The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-21

more respondent. On July 2 she wrote:
My DEAR CHESTER: This has been such q
crowded day that | am Utmost too tired to
write. but l will try. for l am q little anxious
about our trip and your not writing.
1t makes ne rather blue to hear the other
girls planning for the Fourth and know l
must stay here in my room all day. l will
try, dear, and make the week as short ~
possible, but l am afraid IL will be dreadful
long. l shall never go away again like this.
but you promised me ! wouldn't have to.
didn't you. dear?
have suffered so much these last weeks.
dear, that I don't believe all my life I will
forget them, Now. lie, me explain; II any
thing should happen that ! can't 20 to Hamil-
ton will 20 to De Ruyter. That Is the only
place ! can think OF where I could 20.
You must come Saturday. dear. for / can
never stay any longer. l have done my best
and been as brave as possible these last
weeks. but II you should not come l will
do something desperate. Oh, dear. dear, l
can't see anything but just trouble.
II had strength. dear. / do believe I should
walk to the river and throw myself in. IL
would be rather oowardly and ! despise a
coward. but l would not be a bother to you
any longer. oh. Chester. the thought that
| am in your way Just drives rue crazy. How
l want to die no one but myself knows.
When you told me you wanted me TO come
home for one week it made some difference.
I did not think II would. and now ] don't
dare imagine what three weeks will do. II
YOU care at all. dear. you won't make me
suffer any longer than saturday. l mean
about coming. I don't think l can bear
much more suffering in silence.
Oh, dear. IL you we're only here. 30 l could
talk TO you. and you could pet me and tell
me not to worry.
think when l sea you ] win die OF Joy.
I cannot tell you how ] really and truly need
you, and I presume you will never know
what I have suffered. OF course. don't think
l never think OF your worrying. for I do.
but. dear, you don't feel as I do. But It Is
only for one week longer.
You would smile IL you knew how hard
I arm trying to get strong. for l don't care
how rough my life is after next Saturday.
I shall certainly die II you don't come. |
don't suppose I will be home for some time.
will I? May not be until l am sent home
dead. You know. dear. you promised ms
that. How / wish I we're with you tonight.
With love and blessing from THE KID.
On July 8 Grace wrote TO Gillette Of the
plans for going away with him. She said;
Maybe I am wrong 20 worry about your
coming. for you said you would. come the
seventh. and you always keep your promises,
IL does seem as thou h the week would never
end, and I don't know as Il will. OF course.
dear, | want to see you. but that isn't the
question. need you, and it's your duty 60
come. ! hope you will be glad TO see me.
but ] don't know why you should.
I'm going to be your especial trouble. ]
hate that so much. I dont like TO be a bother.
dear. and the thou ght that I am in your way
drives me almost crazy. ! do not feel nearly
so we'll tonight, dear. and I am So frightened.
How I do wish you were here. have so much
20 tell you that I can't put on paper.
wish I could go somewhere the Fourth.
but that Is only one of the little crosses, isn't
IL. dear? There will be lots of things harder
to get along with than that. That is not SO
very much. shall be all alone all day.
Don't you wish you were going to be here?
Won't you forgive me? ! do so wish l could
die. Is II wicked to want tn diep
Ny head aches and / am so blue. oh. dear,
IL you were only here and would kiss me an d
tell me not to worry any more j would not
mind all this, but with no one TO talk TO and
i'll all the time | really believe I will be crazy
! will never be cross again. dear. and ! wont
scold. and | will try so hard to please you.
The last letter which the girl wrote him
was dated Thursday night Everv one
except herself had gone to bed. the girl
said, and she was writing it alone. She had
said good-by to everything in her old home,
and once more recounted the plans she had
made to meet Gillette. She beads it.
am about crazy now. ] have been bidding
goodbye to some places to-day. There are
so many hooks. dear. and all OF them so dear
to me. I have lived here nearly all my life.
First I said good-by to the spri nghouse
with its great masses of green moss; then til e
apple tree. where we had our playhouse. then
the beehive. 4" a cute little house in the richard
and Of course all the neighbors that have
mended my dresses from a little tot up TO save
me a thrashing I really deserved.
oh. dear, you don't realize what all this is
70 me. NOV l shall never see any OF them
again. And mamma. great heavens. how ]
do love mamma. | don't know what | will
do without her. She is never cross and she
always helps me so much. Sometimes /
think II ] could tell mamma, but | can't. She
has trouble enough as 1t is. and l couldn't
break her heart like that. IL l come back
dead perhaps il she does know she won't be
angry with me.
will never be happy again, dear. wish
T could die. You will never know what you
have made me sufe Pr. dear. 7 miss you and
want to sec you, but I wish ! could die. l
am going 70 bed now. dear. Please come
and don't make me watt there. 1t Is for both
of us to be there II you have made plans
for something Sunday night you just come
Monday morning. Please think. dear. that
I had TO give UP a whole summers pleasure
and you surely will be brave enough to give
up one evening Tor me l shal expect and
look for you Monday forenoon.
Heaven bless you until then. Lovingly
and with kisses. THE KID.
will 20 right TO the Tabor House and you
come for me there. | wish you could come
I'm Sunday night so as 70 he there. and sweet
heart, | think il would be easier for you
Please come up Sunday night. dear.
When the prosecutor finished the effect
which he had hoped for was accomplished.
IN Grace Brown which he wished to show
them was before the mind Of every person
in the crowded. dingy little court room. The
crowd had found the sensation which they
had pushed and jammed to hear and II had
eff them dazed. Some OF them cried. but
most of them were left dry eyed. still look
ing at the, place where the prosecutor had
stood, When Gillette sat down again in his
chair after a short recess there could be no
mistake in the feeling which the crowd
BANKED behind him held toward him.
When Gillette was led from the jail 90
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