Show t i Ni OF LETT NtA LETTER FROM ALICE HAUb HA TO TO JEER itEn FRIEND DEITY iET The plot thickens lear dear Betty tI and nd I feel quite a ator Yes Yes- Y Yesterday Yesterday es- es esterday I received Id I'd a picture postal from Leslie who is at Niagara ara rails Pails on her hep wedding trip sa saIng Ing thit Jack her hu husband band InsIsted upon her wearing the pearl peart beads I gave ave her all the time I wonder aonder what he be would think if he knew that IhaL those pearl beads were were real and probably worth a hundred and twenty five thou dollars What v would ho lie think if C he knew that some man had given ten sears e ars of his life to matching them And that thal It had been a labor of ot love What would he think about Le Leslie lie If It he suddenly cd that Karl Whitney Whitneys Itney s heart nas as breaking because e of her mal mai mai rl lAe with another man Oh Betty isn t life wonderful I I never neer thought that when II I read Such stories as The The Jevel Jen els I would be one of the actors In a astory astory 1 story of that kind You remember her ber Betty ho how hon we sneaked that book up to my room and read It it under lock and key ey because we w know knew that If mother knew we wo nero ere reading it she bhe he would take it away from u us And now Betty Belty dear we know lenow It is Iq real reat life just life just as did OUI author 1 Of course In The The Jewels the woman was aware that hat a 0 man not nother nother nother her husband was giving her real gems Although I did not think so o at atthe atthe atthe the time now thac that I have haue groan n older and more experienced e I think that the author intended us to oo lieue he thereas there was as an affair de coeur the wife of the govern govern- government government ment clerk and her hu husband band s friend My Iy sister Leslie is perfectly In- In Innocent in innocent in thi this matter matte r but I some some- sometimes sometimes times wonder it If I did right in at- at allowing al allowing lowing Karl Whitney to make her this wonderful present But But oh dear I did feel teel po fiO so sorry for tor him I knew his lose to tor for my sister Ister will bo be the one 10 love lose e of his life He lie Is Isa a hat iou ou might call cull a woman woman one man lIe He was over here last night and he did speak so beautifully of love and what It tt meant I felt all II the while while white he was s talking that It was a shame some good wom wonia might not be become come hl his wife I know he will ne neer never er marry marr Betty dear I am afraid that Un- Un Unless un unless less 9 I find a man as splendid us 18 asKarl Karl larl a man who vho ha has the capacity for tor 10 loving Ing which he has I shall go goto goto goto to my grave tore forever er un ed Have Hase ou seen any men 0 oer er there in France that strike iou ion 0 es I as aa Is Iq Karl I do not think that vou how wonderful he heIs heis heis Is until I told von vou of ot this tragIc episode ode in his life Truly I have learned from this that we wo grow not from our Joy joy but but from or I know iou ou are intensely Inter Inter- Interested e ested ted in this 10 lose p story right 0 ci ot of real lIfo life and I shall shail keep heep you informed day lay to day lay But 1 honestly Betty Detty I do not think that I Leslie's pre present oe nt husband can mike her perfectly hippy happy Lovingly ours ALl CIS I TO Ix hc down die he 11 I not tell to n noli cr er |