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Other letters went forward by succeeding posts, and there was no doubt now, that O'Reilly's pen was tipped with led when he reread what he had written He bade Rosa prepare for his return and their i their future caused hi details of the flat-hunting, ho excursions they would take upon their return to New York He wrote her ecstatic descriptions of a suite of Grand Rapids furniture he had priced; he wasted a thousand emotional words over a set of china he had picked out, and the results of a preliminary trip into the apartment-house district required a convulsive three-part letter to relate It is re, a lover can describe a five-roolories he can furnish it out of a h for a life of luxury

But O'Reilly's letters did not always touch upon practical things; there was a wide streak of ro which rohts which half abashed him when he read them over But that Rosa would thrill to them he had no doubt, nor had he any fear that she would hesitate to leave her native land for hiirl was absolute He knew, moreover, that she loved and trusted him This, to be sure, was a miracle--a unique phenomenon which never ceased to amaze hiue wonder

And so the tie to say, there came no answer to those letters O'Reilly chafed: he cursed the revolution which had th he cabled, but still the days dragged on with no result Gradually his iave way to apprehension Unreasonable conjectures besieged his mind and destroyed his peace

Great was his relief, therefore, when one day a worn, stained envelope addressed in Rosa's hand was laid upon his desk The Ae, but--Her first letter! O'Reilly wondered if his first letter to her could possibly have moved her as this moved him He kissed the envelope where her lips had caressed it in the sealing Then with eager fingers he broke it open

It was a generous epistle, long and closely written, but as he read his keen delight turned to dise his brain was in wildest tur eyes upon his surroundings to prove this thing a nightmare, but the prosaic clink of a typewriter and the drone of a voice dictating quotations on Brazilian coffee were conclusive evidence to the contrary Those pages between his thu Could it be that he hadand atteed to lay the letter flat upon his desk