Nor can I
at this writing say with any degree of certainty when I shall be able
to finish the story. I have made constant and conscientious effort
to carry out my agreement with you, but fruitlessly, and I beg that
you will relieve me of the obligation into which I entered at the
signing of our contract. Of course I could send you something long
enough to cover the required space--words come easy enough for that--
but the result would be unsatisfactory to you and injurious to me
were I to do so. Please let me hear from you, releasing me from the
obligation, at your earliest convenience, as I am about to leave town
for a fortnight's rest. Regretting my inability to serve you at this
time, and hoping soon to be able to avail myself of your very kind
offer, I beg to remain,
"Yours faithfully,
"STUART HARLEY."
"Oh!" said I. "You've finished it, then, by--"
"By giving it up," said he, sadly.
"It's the strangest thing that ever happened to me, but that girl is
impossible. I take up my pen intending to say that she did this, and
before I know it she does that.
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