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Show TSLSOhAM PROM PRlsClLLA . BRADFORD TO JOHN At.DS.re PR I SCOTT. ; Tour mother ls very 111. I think Tou ahould coma Immediately. PeUBClLLA BRADFORD. Night Latter From John A (Sen Rreeaatt to Mrs, Mary AiSen Frsecett. i Tour wire relayed to ana here In: Hew Tork. Unless you are dangerously danger-ously Ul 1 can hardly snsks ths trip, but Leal I a la atartlng for your place ' today. Shs wtu be much batter In the sick room anyway than 1. A very Important buslneas deal la A I- i bany makaa It Imparatlvs tham f re- I turn there Immediately. uTour son, JOHN. 1' 1 f 1 I' ' Wire Frees Mrs. Mary Ateen Freeeett te Jehn Aieea Free-- Free-- sett. "Am feeling bet tar. Unnecessary far Leslie ta oomsd, a MOTHER, Wire From John , Aide Free- cost te Mrs. Mary Ahten 1 Fresostt.. , j Leslls already started and wm arrive ar-rive e:ll p. an. Will try to get Up neat weak and - bring hsr home U you still con tin us to Improve. JOHN. Letter From Leslie Frees ett te Her Mather, Mrs. .Jeeseit Qravee Hamtttsn. DEAR MOTHER: 1 don't know whether to la ugh ar ta cry. but honestly, mot her daar. I never kaew therd were such cantankerous cantank-erous old ladles ta aU the world. Between Be-tween you and see. I di' believe John's mother la etch' at all. Shs ts Juat a eat flab eld woman. Shs wants everyone at her beck and call. Are all eld people mors or lees selfleh, mother? Of course you and sad ars not. but than I never thought aa you as aid. But all ether people who are over sixty years seemed to me te be trying not only to live their own lives ths wsy they want te live, but to make everyone with whom they come In contact live lives according to the plana which old people lay down. Thay never sVant to understand that tha world movea and we ar now on the ascendant while they ara ahuffllng off. So uiida terrifle. doeen't It. but I giiesa we yeang people are franker than the last general Ion. Mrs. Praaoott 41 can't for ths Ufa of ma call her "mother) Is determined deter-mined te dteltke me and In thla aha la sided and abetted by that narrow-minded, narrow-minded, gossiping old snsld, Pns-ellla Pns-ellla Bradford, who 1 know wanted to marry Jack heraetf. and who eon-aid eon-aid era that I vamped slack tatsmar-rying tatsmar-rying me. A fat chance aha woild have had j af marrying John Arden Freecott 1 even if I had sever mat him, mother ! dear! i Na ens was st ths train to meet I me. but af couras I hardly svpactad that. However. I was surm-lsd to ba met st tha door by Mra. preecott, ! arrayed tn bar beat black eilk and ether garments of state. 1 choked a Utile aa I aald, 1 pre-eume pre-eume you ars better." and shs answered an-swered with much dignity. I think Lknow what la due my daughter-la-w on her first visit. I have preb-j preb-j sbly arteen . from my daaxh-bed ts 1 greet you j t Continued tomorrow). |