if you are as impatient to see me as I am to fly to you?
Sometimes it seems as if I must leave business and every
thing else to the Fates, and take the first train to Dawson.
However, the hours do move, though they don't appear to, and
in a few more weeks we shall meet again. Let me hear from you
as frequently as possible in the meantime. Tell me of your
health, your amusements and your affections.

Remember that every word you write will be a comfort to me.

Unchangeably yours,
WILLIAM MILLER.

To Miss Kate Martin,
Dawson, N.D.


_15.--A Declaration of Love at First Sight._

Waterford, Maine, May 8th, 1915

Dear Miss Searles:

Although I have been in your society but once the impression
you have made upon me is so deep and powerful that I cannot
forbear writing to you, in defiance of all rules of etiquette.
Affection is sometimes of slow growth but sometimes it springs
up in a moment. In half an hour after I was introduced to you
my heart was no longer my own, I have not the assurance
to suppose that I have been fortunate enough to create any