| Show LT PROM LESLIE con corr 10 io O J LESLIE TI CO emphaticallY Certainly not I 1 assorted E Ee E cn 01 then that woman not he be b content eU 11 that Is I what nil eli the city cit is talking about Mrs Prescott sh he continued The The end e of the tb picture I shows hows that instead of being the wIre who bo palms palm off ort her Illegitimate child upon the th bus husband band it Is the girl g gin who palms off oft upon the th wife wit the th child 1 lot of whom hom the th husband Is the rather father Does Docs the tho wife Ite find It out J I Iwas was WAS surprised thit thet In my oleo oice did not tremble little Marquise No they fi fix that up ery ery clever cleHr- des cleverly er- er erly ly The girl thinks think she sho ho tell tIle the th lb wife Ite and in a 0 way nay ay contrives to set see sether e her and tho the bab and ho ho he fInd finds that the wife is so In lose l e with the baby bab that she does not want to hurt her herin in such uch a 8 a grievous ous lY as Eh he would It if she sh he took the til child from hr fron-hr her bel to so she sir go goes coe eo back to her nork ork I In this case Is in a m millinery T store while hUe the tho husband In his heart Ing the child is hi lila his ow own ond and the wife always suspecting it Is his clasp hands or o 0 or the tho th little cradle Neither of them er c tells the other picture It It must be b a n very human pic- pic pie pic turo ture and they are ar pretty big bir people arent aren't they Mrs Mr Smithson I said Mid It Is rry ery probable prohibit that you and I would not be b able abl to keep such uch a a suspicion In our hearts as did that wife Ite What do iou OU think lou ou do under the th circumstances I cc would ferret terret the th matter out to the tho ery bottom But But e cn it you found the child did belong to the man ou he hee hae e no proof that he h had been un- un untrue Unu un-tru un true u to ou since you married m d InI I r No but think of his depra depravity Ity In foisting his own brat upon me inc r It If you were vero childless Mrs Irs Smithson ind nd it seems tho woman In the tho was I think he ha would have done don you a 0 great creat favor I In cint nt ion on soe see Mrs Pres Pr- Prescott cott that e e pry rv time timo that man looked at the baby hit he h would see the I i face tace ot of its mothel and that mother not b you I I knea kne little I Marquise that'll she was nas as talking ot of ofru ru m baby and not of ot the thc otI I Perhaps but did sou hou ou ne neer ne er e think that a man often otten look looks Into Ithe the race faces of ot his 1113 children of ot whom another wit was the mother mothel and stilt still has enough lose Io 10 0 and to spare paro I I for tor the present wife Ire whom hom he mayl love better than e een en en tile the th mother mOlher ot of his children I I You would not speak peak In this I wa 0 Mrs rs Prescott unless sou ou were ere sure suro of ot the parentage e of sour our own bab On the contrary Mrs Smithson 1 I am not at tit all 1 Bure sure I ha e no kno ledge whatever hate er of tho the parent parent- ago to of John Aide Alde Prescott Jr You are arc a queer woman Mrs Prescott Surely ou are arc oung and ond must expect to have havo other children I cannot understand why you al- al lowed your husband or why hy lie he want to do It Do what Name Nam that child John Alden Prescott Jr Suppose you had an- an another another an another other bo boy Would you not want ant ant him to bear his father s name I 1 may bo be b mistaken Mrs Mr rs Smith Smith- Smithson son Smith son but I do not belte e I shall ever Jove lov more moro a child of ot my own than I do little Jack Jock Copyright 1923 1323 NEA Service I TOMORROW Inc LalIo Ello goes e x's on with the letter Getting letter 11 rid 1 of a n ngo go |
