| Show 1 r I THE TANGLE I I LETTER FROM MELVILLE SARTORIS SARTORIS SAR SAR- TORIS TO LESLIE PRESCOTT You may be surprised to hear bear from me In fact I 1 am not sure that you will read this letter after atter the first two or three p paragraphs I didn't ask you If it I might write you for tor I was afraid you y U would re refuse refuse re- re fuse and then of ot course I would have to forego the exquisite pleasure pleas pleas- I ure I am having tonight of sitting here nere alone on the deck out of sight of land with nothing but the waste of waters round about me me talking talking to you I look all over the wonderful restless se sea and then I retire into my own mind where only you are and I r find rest I know v that as far as I am concerned concerned concerned con con- you and I are the only two p people in this whole universe Everything that nature has made up until now v has been for us alone It is a gorge gorgeous us night night made made for love Tl Tb Thoa a water Is singularly calm The is making Its customary path of silver studded with diamonds diamonds dia dia- I monds from my yacht straight up to where where somewhere somewhere on the solitary soIl soli tary star that seems to be sailing I along b beside the shining orb rests orb rests I my Lady of the Snows You see see lady fair fall Im I'm taking all sorts of liberties because I know you will not answer answer r I know that you cannot answer answer I I am quite sure that I do not want you to answer If by any possibility I were vain enough to expect an answer I r would be writing you a totally different kind of letter Now however I am outside of ot any conventional restriction restriction restriction tion I r am going to Indulge In the luxury of ot showing you myself as s I am arn I r have no fear In doing this for forI I never expect to look upon your face ce again I have not words dear lady to tell you the sharp agony that was mine that day yO you fell into the w water wa water wa- wa ter from off my yacht I suffered a million pangs so much worse than the pangs of death that his grizzly hand has now no terrors for me I r also know that the story is true wherein we are told that toot one may review his whole life in one Infinitesimal in infinitesimal In- In moment of time I know that in the moment when I saw your beautiful body hurling Itself downward to what I was sure sur was certain and sudden death all alJ the things that I have say ay to you from the first moment I met you uttered themselves to you In my distracted mind I told you that I had found you the one desirable woman of all the earth I rall railed d at society for ma maing mak ma- making ing me keep this all in my he heart rt until the moment when I 1 thought I r would never nver be able to tell teU you I railed at myself for thinking I could ever tell you this for I knew If I did try to t to it and I found that you that you w would uld listen It would dissipate dissipate dissipate dis dis- all ll my regard fos you That you ou are arc unapproachable to such as I makes In you the perfect wo wo- wo- wo man roan Jf you ou had stepped down from your pedestal for one moment while I r was with you yeu my disappointment would have been almost more than I could bear Thank God you never did And so you remain perfect in my e eyes es enshrined in my heart f forever for for- or- or ever ever Copyright 1925 NEA Service Inc Tomorrow Lett Letter r From Melville Sartoris to Leslie Prescott |
