The Talmage Powell Crime MEGAPACK™: 20 Classic Mysteries!

And don’t you worry none about what you said. I can’t forgive you, for there is nothing to forgive. I know I would feel bad if somebody told me a lot of black, dirty lies about you and I guess I would say a few things, too.

I’m going to tell you a teensy secret. You have stirred feelings in me I didn’t know I had. I think about you all the time. The more so, when I thought I had lost you. If you hadn’t written me again, I hate to think of it. I guess little old me would have just up and died. I’m going to move your darling picture — to my bedside table. So it’ll be the first thing I see when I wake up every morning, just like it’ll be the last thing I see before I fall into the land of dreams each night.

Take good care of my little old heart, darling.

Your slave,