p.

yet. Tell him to carry his letters in
town and mail them else it takes
a day longer. I have laid in a stock
of apples and sweet cider, which I know you
will approve of, likewise, graham bread. so
I am going to be a very good girl you see
and eat only what is good for me.

Darling, I had last night, one of
my old terrible dreams about you. I cannot
tell you what agony it was. It is too
long to tell you, but fear it will never
fade from my mind. It made such a
terrible impression but the moral I will
impress upon your mind. Never distrust
me even with the evidences of your own senses
until you give me an opportunity to explain
myself. This seems foolishness, doesn't it,
Claire, but if you knew my dream and
the vividness of it you could not blame me.

The gist of it was this, that a man who
loves me and hates you, made you see
and hear (by hypnotic power) me do and
say what compelled you to leave me forever
and your answer was, when I begged of you
to explain your action, that you could not
deny the evidences of your own senses.

Oh but I cannot make you see the