Show F TH THE E I TANGLE TAl I GLE IETTER LESL SOTT S- S OTT TO LESLIC SCOTT CO lJ S Beads echoed Sydney Sydne r. r I 1 surely aurely thought at the time Leslie w wore re rethem them theta above e her wedding dress and now that they wore won real al pearls Tho The waiter walter looked at mo me mom be behind behind behind be- be hind Jacks Jack's chair and I was sure that he sardonically drooped droope one Of ot lila his Is eyelids I felt myself grow prow red and then pale pale- and find was glad that that Jack exclaimed heavens S wouldn't you expect to have my mir wife wear thousands and thousands of ot dollars worth of ot pearls you jou ou We Ve are aro poor people Syd it know sometimes where g so t to hard la get t up the ge get t that next l 1 l' l d dollar dont don't r to tc do something that I want to do ito very much No old fellow I l had llad no Idea that yet could give your sUb wife a gorgeous string g of pearls r s but It would ouId g bo be ve-ry ve easy to Imagine the daughter of ot Joseph Josepa Graves Hamilton wearing J jewels wels els worth a a. kings king's ransom This time I was almost sure that Sydney Sydne saw that waiter walter wink at me inc but I I could do nothing They Tf certainly aro are a wonderful Imitation i I he said I hI l know it wa was Jacks Jack's complacent compla compla- in cent you ought reply to Why have the seen other the evening waiters walters scramble when Leslie broke the string I am Quite quits sure that one of t tl em must have decided that the they TV were ere real pearls for when we counted there up was one missing I I grew hot and cold Jack should say eay something about counting the tho string string- now I 1 wished I bad ad not worn th them m. m To turn the conversation I asked perhaps a bit too eagerly I 1 am sure Sydney SYdne that you ou have come coma over to the baby's christening 1 know when you see him you OU will be beS S glad gad to be the godfather to the sweetest bit o of human flesh that I was sas ever er given to a woman At t this moment It seemed to me that a peculiar glance lance passed be between between be- be tween Sydney Sdney and Jack and Jack I said gruffly lIe He is a nice little lItte duffer duffer fer ler but you OU know somebody left rim him on omi our doorstep Just at the right moment when Leslie's LesUe's life Ufe hung In the balance and I believe In fact I know lenow that she ahe must love him better than his own mother That i quite true I Interrupted for or I am sure that under no circumstances circumstances cir cir- cir cir- could I have given that I baby to another If It I had borne him You never neer know Inow what v. you vou can cando cando do Interrupted Jack JaCl curtly I Yes I do T r answered stubborn stubborn- ly hr I 1 do not think Yer very o of a I mother who would leave her hex child on a al strangers stranger's doorstep I Perhaps tho the mother knew the circumstances Leslie LesIle said S Syd Syd- Syd d ney What circumstances circumstances' Into Jacks Jack's voice had crept a tone tonic of ot Why didn't the tho papers have the story that Leslie's life lue was waR despaired of because she was mourning so over losing her child and wasn't It Whispered whispered whis Whis- pe ed among her friends that It seemed as though the only course Courso to pursue In bringing her herback back from I Ideath's deaths death's door was to put a baby In fn her arms I Copyright 1923 1928 NEA Service ServIceS Inc Continued Tomorrow |