We got a letter from that girl--I got it here in my pocket.

We opened it and read it, Wid and me did, yesterday.

Her name's Annie Squires.

But she's broke too, I reckon.
Now what are we a-goin' to do ?" "Have you ever talked the whole business over--you two--since she came out ?" "Doc," said Sim Gage, "I told you, I tried my damnedest, and I just couldn't.

I says to myself, lady like she was, it wouldn't be right fer a man like me to marry her noways on earth." "And what did she say ?" Sim Gage began to stammer painfully.