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Show WAR ROMANCE i IS BROKEN UP J 1 Pathetic Letters Reveal Tragedy in New York Home NEW YORK, Oct. 2. "As you told me, I am gone and shall never come back If you want a divorce or separation. sep-aration. I am ready. You shall have it. If you want to speak to me, you can put a red ribbon at the window and you can meet me in front of the house. I hold no grudge ngalnst you. Canard a good remembrance of me." Leaving this note. vrrs. Reine Ma. -gueritp Pugnoud Beekman, on Christmas Christ-mas K e. 1920. announced her departure depar-ture from the home of her husbanJ. Dudley A. Beekman, in Xew York. They were married in France after a romance blossoming during his convalescence con-valescence in a hospital at which she was a governess. She was 18. a viva-: eious and sympathetic French gill.' He was 2 , a lieutenant in the Amer- j lean armv, sirk, in a strange land. MOTH MR PLAYS DKTW Tl V F. Now he is suing for divorce and the ; foregoing aboe I . t f - along with others, oth-ers, is entered in the court record to I bolster his case. The mother-in-law of the young! French bride. Mrs. Agnes Vail Beek- I man, also gets her name in the files I as the detedtfve who saw the alleged love-making of Mrs. Relne Beekman In an automobile at Inspiration Point. Riverside Drive. Just a short time after her leav- j taking the French girl wrote him this, letter, Beekman asserts "Take me back. Listen, my Dudley Dud-ley d-ar Take back vour little wtfu. If you knew how unhappy T am Since I left you. 1 eried tor you all the days, but. too proud, I did not want to come back. I have no more courage to suffer longer anil want to come back. i w is i my o and fidelity - to ma - vou forget all the bail I did you. MY L1TTLF DEAREST HUSBAND. "You say you do no! love me any more; you belb , that, but you loved me too much not to love me any more. My dearest, loe that doesn't die. You art! and always will be my dearest dear-est husband Remember the beautiful past which can come back and last jill your life time, if you wish. "You say your mother would not want me to see you. Yes. and she will see the day when you send ht-r the photo of a pretty baby Who will unit.- us sliil more oite to the other "Take back your utile wife and o I think wHl that no word can change J 1 my ideas. Little husband. lak bark I I your little Relne. She wishes so much to forget she caused vou pain Al" I wavs yours tind for always." k WIFE WANTS SEPARATION. Another missive read: Since all is ov.-r and you have all that is neeessary for a divorce against me, why do you not act with frankness frank-ness nnd retake each our entire liberty" lib-erty" T have left the domicile conjugal con-jugal since one year I give you all th( rights in the divorce. Do all that ou believe it is well to do against I me, but remember just the same a -ways that I was your wif and that : once yofi had love for me " The young French bride indignant-, ly denies her mother-in-law's acusa-1 acusa-1 tlons. Mr. Beekman mentions In his suit; also Henri L Petit, restaurant proprietor pro-prietor His wife say)) that at no time were their relations improper. Mrs. Relne Beekman demands that I she be granted a separation decree J I ;:nd asks that the divorce proceedings . I be dismissed I r, 1 1 . |