Write just as quick as you can, and tell me if you are coming.
"Good-bye.

With kisses and hugs, I am your dearest, lovingest friend, "EDNA MAY." These two letters from the far North created quite a ripple of excitement in that Southern household, and furnished ample subject for discussion when the family was gathered on the front porch in the evening of the day they were received.
Mr.Elmer said, "I think it would be a good thing for Mark to go, and I should like to have Ruth go too; but I don't see how you can spare her, wife." "I shall miss her dreadfully, but I should feel much easier to think that she was with Mark on this long journey.

Poor boy, he is far from strong yet.

Yes, I think Ruth ought to go.

It seems providential that these two letters should have come together, and as if it were a sign that the children ought to go together," answered Mrs.Elmer.
Mark, who had listened quietly to the whole discussion, now spoke up and said, "I should like to go, father.