| Show I THE T TANGLE A GLE I i I LETTER LETER 1 LESLIE LESME PRES- PRES COTT COIT TO THE LITTLE MAil MAU- I QUISI CARE CAUL OK Ol THE rilE SECRET SEt SE SE- CitES CRET DnA DRAWER DRAWER CON COX COX- t When hen Con Condon lon came back to the theoffice theoffice I office from the station began I my husband where he had gone late this afternoon to meet Mrs I Atherton he told me Leslie that you also were at the station lIe He said you had sent me word that I Mrs Atherton would not be down downto I to the office this evening as you were going to take her home bomb and visit her awhile I took this to mean that you ou would not be home I. I for tor dinner At t first E I 1 thought O t I would I bO bounce in on n y you and Mr Mrs Ather- Ather i tO ton and Insist upon you both going go go- ling lag out to eat with me and then i 1 1 I must confess that I 1 felt a little hurt that you had had- hadnot no not noot asked mo me I yourself to do this You know how I hate to eat I alone and I was a little annoyed at you anyway I saw Miss Miss- Stimpson son putting on her hat to go home homeI and I asked her to go to dinner I with me She accepted ed stipulating I that we should go somewhere out of the hot dusty city This of I course ourse I was very glad to do do tot for totI forI I had been working very hard all allday day We went to Dracos I dont don't i I New Cloninger j 1 Player Popular c S 'S S S I. I Miss Lucile Holder a recent addition addi tion tp the Ralph Cloninger company com corn pany at the Wilkes think i I have ever er taken you there Leslie Leshe I should hope not Interposed Sally Atherton I t J-t was th the first word she had said since she oame came in Jack gave her a very ugly look 10 but said a nothing I eb and We had our r dinner and for some reason I was bored to death with the the young woman with me 1 kept thinking what a fool I was not to have gone to o Mrs Atherton's house and made you two girls go with me 1 I go got through just as soon as possible possible- and was ws hurrying back to the city when a car came whizzing around the corner and I hit it al almost almost almost al- al I most squarely nose end It would have been a very bad baa smashup but neither driver was driving rapidly I didn't hear heal Anyone scream but taut butI I did hear a mans man's v voice vice ice swearing I called out Are you all right A youthful voice an answered Yes I think so I stepped on the gas Miss Stimpson was in hysterics and you can imagine that my great anxiety was to get her home I 1 wanted to find you and tell ten you all about it Leslie We had only gone a little way however when I 1 heard hear some commotion com corn motion moLion behind Somebody ordered me Itle to stop I drew up by bythe the side of the road where 1 was overhauled by y a me mc or or cop eop and arrested It seems by the time the crowd reache the theother other car it lt was found that both the boy and girl were we're unconscious A policeman Immediately immediately immediately imme Imme- started after atter me quickly overtook us and hauled hauled me me to the near nearest st In the meantime the man matr and woman had been taken to the hospital and in SAi sP of all alt explanations that X I could give I was vas arrested I telephoned telephoned telephoned tele tele- phoned home and found that you there tere not not there but Syd here was He had come in the city unexpectedly unexpectedly edly and was waiting for or us He hurried right down to to- the station and succeeded in putting up the theten theten I ten thousand dollar bond As Jack talked he got more and more excited He seemed to forget th thai th there was w s anyone else in the room loom but just himself and me Leslie Leslie he said I 1 am always getting getting- you ou ou into trouble But nut this was not wholly m my fault was it ltD He grasped both my hands and arid kissed them one after the other as though he would never let Jet them hem go Copyright 1925 1025 NEA Service Inc TOMORROW Letter I to the Little Marquise 1 enre o of the Secret Con Drawer Con I tinned |
