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"Trusting that your recovery will be rapid, I am "Yours truly, "H FISBEE"

Harkless dropped the typewritten sheets with a sigh

"I suppose I ought to get well," he said wearily

"Yes," said Meredith, "I think you ought; but you're chock full of malaria

and fever and all kinds of meanness, and----"

"You 'tend to your own troubles," returned the other, with an imitation of

liveliness "I--I don't think it interests me much," he said querulously

He was often querulous of late, and it frightened Tom "I'm just tired I

ah--that is, I think I a, and a lethargy gets y"

"Lethargy comes froht if I only could get over

this--this tiredness Let me have that pencil and pad, will you, please,

Touidly:

"ROUEN, September 2d

"Dear Mr Fisbee: Yours of the 1st to hand I entirely approve all

arrangements you have ard everything as in your own hands You are the editor of the

'Herald' and have the sole responsibility for everything, including

policy, until, after proper warning, I relieve you in person But until

that time comes, you must look upon me as a mere spectator I do not fear

that you will make any mistakes; you have done very much better in all

matters than I could have done estion: I observe that your editorials concerning Halloway's

reno lukewarether on account of

assuring his return to Washington (for he is no Madison, I fear), but the