Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-09

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George Carnegie should be your loving
brother-in Law. I'm so glad the new
| dress is pretty for you. l wish | al
ways knew you would wear it first for
Inc. l have something important to
| tell you when l see you. / saw all
| through ii. ] believe you are hypnotic
| ed but / know it Is not Your fault and
you neant no wrong. ] want you to
| know l shall never hurt you. You know
l never lie. / give you my sacred
| word that by the hope that there is a
| heaven above. your pure soul shall go
| there. You have already been unluckY
enough. You know I have always
treated you with perfect respect
The tone OF thu letter was most de
spondent and spoke Of "one about -
expire" 1t continued:
You have lost all faith nov When
| I've gone so broke to please you. You
| know I always thought you the most
good. I have always been trustworthy
with YOU. Let Your heart feel that
there is faith. You ought to know
something now of what faith is-of my
being faithful unto death and beyond
no young ladies except-by accident.
You have in three weeks got a danger
Gus reputation.
Also for telling scandal true or
false. Take back about Eleanor. How
would you like without my asking
only understand and therefore respect
you the same. Say someone got you
to say So not someone you know. some
,,,.l,. oil.
are going To pieces and in six months
you may 10 in the gutter. mentally ami
morally anI dIshonorably. Is Howard
in school? How much does it cost :
Your mother must trust her friends
who robbed you of your birthright as
young lady and made your father 5
name b,e-word If only you had let
me save YOU before you were 16.''
Then followed these words through
which ron was drawn: He never
would dare
The letter continues: 1t would nev-
or been have told. I would have Jus.
acted as a friend You Know ana as Il
friend would have rejoiced and asked
you nothing. Those stories about NOR
phine were false. I have not used any
dope in my life. | never lie to YOU
1t was evident from this that the let
ter which was sent to Mr.. Longfellow
10 be delivered to Evelyn Nesbit had
been written subSe quent to Thaw'S in
tcrview with the girl at the Hotel Ma
Varre an IT their return from Paris in
1905 when the girl told him of the
stories she had heard about him and
said she could not see MIN alone.
The letter which in places was blur
red and Lad TO be inspected with a
magnifying glass. went on: II have
tried to forget ynu. You should have
been at Jre's wedding"
MIS-. Thaw said the reference was ID
he wedding of Josiah Thaw. the let
ter went on: They would have seen
Your honesty and you would have becn
50 respected. Your reputation as a
h. auty would have been greater over
III" world. You could have owned
PittsbCrg-not liz money but POLITICAL
y.
Atone I can't settle down. Beside:
| have NJ one worth doing FOR. 'rwicn
I had t. leave the table 50 they could
rot S.c-but in some ways I am BETTE
1T timeS-evcry other day | am more
cheerful. 7 am rot responsible now.
You must know every story including
billing ham Is a fake except ore-I saw
all those lctterS-all sham-but I don {
care little brass.
You know me hetetr than anyon,
and if you don. trust me and know
I am true and ursclfIsh. compared 10
| most men. then there is NJ hope for
me. | am changed now. but not il,
| truth, faithfulncsS and courage. Prom
iSc me one thing. don't drink any
| champagne. [ am TO" pow. and must
| live at home. / Cunt 1,.% for your
| ing Low. OF course if YOU ar" IN necl
| ; can gee loans % money b';t it would
| make trouble ! mist sta.- boy" or ger
/: cheap tick, East ~ course don't
| say anything about this.
did YOU tel; Illiry Thaw ~ an eTi-oda
| in Your life connected with Stanford
| White and Abraham ,IummcI i'll New
| York between your return from Paris
| IN go; until Christmas eve of that vear?'
| he asked. No" replied the witness with
i :, him tpti I