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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
68 Sybellstr Berlin.
June 17. [1932] 7 A.M.
C∴[are] F∴[rater]
93.
I have received a letter from Bill [Bertha Busch] which really frightens me. Do not deceive yourself; you will be held responsible even before earthly tribunals if anything goes wrong. I simply can't understand your present attitude of callousness—going on with your butterfly life while she is eating her heart out.
You cannot deny that you promised this money; your negotiations with Hobbs and Byford—if they were sincere—as I trust—show to what lengths you were prepared to go to get it.
I have made arrangements with Soror I.W.E. [Martha Küntzel] to come here and take charge; and I would start for London at once if I had the fare. I cannot leave Bill alone any longer. She was so confident of immediate success when she started; now she seems to have lost all her morale.
Cable me £20 and I'll take the first train—stopping off at Cologne for a day to see Walker.
I would not write this at all if Bill's last letter were not so terrible.
93 93/93
F∴[raternal]ly
666.
P.S. You ought to have known two years ago that the stuff of Bart's couldn't part Lloyd from a sixpence. Under that placid mask, a vain dishonest Welshman.
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