Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1903 — A Postoƒice Romance. [ARTICLE]

A Postoƒice Romance.

▲ little known but perfectly true story came to Right when the Paris postoffice was overhauled for repairs, and a letter discovered between the bos; and tbe wall. Early In the century a pair of young lovers quarreled over some trifle, and the man, in a fit of temper, swore he would go abroad and never retunf unless the girl asked him to do so. They, pitted in anger; Tint the woman, sure of hislove, was -eonfldent that he would _ come back to her. She never saw or heard of him again, but, faithful to his memory, never wedded another. At the age of seventy, she received one day a letter, stained and shabby, with the address faint and discolored. The writing was familiar, despite the lapse of time, and she opened the envelope with trembling hands. “Send me one word to say you forgive me. I cannot live without you.” That was all, except the date —four days after the quarrel, fifty years before. The man, mistaking her silence, had never returned.