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Show LETTER FROM MRS. JOSEPH GRAVES HAMILTON JO . KARL WHITNEY My Dear Boy: It ! awfully sweet of yoa to vol-antMr vol-antMr to (o over to London ooonor than yoa ozpoetod. , t think Allc will (Ml . mora like allying If aha naa aotna ona of tha noma folka with her. and you. my daar Karl, hava bon ao much with ua from your childhood until - now that I nrvar think of my family without Including you. I know yoa lovd Lcalia Ilka .a brother and you hava alwaya bean tha beat of big brothara to Alloa. 1 to not know . what either- of tha glrla would hava dona without you. having no brottaera of their own. Leille la getting along vary alow-ly. alow-ly. I get much dlacouraged at -tlmea.- 8ha aeema to ba ao un hapy at tha kwa of her baby. In tact, I think that la what dlaturba her brain more than anything alaa, for tha aurgtcal operation- waa a great aucceaa. Tou see. aha la da ltrloua moat of tha time. 1'saa Jaak haa' tin Mttaely an-able an-able to do anything since tha accident acci-dent and he haa grown haggard and thin. He la very amicus to get away on some Important business busi-ness with his friend, Sydney Carton. Car-ton. 1 hava tried to pereuade htm to go, but ha insists that ha will not leave Leslie until she la perfectly per-fectly well, whatever happens. I, of course, shall stay here until un-til my girl la able to alt up. We hava taken a furnished apartment on the other alda of tha hall where the' two nurses and I live. Mr. Hamilton Installed us with my rook and house uvan from home, before ha left ma here. Jack Lake hla meals with ua and that laavea hla maid with nothing to do except take ear of Leelie'a apartment. I do not think I ever waa so grateful for money aa I am now, when, because I have It tn unlimited unlim-ited quantltlee, my Leslie caa mva every "possible thing that finite mind can compass. I think I would grow mad to sit hero and see my daughter In need of something that I could not give her I cannot buy health outright for Leslie, but I can make her Illness mofV bearable, and I- can .make aura that verythlng,le being done to bring her bark to that heattn which wa who lova her wish far her. Money may ba the root of all evil, but It grows tha tree from which we pick much good. While t know that money cannot can-not buy tha things wa care for most. I hava found out lately that It makes us able to mitigate much pain. It may not alwaya bring us the good of rife. huMt WY1 "''P A My boy. I am writing you a aer- , mon. but-It la because I know that you hava much money and I want you to appreciate not only Ita quantity, but tha quality of blessings bless-ings which you may receive from It and the blessing you may coafer. I. will wrlta yea again la few days. If I am not noma before you start abroad, will yoa cam and sea ma here? , Sincerely. ALICE HAMILTON. (Continued Monday ! |