"Let me thank you, dear Aunt, for your kindness to me,
and I hope that our being engaged may meet with your
approval. Penloe is going to live in the pines for the
next six months. After he has been there three months I
am going up there to live with him, and will be his
log-cabin companion for three months. After that we
will be united in marriage.
"Mother and father join me in love to you. As ever,
"Your Affect. Niece,
"STELLA WHEELWRIGHT."
From that time till Stella went to the mountains to live with Penloe,
she was busy in two ways. Her time was occupied in one direction in
writing a little book on the sex question. Barker and Brookes told her
if she would write the book they would pay for having it printed and
would circulate thousands of copies free. Those two young men were now
Stella's co-workers in the grand field of removing bondage. The other
way in which Stella was very busy was in following a certain course of
mental and spiritual exercise as marked out for her by Penloe.
When the three months had expired, Mr. Wheelwright took Stella up to the
pines within one mile of Penloe's cabin. They arrived there at four in
the afternoon. Stella told her father to satisfy him that she would go
up to Penloe's cabin, and then come right back and stay with him over
night, and in the morning after he was gone Penloe would come down and
take her and her valise up with him.
Her father not being sure about the mental telegraphy carried on
between Stella and Penloe, wanted to make sure Penloe was there and all
right before he left his daughter.
It was Penloe's wish for no person to come near his cabin except Stella.
When Stella returned to her father, after having gone up to Penloe's
cabin to see if he was all right, she told her father Penloe was well,
and he could see by his daughter's face that everything was all right.
On the next morning Mr. Wheelwright wished his daughter good-bye,
leaving her where they had camped over night.
A few minutes afterwards Penloe appeared, and taking Stella's valise
they both walked up to the cabin. Stella was perfectly charmed with the
beautiful spot where the cabin was located. Some large pines were in
front of the cabin and some very handsome redwoods a few rods in the
rear. A sparkling, rippling brook flowed near the cabin, singing merrily
as it went along.
They lived on two meals a day and found that was all the nourishment
they needed, as they were doing no manual labor, and there was no great
strain on their nervous system.
They spent their time in the following manner: Part of the day was
devoted to prayer, meditation and concentration, and part of the time in
the practise of mental telegraphy; and the balance of the time in doing
what little work there was to do and in walks and talks.
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