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If you agree, then, with Frank and me, that it is highly mdDisable to keep the whole thing out of the courts, though we might gain thereby, particularly Frank, and according to Allies conversation with me before she left for the West, 1 think you will, I wish you would intimate what you think should be done as a jusV settlement of this particular part of the will* It may help you to come to a conclusion to know exactly bow thi&gs stand with us four* Frank had his money under y*ther fs bequest, and it was put back into the business* Louie ha4 hers, anu part of it was put back into the business* I had most of mine for my education, but I hold a note for §500* which 1 put back into business after I started practice* .£11 le never had hers Grandfather Ball refused to advance it* Speaking for myselft I honestly do not know whether I have any claim or not, so will be guided by whether Louie and frank make a claim* Allie seans to be a little differently situated* Frank now refuses to declare himself, and 1 agree idth him in.his stand, as to his rights, unless the rest of the heirs, Including the official representative of the ohari table institutions, agree with us four as to a just settlement of the paragraph in question, and also to M s contention that the Bonds referred to shall not be made a part of the estate or probate* His reason for this is thtvt they shall not be put on the market for sale where they might be bought up by some one to cause trouble* He says Mother expressly warned him about this and hence never wanted then in her possession* Just why she referred to then at all in her will I do not know On the other hand he is perfectly willing that an amount of the bonds, at par value, equal to the sum he owed Mother at time of her death shall be held in trust, say by a Trust Companyt and to be disposed of when due or at a time and at a value agreed upon by all those parties interested, when the proceeds ©hall be divided equally among all the heirs, the charitable institutions receiving one** eighth, the same as each of th*» children* It might seem that the rest of ths heirs, other than we four should have so^e say as to what we four decide upon in regard to fatnarfs will but In reality they have not, and must abide by our decision it is to be settled by mutual consent* T beli eve, however, that any decision we arrive at will be so satisfactory that the others will find it to their interests to agree* I shall be glad to have your views; and rera&in, Yours sincerely,