And then late that night he wrote
it all out to Melanctha Herbert, and he made himself quickly send it
without giving himself any time to change it.
"It has come to me strong to-day Melanctha, perhaps I am wrong the
way I now am thinking. Perhaps you do want me badly to be with you.
Perhaps I have hurt you once again the way I used to. I certainly
Melanctha, if I ever think that really, I certainly do want bad not
to be wrong now ever any more to you. If you do feel the way to-day it
came to me strong maybe you are feeling, then say so Melanctha to me,
and I come again to see you. If not, don't say anything any more ever
to me. I don't want ever to be bad to you Melanctha, really. I never
want ever to be a bother to you. I never can stand it to think I am
wrong; really, thinking you don't want me to come to you. Tell me
Melanctha, tell me honest to me, shall I come now any more to see
you." "Yes" came the answer from Melanctha, "I be home Jeff to-night
to see you."
Jeff Campbell went that evening late to see Melanctha Herbert. As Jeff
came nearer to her, he doubted that he wanted really to be with her,
he felt that he did not know what it was he now wanted from her. Jeff
Campbell knew very well now, way inside him, that they could never
talk their trouble out between them. What was it Jeff wanted now to
tell Melanctha Herbert? What was it that Jeff Campbell now could tell
her? Surely he never now could learn to trust her.
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