The papers you speak of were found by Mr.Parker in your trunk, and are now in my hands.
"I send with this a packet of communications and press clippings indicative of the success of the daily, and in regard to other innovations.

The letters from women commendatory of our 'Woman's Page,' thanking us for various house-keeping receipts, etc., strike me as peculiarly interesting, as I admit that a 'Woman's Page' is always a difficult matter for a man to handle without absurdity.
"Please do not think I mean to plume myself upon our various successes; we attempted our innovations and enlargements at just the right time--a time which you had ripened by years of work and waiting, and at the moment when you had built up the reputation of the 'Herald' to its highest point.

Everything that has been done is successful only because you paved the way, and because every one knows it is your paper; and the people believe that whatever your paper does is interesting and right.
"Trusting that your recovery will be rapid, I am "Yours truly, "H.

FISBEE." Harkless dropped the typewritten sheets with a sigh.
"I suppose I ought to get well," he said wearily.
"Yes," said Meredith, "I think you ought; but you're chock full of malaria and fever and all kinds of meanness, and----" "You 'tend to your own troubles," returned the other, with an imitation of liveliness.

"I--I don't think it interests me much," he said querulously.