Show I THE TAN TANGLE GLE LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT TO SYDNEY CARTON CARTON CAR CAR- TON CONTINUED rr M My knees trembled beneath me mo Syd as I tried to open the door t to Les Leslie Ie At that moment the tha baby Wn wal awakened in the room beyond and began began began be be- gan to cry With a muttered curse cursa I 1 opened the thedoor thedoor door and looked Into the tha white face of my wife Did yoo oo get it did you OU get It I asked She did not answer but hut pushed me aside and went through into the Inner room I followed quickly and found her kneeling at the crib L Leave ave that brat alone The nurse will be in here directly Until that mom nt I had forgotten that old Nannie had been called to the sick bed of her daughter and had left Junior with me the night before The baby had not had any food during the night He had evidently kicked the I cloth clotho JJ jt off ff for the little body was blue ant and shivering with cold He was alternately crying and choking with a sudden rasping rt cough I knelt beside Leslie Honestly Syd I was ashamed and I tried to tell Les lie He so but she would nothing to todo todo todo do with me ne Go away she he said Youve not noto o only ly sent me me out to do your contemptible contemptible con eon bidding but you ou probably 1 this Innocent child almost to todie todie todie die while I am gone When I return you lave have nothing to toay say lIay ay but Let that brat alone You call this this' baby brat braf when only a few months after you declared to me that you iOU thought of ot him exactly as though he ie were your own child Cant you ou understand Leslie I 1 pleaded ed that it Is because I think of ot little Jack as my own child that I speak so of ot him 1 Where Is Nann 1 she asked and then I had to tell her ter that It Va was through my neglect that the tho baby was In lii such a condition hot water imme immo- Draw me s some come e was her only comment The Tha ld chud has a chill chIlI I hastened to comply but I I could not resist the question Did you ou get the tha money Leslie seemed to look straight through me as though I were not there She was Tas undressing the baby I and when she had finished I walking directly toward me in a way that I made me feel ha ha hai I not stepped aside she would have at st ped upon me she went Into t tie the e bath and lowered the cold form into the warm water I For hours afterward ward she completely ignored lenored me rae ministering to the baby telephoning for the doctor and giving directions to Nannie when she ehe re re- re turned Copyright 1923 Service Inc Ino I Continued tomorrow |