Show I 7 I Al ilI Ci I 1 WATE N NEA A L I LETTER FROM MRS JOSEPH HAMILTON TO MRS MARY ALDEN PRESCOTT MY IY DEAR DEAn MRS PRESCOTT PRESCOT I think I should ha ha have hae e written ou before this but no doubt your Mon on has Kept ept 3 vou ou posted poled and you know how dreadfully ill III Leslie has been She I still bUll far tar from well and we weare weare w are arc very much worried over hr mind She seems t hn ha e developed almost a ewe case of o melancholia She Sh pals ras no attention to anything or anybody not even poor Jack who seems broken brokenhearted hearted jile He Ill has ha very thin and I t wI wili h that thaI I could him io 0 o go away for a little while wIllie Howe er he would ot lea e Lea Ls Lealie lie lio for anything I a n a sure He comes In when S sh l l IS asleep and bit beside her beet bel be hot her hand In his for tor hours at nt a time But just jus I the moment UL she bLI S a as though Ll she Dill sere ere going to aake awake a ake he be steals awn awa as though his h b ls Is aid that I even his presence worries orries her Jack Ins lits probably told 1 0 ou Leslie lost her baby after the tho acci acci- accident accident dent The poor child c had bad not told Jack anything about aboul her great e cx- cx ex expectation as ns she med to hae e gotten it into hu hr head that lie be I 1 could not be please pleased She Sho kept the wonderful secret to herself and since the automobile accident she has ha never asked Jack Jackan Jackan an thing about ItI ItI it itI I wish Ish Ish she would do BO so II II It be such a to her I knos kno's to have her ber husband h take her In his hi arms and tell her ber low how sorry he be heis heis Is for her They seem both of them to be laboring under mis IDIS mistaken mistaken taken ideas of helping each cach other You and I my dear dear Mrs Prescott know Inow that the neal er one can come cometo cometo cometo to sharing all alt one s with ones one's husband or wife the better both can reach great happiness Jack has told me you OU ou have been quite ill I am i ery cry sorT and andam I Iam Iam am writing riling this letter so you win will wilnot not think I am quite as savage In Innot Innot linot not asking about your health b be- be before fore but I I have been so concerned over my daughter and so busy Ir trl- trl trins Ing to minister to her ber mind AS m sell ell aM ai to her ber body that I have thought or of little else elst Jack has Ius told me vou OU met Karl Whitney at your house while Leslie was as there Perhaps vou ou will be Interested Interested in to know that ho he has gone abroad to London Jondon where my see sec ond daughter Alice is staying with Ith ith the You I am sur will nil remember Alice as a tYPical American girl The Tho letters ItHer she me are most diverting the past last one ono so OrdinarIly Ily Lishie would be much interest interest- interested interested ed cd with sith them but the last one which I received horn flom Alice did not awaken a smile from her Jack and I have come coma to the th de decision cislon today that tomorrow I I shall go and find lind a healthy soung oung bab bab and bring it to Leslie If It she shows show the slightest Inch inclination nation for it Jack sill adopt it Dr Samson seems think this is the he only thing that lito will do her any good He lie sa sas s sIf If something is not done very soon to awaken her ber mind to things about her he be fears tears for her life If ot her ber sanity You can sec seo ec of course we are very much worried I will write you Immediately aft art after er Leslie his seen the baby and let leton ou on know how she takes it Most bloat sincerely ours ALICE CARTON HAMILTON Telegram from Mrs Mary Aide Aldon Prescott to John Alden Prescott Do not I beg of you adopt a baby until v ou on hear from me YOUR MOTHER Tomorrow Betty Tomorrow Betty Stokley gets a aletter aletter aletter letter from Mrs Hamilton Leslie's Hamilton silence Si I ence |