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They came upon Charlie Fox sitting on his horse beside the crude mail-box, reading avidly a letter of many crisp, close-written pages. Billy Louise flashed Ward an I-told-you-so glance. "Why, how do you do?" Charlie came out of cloudland with a start and turned to them cordially, while he hastily folded the letter. "Going down into the Cove? That's good. I was just up after the mail.
I was rewarded by feeling confident that she loved me, but I could not estimate what was the effect upon her of my confession. At last, nervous and unhappy, I wrote her a letter, which I dropped into the mail-box before going to bed, in which I said: I understand, understand even better than you, and so I suffer even more than you.
That finished, and dropped in the mail-box, he went back to his room and began to study. Rap-tap! Farley slipped into the room. "Thought I'd better come right away, Darry," explained the caller. "The news won't keep. A class meeting is called for Friday night right after supper. You know what that means, don't you?" "Yes," Dave answered steadily.
Meantime the two middlers had shoveled out the road down to the mail-box on the street so that I ran up on bare earth, the very wheels of the car conscious of the love behind the shovels, of the speed and energy it took to get the long job done before I should arrive. "How did she come up?" calls Beebum as he opens the house door for me, his cheeks still glowing with the cold and exercise.
O'Mally's on the water-wagon. But Kitty aggravates me." "What has she done now refused you by Marconigraph?" "No; but she promised me her address." "Address her care Cook's, Florence, Rome, Venice. It's the popular mail-box of Europe; and if she has given them the address, they will forward." "That helps considerably. I'm glad there's one Cook which can be relied on."
My conceptions of highwaymen and the North Road of England, too, for that matter were derived from something I had read at some time or other, I suppose; they must have been. At any rate, I finished that story, addressed the envelope to the editor of the magazine and dropped the envelope and its inclosure in the corner mail-box before I went to bed. Next morning I went to the office as usual.
"The back-feathering stroke is hard to learn." "For all that, I mean to learn it before I go." "Perhaps I could teach it you. How long have you got?" "A fortnight," she said, moving on, and when she left him Thirlwell went to the mail-box and dropped in his letter.
Miller, you must be in the office at the same time, and you must both remain there until Pattmore puts his letter in the mail-box. Then, Green you must ask the clerk out to take a drink, and while you are gone, Miller must get possession of the letter. When you have secured it, come over to the Globe Hotel, where I am stopping."
Not so very long ago she had fondly dreamed of the time when she should happily send to those she loved the summons to come to her on her wedding day. But the pile of envelopes which eventually found their way to the nearest mail-box contained news of a vastly different character. True to her promise she had conscientiously waited for the word from Mr. Blaisdell which Mrs. Gray had anticipated.
This he carried to a mail-box attached to the door; then, returning, he threw himself dejectedly down in a chair and put his head in his hands, where it remained throughout the song.
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