"Perfidious Girl:
"How could you find it in your heart to treat so cruelly one who loves you so wildly? You led me to think that you returned my love, at any rate that you felt an interest in me. I have just returned from the house in Lemore street. I will not refer to the way you received me. It was cruel and unwomanly. I feel that my heart has received a wound from which it will never recover. Yet, if you acted in a thoughtless manner, and did not mean to wound me, I am ready to forgive and forget all. Once more I will come to your side, and renew my vows of devotion. I put my business address below, and shall be most glad to hear from you.
"Your faithful friend,
"Livingston Palmer."
"What do you think of that, Robert?" asked Palmer, handing the boy the letter to read.
"I wouldn't have said anything about going back to her, if I had been you."
"But perhaps she only meant it in fun. Girls sometimes act that way."
"Not if they love a person."
"But if there is any chance of getting in with her again, I don't want to lose it."
"Well, Mr. Palmer, if you are satisfied with the letter, you had better mail it."
"I'll get a stamp and mail it to-night."
"Now I think we had better go home and go to bed."