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Elenor Murray landing in New York	A
After a weary voyage none too well	B
Staid in the city for a week and then	C
Upon a telegram from Irma Leese	D
Born Irma Fouche her aunt who lived alone	E
This summer in the Fouche house near LeRoy	F
Came west to visit Irma Leese and rest	G
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For Elenor Murray had not been herself	H
Since that hard spring when in the hospital	I
Caring for soldiers stricken with the flu	J
She took bronchitis after weeks in bed	K
Rose weak and shaky crept to health again	C
Through egg nogs easy strolls about Bordeaux	L
And later went to Nice upon a furlough	L
To get her strength again	C
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But while she saw	M
Her vital flame burn brightly as of old	N
On favored days yet for the rest the flame	O
Sputtered or sank a little So she thought	P
How good it might be to go west and stroll	Q
About the lovely country of LeRoy	F
And hear the whispering cedars by a window	L
In the Fouche mansion where this Irma Leese	D
Her aunt was summering So she telegraphed	R
And being welcomed went	S
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This stately house	T
Built sixty years before by Arthur Fouche	U
A brick home with a mansard roof an oriel	Q
That looked between the cedars and a porch	V
With great Ionic columns from the street	W
Stood distantly amid ten acres of lawn	X
Trees flower plots belonged to Irma Leese	D
Who had reclaimed it from a chiropractor	Y
To cleanse the name of Fouche from that indignity	Z
And bring it in the family again	C
Since she had spent her girlhood womanhood	A2
To twenty years amid its twenty rooms	B2
For Irma Leese at twenty years had married	C2
And found herself at twenty five a widow	L
With money left her then had tried again	C
And after years dissolved the second pact	D2
And made a settlement was rich in fact	D2
Now forty two Five years before had come	E2
And found the house she loved a sanitarium	E2
A chiropractor's home And as she stood	A2
Beside the fence and saw the oriel	Q
Remembered all her happiness on this lawn	X
With brothers and with sisters one of whom	E2
Was Elenor Murray's mother then she willed	F2
To buy the place and spend some summers here	G2
And here she was the summer Elenor Murray	Z
Returned from France	H2
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And Irma Leese had said	K
Here is your room it has the oriel	Q
And there's the river and the hills for you	J
Have breakfast in your room what hour you will	Q
Rise when you will We'll drive and walk and rest	G
Run to Chicago when we have a mind	I2
I have a splendid chauffeur now and maids	J2
You must grow strong and well	Q
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And Elenor Murray	Z
Gasped out her happiness for the pretty room	E2
And stood and viewed the river and the hills	K2
And wept a little on the gentle shoulder	Y
Of Irma Leese	D
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And so the days had passed	L2
Of walking driving resting many talks	M2
For Elenor Murray spoke to Irma Leese	D
Of tragic and of rapturous days in France	H2
And Irma Leese though she had lived full years	N2
Had scarcely lived as much as Elenor Murray	Z
And could not hear enough from Elenor Murray	Z
Of the war and France but mostly she would urge	O2
Her niece to tell of what affairs of love	P2
Had come to her And Elenor Murray told	N
Of Gregory Wenner save she did not tell	Q
The final secret with a gesture touched	Q2
The story off by saying It was hopeless	R2
I went into religion to forget	S2
But on a day she said to Irma Leese	D
I almost met my fate at Nice then sketched	T2
A hurried picture of a brief romance	H2
But Elenor Murray told her nothing else	U2
Of loves or men But all the while the aunt	V2
Weighed Elenor Murray on a day exclaimed	W2
I see myself in you and you are like	X2
Your Aunt Corinne who died in ninety two	J
I'll tell you all about your Aunt Corinne	Y2
Some day when we are talking but I see	Z
You have the Fouche blood we are lovers all	Q
Your mother is a lover Elenor	Z
If you would know it	Z2
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O your Aunt Corinne	Y2
She was most beautiful but unfortunate	A3
Her husband was past sixty when she married	C2
And she was thirty two He was distinguished	B3
Had money and all that but youth is all	Q
Is everything for love and she was young	C3
And he was old	N
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A week or two had passed	L2
Since Elenor Murray came to Irma Leese	D
When on a morning fire broke from the eaves	D3
And menaced all the house but maids and gardeners	E3
With buckets saved the house while Elenor Murray	Z
And Irma Leese dipped water from the barrels	F3
That stood along the ell	Q
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A week from that	G3
A carpenter was working at the eaves	D3
Along the ell and in the garret knelt	H3
To pry up boards and patch When as he pried	I3
A board up he beheld between the rafters	E3
A package of old letters stained and frayed	J3
Tied with a little ribbon almost dust	K3
And when he went down stairs delivered it	Z2
To Irma Leese and said Here are some letters	E3
I found up in the garret under the floor	Z
I pried up in my work	L3
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Then Irma Leese	D
Looked at the letters saw her sister's hand	M3
Corinne's upon the letters opened read	K
And saw the story which she knew before	Z
Brought back in this uncanny way the hand	M3
Which wrote the letters six and twenty years	N2
Turned back to dust And when her niece came in	N3
She showed the letters said I'll let you read	K
I'll tell you all about them	E2
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When Corinne	Y2
Was nineteen very beautiful and vital	Q
Red cheeked a dancer bubbling like new wine	O3
A catch as you may know you see this house	T
Was full of laughter then so many children	P3
We had our parties too and young men thought	P
Each one of us would have a dowry splendid	Q3
A young man from Chicago came along	R3
A lawyer there but lately come from Pittsburgh	Z
To practice win his way I knew this man	S3
He was a handsome dog with curly hair	Z
Blue eyes and sturdy figure Well Corinne	Y2
Quite lost her heart He came here to a dance	H2
And so the game commenced And father thought	P
The fellow was not right but all of us	R2
Your mother and myself said yes he is	T3
And we conspired to help Corinne and smooth	U3
The path of confidence But later on	V3
Corinne was not so buoyant would not talk	W3
With me your mother freely Then at last	L2
Her eyes were sometimes red we knew she wept	X3
And then Corinne was sent away Well here	Z
You'll guess the rest Her health was breaking down	Y3
That's true enough the world could think its thoughts	Z3
And say his love grew cold or she found out	A4
The black leg that he was and he was that	G3
But Elenor the truth was more than that	G3
Corinne had been betrayed she went away	B4
To right herself these letters prove the case	C4
Which all the gossips busy as they were	Z
Could not make out The paper at LeRoy	Z
Had printed that she went to pay a visit	A3
To relatives in the east Three months or so	L
She came back well and rosy But meanwhile	Q
Your grandfather had paid this shabby scoundrel	Q
A sum of money I forget the sum	E2
To get these letters of your Aunt Corinne	Y2
These letters here This matter leaked of course	D4
And then we let the story take this form	E2
And moulded it a little to this form	E2
The fellow was a scoundrel this was proved	E4
When he took money to return her letters	E3
They were love letters they had been engaged	F4
She thought him worthy found herself deceived	G4
Proved too by taking money when at first	H4
He looked with honorable eyes to young Corinne	Y2
And won her trust And so Corinne lived here	Z
Ten years or more at thirty married the judge	I4
Her senior thirty years and went away	B4
She bore a child and died look Elenor	Z
Here are the letters which she took and nailed	J4
Beneath the garret floor We'll read them through	Z
And then I'll burn them	E2
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Irma Leese rose up	K4
And put the letters in her desk and said	K
Let's ride along the river So they rode	L4
But as they rode the day being clear and mild	M4
The fancy took them to Chicago where	Z
They lunched and spent the afternoon returning	N4
At ten o'clock that night	O4
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And the next morning	N4
When Irma Leese expected Elenor	Z
To rise and join her asked for her a maid	J3
Told Irma Leese that Elenor had gone	X
To walk somewhere And all that day she waited	Q3
But as night came she fancied Elenor	Z
Had gone to see her mother once rose up	K4
To telephone then stopped because she felt	H3
Elenor might have plans she would not wish	P4
Her mother to get wind of let it go	L
But when night came she wondered fell asleep	Q4
With wondering and worry	Z
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But next morning	N4
As she was waiting for the car to come	E2
To motor to LeRoy and see her sister	Z
Elenor's mother in a casual way	B4
Learn if her niece was there and waiting read	K
The letters of Corinne the telephone	E
Rang in an ominous way and Irma Leese	D
Sprang up to answer got the tragic word	R4
Of Elenor Murray found beside the river	Z
Left all the letters spilled upon her desk	S4
And motored to the river to LeRoy	Z
Where Coroner Merival took the body	Z
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Just	K3
As Irma Leese departed in the room	E2
A sullen maid revengeful for the fact	D2
She was discharged was leaving in a day	B4
Entered and saw the letters read a little	Q
And gathered them went to her room and packed	D2
Her telescope and left went to LeRoy	Z
And gave a letter to this one and that	G3
Until the servant maids and carpenters	E3
And some lubricous fellows at LeRoy	Z
Who made companions of these serving maids	J2
Had each a letter of the dead Corinne	Y2
Which showed at last after some twenty years	N2
Of silence and oblivion to LeRoy	Z
With memory to refresh that poor Corinne	Y2
Had given her love herself had been betrayed	J3
Abandoned by a scoundrel	Q
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Merival	Q
The Coroner when told about the letters	E3
For soon the tongues were wagging in LeRoy	Z
Went here and there to find them till he learned	T4
What quality of love the dead Corinne	Y2
Had given to this man Then shook his head	K
Resolved to see if he could not unearth	U4
In Elenor Murray's life some faithless lover	Z
Who sought her death	V4
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The letters' riffle crawled	W4
Through shadows of the waters of LeRoy	Z
Until it looked a snake was seen as such	X4
In Tokio by Franklin Hollister	Z
The son of dead Corinne it seemed a snake	Y4
He heard the coroner through neglect or malice	R2
Had let the letters scatter not the truth	Z4
The coroner had gathered up the letters	E3
Befriending Irma Leese she got them back
Through Merival The riffle's just the same	E2
And hence this man in Tokio is crazed
For shame and fear for fear the girl he loves
Will hear his mother's story and break off
Her marriage promise	R2
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So in reckless rage
He posts a letter off to Lawyer Hood	A2
Chicago Illinois the coroner	Z
Gets all the story through this Lawyer Hood	A2
Long after Elenor's inquest is at end
Meantime he cools is wiser thinks it bad
To stir the scandal with a suit at law	Q
And then when cooled he hears from Lawyer Hood	A2
Who tells him what the truth is So it ends
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These letters and the greenish wave that coiled
At Tokio is beyond the coroner's eye
Fixed on the water where the pebble fell	Q
This death of Elenor circles close at hand	M3
Engage his interest Now he seeks to learn
About her training and religious life
And hears of Miriam Fay a friend he thinks
And confidant of her religious life
Head woman of the school where Elenor	Z
Learned chemistry materia medica
Anatomy to fit her for the work
Of nursing And he writes this Miriam Fay	B4
And Miriam Fay responds The letter comes
Before the jury Here is what she wrote