Show THE HE- HE TANGLE LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT PRESCOTT PRES PRES- COTT TO RUTH BURKE I CONTINUED Dad raised rals-ed his eyelids eyelid slowly as asif asif asif if they were too weary to open but into his face there came a look 1001 of Infinite sweetness as aa he saw my looking looking- pitifully old and grief stricken coming through the doo door She went over o to his bed and I knelt there I could see she was wag al almost almost almost al- al most at t the end of her strength I Alice he said You Tou see I am amer I er very selfish I r could not have let you go first so I am letting you re remain remain remain re- re main to bear the burden of loneliness loneliness loneliness ness th that t I know will be yours I think perhaps I have hove only held to life for the last week because I wanted to see John I wanted to know that he would take up the sacred duty I had given over to himBe himBe him Be a son son to her John for tor the I little time sho sha Is with you I do donot donot I Inot I not think it will be for long and hl his eyes rested fondly on the bowed I head of mother No dear it will not be long long oh oh I hope it will not be long I could not bear to have It long she mur mur- I inured Everything has been settled Alice Leslie and and John will carry carTY carryout carryout 1 out any of your our wishes I could I have wished that Alice and Karl had been here that I I. might bid them goodbye but it is Just aa as well wel It is very inconsiderate to be a long while dying Mothers Mother's face lace crept up lip toward dad She seemed to o t ic ho o taking his fast tast glazing eyes a gleam of ot love that was waa for her Then rhen with a a. sigh his eyelids dropped and on his face slowly settled settled set set- tied the peace that all understanding un un- un- un I So gently it came that even mother did not know until John with his arms around her Raised alsed her to her feet and gently said Come Then Ruth Ruth the floodgates broke My mother who had been so calm became a woman Imbued with marvelous marvelous marvelous mar mar- will ill railing at fate late Leslie Leslie there is my who whole e thought she said sad turning to the still form of my father There is ismy ismy ismy my whole love and It Is la gone out of my life Ufe I cannot bear it Gently we took her upstairs upstairs- and andI I watched her fall fan into a troubled trouble sleep after I had given her a quieting quieting quieting quiet quiet- ing potion When John came up he found me mein mein mein in a paroxysm of tears teals It was only then I realized my myown own great loss John came to me and took me in his arms arms and comforted me Just the fE feel fi 1 of his arms about me Ruth did give me comfort I knew that all that which had gone before was nothing and there was waa only between us our ur great love I understood what you meant mant when you wrote me not to separate from my husband husband hus ilus- band the face the loneliness of life without him unless all l love ve h had d' d fled fied I Oh ph John John I said sald will this ever I come come to to me Cant Can't you see mother I and dad starting g out as you and I Iare Iare Iare are starting out Cant Can't you ou Imagine all the great experiences they have passed pass through Carr you realize realize- how the mad glad passion of youth at last calmed down Into a a. beautiful companionship that made them seem one Indeed N Now w that they had grown alike oUke In t thought speech and views and andas just as they had now become one a part of this bles blessed ed whole is left here forsaken and alone in a desolate dean deso late Inching aching void while the other without volition has gone into the great beyond into beyond into that mysterious eternal finality which takes toll of ofus ofus us all one by one Copyright 1924 NEA Service Inc Monday The Monday The letter continued |