| Show I I I I I TH THE E TANGLE TAN GLE LETTER FROM PRISCILLA BRADFORD BRAD DRAD FORD TO MRS MARY ALDEN PRESCOTT l I My Dear Dear Friend fi Every arh little l while It comes to me dear dar Mrs Prescott that there is surely surely surely sure sure- ly a Divinity which shapes our ends Perhaps that quotation is not quite apropos to the thing I 1 have to tell you because it is not my end that is the subject under discussion However How How- ever if the terrible thing which I 1 saw with my own on eyes means what I 1 think it does It can mean nothing t else e but the ed end of the marriage a between e ey y your beloved son and that irresponsible woman to whom h Is wed Little did I 1 think when I came to New York to see why my dividends had not been paid upon that oil stock that Providence had meant me to bethe bethe be bethe the vehicle by which you could prove your suspicions That I 1 have found that my oil stock stockis is worthless and the man I 1 thought so nice a a. villain really means nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing to me mo beside the fact that I 1 will willbe willbe be able bl not only t to do you a great ike ikeo le orf favor v but u to make your o dear son un understand understand un- un Just his position as husband to the flaunting woman he has made his wife You know inow when I come to NewYork New rew York I 1 always go around to the different different dif dl- dif dif- ferent hotels and look over the regIster register reg reg- register ister to see If it there Is anyone whom I know In town What was my surprise surprise sur sur- prise to find Mrs airs Jonn Alden Prescott Prescott Prescott Pres Pres- cott on the visitors visitors' book at the Waldorf I 1 Immediately arranged a dinner party for the friends with whom I 1 Iwas Iwas was staying as I 1 thought being alone she eho probably would dine at her own hotel I 1 did not think that even she sheI would be so shameless as to wander around to strange restaurants at atI night I 1 need not have worried about that however because she was well e es escorted although she was dining at atthe atthe atthe the Waldorf A man I 1 had never seen before who looked like an Englishman was with her and they seemed very much Interested In each other They sat eat at the next table to my y party which only because of my regard for you I 1 took to such an expensive place Do you know my dear Mrs Prescott Prescott Pres Pres- cott that your sons son's wife had the effrontery to try to speak to me I 1 Iam Iam am sure I blushed but I 1 could not dear friend out of respect for you speak to her under the I 1 could not hear anything they were saying until Just as the they these rose se from the table tabla I heard your sons son's I wife say You must come and have dinner with Jack rack and me when you come como to Albany Think of or It In- In riling the man in the case to meet her h I was sure euro I could not believe my ears earB until I 1 heard that man say I Ishall I 1 Ishall shall come purposely to A Albany my dear doar Mrs r Prescott N for r rA ro you o know that you was one ono of the delights delights de de- de- de lights I looked forward to In America I 1 hardly thought however that I should be so fortunate as to find you hero to meet me on my say ar ar- ar rival I Dear Mrs Prescott I would gO KO on the stand and repeat those I Iam Iam Iam am am sorry corry to break your heart but at last I J have havo found all the things that we have thought about your sons lions on a wife are not only true but it Is 15 worse than even w we suspected I TV will be home homo next week Affectionately yours PRISSY Copyright t. t 1923 NEA Service Inc Ine Continued I |
