Show e Tangle I LETTER FROM SALLY ATHERTON ATHERTON ATHERTON ATHER- ATHER TON TO LESLIE PRESCOTT CONTINUED Bee has become unduly about her appearance continued Dick this is particularly strange In a woman who until now has never thought much about her looks It was one of ot her great ch charms for me If It Beatrice knew she ahe was wag well welland welland welland and appropriately dressed she seemed perfectly at ease in any company She never thought of ot her looks after atter she entered a room Lately at times Umes she has become obsessed with the idea that she is going to die when the baby is born This is the most alarming symptom of ot all to meI me I wish Sally you would cheer her up a little I try to do the best I can but I am so busy I presume I Iet Ilet Ilet let et her miss many of ot those little attentions att at at- t she expects and deserves If It you stay around the studios very long Sally you will find tind that th there here re is no business or profession in inthe inthe the world that takes absolutely all Il Ilof of ones one's time ones one's brain in fact everything that one has to give as the movies do Amusing this sad old world is the most tiresome thing on onearth earth i I had time Leslie to observe to-observe Dick more carefully than I have done since e I have been here He is lookIng looking looking look- look Ing very careworn He seems to have grown very much older in the last Jut three or four years He rarely smiles You can expect a telegram telegram- almost j any time now in regard to Bee for tor of ot course I will send you one the moment the baby Is born Give my love to clack ack and remember ber what I told you ou at the he beginning of ot this letter Jetter I am saying the same thing that children mean when they say I I love you more than tongue can t tell lI SALLY Letter fr m Leslie Prescott to I The Little Marquise I It Is a long time dear Little Marquise Mar Mar- quise Quis since I have written you I hope nope however that In that distant country where you reside you are so happy that you have not missed my letters Jetters at all aU I assure you however that I have missed not nM being able to write to you To y you u only can I write of ot q my Y reactions l I hope you know Something of ot my life for tor the last month or two for tor If it you do you wf 1 know that it has been been- sC so full tull of ot action that I ha have e had no time Ume to write down my re re- re actions When one Is almost too busy to think retrospection and In introspection introspection in- in are pushed out Into the cold This I suppose dear Little Marquist Js Is the reason why active people are seldom absolutely un unhappy un- un happy If It I had been doing or experienc experienc- experiencing ing ling anything that wa was s in any way pleasurable lately I am sure that I would not have been glad that I have had no time to think for retro retrospection is the saddest of all occupations occupations with perhaps the exception of ot l Introspection I i Copyright 1925 NEA EA Service Inc Tomorrow Tomorrow Letter Letter from Leslie Prescott to The Little Marquise I |