The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-02
The Tangle
LETTER FROM MRS JOSEPH
GRAVES HAMILTON TO
LESLIE PRESCOTT
My Dear Daughter:

LESLIE PRESCOTT
My Dear Daughter:
There was a short paragraph in
the London paper this morning to
the effect that someone had been
breaking into your house again. 1
am very much worried. / do wish
that other man could be captured
I'm afraid something is going to
happen. I would even be more COM
Portable if 1 thought he had the old
pearls.
Poor Karl always gets nearly be-
side himself when anything is said
ABOUT them. for he seems to feel that
he is to blame for the whole thing
not only your having the pearls, but
Alice's death. l was awfully sorry
he saw this paragraph in the paper,
for he had been more like himself
lately than l have known him since
Alice's death. This news item, how
ever. has sent him back into melan-
cholia again.
Up to date we have been having
such a wonderful time. AS you see
by this letter, we are back in Eng
land. We came back to stay for a
couple of weeks at Betty Stokely's
house party. You remember she was
poor Alice's best friend, and both
Alice and Karl stayed with her be-
fore they were married. She married
one of the Carnovans, and annexed
a wonderful country estate as well
as a title. Karl and l have been
staying with her for the last ten
days. and she wants us to stay until
the end of the month.
Betty's younger sister has grown
UP and Is a lovely girl. She is also
staying here.
Between us, my dear, l think the
Stokelys and the Carnovans would
like to make a match between Mary
and Karl Karl likes her very much.
They have many tastes in common.
I do wish he would fall in love with
her. for he has been so unfortunate
in his heart affairs, / would like to
have him have a great love before
ne dies.
Although I am sure you didn't
mean IT, my dear. you treated him
rather cavalierly when you fell in
love with Jack, and it very effectual-
ly spoiled Karls life. 1 don't think
he'll ever care for any other person
as much as he did for you, and his
love for you was more Of an obses-
sion than 4 passion. He married
Alice. I am sure, only because he
saw he could make her happy by do
ing so, and he thought he would Ike
to be in our family.
But 1 cannot complain of Karl.
dear. Whatever he married her for.
no man could have been better to a
woman than he was to my poor,
unfortunate younger daughter.
Betty told me the other night that
Alice was always crazy about Karl.
and she always was railing at you
because she said you had treated
him so badly.
Do you know. Leslie. l hope those
fateful pearls have gone out of all
our lives. l have tried not TO be
superstitIous. but you must acknowl-
edge that i'm the cases of both you
and Alice they have spelled tears.
Honestly, I hope you will never find
them; l would gladly think of you
as losing the money, because l have
found that money means very little
in the making Of real happiness.
1 got the boys pictures. How
much brother looks like youl He has
the same wistful expression you had
when you were a little girl. Strange
isn't 1t. that little Jack looks so much
like John? You would almost think
ne was really his father. 1 hope he
will never know he is not.
They have just sent for me to
come down and have tea. so with a
kiss to the boys and love to John
and yourself. 1 am
JUST MOTHER.
NEXT-Clipping from Pitts
burgh Sun.