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for the girl to decide. If she accepted [Jim?] she would please her
father but if she refused him she should feel that she had had a
chance to be of real Tuesday Oct 26 1880 help to the
She [w?] [now?] [going?]
family but had lost it because of her own selfishness. As she [home?]
was I went to school this morning and had one
[?] thought wrong in examples and failed in geography
this This afternoon we had reading grammer
Ned& and drawing. I have found out what that
Black letter I received Monday, Saturday when
just I was in papa's office I left a note which
at I was scribbling on the desk saying that
that if he wanted any female detective I would
mo- be one and he answered me that way.
I suppose that I do not write enough in
ment this journal but I can't help it. I have
Ned done my practising for to-day. It is cold
Black and windy but not so cold or windy
or windy as yesterday. overtook her I was coming
up to see you to-night he said I've been trying to get around
for a week. I suppose you've heard the news about Phillips. What
news she asked. Why that he's going away Ned replied the firm
wanted him to go out somewhere in the western part of the
state & as it's a better opening than he has here he's decided
to go I shall miss him awfully. May had made her decision in
that minute for her feeling when she heard that Harry was going