“I send with this a packet of communications and press clippings indicative of the success of the daily, and in regard to other innovations. The letters from women commendatory of our 'Woman's Page,' thanking us for various house-keeping receipts, etc., strike me as peculiarly interesting, as I admit that a 'Woman's Page' is always a difficult matter for a man to handle without absurdity. “Please do not think I mean to plume myself upon our various successes; we attempted our innovations and enlargements at just the right time--a time which you had ripened by years of work and waiting, and at the moment when you had built up the reputation of the 'Herald' to its highest point. Everything that has been done is successful only because you paved the way, and because every one knows it is your paper; and the people believe that whatever your paper does is interesting and right. “Trusting that your recovery will be rapid, I am “Yours truly, “H. FISBEE.” Harkless dropped the typewritten sheets with a sigh. “I suppose I ought to get well,” he said wearily. “Yes,” said Meredith, “I think you ought; but you're chock full of malaria and fever and all kinds of meanness, and----” “You 'tend to your own troubles,” returned the other, with an imitation of liveliness. “I--I don't think it interests me much,” he said querulously. He was often querulous of late, and it frightened Tom. “I'm just tired. I am strong enough--that is, I think I am till I try to move around, and then I'm like a log, and a lethargy gets me--that's it; I don't think it's malaria; it's lethargy.” “Lethargy comes from malaria.” “It's the other way with me. I'd be all right if I only could get over this--this tiredness. Let me have that pencil and pad, will you, please, Tom?” He set the pad on his knee, and began to write languidly: “ROUEN, _September 2d_. “_Dear Mr. Fisbee_: Yours of the 1st to hand. I entirely approve all arrangements you have made. I think you understand that I wish you to regard _everything_ as in your own hands. You are the editor of the 'Herald' and have the sole responsibility for everything, including policy, until, after proper warning, I relieve you in person. But until that time comes, you must look upon me as a mere spectator. I do not fear that you will make any mistakes; you have done very much better in all matters than I could have done myself. At present I have only one suggestion: I observe that your editorials concerning Halloway's renomination are something lukewarm.