We are not worried by the uncertainty of the prospect before us; the long period ahead of Edith and Halliday before they can marry; that next year, and the year after that, and God knows how many years to come, I shall be pouring the priceless treasures of the English language into ears that will not hear; that my vacation is more than half over, and that its net result so far is a loss to me of some odd pounds of weight.
We are once more safely behind the drain pipe.
Edith has today received the large sum of ten dollars for the light-house story. While she is still far from the opulence she has anticipated, there has been great excitement here today, on receipt of the check.
She has kept a carbon copy, and has let me read it. It is well enough done, in her breezy fashion, but I find sh
