Show If THE TANGLE i LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT PRESCOTT PRESCOTT PRES- PRES COTT TO THE LITTLE MARQUISE MAR MAR- QU QUISE QUISE I S E-CO E CONTINUED N U E D. D I move somewhat restlessly I had not expected that Melville Sar- Sar artons ar- ar tons would be beso so confidential I do donot donot donot not not know what I expected Little Marquise but 1 I only knew what he was saying and the w way wy y he was as assaying assaying saying it was was a great surprise to tome tome me You needn't be afraid of ot me Leslie Im I'm n not t going to say anything anything anything any any- thing to y you OU that will make you uncomfortable He lie did not seem at all aware that he had used my first name twice It was done so naturally and so impersonally that 1 I. I could hardly remind him of ot It If It ItI I did it would almost seem as though I had attributed to it something something something some some- thing more than he h had d Intended We e both were silent for tor a. a a moment moment moment mo mo- ment watching that was Just comIng up over the tops of ot the tall taU buildings across from us What a night he said to be sailing across an untroubled sea sea far tar far from all ll worry and care I must talk fast however I have only one half hour tonight out of ot your life Ilfe and mine and I want II to make you understand something that you nor I 1 will ever forget t as I long as time shall last for us I expect Leslie I am rather selfish In making you listen to my story The fairies cursed me at my birth birth birth- I 1 must have turned surprised surprised surprised sur sur- eyes ees up p to his for he had great good looks culture an appreciation appreciation of ot the beautiful and I knew he had always had one of ot the greatest greatest greatest great great- est fortunes in America Surely thee were not nor curses Yes he said said as though I 1 had made some remark I know of ot what you OU are thinking Leslie It Is what everyone everone thinks when he sees seed me circling th the globe in the finest fiest yacht acht afloat Nearly every person I 1 meet thinks enviously what enviously what he could do with all the money in the world to spend and no one to make him Unhappy unhappy un un- happy N No one seems to realize that money does not make one happy Indeed I 1 tell teU you I was cursed with all that money If It I had been poor I would have had to work and perhaps b by that w would uld have been saved from this doubt of ot my fellow fellowman fellowman fellowman man and my utter boredom with life Maybe Mabe you OU have been told something something something some some- thing of ot my history I 1 always alwa's have havea a feeling when I see two people talking together when I am ath by they ire are are relating the tragedies that have clouded my life My mother rah ran away with my roy fathers father's best friend when I 1 was 4 years ears old Only Ohly the fact that that she left me behind made my father believe be be- be believe believe lieve that I 1 belonged to him Instead of ot his wife's lover I 1 felt sure until until un un- un- un til after he died that my father never cared eared a Jot for tor me I always reminded him of ot my mother whom everyone said I 1 resembled From a sense of ot duty he gave me everything I 1 w wanted When other boys were playing hobby hobbyhorse hobbyhorse hobbyhorse horse with a stick between their legs I had the costIl costliest st motor that money could buy When other young men were fussing about the rivers In canoes during their college vacations I 1 was lolling on the deck of ot the finest little yacht In American American Ameri Amen can waters Yes Yes I Yes yes I had everything that money could buy buy and and that was all Copyright 1925 NEA Service Inc |