I
have saved up my money and I have enough, I think, for the ticket. How
much does it cost? But I can find out somehow. Father sends his respects
and he says I may go. I am all ready. Can't you telegraph me, so I can go
soon?
With grateful thanks,
I am yours very sincerely,
AZALEA THORPE.
"Well," said Bill, "what do you think of that for a letter?"
He looked thoughtfully at Patty, as he spoke.
"Why," she hesitated,--"I think it's a very nice letter--"
"Wait, now,--be honest!"
"Well, I--oh, I don't know,--but I looked for a little more--simplicity,
I guess. This sounds as if she had resorted to a 'Complete Letter-Writer'
for help."
"Just what I thought, exactly! But I don't know as we can blame her if
she did. The poor child is doubtless unversed in polite correspondence,
and she did her best,--but she felt she needed a little more elegance of
construction and so forth, and she picked out some dressy phrases from
the book."
"It doesn't matter, anyway," said Patty, generously, "she's glad to come,
and so I'm glad to have her. Let's telegraph at once,--shall us?"
"Yes; but I don't like that haste of hers. It strikes me queer."
"Queer, how? She's impatient to start,--that's all. What else could it
mean?"
"I don't know, I'm sure. But the whole letter's queer,--if you ask me!"
"I _do_ ask you,--and I ask you _how_ it's queer."
"It's so,--so jumbly,--incoherent,--choppy.
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