I thought you might be glad to learn of my good fortune. I have
received and accepted an offer of two hundred dollars per week
by a New York stock company to play Colonel Calhoun in _A
Magnolia Flower_.
There is something else I wanted you to know. I guess you’d
better not tell Major Talbot. I was anxious to make him some
amends for the great help he was to me in studying the part, and
for the bad humor he was in about it. He refused to let me, so I
did it anyhow. I could easily spare the three hundred.
Sincerely yours,
H. HOPKINS HARGRAVES.
P.S. How did I play Uncle Mose?
Major Talbot, passing through the hall, saw Miss Lydia’s door open
and stopped.
“Any mail for us this morning, Lydia, dear?” he asked.
Miss Lydia slid the letter beneath a fold of her dress.
“_The Mobile Chronicle_ came,” she said promptly. “It’s on the
table in your study.”