Show I I I f 1 LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT PRESCOTT PRES PRES- COTT TO THE LITLE MARQUISE MARQUISE MAR MAR- QUISE HE SECRET DRAWER CONTINUED My tears are falling tamn so fast tast little Marquise I 1 can hardly see Bee the page I am Just going to tell you that for the tho last few days I have been unhappier unhappier unhappier un- un happier than I 1 have ever er been be before before be- be fore In my life I have found out that It is not the big troubles of life that hurt you ou beyond bearing some Bomo way we are given superhuman superhuman superhuman man strength to bear those It is the Iho little troubles that flay tho the heart with steel wire thread and 1 cut to the Innermost part of ot the soul Little Marquise It seems to me meas meas meas as though I could never face the world again I wish I were with I Alice i i I I I I I I Letter Latter From Sally Atherton I to Beatrice Summers I Dear Bee You have probably seen in the papers accounts of at the sudden death pf pt Alice Allee Whitney You couldn't have gotten from them however the most aspect of at the case for tor the family was able to keep that out of the news Bee Alice committed suicide For a long time she had been acting very cry peculiarly She had had fits of the tho most terrible Jealousy jealousy Jeal jeal- of at Leslie and Karl When she sho was herself herselt howe however hower r she ledged that her suspicions were groundless and In the last letters that she wrote for tor although her death was sudden she sho had been contemplating It for tor a long while she said I 1 have at times timet an Irresistible Irresistible Irre Irre- impulse to torture and even kill the ones I love lovo best I think she was very brave to do what she sho did I think the knowledge that one is s going mad is the anI only excuse that a one might give for takI taking tak- tak ing ones one's e own life What hat I want to get set off ocr my chest are the tho unaccountable actions of at John Alden Prescott through all this terrible time Bee that selfish selfish selfish self self- ish bundle of at conceit was out of town when tho the thing happened and he stayed away and let Leslie go through all the worry and grief alone Ho Ito pretended that If ho he did not sta stay over to a a. certain meeting of his old firm ho would lose Jose several thousand dollars He JIe couldn't put that over nie I knew exactly how the tho books balanced for tor I had been there th all the while It struck me rather funny as ns well that J. J A A. A P. P should be bo counting his dollars dollar now of nil all times when ho was stepping Into a thousand fifty dollar a year ear Job job job-he he who had always thrown money to tho the birds and spent It in other ways so lavishly Sydney Carton was with him when Leslie Bent sent him the telegram and Mr Ir Prescott persuaded Carton Carton Car Car- CarI I ton to come over o In tn his stead steed Mr Carton came and I tell you OU Bee I II felt fejt sorry for tor the poor man Al Although Although Al- Al though I knew ho did not undertake the thankless s Job solely for tho sake eake of John Prescott I wonder that no one including Leslie herself sees that Sydney Sdney Carton Is hopelessly In love with rUh her Iter Copyright 1924 NEA Service Inc Ine Tomorrow Tomorrow This This Utter letter continued |