The Washington times., 1921-12-14
Miss KnOx's Letters
OF Love To Eastlake
Are Barred By Times
Continued from First Pase.)

MOI threat eXactly Dut necessity.
! have for months worked and
struggled against heavy odds and
with q nerve-strain that you could
have lightened or entirely removed.
Now ! have given out and ] must
know what is before me. can
no longer go on as I have done.
fighting uncertainties and making
all plans for certain dates only to
be put off when the dates comes.
can tell what course to take
when you tell me definitely what
course I am to expect.
Now to state roughly the present
status. Try to look at 1t from an
outsiders point OF view.
"A year ago Margaret was much
devoted. She constantly begged
me to come to her, saying, ! was
the only one she could trust. etc.
From the hour 1 came tat her
reQuest) she treated me most OF
the time with marked rudeness.
Later without base, she became
still more unfriendly (given my
likeness to Mason) as reason.
She had repeatedly told me that
she was willing to have you treat
me though she had little faith In
your helping me.
When / came to Colonial Beach
(you will remember ! wished to be
farther away in the winter as
you know / wished her to know I
was In the neighborhood. you OBJ.
jected, saying Margaret was will
ing you should teach me jiu-jitsu,
but did not want to see me.
Against my better judgment.
yielded and I have been misrepre-
h1r <-fA nd
has stood Up for me apparently
Posed As Relative
OF Accused Husband.
Now l have tried to arrange to
be within striking distance and as
people know me as your aunt
there would have been no gossip
unless Margaret chose to deny that
relationship. This was at your
request.
/ have put a good deal of money
into the matter and have waited
patiently lin constant pain) for
months, and now Margret objects
to any treatment from you and to
your taking charge Of my affairs
and you agree. Why should / be
the sufferer physically and finan-
cially because she takes a baseless
notion and because she was on such
terms with my brother that she does
not want to see me?
have stood by Margaret with
money and reputation ut time
when most people would have turn
ed their backs upon her and she Is
even now under heavy pecuniary
my own detriment, stand between
her and Q dangerous enemy right
now. The black ingratitude Of the
thing and other sensolessness makes
me wonder II her mind ID quite
right.
As to your past. you have bor-
rowed money again and again.
have promised Doth Of you) to re-
pay and have not done 20, placing
me in an awkard position more
than once and preventing my max
ing considerable money. No reason
has ever been given for this and I
have overlooked it as ! have
Margaret's insults because Of affec-
ton.
You also promised repeatedly that
II ever Margaret objected to our
friendship Wor feared 1t as soon as
she began to behave strangely that
you would stand by me. You
would shut her up and even as
late as February when I came down
to see you both, you said you would
put your foot down and Margaret
should see you were determined
You were certainly warranted In
holding to harmless friendship
with a women of my years whom
Won could save from much pain and
perhaps death itself and who has
always done all she could for
Margaret and the children when
you had forgiven her for . real
injury.
It is Margaret's own doing that
I avoid her and the children /
love-not mine.
Had you kept your word or even
answered my questions, ] should
not have been forced to come down
either in February or lately. In
stead you made me do 20.
Feared She Would
Suffer . Breakdown.
Now that you have the same
condition to face. Please DO not
force mo to come again. ! am on
the verge of a complete breakdown
and most of 1t is due to nerve
strain. This must stop. I am most
QnXlOuS 10 dNoio SoAAs"o
lonial Beach at present. but
must see you within a few days.
This is the only time I have ever
spoken 90 to you, always before I
have sacrificed pocketbook. health
and feeling.
II came to Colonial Beach. or
even Dahlgren, at present, Mar
0aret will know It and your domes-
tic peace will suffer, also I shall
probably be unable to avoid talk.
ing to her about financial matters,
and this you do not wish. Again
might go to pieces under tho
strain and be liable to say too
much. For all these reasons 1t Is
better should see you alone
somevhere. For myself care
very little, as I am almost sure
what you will say when we meet.
and II It is to be that what comes
first ia Of little account, but for
vour sake I wish to avoid a scene,
and therefore am staying here -
give YOU a chance to meet me else
where instead of coming down at
once and having 1t over.
II you will. therefore, set a place
and a definite date to see me some
time next week. will meet you.\
This can be either here, in Bald.
more, In Washington, In Philadel-