Show 9 I THE TANGLE I LETTER FROM SALLY SALLY ATHERTON ATHER ATHERTON TON T TO LESLIE PRESCOTT PRESCOTT- CONTINUED Ioor Poor Dick C Leslie he he seemed all broken up to to think that for one his dying wife should have bave thought he could not take ke care of the baby he was leaving behind It It- seemed rather strange to me too Leslie but I knew how a apt t tee Bee was Beo-was ee was wa to o arrange everything for everyone around her and arid I said I expect Dick that Bee thought Paula could pay more attention to he the baby than you Just It Sally Paula works work Jut as hard as I I Udo do It If she were going to give the baby to someone why didn't she give glye it it to tc toa toa a woman Who vho had no profession You must remember Dick that Bee was rather old fashioned after all It would never enter her head that a n. m man n could bring up a bab baby especially a girl as well as a woman woman wom worn an even though that woman woman were quite as aR a busy as a man Did DId did she tell tel you Ou anything else asked Dick visibly embarrassed embarrassed embar embar- y Yes She told me she hoped you and Paula would marry as h s soon as asIt asit asit It was feasible after her death I wonder what made her her think that would ue tie a a u gOu thing for forme meto meto me meto to do San Sally do you believe that Bee had a a. crazy Idea that I 1 cared more for Paula than I did for her I know I was foolish enough to have been fascinated ted with Miss Per- Per ncr when I first first- came out here but I came cams to my senses very soon and saw that the only woman for forme forme forme me was Bee I told her her- herthe the whole story was story was perfectly honest with her her and and asked aske n nOr net t et itt me me- come back to her I have never been sorry for a minute that she was sweet enough to let me comeDo comeDo come Do you suppose that she never got over that time and that that- It preyed upon her mind until It had become an n- n obsession She married me you ou know and became great friends frIends' with Paula and she must have thought th that that- t. t Paula was yaS a good woman an honest woman and anda a n loyal woman for she wanted her herto herto I Ito to have her child I I would never forgive myself i 1 iI I thought I had hurt Bee Bee in any any anyway anyway I way Sally he said suddenly tell me pow how I am am going to get along without her 1 x i pe needn't tell you Leslie LesIle that men grow up for I am sure that you have found this out with your husband hus bus band even band even I know him enough t to know that he Is perhaps more little bo boyish Ih th thin than n most men I As Dick asked me how v he was going to get along without Bee he came over and dropped on his knees beside me me and buried burled his head In my lap while his body fairly shook with sobs I felt about 70 70 years ears ol old as I placed my hand on his his' he head d and tried to comfort him All the time ime however I 1 had a queer kind of impression that although he was not owning It to himself in ina ina ina a little time he would feel quite differently and rather happy in his new nev freedom I 1 was not so sure however that Paula Taula Perrier would marry him and hont honestly hons Leslie I dont dot think k Dick w would ild be toe any happier with ith het hei than he be had been with Bee Copyright 1925 5 N A Service Inc TOMORROW TOMORROW Letter Letter from Sally Atherton to Leslie Prescott |