Show THERE ARE SO MANY NOOKS Ii 1 Have Been Bidding Goodbye to Some Places Today South Otsollc July 6 Thursday Night My Dear Chester If you take the 945 train from the Lehigh there you will get here about 11 I am sorry I could not go to Hamilton dear but papa and mamma did not want me to and there aro so many things I have had to work hard for In the last two weeks They think I am just going out there to Deruyter for a visit Now dear when I get there I will go at once to tho hotel and I dont think I will see any of tho people If I do and they ask mo to como to the house I will say something so they wont mistrust anythingtell them I havo a friend coming from Cortland and that we were to meet there to go to a funeral or wedding In some town farther far-ther along Awfully stupid but we were Invited to come and so I had to cut my vacation a little short and go Will that bo O K dear You must come In the morning for I have had to make you dont know how many new plans since your last letter in order to meet you Monday I dislike waiting until Monday but now that I have to I dont think It anything but fair that you should come up Monday morning But dear you must see the necessity yourself of getting get-ting here and not making mo wait If l you dlsliko tho Idea of coming Monday Mon-day morning and can get a tram up there Sunday night you would come up Sunday night and bo there to meet me Perhaps that would be the best way All I care Is that I dont want to wait there all day or half a day I think hero is a train that leaves the Lehigh at six something Sunday night I do not know what I would do If you were not to come I am about crazy I havo been bidding good by to some places today There are so many nooks dear and all of them so dear to me I havo lived hero nearly all my life First I said goodby to the springhouse spring-house with Its great masses of green moss then tho tipple tree where we had our playhouse then the Beehive Bee-hive a cute little house in the orchard or-chard and of course all the neighbors that have mended my dresses from a little tot up to save mo a threshing I really deserved Oh dear you dont realize what all this means to me I know I shall never see any of them again and mamma great Heaven how I do love mamma I dont know what I will do without her She Is never cross and she always helps mo so much Sometimes I think If I tell mamma hut I cant She has trouble enough as it Is and I couldnt break her heart like that If I came back dead perhaps if she doesnt know she wont be angry with me I will never bo happy again dear j I wish I could die You will never know what you have made me suffer dear I miss you and want to see you but I wish I could die I am going go-ing to bed now dour Please como and dont make me wait there If you had made plans for something Sunday you must come Monday morning morn-ing Please think dear that I had to give up a whole summers pleasure and you surely will bo brave enough to give up one evening for me I shallexpect and look for you Monday forenoon Heaven bless you until then Lovingly and with kisses THE KID P SPlease como up Sunday night I dear I |