Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-26 | Page 13 | The Tangle

TANGLE LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT PRESCOTT PRESCOTT PRES- PRES COTT TO LITTLE MARQUISE CARE OF THE SECRET DRAWER I I have been writing you at long I lately dear little confidant confidant dant but once in a while I feel as though I must must tal kt and this I Is one of the times Strange how much easier It Is for a woman to keep her own counsel as she gr grows ws older I know when I Iwas was a girl I had to tell everything that happened to tome tome tome me and every reaction I had to Beatrice Grimshaw Poor Bee She's been dead many years ears but although I think I have loved Ruth more than I ever loved oved her y yet t I have never been able to tell Ruth the things I c could uld easily tell to Bee When I have neede da confidant I have written to you Little Marquise Marquise Marquise Mar Mar- quise and I think it has done me quite as as much good as though I had placed my co confidence In mortal keeping Those Thos-e fateful pearls are out of ot my hands forever and from the moment they were not mine I have felt relt a great freedom as though though- something was j taken out of my soul that had burdened It almost beyond my endurance I know Its It's silly dear to be so su superstitious su- su but I cant can't help helu it and Im I'm sorry Paula PerrIer bought half of dl them but perhaps as she is certainly not superstitious be because because because be- be cause she bought them she wont won't have the bad luck I have had since I possessed them I know that to anyone but you you Little Marquise it would seem silly when I say I have had bad luck when I Intimate that I am anything but the happiest woman woman woman wo wo- man no earth You my dear confidant confidant con con- are the only on one who knows all of my mr misfortunes You as well wel as I know that while money can bring material comfort conort it cannot have the slightest effect upon the he sorrows or the joys of the soul Little Marquise I want you to know that I have nothing in my heart this moment which is not love and admiration for tor Paula Per Per- rier She never really voluntarily hurt me Indeed she has always shown sho me the greatest consideration tion and respect since I have perI personally personally per per- known her All that tragedy trag trag- I ed edy of hers and my husbands husband's was started at a time when she thought there was no other othel woman but bat herIn her herin herin in his heart I I. expect at hat time she only felt relt that she would probably be willing willingto to pay for the ecstatic bliss she felt then And she has paid Sometimes Little Marquise I Iwonder Iwonder wonder wondel Just how John will pay For certainly the good Lord would not punish one unless he punished the theother theother other notwithstanding all the lovely lovely lovely love love- ly lines the poet wrote rote about sins sips that were done two by two and paid for one by one But whatever has gone between Jack and Paula and whatever r will come if it anything comes I shall al always always always al- al ways bless her for giving me my oldest son Copyright 1926 NEA Service Inc Tomorrow Tomorrow This This letter continued