Show An M INTIMATE O-KW O OF or In OT REVEALED IN TM PRIVATE ZA Inc J LETTER FROM KARL WHITNEY TO ALICE HAMILTON ALICE DEAR called me The other day when you ou ungentle ge gentlewomen gentlewomen gen gen- over to tea with those I suddenly sudden became became aware that you OU had grown up their turned You very ery shafts of or curious of your jour bOomerang that Ister into a kind of or boomerang reflected re upon themselves Now ow my dear dear l 1 was going gong to o say child chUd for I i have known you jou u o ever since I you ou were vere born and I turned up m my nose at your jour our puckered little red face when Leslie insisted that I should look at her new sister r. r i I repeat n now l m my mf dear girl girl does does that not sound souna quite y n when you jou ou know that I am coming to tot you Jou ou advice I pope hope YOU hope you ou will understand understand understand under under- stand that In m my eyes ees at least you OU are mature oe if It not of boa v After Alter this long pr preamble 1 will come corrie cometo cometo to the the- point I 1 am very anxious to give Leslie Lestle a Pearl necklace for tor a n wending present and I do not know Just how to no it without drawing out some seris sensational comment about the gUt gilt way a an as oLd ool and as rich a aman aman aman man friend as 1 J. should not give net ner anything thing he wished and sh she un- un accept is a i 1 cannot Alice dear I expect that you jou ou like e ever everone one eise ellie know tuat ever since IWas i 1 iwas was 6 and Leslie Lestle 4 1 I nave Intended to marry her No girl has had baa the slightest interest tor lor me My 1 one living thought In my one dream of or real has been of or the time when Leslie Lesne WOUld voula be my wife When my father lather died and I. I at 12 years of or age came camo into more moie pocket money than I 1 knew mere was ivas- in the world my first thought was to buy something for tor Leslie 1 I over to her herand herand herand and asked asked- asked lf if you could have a piece of ot Jewelry what would you OU ask o A pearl necklace sno lino answered promptly Ill lU get one for you ou immediately I promised proudly never realizing what a pearl necklace would cost But Hut I soon eoon round found out that pearl necklaces were much beyond the pod pod- of ot even a little boy al allowancE allowance al- al lowance at 12 j years ears old was over tOO a a. year However not to be daunted I went to one of my fathers father s one ofle one of ue the oldest Jewelers in uie country country- and asked him to to buy m mo qt it t least one pearl a year until 1 I got all my money and then I 1 woUld a r the r remainder of the gems necessary to make a splendid string The man was wa's amused to think that thata a boy of ot my age should have havo such an ambition Of ouise com be 1 did not tell him it was for Leslie Then and there I 1 arranged to give him one hundred and seventy-five seventy dollars a month out of ot my five hundred to pay for tor a beautiful t two thousand wo- wo thousand do Ua r pearl l From Tom then on this man has almost made it his life me business to match this pearl and when I I became of ot age I Iwas Iwas Iwas was able to add more than one a year Suffice it to say I have now a string of sixty perfectly matched pearls on my hands whIch I have ve alwa always alwa's a thought of as belonging to Leslie I I I T intended to give Sive If to her on her marriage That she Is not goIng to marry me dO does Os not alter the matter atter In ln I the will But now that are arc grown UP UP- you OU 1 know what a fu fu Mrs Irs rs Grundy Si make ot of i It Consequently I want I you ou to J elp me think o of Some way 0 of presenting these 1 pearls to out causing any v You and 1 dear asar VU C- C are the only ones onesin ni in this momentous secret Help me out will VII you ou not I Cont Confidingly rou d n IY KARL LETTER FROM ALICE HAMILTON ro 0 D BETTY STOKLEY I Oh 13 Belts Belts' t B Betty Belty I am so am-so 80 sorry sory you yoi o oare are over there J. J Europe Betty my dear t I have stumbled stumbled- literally stumbled onto d-onto onto the most ro romantic romantic ro- ro mantic mantle episode that that probably probably has happened happened hap- hap In this Practical twentieth cenI cen- cen jury tury tuP I would not confide confida i It to anyone but you ou and 2 not even cven to ou If lt f I 1 did not know that at you yoli had gone cone one abroad to gather material for your our great novel This true romance e will show liow ou j-ou joua ou what a I wa a always alwa's 8 contended when we were UHn itt at that schOOl T that yoU OU can cnn find undying undying Un un- dying love in this country Just as well as anywhere else E Betty the man I told ou you was In i love lo Yer with m my sister Leslie has for tor been years ears coll string of ot pearls f fr r her arid and h he Is is going going- to give It to her re regardless of ot the fact that she Is going to marr marry another man I lie wants me to find somo some way for J him to give her this glorIous present I without t making a as sensation I 3 am I writing to you OU to put your wits to work work- to help me devise some come plan u udo lO io lOg do this It ought l to be easi tor br you g ci og tt because y you are going to t be e an author and you jou ou must have plenty of such plans In your mind Have Hav no time to write any more as I 1 must know what you ou think about this thiB immediately Immediate Lovingly ALICE 1 Continued tomorrow |