Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-01-19 | Page 7 | The Tangle

TH THE E TAN TANGLE GLE LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT TO SYDNEY CARTON After j you ou read read this letter old man you will probably take the Santa Fe e Limited come back and put a bullet through me And I am ann not sure euro that I would blame you You see seeS I have Inadvertently got otten ot- ot otten ten you so mixed up In my affairs that now it Is impossible to separate OU from irom them you without ruining myself my my- self and self self-l self preservation Is the tha first law of at nature my boy even If that preservation is done at the tha expense of at your our friends I wrote you the other day that I thought Leslie was beginning to think you OU were the father tather of at little Jack I have now come to the tha conclusion that she feels sure of at It I She not only is 13 sure of ot that but she is obsessed with the Idea that putting the baby In front of our our door when she was too III to know anything about It was something you and I had planned and I helped you carry It out because of ot our long friendship Say Syd that old ld fellow who said Oh what hat a tangled web we weave When hen first we practise to deceive certainly told the tIme world something I dont don't know why Leslie i lg is not jealous jealous jeal jeal- ous of Paula Perler Perier she has certainly certain certain- ly Iy heard what the people are saying about me roe in the affair for everyone in town has been filling her up with gossip This seems seem to have no effect upon her whatsoever No one can shake her belief In your parentage or my Innocence Paula Perler a as the mother of lit littie lit lit- tie tle Jack does not seem to enter Into her scheme at all all at at least she sa says s 's nothing to me about he her I wish while you are out there timers you ou would tell Paula for me that she has messed up things generally general She Sha doesn't seem to be happy herself and certainly she has made me ma anything but happy I am sure she Intended to make me all the trouble she could with that damned moving picture and now now just Just to get back bacle at her If it for nothing else Ill else Ill I'll never give up the baby Why Syd the tha whole town Is agog and people are arl lining themselves up for and against me as Its father Sometimes I am just wondering how all an come out The worst thing tiling about It all Is that I I am afraid I am losing Leslie's love The other day I came upon Leslie une unexpectedly unexpectedly un un- un- un expectedly e d i in et the nursery sy si When she saw me she nervously o tried d to conceal c what I suspected was a telegram I didn't think much about It at the tim although we had some words over something else Some way we disagree disagree disagree dis dis- dis- dis agree greatly over most things late late- ly After she he left the tha room however I found a part of ot that message on the floor and It read If you ou are in trouble trou trou- ble go to my lawyers Struble bl ble You Know that I would do anything anything any any- thing in the world to save you ou the slightest grief Karl Kar What do you Jou ou suppose m my wife has told Karl Whitney that she could not tell teIl me Copyright 1923 NEA Service Inc Continued Monday