Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1890 — The Letter that Nover Came. [ARTICLE]

The Letter that Nover Came.

Have you ever looked fora letter that did not eomeP Have you gone to the postoffice day after day, with a sickening feeling of mingled doubt and hope in your breast—at times feeling your heart leap joyfully in the Bure belief that that the letter will bo waiting theTe for you, and again sinking like lead in the dull certainty that it will not? Have your knees trembled a little, and your hand shook whon you tried to fit the key in tho box ? Has something come into your waiting eyes that was very like tears of keen supense, and something beat so loud and so strong in head and breast that you could scarcely hear or feel ? Did you hesitato when you had finally turned the key, and gather up all your courage that you might bear it bravely should disappointment be your lot againP And when you at last opened the Utile door—dear heart, was tho letter there? O, if it was, be glad; for I tell you that never a sun slopes from cast to west but hundreds of hearts ache and hundreds of eyes grow dim waiting and looking and longing for letters that never come,