or your
beautiful present. The squabs appealed to me. A man who loves
them must have tender feeling; and that is what all my life I have
been saying: Give me a man with a heart! Sometime when you are in
town, I may meet you on the street somewhere and then I can thank
you more fully than I do now. I shall always cherish the memory of
your kind deed. You must give me the chance to thank you very
soon, or I shall fear that you do not care for my thanks. I take a
walk about eleven o'clock.

"Sincerely yours,

"HARRIET CRANE."

Ambrose must have received the note. A few weeks later Miss Anna
one morning received one herself delivered by a boy who had ridden
in from the farm; the boy waited with a large basket while she read:

"Dearest Anna: It is a matter of very little importance to mention
to you of course, but I am married. My husband and I were married
at ------ yesterday afternoon. He met me at an appointed place and
we drove quietly out of town. What I want you to do at once is,
send me some clothes, for I left all the Conyers apparel where it
belonged. Send me something of everything. And as soon as I am
pinned in, I shall invite you out. Of course I shall now give
orders for whatever I desire; and then I shall return to Mrs.
Conyers the things I used on my bridal trip.

"This is a very hurried note, and of course I have not very much to
say as yet about my new life. As for my husband, I can at least
declare with perfect sincerity that he is mine. I have made one
discovery already, Anna: he cannot be bent except where he has
already been broken. I am discovering the broken places and shall
govern him accordingly.

"Do try to marry, Anna! You have no idea how a married woman feels
toward one of her sex who is single.

"I want you to be sure to stand at the windows about five o'clock
this afternoon and see the Conyers' cows all come travelling home:
they graze no more these heavenly pastures. It will be the first
intimation that Mrs. Conyers receives that I am no longer the
unredeemed daughter of her household. Her curiosity will, of
course, bring her out here as fast as the horse can travel. But,
oh, Anna, my day has come at last! At last she shall realize that
I am strong, _strong_! I shall receive her with the front door
locked and talk to her out of the window; and I expect to talk to
her a long, _long_ time. I shall have the flowers moved from the
porch to keep them from fre