Fred S. Lincoln

“ It is worse than that—worse than death," Kent replied, his voice filled with a pathos of a double sympathy. "Snellins' eccentricity has taken a more violent form," he went on, adding re-assuringly, "but he is at my house now, and I have brought Landy in to take care of him. It is a good arrangement, since Martin is already there, and all that can will be done for him. I must swear you to secrecy, for your daughter should not know until we find out what hope there is, and if the public should learn they would be sure to apprise her at the first opportunity." ”

“ I know that it hurt his pride to come down from the notions he had formed, but then he is all the better off for having formed them, as burning a young man at the stake of disappointment like that will bring out his better side most surely, and his selfish instincts will become unselfish instincts. ”

“ Harvey, and in it he has told me some of the things you never wished me to know!"
"And—" he interposed as she ended, while he turned his head away to conceal the relief his face uncontrollably expressed.
"They were about your family and other things that you would never talk to me about, and I have felt as if I were spying when I read them. They have made me awfully unhappy. My night was spoiled, as my day has been, because I did not tell you about it sooner."
"How came Mr. Harvey to write?" he asked, regaining his composure. ”

“ This all struck me as being strange, so I thought that I would tell you, because I don't believe he thinks your father and himself brothers, and being a big man, hard-pressed for time, I concluded he would forget it in the press of business, so that, if you care anything about following it up, I give you his address on a card, and this explanation may help you some. ”