CHAPTER XIV.
MISS EDITH IS DISAPPOINTED As soon as we had begun to walk under the apple-trees she turned to me and said: "I don't think you ought to take this letter and the bill to Mrs.Chester.It would not be right.

There would be something cruel about it." "What do you mean ?" I exclaimed.
"Of course I do not know exactly the state of the case," she answered, "but I will tell you what I think about it as far as I know.

You must not be offended at what I say.

If I am a friend to anybody--and I would be ashamed if I were not a friend to you--I must tell him just what I think about things, and this is what I think about this thing: I ought to take these papers to Mrs.Chester.I know her well enough, and it is a woman who ought to go to her at such a time." "That message was intrusted to me," I said.

"Of course it was," she answered, "but the bear man did not know what he was doing.