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Show : " CHANGED HER MIND. "Young women are strange creatures,': said a telegraph clerk. "One afternoon not long . ago a . very handsome young woman came to my office of-fice and asked for a telegraph term. She wore a brown ?Ml, but I could see all the same that her 'eyes were red, as tf she had i been crying. I handed her the form with a sympathetic look and she wrote this message: "'Never let me hear from you again.' Ehf paid for the message, and then asked In a tremulous voice how soon It would go. " 'In half an hour,' ma'am I replied. ' She went back, but In ten minutes was back again. " '"av y ent that message of mine? she said. "'No, ma'am, not yet.' " 'Very well. Give it back to me. T want to change It a little said the young woman. - "I returned it. though that was against the rule, and she altered It so that It read: " 'No one expects you to come back. t'Then she went away again, but this time she had hardly gone five minutes. ' 'That message of mine it hasa't been sent yet, has It?' she asked. " 'No. not yet.'. ' "Oh. thank you. Just let me have It again, will you?' "I handed her the message, and the strange creature tore It up and wrote this in its place: . " Nearest, . come home. All la forgiven.' for-given.' " Tit-Bits. . s |