ity, and after a time her voioe began to sound natural to me whioh at first* it 
did not do.She is an uncommonly bright woman and appears to me as one on the 
whole well satisfied with life and her oonditions.Be daughter is not pretty, 
but is very nioe looking,and I am quite prepared to like her.In some respects r 
should say she rather closely resembles her mother.She appears like a sincere 
straightforward woman,very intelligent,and her faoe and manners impressed me mos- 
favorably.'The three children are vigorous healthy specimens, a bit spoiled I shou! 
say by kindness,and it is evident that she is a family woman and a thoroughly 
good moibaBr. The eldest is nine and is a nioe and well behaved boy. We talked not e 
a great deal of the past but chiefly of the present.Only onoe did she revert to 
O.J.when she asked me if I saw any resemblance in her daughter to her father whet 
I promptly answed no,not the slightest.My answer seemed to releive her,but whe 
remarked very quietly that she thought there was more resmblanoe in the other dau 
daughter. 
So far as looation goes the place they have rented is ideal for the chil¬ 
dren save for one drawback,and that I thought I ought to mention even if it oc¬ 
casioned some disquietyde.The plaoe has long had an unsavory reputation for mal¬ 
aria, and nothing is more certain than that the region is inhabited by the malari¬ 
al mosquito whioh,indeed we also have at the island.They had heard rumors to the 
effeot but the neighbors seemed little oonoerned,and so they rather discounted th 
reports.As I told them the children in any case were perfectly safe in the daytim 
and if they screened the house might be safe by night as well as by day.But they 
cannot afford wholly to neglect all precautions. 
The house is of the ordinary type of the neighborhood,and is vilely fur¬ 
nished but they evidently look upon it as a refuge aad as a oamping place so 
long as they may stay in the neighborhood.Indeed they may oount themselves luoky 
to seoure any dwelling in these timeswhen houses are not to be had either for 
