“Dr. Snyder was so kind that he went out West and searched for Dannie until he found him and told him all and Dannie forgave everything. He had invested some of his money in the oil lands there and we will have plenty of money now, for they turned out well. He was coming to me on the first train, but the doctor prevailed upon him to stay and finish up his affairs first, so that he would not lose anything.
“Just think! only three days more until we are reunited.”
TALE NINE.
WHAT HAPPENED TO A GIRL WHO FLIRTED.
“The thorns which I have reap’d are of the tree
I planted,—they have torn me and I bleed:
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.”
“If all girls had as bitter an experience as I had, and all brought about by their first venture at flirting, I am sure there would be less of it.
“I had lived in Chicago a number of years, but had been so carefully reared that I knew absolutely nothing of the snares set for the feet of the unsophisticated.