I told you she wouldn't have JIM, didn't I ?" Sibyl was altogether taken aback.

"Do you supose it's true?
Do you suppose she WOULDN'T ?" "He didn't look exactly like a young man that had just got things fixed up fine with his girl," said Sheridan.

"Not to me, he didn't!" "But why would--" "I told you," he interrupted, angrily, "she ain't that kind of a girl! If you got to have proof, well, I'll tell you and get it over with, though I'd pretty near just as soon not have to talk a whole lot about my dead boy's private affairs.

She wrote to Jim she couldn't take him, and it was a good, straight letter, too.

It came to Jim's office; he never saw it.