a few hundred
yards below the intake of the waterworks, cannot help tainting the
whole pond. Mr. Hendricks has had an expert here who declared that
both the typhoid and diphtheria epidemics here last fall were due
directly to the water supply, and Mr. Hendricks is going to make the
fight of his life to have the city buy the waterworks plant, and
move the intake six miles above town, where there is plenty of clean
water. Of course it will mean first a city election to get decent
councilmen, and then a bond election to vote money to buy the old
plant; the waterworks company are going to move heaven and earth to
get an anti-Hendricks council elected and to renew the franchise and
let things go as they are. So that is why I am here, dear heart, and
oh, my darling, you do not know how painful it all seems to be here
and not have you--I mean--you know what I mean. All my associations
with the work here in the office and on the street are with my heart
close to yours. Everything in the old town tells me of you. 'Saint
Andrews by the Northern sea, a haunted city is to me.' To-night I
hear the music of the New Year's dance, and I can shut my eyes and
feel you with me there. Oh, sweetheart, I have kept you so close, by
writing to you every night. I come and lay my heart and all its
thoughts at your shrine, and put all my day's work before you for
your approval, just as I used to do. It is so sweet a privilege.

"Last night I dreamed about you. It was so real and your voice
sounded so clearly, crying to me, that you have been with me all
day. I wonder if while we sleep, we whose souls would struggle to
meet through eternity, if through the walls of space they may not
find each other, and speak to each other through our dreams. It is
midnight here now, and you are just waking, perhaps, or just
sleeping that sleep of early morning wherein the soul sinks to
unknown depths. Oh--oh--oh, if I could but speak to you there, my
dear! I am going to sit here and close my eyes and try."

The next letter in the exhibit was written six weeks later and is
dated February 12, 1904. It says in part:--

"I must tell you what a bully fellow Bob Hendricks is. Judge Bemis
sent a highly laudatory article about himself to the office to-day
with a check for fifty dollars. In the article it develops that he
is going to