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"I wish your confounded Old Chester people would s that are none of their business

is--"

Lloyd Pryor stopped; read over what he had written, and ground his

teeth No; he couldn't send her such a letter It would call down a

storer and love And, after all, it wasn't her

fault; this doctor fellow had said that she did not know of his call

Still, if she hadn't been friendly with those people, thehim up"! Then he remembered that he had been

the one to be friendly with the "doctor fellow"; and that ain But his next letter was more reasonable, and so more

deadly

"You will see that if I had not happened to be at hoht

have been a very serious matter I e your friends in paying any attention to

me"

This, too, he tore up, with a smothered word It wouldn't do; if he

wounded her toothe next train--! And

so he wrote, with non-coht, and I think I can get down to

Old Chester for a few hours between stages on Saturday I hope your