Show I TH E 1 TANGLE LETTER E FROM BEATRICE GRIMSHAW GRIMSHAW GRIM GRIM- SHAW TO RICHARD SUM SUM- MERS I am sending this letter to you in Chicago dear Dick because I could not explain e by wire just why I was wasI I not going to me met meet t you In Iq the first place Dick you jou ou dont don't particularly want to see me You want to see Paula Peri Perier cr You should know lenow however that I do not care to see Paula Perler Perier She is nothing to me and I know lenow without seeing her from the things I have ha read between the lines of ot your our letI letter letter let let- I ter tel the things which you jou ou did not intend to to tell me but which stood out plainer than what you really wrote That is is that you jou want ant me meto meto meto to meet Miss Perier Pener so that I may maysee maysee maysee see how irresistible she is is All this I know dear Dick I gi give gie e you jou ou credit for being loyal as men look upon loyalty I 1 give you ou credit for hating to hurt me but I also I know that you havo have met a very I beautiful woman of a kind you have never known before and she has swept you right off your feet I am not sure that even had you yon never met her you and I would be happy together out there In Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood where you jou will vill probably make makeI I your home In the future This dear Dick Pick Is no noi not because I could not I adapt myself to the life of ot Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood which is probably not so much uch different from the tho life Ufe anywhere any any- where else if it we only knew It it but because yo you would uld never allow allo me me to know the life of Hollywood or orthe orthe orthe the life of or your Bohemian friends wherever we might live 11 You have ha pU putt put t me on a pedestal Dick you jou ou have made me something very Impossible very erY coldI cold I wonder how many women who have raised to a pedestal in their husbands' husbands minds have hated and despised that cold narrow place In the walls of or a mans man's affections affections affections affections' I know lenow enough about my sex Dick to to understand that we women are all more or less alike If It the themen themen themen men who marry us would treat us with the same samo frankness the same sincerity that they do the Paula Periers and all the other women to whom they go to from us there probably would v not be so many div divorces di- di v I am bidding you jou ou goodbye Dick Dont Don't try to see me It would be foolish ot of f you to come way up here herein herein herein in Minnesota Just for the sal sake c of harrowing your soul and mine with witha a conventional parting An And Anif now I Iam Iam Iam am going to be just human enough dear Dick to tell you ou that even If Miss l Perler Perier returns your love you will not be any happier with her than you would have been with me You are thoroughly imbued my dear with th the idea that no one ofle woman can be all things to one I m man n. n If you vou marry Paula Perier I art after r the first firs flush of ot the honeymoon honey honey- moon is over is-over over you jou will miss finding In her the calmness and quiet af affection af- af which you ou think only I can give you yott Of or course you ou are wrong Dick Either one of ot us could probably give you jou OU everything thing you desire if it you ask It of us us but you jou never will From Paula you jou will ask the fire and always be seeking the coolness and anti sanity which you remember are mine Of or me you have received the tho content and comfort of an eVeryday all round woman but you jou ou would never think of appealing to me in any great emotional stress I am afraid you jou will never be happy Dick under any circumstances S BEATRICE Copyright 1924 NEA Service Inc Continued Tomorrow |