Evening journal., 1900-08-17
PACKARD'S LOVE
LE44ESR TO HOWARD
WILKINSON FOUND
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and that are to come. There is no use
,or anyone to try to persuade me to
get interested in anything but you, and
you alone, for L will not heed them.
My dear you said, What if you should
ile?" You will not; you are meant for
my consolation. If anything should
tyer happen to you why, my dear How
lrd, it would end my life forever. Dear,
5ou don't know what l have passed
through the past week. 1t has seemed
me a perfect Inferno, but, however,
he is not the less strict and watchful
Dear, she doesn't intend that / will
sver have the opportunity OF seeing
Fou alone alain, or even going over in
our place alone. (Your store, mean
Thursday noon, you see, 1 hoped to see
,ou. She told me not to stop there
when she saw you were there. She
aid she had to go right down town.
)ear, where on earth did you disappear
o? / drove past your store twice after
left her, and drove also on Brad
ord street in hopes of seeing you. You
, now had the kid (meaning her lit
lie brother) with me, and therefore
ould not stop, as l have been forbid
en- to go to the store. That was af-
- NARNhf MAANn MeAo ANMh LOl
apa, and when he did not come / did
lot suppose he was in town, but he
vas. He left the train to 90 to the
reisht office. ! don't know whether
was driving past he store looking
g was where he could see me when /
gas driving past the store looking for
on or not. l am writing this Satur-
ay morning. You know mamma has
n nr~ff
ng her little brother Stanley and her
randfather). l am going down to the
lentist's Monday / have not made
ny appointment with him yet, but ex-
.ect to this afternoon IL l get to. Dear
st our life will be like the past week
suffering until the climax comes. 1
now from experience that it would
OF do for me to give her my point
4 view when she was so enraged, for
hat would give her a chance to talk
nd give me a few suggestions. She
i'd that once and / have not forgotten
b il hurt me so, for it was anything
ut true. She said when she scolded
pc one time that | had changed So
nat it certainly was no help to me to
ssociate with you, for l did not learn
nything good from it, / tell YOU one
-A--t1 AehNN AtAAAANn AiOlu lUus i AIll
appy to say and that is that l have a
lerfect right 10 defend myself. and
hat is only one of a thousand precious
lings / have learned from you, dear.
Tut it makes her so angry when she
nds l am not so easy to impress as
used to be. but before l knew you
ad no one to teach me what l have
earned of you, and l knew if | gave
10 tn,
nth me she would tell me that IL
5ould do me good TO quit your com
any for a while, till ] could learn to-
AIRY myself right, in her estimation.
nd | see they have planned for me
ever to go alone again, and so how
m / going to see you alone? But
Goodbye, darling love, hoping to see
ou soon, am ever your devoted wife
*, Dear.
August 4, 'OO."
1t will be noticed that Miss Pack
I'd calls Wilkinson her husband. and
peaks of herself as his wife. The "she"
fiss Packard refers to in her letters is
ter mother. Whether Wilkinson ever
yrote any letters to her or not cannot
'e ascertained, as none can be found
yet it is possible that some may be
ound later, as it is thought by the
amily that he wrote to her.
Mrs Ebert G. Packard, the mother
II the runaway girl, partly blames her
riends for their present trouble. She
aid yesterday: Il am surprised that
ny friends have remarked to me that
hey were surprised when we consent
u TO Nellie marrying Howard We
lid not know that Howard had the
haracter he has, or we never should
have permitted the marriage. He was
/ received by the best people in Dover,
md we naturally supposed he was all
light Had our friends told us what
they claim now to have known, he
certainly should not have married Mel
lie"
Mrs Wilkinson's condition is much
worse to-day. Her father said she is
completely prostrated. and has eater
scarcely anything since she came home
from RehobOth. At first she was in.
f dignant. but now she keenly feels how
she has been outraged.