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360 dresses to dispose of at Washington for your own benefit. If we get something, you will find that promises and performance for this life will be forthcoming. * * * * It is mysterious why B. never writes, and K. once, perhaps, in three weeks. All this is very strange. * *

"M. L."

" Sunday, Nov. 24th.
 * —I wrote you on yesterday and am aware it was not a pleasant letter, although I wrote what I fear will turn out to be truths. It will be two weeks tomorrow since the legally attested consent from me was received by B. and K., and yet names have not been obtained for it, when last heard from. * * However, we will soon see for ourselves. If you and I are honest in our motives and intentions, it is no reason all the world is so. * * * If I should gain nothing pecuniarily by the loud cry that has been made over my affairs, it has