Show TANGLE LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT PRESCOTT PRES PRES- COTT TO LITTLE MARQUISE CARE OF THE SECRET DRAWER Continued In a short time Little Marquise after aHer I had hugged my two boys until the they were tired Jackie spoke I have been so lonesome since you have been een gone Mover that I have wanted to die Of Ot course Little Marquise I 1 knew that my oldest son did not know wh what t the word die meant But nevertheless It sent a cold shiver down my sp spine ne and I Interposed Interposed Interposed Inter Inter- posed hastily Oh no no Jackie you OU mustn't say that Little bOs want to live and grow up and be good men n like e their daddies But Dut mover I cant can't help but be lon lonesome some when youre you're gone Ive I've tried and tried and I Just could not be happy like at all I Just wanted to lie down on my bed ana and go to sleep and not wake up until you came back until back until the pretty lady came Although I knew that Jackie meant Paula Perrier I 1 said Who ho was the pretty lady Jackie I dont don't know all her name Aunt Sally calls her something like Paul but ats a boys boy's name you know She calls me darling he said shyly What do you ou say Jackie Jackle when you want to speak to her I asked rather anxious t to know tra my adopted son called Miss Perrier Jerner t Oh Ob I say say Pretty lady and she says Yes darling Then she takes me In her arms and hugs me Just as tight as you did a little while ago and she says in a soft kind of sorry voice a lot of words that I cant can't understand I 1 asked her what they were and she said at they were French and at I 1 must musi learn them right away I 1 told her herI I did not have to learn French to talk to you De other day she said You love your mover ver very much dont don't you darling And I said said anyone And she said You mu must t always love her anybody as she Js is the best woman at ever lived At made me feel all aU warm and mover I 1 put my arms around her neck and kissed her a lot It almost seemed as asi though I were kissing you But I fink I must have hurther hurt hurther hurther her some way kissing her so hard har l for her cheeks all got tears on them and they ran down her nose and got Into my mouth and nd ey were all sal salty y What do you suppose made her cry mover She said I didn't t hurt her Has brother been good Jackie I asked to turn the conversation Copyright 1925 NEA Service Inc TOMORROW TOMORROW This This letter contin contino |