Show 1 eCI t I LETTEn I PRES-COTT PRES I I corr TO PRESCOTT COIT TI CO ULD As s Sydney voiced hi his theory theol ot of my baby's real 1 mother knowing kno my need before she ga ga e e ma sue her child I 1 felt differently d her she couldn't keep him I ond cd It if she had e eier eer er n either me mc or Jack or had she Just 1 read the tho account In the tho paper Anyway Anyay I 1 said saki l whatever er mabe ma mab be b her motives I am thankful to her and I think I I might her greater g In cin sins than ca o esen hing g-hing her baby away under tho the circumstances Again I thought I Intercepted looks of apprehension and compre compre- comprehension hension passing bet between een the t tto 0 men but I 1 said to my myself elf Dont h heiti be he iti Leslie 1 as ns a great came Into In my brain What It If I child was S Sidney Carton Cartons s hat It if that wa was wai the tho rl reason reanon on be he had not notI I wanted to met meet me hat If tt that was the tho reason Jack and ho he had seemed to have haie e a secret het een them 1 Even en while I J disliked the tery ery thought I could iee ee where a wo- wo woman woman wo woman man might give ghe everything e herself Included to a mm nita like Sdney Carton I f felt It my gorge rise the sake of ot my se sex set I 1 would explain I 19 this man n just how I felt about an affair of ot this thie kind I I 1 might e the moth moth- mother mothen mother er en of little Jack I said decided dc because I know aho eho ho must have suffered untold agony she sho determined to pa pait t with her ler baby bilby et I do not think I could e ever eser er for for- for give glie a man who ho would bring a wo- wo woman wo woman man who nho loved lo him to such a a pass It 11 seemed to me mo that SIdney grew pale a 01 he lie said Pel haps heI he I could not help It Leslie Perhaps n a chain of ot Incident Incidents made It impossible for him to do ho lie did didou iou ou speak very tory ery SidI S SId d dI I think the man not only a scoundrel scoundrel drel drol but a coward Have hate iou ou r eer known an pl episode ode of ot the tho kind hind Before he lie could coule answer Jack Interrupted Sa Say Say dont don't iou OU think that we ml might ht hll hava haie 0 a little gaiety interjected into this Ihli meal mell What difference doe docs It mako 1 Ls s wh whether thor you could forgive the fath fath- fath father er r and not he mother or forgive Ive the mother and lot ot the tho father got o got the kid Rid haven haien te t tie e ehY hY not let well enough alone alono Why hy not do as I 1 do Just forgot torget that tho the baby ever r hid d anti pa except ourselves e Perhaps that Is a good Idea Leslie assented S Sidne It seem seem- seemed seemed seemed ed to me that ho Ito was nan a II littLe too eager to put that construction on the matter and It to me mathat that Jack rescued him with a little too much alacrity Try as I might I could not get m ml mind nay away from the I found hoping that Sydne Carton was not the father Cather of ot that child All at once I J found I did not want to know knon icho ho the father Cather nan as or the tho mother I Copyright 1323 1923 XE NE NE I Ser Service Inc mc TOMORROW M of r Cret letter |