| Show Au INTIMATE OF or IK PRIVATE I LETTER FROM PRISCILLA BRAD BRAD- BRADFORD BRADFORD FORD TO MRS MARYI MARY I ALDEN PRESCOTT My 1 Dear Friend As you ou wished me I have taken very wha who good isa is care going 0 to to analyze to marry marry the your your young fl son son woman Oth I 1 confess o I ahe 17 he would not have interested me ma much She Invited me to the Country club for tea you ou remember remember ber bee I 1 told you about the invitation In my last letter Mary Nary Alden went with m me Dear friend e I 1 hope e you will forgive or I 1 m me when I tell el you that I am very much worried about this marriage I I 1 could see easily that John and this 1 girl have nothing in common I She is very pretty and conscious of or I It She is quite e clever clev r and wants s you to A Acknowledge o I It She Sha ig Ia r rather h sr r rude I and quite proud of It She Sha Is very fond of ot beautiful clothes those thole she he was wearing were much too fine for forone forono forono ono one In Johns John's circumstances and circumstances and 1 I hate to tell you OU this while this while we were drinking our tea she calmly opened a agold agold agold gold case lighted and smoked a gold old tipped cl aret which had her monogram on It To ro say I was shocked would be putting It mildly I wanted to ask her It if she eY ever r had smoked before be before be- be fore tore John Surely Mrs Prescott no noman noman man would ask a woman to be his I wife whom he knew smoked even In these thelle lax days While we w were re at the Country club cluba a II very good looking young joung man came Into the tha dining room and Leslie's young oung sister Ister Alice who Alice who also was as smoking beckoned beckoned him over One could s see a that this thin man mm was waa desperately in love with Miss Mies Hamil Hamil- ton He Ire never nover took his eyes off oft her her- Poor fool tool she must have encouraged ed him much before she turned him down for John He lie Is giving her a fancy fane dress party next week but neither of or them saw law fit to Invite me Perhaps It ItIs ItIs itis Is to be so wild that they know knew 1 I would not approve Dear r Mrs l Prescott I know you willbe willbe will willbe be grieved if It not heartbroken at this marriage It Is la not at all what you could rould have wished for your our beloved son Mary Alden sends n her r rv love v to you laz a and we will I both KO go to rt t the tha wedding It is to be a grand affair a affair a great show of ot money 1 Miss Hamilton Is still Indulging inan In Inan an orgy of clothes b buying I perhaps ay ayI f this ls OY Is a good IOtt thing I g as I glea learned in ina ina a I roundabout way that she will goto gOto go goto to John with only a modest check from her father father enough enough perhaps to buy a R. grand Krand piano but nothing more You tou had better burn this letter as asson asson son Ion as you read It for It would get me ma Into dreadful trouble and only my love lova for you 00 and Interest In John would Induce me to be so confidential Sincerely yours ours PRISCILLA BRADFORD LETTER FROM MRS MS MARY RY CN i PR PRESCOTT SCOTT TO MISS MIS LESLIE t I HAMILTON I My Dear 1 Miss Hamilton Alth Although u th you rou have been so 10 busy that you ha have e had a no time to write to me I 1 am using Tn the tho h privilege of 71 being 1 the tho mother of ot the tha man you ou are going to letter of explanation ex marry to send you jou OU a R. anent the tha gift which I am dl dispatching to you ou by express today It Is a first empire desk and has been In our family ever e since Lafayette Lafayette Lafay Lalay- ette brought It over as ns a gift rIft to the wife ot of my great This desk dealt always has been boen given since that time to the first daughter In the family 1 I. I however having no daughter am givIng Riving It to you jou and to my son eon It tt is supposed d to b be the best example example exam exam- tile of ot Napoleonic cabinet work Indeed In Indeed Indeed In- In deed it is said that the tha first Napoleon himself gave Rave this de desk lc to Lafayette There Is a tradition to the effert effect that th there Is a secret drawer in it some- some but nt v a rate i- i eel u able RUle nuie find It You will wilt see for your our when ou see the tho desk l that ei er t t J great dent 1 of room that Is la for for or but how to tp K get t into It Is a mYs to me and I have spent hours solve It I nev never r felt justified ever In having the desk taken ap apI I do not know whether you ou to t runs to antiques but this Is la not of very old you know not nearly ail na J over overt clent 1 In n as lit the the tha some Mayflower l of the things that tha tare are are n nl home and which will be e your our st se day I have received a II letter from ro r rI b Bradford In which she tells me t she eho has haM had a most charmingly v with you jou I hope nope that you jou OU ii 1 e an ea well as AJ she seems to havU jou oar for I know V that Priscilla wc two o like to b be as great reat a friend t toson's to sons son's wit wife as she is to him I shall hall be bo In your town the morn ot of tho If It Ifo me you ou In can i find finda a Ji I meetIng meet ments n the time time to come o In with Joh d dIns Ins Ing the Jay flay I smet shall l be o as happ a Is possible for me to t be on thel before th the tho one when I shall be belos los m my son on forever if ours very t truly EN ALlSEN ALiEY Continued tomorrow I 9 |
