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'DEAR MADAM,--Your note has reached e that I cannot leave Gerood There is one subject which I cannot

mention to her--I cannot speak to her about ive me full information? I enclose 20 pounds, and I must trust to your

discretion I thank you heartily for all your kindness--Truly yours, 'FRANK PALMER'

'MY DEAREST MADGE,--I cannot help saying one h, when I last saw you, you told me that it was useless for me

to hope I knoever, that there is now another bond between us,

the child is mine as well as yours, and if I aht you to preventmy duty to it as well as

to you? It is true that if ere to ht you,

and perhapsto do with us, but in tiht relent, and I will come over at once, or, at least, the

moment I have settled some business here, and you shall be e, consent'

When he came to this point his pen stopped What he had written was

very s better

presented itself; he changed his position, sat back in his chair, and

searched hi It was not always so

Soo there would have been no difficulty, and he would not

have knohen to co would have been