Show I I I r TH mH I J aS I I TANGLE LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT CARE rHE OF SECRET DRAWER I wonder little Marquise so much about you ou I wonder if lire life was so complicated in the day when you OU put your letters from your lover the king Icing In this little secret drawer Oh I wish you had not destroyed them That one one- one letter letter to me who found Its secret hIdIng place hiding place inside the beautiful ful desk told so much and so I often smile to myself Marquise Marquise Marquise Mar Mar- quise when I 1 sit here and write I would my mother-in-law mother think if It she Rhe had known that reposing In this desk that she loved so much and which she gave me as a wedding present was a confession which told you were the sweetheart of ot a king Icing She Is a Puritan my dear and she believes absolutely that every woman who breaks tho the seventh commandment commandment com coin should be stoned She has for forgotten otten all about th the blessed Savior saying Go and sin rio more She has never learned that there are commandments which sa say You must not bear false witness for sh she Is a gossipy old thing you ou know and she tears her her nel neighbors neighbors' characters when they do o not measure up to her standard into little pieces I 1 couldn't say this to anybody but you little Marquise for fo- foin in the last day or two she has hac veen een very nice and offered to male make up her quarrel with me I never had one with her She has Invited me and little John Alden Jr to visit her It Is Isa Isa isa a good deal for her to do and al although although although al- al though the very thought of ot staying in that musty old house and listening I Ito to her old world formula of human I conduct m makes tes me almost physically Ill yet I have told John I would go I I had planned to leave tomorrow b but bit t last night Ruth came up as John Jahn was going out lut to a business dinner and told me rue all the gossip she had i been hearing of f Paula laula Periers Perier's personal personal per per- Ronal appearance here She said that people were saying Jack had had the billboard taken down because it ad advertised advertised ad- ad I her coming I know better than this because e I heard Jack Jacl tell a a. aman man of ot plan b by which the Acme Advertising company hoped to get back at the bill poster company It does doesn't t make an an difference said Ruth fluth If Jack is perfectly Innocent innocent inno Inno- I cent in the matter He lIe is going to get the entire blame Certain Certainly I my dear you cannot go away at this time she added it will look bolt as though you were II jealous It was then little Marquise e that I decided td tell you what I knew was the truth I paid aId to her Why hy I should I be be jealous cf Of Jack you you ou do donot donot donot not know Ruth Huth that the father tather of ot little Jack Is Is- Sydney Carton and his mother is Paula Perier Perler I have known this for a long time g that asked Did J Jack C tell you that Ruth quickly No dear but bt everything that he has told me confirms what I sus sus- p ct Arent you rou afraid Leslie IesUe that Miss Perier will want her baby back now that she is able to take care of ot it I almost fainted That thought had never occurred to me me Copyright 1924 N A Service Inc Continued Tomorrow |