New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-11-18


you a few lines TO let you know | an
well hoping you the same. well bill
hnve some news to tell YOU abOu
what happened when | got back heal
and since ! got back and hear il is.
the first person seen when go
TO the rallrOde stashun was hmm,
fayne and he was dressed up like /;
millionalr and reckon he is one. h,
took me in his moter ear up To pats
home. pntrisha you know. pat sh,
Rugged me and Jimmy left rite away
hut said he would he back. asked
pat had she heard about yorc trubblc
hill and she answered no what. then
told her bout you and the lowdown
black adam ball hill and She said pore
old bill he had such n high temper no
body could ever understand it but II
cant be are YOU serious elizabeth.
well / said yes mean IT.. pat shook
her head sorrowiic and said tell me
nj! about it elizabeth deer. when /
had told her the hole story about il
we went up Siarcs, pat cent To II
80 'H' 80 a fAaAlll' 't'NN llA NlI'.
| ordered This the day before YOU left
rs pat said hut it mite half to be al.
tered, vile You are dressing pat said
! Will speak to Mrs. bale over the
telephone. pat said yore mother has
Nolten"d t"rd her sou aud promised
ia tell her any news had conserving
him. said an rite.
PAT was gone down Stares talkin.
over ia" telephone for Il long lime aud
when she returned Ia mo was dressed
and the new dress diddent half to he
altered. after dinner WAS over me and
pat went tn Il swing at The end If n
wanda which had n dim lite on it.
pat spoke all of n Suddonl aud said
10 me how would you like to 90 To
live with Mrs. Dale bills mother.
remembered haddcnt liked yorc moth
CT bill cause of what she said about
me and got about half mad. don't
yoII want me Ia live hear with you
pat I asked.
of course pat said. idle be glad Ia
have you hut Mrs. Dale wants Won
100 PAT said her treatment of her
son which is you hill has most broke
her hart pat said. pat said the only
hold Mrs. Dale has on her son is
You elizabeth and she is II
sad and remorsetlc woman. then
got To thinking bill | mite be the cause
Of bringing pcccc between You and
parents and 80 told pat would
and | did. imc glad said pat but
sorry Ia lose you but it is the best
way and we can see each other often
amt we deer.
wen hill II WaSS"nt long until u big
noler car called around at pats for
me- and setting in ia" hind seat was
one father hisself john Il Dale. he
mo into the ear with him and
le seemed glad To see me. after We
said good morning and 50 forth
IL said anxious like now elizabeth
tell IN" all about bills trouble
or IilriSha mite have omitted some
hing You know. AT first was awful
icard of him hut | soon got Ia like
~ him fine and told him about you .
that luwdown black adam ball ,
rom beginning Ia end and when / told 4,
i'm about the fife In the river he ,
and grinned and said you al I
avs was jam fun of the fife sun. I
he'll conn OUT Of II all rite the worst !
{ II Is his hayeing TO stay in Jail until
ie trial comcs of said our father I
/ the next term Of cote. weed bet |
r see IL We can't get him out on n u
nd he said haddent We elizabeth and c
said YES. bin found yore mother
Idedc Il sad woman. there wassent u
ucli about her to rcmine me of tile d
me when she called me a savaje o
she said am delited you came a
izabeth and | cride a little | couldent q
ZIP II when ! jest half 10 cry jest !,
III 10 cry and nothing else don't help
bit. Because she kissed me bill. K
well bill yore father he wired the il
horties In cartersville and found out "
at Gale Moreland had confessed To {
g shooting Of black adam and you O.
" iltt anu u HdS sci his nnlnd AT u
but il diddent set my mind at rest Il
r because ! no the mountain hart. I
Gale Moreland is jest takelng bl
re- place in Jail until the day Of the ii
for that is the way of the More CO
lds. pore Gale is a good boy. i am m
ing fine hear bill but i often wish ly
ould have old Doe River hear TO sing III
10 sleep like it used to. yore moth b;
is teaching me how TO read and rite at
q spell like pat did and ! am learn
fast. you can see by this letter III
an rite an spell fine can't l. sii
well blu kind friend jimmy fayne at
: jes sent yOre mothers made up
lr to ask If he can see me and sn
half to 20 down stares and see
at he wants. NJ
yores respectively. ut
Babe.
Bill Dale folded the bulky letter m:
] put it slowly back into the envel-
!. Then his gaze wandered through no
window and to where a golden
lged high-holer was hammering in Of
at the top branch Of a Isl
d tree. He smiled TO himself. By to
and nearly all Of the rest Of tn.