For to-morrow: Rising temperature accompanied by falling barometer, followed by heavy showers. Lower temperature will follow in the North Central States and Northern Missouri.
“I shouldn’t call that exactly scurrilous, neither,” said Mr. Gubb.
“It ain’t,” said Miss Petunia, “and unless you can call a mention of threatening weather a threat, I wouldn’t call it a threatening letter. And then I got this letter.”
She handed Mr. Gubb the fourth letter, and he read it. It ran:—
Petunia Scroggs:—
Trout are rising freely in the Maine waters. The Parmacheene Belle is one of the best flies to use.
Mr. Gubb, having read this letter, shook his head and placed the letter on top of those he had previously read. It was signed with the wiggle like the others.
“Speaking as a deteckative,” he said, “I don’t see anything into these letters yet that would fetch the writer into the grasp of the law. Are they all like this?”
“If you mean do they say they are going to murder me, or do they call me names,” said Miss Scroggs, “they don’t. Here, take them!”