am worried out of my senses I

don't knohat to do"

She was silent for a long ti

her hands in her lap; she was plainly searching her soul for

inspiration--and courage!

"You think she will understand the situation?" he insisted

"She ought to"

"But no word from me! Silence for weeks!"

Her voice was low, but she evidently had found courage "I have not

heard one word--not a letter has come to me--since I left my aunt's

home"

"Do you feel sure that he loves you just the same? You don't need

letters?"

"Oh no! I don't need letters"

"But in my case?"

"I could see that she loves you very much She stood out before theirl does not need letters"

"You have put new courage in irl would feel You know a Yankee! He expects to find a friend just

where he left hiirl does not need to be a Yankee to be that way in her love"

"I can't sneak around to her by the back way--I can't do that!" he