Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-06-03 | Page 15 | The Tangle

liThe IliThe I The Tangle LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT PRESCOTT PRES- PRES COTT TO RUTH DURt BURKE E. E Ruth Dear Zoe Ellington and Sydney Carton both have disappeared disappeared disappeared In iii a most mysterious fash fash- ion Tho The night of my party part you ou may remember that we missed Zoe Jack being the tho curious member of our family tried to find out when and with whom she left Zoe however however how how- ever eyer at least IE so he tells me re refused refused refused re- re fused to give him any information whatever on the subject Jack says that at the party she was wag very nervous and asked him him several times If we were surely going to leave on the morning train As you ou know we all did Oils mis Zoe was very strange on the train over here to Pittsburg and seemed to be afraid to be alone When we arrived ed and I showed her her room and the new nursery Instead of saying saing anything about the convenience s and beauty of the furniture and decorations she threw herself at my feet saying Oh Mrs Prescott if you ou only knew how much I love love- you jou ou and little Jack You do not know what it means for me to be here with you You will keep me with you wont won't you It seems to me now that HI if H I could spend my entire life with you It would be all I could ask I thought it rather strange Ruth as you know how self contained o Zoe has always seemed but I took toole it that she had worked worked very very hard and was nervous and overwrought I reassured her of ot my appreciation of her love and bade her goodnight goodnight good goodnight night a as she seemed much calmer calm I didn't think so much nuch about this until I received the next morning which was yesterday a letter from mother which contained the most surprising information You know mother has been In Switzerland S with Karl Well VeIl at Berne a a. young woman called upon pon her to ask about Zoe It was not Elizabeth Swartz whom you have heard about from Zoe but someone of whom mother had never heard According to this girl Zoe has a most peculiar history Three times Umes she has had affairs and broken up the homes of three different married married mar mar- ried ned men This girl who was the sister-in-law sister of one of f the men was very bitter against her She ass asserts that th the law in de deserted deserted deserted de- de his family for Zoe and at last lost his splendid position in a baking house through her Naturally Naturally Naturally ally the couple were reduced to great distress and Zoe told the man she was was was' going to live In poverty with him no longer She told him she had never loved him him but had decided aft after r Harry her brother had died died to to go into some some- family of wealth and arid influence e and arid make some connection onn tion either legitimately legitimate legitimate- ly or illegitimately that would in insure insure insure in- in sure her a a home When this man had found out that she had betrayed d him and saw that he had given up wife and child and home home everything everything he he had In Inthe inthe inthe the world world for for someone who cared nothing for him It seems he went nearly Insane and swore to kill her Copyright 1925 NEA Service Inc TOMORROW This letter con con- tn U ed