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132 say about her. Her reply was, "All they can say is, I am a spoiled Kentucky girl." I then told her that would not save her, as the people in this country were not so easily put off. Through much reasoning the proprietor (who is a very gentlemanly man) and I got her to give up the idea of changing just then, and we got her quiet and loving to Noble.

When the news came of the death of her former lover she took sick and laid in her room for weeks. Noble and his friends hoped she would now become domesticated and affectionate; but no, she now got along so badly, and led him such a life that he would often go to his mother's and lock himself in a room. His friends feared he would commit suicide.

The doctor at this time ordered Minnie to a watering-place. While we were preparing to go, the cousin who had interfered with her before came along again, but he was so much afraid of me that he would walk up and clown the halls till I would be out of the way, then he would slip in and talk to her. One day I caught him speaking to her, and telling her what stands to take, and how she could best worry Noble. He had never liked Noble nor any of his family, and would tell her such and such treatment would break their hearts. I then went in and gave him the length of my tongue. I told him for his wife's sake I would not expose him, either to his wife or to Noble, but if I ever again caught him there I would give him a sound thrashing, and that would expose him enough. He then left, but by some means he got to see her again and advised her to have her baggage sent to a steamboat, and go on to Europe instead of to the watering-place, when in a few weeks he and his wife would