Show I I I I I I I i I I I I I I. I LETTER FROM SALL 1 A AlU TO 10 RUTH DURI DURKE E. E My Dear Mrs Irs Durke Burke I I hope you will pardon my writing to you and that you will take this letter Inthe in inthe inthe the same spirit in which It is writ writ- ten I assure you that I I. I would never write I if I dId iid lid not think you would understand what I am going to say better than most women I know V. I am really at my wits' wits en end and andI I can only turn to you to help me Do you think that Leslie Is ever going to forgive Mr Prescott If It she is not noC going to do so so she I had better tell him so BO Imme immediately and get the break over as soon as possible lIe He is at present no good to this business himself nor non anything anything anything any any- I thing nor anybody Yes I quite agree with O I I know he is only getting what Is coming to him But that does not i ten straighten out things here at the plant He keeps everyone on t the e jump down here with his orders one minute which he countermands the next He lIe doesn't seem able to think I consecutively and he seems to have lost all that great constructive ability ability abil abil- ity which I have admired in him so much in the past pat I Honestly Mrs Eunice Burke I do not i think that Mr Prescott realized that thatIs Ms his Is absence at the time of Leslie's I sisters sister's death could make any particular particular par par- difference to her lIe He is one of those men who are always flattering flattening flattering flat flat- themselves that they ther never make a mistake about woman woman and and he un understands them not at all You and I know that when a am aman aman m man n has something something- disagreeable to togo togo togo go through through and and that was what Alices Alice's death meant to him John Alden Prescott Prescott- Prescott so o simply gets through with it with as little fuss as possible He doesn't want anyone anyone anyone any any- one outside e to help and more than all else he does not want any outside outside out out- side His Ills whole desire is 19 isto isto to get It over and of off his mind as soon as possible He lie doesn't even evenI want to talk about It for fear he will remember it a little longer l than is II necessary Besides you know Mrs Irs Burke that Mr Pres Prescott ott did not like Alice AIIce and I think he thought If It he were home he might say something that would hurt Leslie more than 1 if he stayed away Do not misunderstand me I am writing no brief for John Alden c I a am an almost lm st sure h had I been Lesle that a I would d have v broken with him then and there I would not have done however what 1 Leslie Is doing I wo would ld not have one rone away to eat my heart out In solitude and sorrow I have the greatest sympathy for tor torT T and I acknowledge her right right- i ess In matters She Is look- look ng at the thing only from a a. womans woman's womans wom worn ans an's viewpoint now however and andin andin andin in this case case though I think she Is wrong Copyright 1924 NEA Service Inc Tomorrow letter r continued |