Show his answer what became of the long let tor she wrote his offer dear howard ehe wrote of course your letter wag a surprise to me a big surprise in the first place when a man has been running in to other evening for a see you every aey it seems funny tor him to write would be so much a when it easier just to say it 1 I dont quite understand what you meant when you eald you wrote in stead of talking to me on the same that it was a mean trick to telephone an invitation fo dinner as the telephone had no chance to think up an excuse but usually accepted be cause he or she had to say something and coulden couldn t collect his or her wits to get out of it if he or she ranted to ot course I 1 can never marry you I 1 expect you 11 be surprised at that because I 1 ve seen so much of you and weve had such good times together and as you say are such good corn rades im never going to marry any oce I 1 like you awfully well and I 1 should hate to have you stop coming to see me but of course you won t do that we have finished that book we reading and then there s that party at the crandall s next week I 1 d be lost without ou to go about with you see ou mean a lot to me but I 1 am quite sure that I 1 must say no to what ou ask anyhow in spite of the tact that you are so tall and good looking and attractive QU must admit howard that your last name Is smith and it would be a terrible thing to go through all the rest of my life as one of the mrs smiths why id never be sure whether I 1 was iselt or the mrs smith iri the next house but one or the other one who lived across the street I 1 simply coulden couldn t face it harriett Is going to marry a min whose name Is courtland de lancy oswald think of that on a calling card why it would carry oft a last seasons frock every time while a mere mrs smith would have to be gowned in the style of year after next to be noticed at all not that bour name should stand between us if I 1 cared for ou as I 1 should I 1 am sure I 1 feel toward you the affection of a sister howard I 1 am interested in you and all that but when I 1 consider the matter I 1 never was in the least jealous of you and it I 1 were ija 1111 you r coulden couldn chelp but be of course you have been with me so constantly that I 1 have had nc chance to get jealous but if I 1 really 10 ou id have been ahoua about about the time ou talkea to that awful girl on the car or when you coulden couldn t come over because you had to go to the train to meet spur cousin I 1 never wondered tt our cousan or lf you we trying to deceive me that certainly s proof that my fondness fo you Is just ordinary isn t ita 1 I hope it wont make you I 1 dont see wh it should for auh keep running in just the same ot course and we 11 do the new books and keep P our bri and things will be kalt bame as ever I 1 kno what to do if they were not 1 I have been sitting here nv aln utes just for a horrible thought struck me what if you met some othe 1 you like and sow to like her more and finally marry hera wa uever do thang la r howard why no other S T ear would tand ou a I 1 J and be miserable it be nothing but infatuation on sr baor y i sour etter ive just read it over again that you 11 never in the world are about any one else but me so you see it would not be fair on your ta ward the girl it would be deceiving I 1 am sure if I 1 could talk to you my mean ng would be easier to cah you hat yolar lost eresto at I 1 noticed th t ross girl S eyes at m ou and most men think she has 1 ih 88 blan IT e ly nowa how to use them and there bealli was no ex ya to beam at her as yu abol 0 rt sch Y I 1 dont let myself iw such trivial occurrences I 1 never 6 d be jealous of the als te howard you don t really ilka hp do youa I 1 d do anything to bave you s she rushes toward the telephone tarin letter into bits as she runs she calls for his number in a bre ess and with a dupps isn the in hangs she stands biting her lip and the tears come to her eyes 1 I wonder she gashea to herself than 1 howard could be cas n marry him my self before she shall have halml she rushes again to her desk and be gins another letter it is fl s lone and says in t Q |