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"I'd certainly see that he repented, apologized, and vowed eternal devotion," se"

"I don't want any revenge I si to do with hiood--looking," ie

"He looks to ht to wear a blanket, like the rest"

"Then you're no judge His eyes are dark; but they aren't snaky, my dear His hair is real wavy, did you notice? And he has the dearest, firm mouth I noticed it particularly, because I adive up, once he started And I think"--she spoke hesitatingly--"I think he'd love--and never give up; unless the loved one disappointed hio his way and not whine about it I do hate a whiner! Don't you?"

A shadow fell upon the platforly into the room He pulled off his black, slouched hat and tucked it under his arm, smoothed his lank, black hair, ran his palesture, and sidled over to the telegraph table

"Here's the answer to that e," he said, in a limp tone, without any especial emphasis or inflection "If you ain't too busy, and could send it right off--it's to go COD and make 'em repeat it, so as to be sure--"

"Certainly, Mr Saunders" Miss Georgie rose, the crisp, businesslike operator, and went to the table She took the sheet of paper froer tips, as if he were so, and glanced at the ular form," she said, and pushed a pad and pencil toward him "I have to place it on file" Whereupon she turned her back upon hih the srih

"Very well--that is all," she said, after she had counted the words twice "Oh--you want to wait for the repeat"

She laid her fingers on the key and sent thelittle sounds, waited a an a rapid clicking, which was the repeated e, and wrote it down upon its form

"There--if it's correct, that's all," she told hio Which he did, after a sly glance at Evadna, a licking of pale lips, as if he would speak but lacked the courage, and a leering grin at Miss Georgie