me. Can you?
I keep wondering how you are. And Esta and Julia and Frank and
Father. I wish I knew where you are and what you are doing. You know
how I feel about you, don't you, Ma? I've got a lot more sense now,
anyhow, I see things different than I used to. I want to do something in
this world. I want to be successful. I have only a fair place now, not as
good as I had in K. C.,
but fair, and not in the same line. But I want
something better, though I don't want to go back in the hotel business
either if I can help it. It's not so very good for a young man like me—too
high-flying, I guess. You see I know a lot more than I did back there.
They like me all right where I am, but I got to get on in this world.
Besides I am not really making more than my expenses here now, just
my room and board and clothes but I am trying to save a little in order to
get into some line where I can work up and learn something. A person
has to have a line of some kind these days. I see that now.
Won't you write me and tell me how you all are and what you are doing?
I'd like to know. Give my love to Frank and
Julia and Father and Esta, if
they are all still there. I love you just the same and I guess you care for
me a little, anyhow, don't you? I won't sign my real name, because it
may be dangerous yet (I haven't been using it since I left K. C.) But I'll
give you my other one, which I'm going to leave off pretty soon and take
up my old one. Wish I could do it now, but I'm afraid to yet. You can
address me, if you will, as
HARRY TENET,
General Delivery, Chicago
I'll call for it in a few days. I sign this way so as not to cause you or me
any more trouble, see? But as soon as I feel more sure that this other
thing has blown over, I'll use my own name again sure.
Lovingly,
YOUR SON.
He drew a line where his real name should be and underneath wrote "you
know" and mailed the letter.
Following that, because his mother had been anxious about him all this
time and wondering where he was, he soon received a letter,
postmarked
Denver, which surprised him very much, for he had expected to hear from her
as still in Kansas City.
DEAR SON:
I was surprised and so glad to get my boy's letter and to know that you
were alive and safe. I had hoped and prayed that you would return to the
straight and narrow path—the only path that will ever lead you to
success and happiness of any kind, and that God
would let me hear from
you as safe and well and working somewhere and doing well. And now
he has rewarded my prayers. I knew he would. Blessed be His holy
name.
Not that I blame you altogether for all that terrible trouble you got into
and bringing so much suffering and disgrace on yourself and us—for
well I know how the devil tempts and pursues all of us mortals and
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