Show 1 I I AN or orI M I 23 ThC f fLETTER LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT TO SYDNEY CARTON DE DEW R o SYD L You cn Imagine old chap how our letter messed up in my emo emo- emotions a as well 1 as my nerves neres I dont don't wonder lou ou felt cit like mor mor- morI moralizing I J a little Its It's li a queer that th Is happening tb b me just at present Isn sn t it And yet I It ve se I only knew it and could look into luto the hearts hearte and minds of our friends and acquaintances 1 e find there arc are just as many 1 places laces 1 liere a here thy thy they have hid hidden den al av things thea the hardly con confessed confessed confessed to themselves as we I e ha hae I In ours No wonder onder ou moralizIng moralizing ing lag S Sid d but to tell you the truth I feel I dont don't feel like moralizing like kicking myself nil all over the lot roer darling Leslie Poor little Peller Fei Actually Syd OU are right The The woman pays P And yet I think I probably rather have the conscIence that belongs to either one of o those girls than my own at this moment I tell you the tor- tor tor torments ments of the damned d hae have on me inc Some people might think It very terrible for me to speak ot of o Paula Paulain in fl the same breath breaUl In which I I speak of ot Leslie but poor little Paula was as more sinned against than Iban binning sinning and I om em sure that Leslie b bless bess ss her heart v would un understand understand I one that should bould not be mentioned to Leslie and I I am right under her nose nObe I t mo of ot the time She is not at nil all like herself Syd She ha hasn't nt mentioned in the tho slight slightest slightest slightest I est way that she would care to leave her bed bcd She accepts with that gracIOus smile of ot hers all an that the nurses I do for tor her But she does not seem to will w to live She hardly speaks a word ord during the whole time she I Is awake aake and even when I come comein comein in ID to talk to her at night or In InI inI inthe inthe I the morning she scarcely pays any I attention to me I She just lies there looking ther looking out of the windo window as though she anted to pierce through the sky into the great Into Into that never never- never never-never nc neer er land Barrie has de described described scribed as being the abode or of o baby souls waiting to be born She has said a word to me our baby In tact fact act I do not think she has mentioned it to any any- anybody anybody bOd body Dut But every one or of o us can see that because she knows now this ch child d 1 which thich she has longed for will never be hers she hers herself lf does not want to live I had a long talk yesterday with one of the specialists that Mr Hamilton has brought down from New York and he suggested that he was pretty nearly at the end of o his string as far as she was as as con concerned concerned I He said that it was her mind and not her body bod He lIe told me that there was as ns really rally nothing the matter with etli her except the tact fact that nothing In interested her If you could take her out of o her her- herself herself herself self he said or she should re receive some groat great physical shock hoek It mIght bring her back to normal As Asi Asi i is as far as I can see sec there IS nothing the matter with her phys phys- phys but I am sure that she Is only thinking of ot one thing If If It she does not get any better within the next two weeks Heks he heI said I would ad advise adIse Ise iou vou ou to take I her ber out in ID the country and see If the surroundings will not touch up up her interest in tte 1110 If H nothing else does doea any good per perhaps perhaps haps ou had better suggest to your mother in law that she go 0 er to the Childrens Children's home and pick out a little baby and bring it to your wife I have known that In some soma e cae cases to do the work Tomorrow we are going to take Leslie to a convalescent home home When I asked her If it she ahe canted anted to go she answered answered Yes If you wish me to in ID absolutely a lifeless vOIceS voice S d If it Leslie Leshe diE dies diE'S I will never foi give myself JACK Tomorrow Tomorrow Mrs Mrs rs Joseph Graves Hamilton writes to her husband husband- husband Leslie apathy |