Show LETTER FROM SALLY ATHERTON ATHERTON ATHER ATHER- I ITON TON TO LESLIE PRESCOTT CONTINUED Mrs Prescott Prescott was quite as furious I as as I Leslie LesUe but she her ground I 1 will say that for tor her She doesn't come from a long line ol ot I puritans puritans' for tor nothing I wonder if It my sons son's wife wite knows not only of your daily visits to this I house but of ot the daily visits of that moving picture actress to the children children children chil chil- dren she said aid You see Leslie Paula has been coming up to the house every day about luncheon time and going gong in to see the children You know how daffy she Is about children She would stay there until about 1 o'clock when I 1 left to go to luncheon luncheon luncheon lunch lunch- eon and then hen wed we'd go somewhere for or our midday meal and I have been going back to the office for forthe forthe forthe the afternoon This seemed to me a very nice arrangement under the the circum circum- circumstances circumstances stances as I knew that Paula was ver very nervous over her enforced wait walt because of the accident atthe mill miU ml I and I had to go go to t see Bee ee Mr Prescott Prescott Prescott Pres Pres- cott every day But here was this old woman threatening to spoil everything as as she did ultimately She threatened to do this at the time but I didn't think It was possible possible possible pos pos- sible she could be so horrid She said t to tome me I for one do not approve of strange young yeung women being so much at the home of a young man while his wife is away I 1 think Ill I'll write Leslie tonight It seems to me she ought to know absolutely everything everything every ever thing that is going on When she said this Leslie dear I didn't know what to do You know I have been thrown so much more with men than with women women- especially the kind of women to which Mrs Prescott belongs that I Iguess Iguess Iguess guess I am am afraid of them I not only do not understand their language language lan lan- guage but but I I Ido do de not think their thoughts I cannot possibly get their point of view I don dont t want to make trouble b be between tween Mr Prescott and lIs his mother and I know what a fuss he can kick up at times so so I I decided to let things long for lorit fora few days das But I ought to to have ha n h-n known wn that old woman better even if I r did think k that perhaps if I told her that Mr Prescott had forbidden of ofus ofus ofus us to write to you about this accident accident acci accident acci- acci dent she might think that he ne meant her hel as well I should have gone di directly directly directly di- di to Mr Prescott's room after atter this and told him the whole story st ry Probably It would would woula have saved you youa a great deal of worry Copyright 1925 NEA Service Inc TOMORROW Letter TOMORROW Letter from Sally Atherton to Leslie Prescott |