Show I i LI lUIt PIE It I 1 ROM h Hili MY EY TO PHI PItI SCOtT COlT IT no-I no My lily Dear Leslie I esli I reee ed no- no noice no notice tice ice f fi om em Struble S- S this ik I orI that you had returned Ix sI thousand dollars to my mr Iam I Im ant am m glad clad ou got cot out of It 90 so ca ll I want to tle f k occasion noi nos 1 dear to toll tell ion aou ou It Wll was wai sery cry I Ih iah of ot me to gh Ki c e on OU ou ett ing i of pearls Par p arl on your lour our day d y InI IiiI In Iii I such uch a secret manner I At the Unit time I T looke looked 1 upon the gIrt gift a m as something belong belonged d to I ou lou Ou 80 see I had bec been almost since olnee I can i 1 r II from I the time I as as incite tan old bu busing Ing them for you and 1 I hd I to she gIe them to ou U on I our day You mu muSt t nO hotto er tint I thought tI I h suhn n that time cime eme It old be standing beside ou at the alta altar I When Tien hen I foun found vou you ere Tier going to marry Mr Sir my gi cIt desire a aa only to get c t rid of tb the I pearls I neier anted to see Methem ee them the again a fain J was as afraid that If IC ICI ICI itI I I to ou or lour our mother all the had had meant to me those them years year iou ou not accept I I told this to Alice and she he being I just juat at the romantic if age and her friend Betty trillis- trillis tr to write a book the ta t 0 of oC them con con- concocted con concocted toI I the plan su which we cat 11 ned Int into execution I Whon hen I siw siv w them on our throat at the altar I new knew I had made III a agrest I greit gret I suns 01 a sorry I J had hadI hadnot hadnot h I not told the absolute truth and I P Phate ha hate hae e been ben sorry eser er since fOI toi I Iam Im 8 am m sure ure time die e Into n h-n e given elven ou Jany wanyan an unhappy hour and I would not notha I ha base haI I IOU ou unhappy fOI toi on mInute of oC our life ICe I But now that It Is 18 I all 1111 over u es eo I Leslie even m mi 10 los love e toi foi ou on has become just ju t a tender tende memory memory nemory and andI I I know now now that It was sues more ot of othe I the addition tion of a n boy than titan the thereal thereal thereal real love of ot a II lifetime for Leslie LelIe I hate ht li ne asked our I plater Ister Alice to be m my Ur Ife and nd she s hu told me shyly that she sho hs haa ha sheI at- at n al-n I y 10 e-d e mo me m e den elen en as a little girland girland girl and nd that hit It almost broke her heart hart to feel that all theme theae thes i ears rs I had made ou the tho Madonna of my dreams iou ou who had cally ly cared nothIng for meI luteI me lute meI I think Leslie Lesilie iou ou will agree aree with me that It was WRO very vry brave brav of Alice Allee to arrange for iou ou to have havethe havethe haveth I the pearls In tact filet you owe any gratItude OU mIght have haTe fo for them I to he her Instead of oC me roe for tor I bod e I the child knew In her li er r soul that she rebound O su catch my heart on the tto I She Sh generously gate eai e you th the pearls which might have hate been liens here If she lr had told me that sh she h w saw w n no way of oC my being able to gle ghe them to sou ou However Itow Ter sll's elis will that ends endwell ell You will probably be b no nomore nol I more mere troubled by hy ll is s and andI andI I I ha base ha been able ablo bl t to get to together ether ethera a muc more beautiful string etherI for I Alice Allee So I hope hop everyone C Is In ati tied fled tiede I I e are ar con coming In home Vel y soon noon I I its h of COurse court I am aiti n anxious for an nearly early wedding and Alice Allot insists It shall be b a n aery tery ery ry quiet t on one It must mUnt be he In e tier her fathers father's house I little She Is I a 8 wonderful girl that lit lit- II tle 1 mister lter of DC ours Leslie and you will me non on t you It if I tell ou that I ant an tn glad il d iou ou 1 pa a NI r 1 tellI nie I oter tr to marr John Alden Ires pru cott I 5 ou our brother I KARL t ht 1924 au NEA EA S 1 Ine Inc'S TOMORROW from rom Lis Li's II 11 lIe Pt Prescott Ctt to Ruth Butt Are men words ord nt slew new nn |