Show I HIOM RO ROi PIlES COlT COTT TO PRESCOTT TIA I I wish lou ou wouldn t ask me Leslie said Jack wh when n I asked him why I should not speak to Ruth Ellington ln agin I shall certainly certain not ak aik a k ou but I will aill demand that you ex- ex explain ex explain plain Ruth Ellington Is a thief Les Les- Leslie Les- Les Leslie Leslie I lie I I dont don't belle believe 0 It I knew ou iou would say a that I but I have proof pr pf I wish you v would open your wall safe and see what you find there WIry Why do iou ou ask me to do this I Jack aek That Is my own lon and no one has access to It except So So vou you ha hae ha e 0 told me before Leslie but I came In here hero about e fh e 0 o clock the other night to find your your friend Ruth in front of ot the I safe and she ha explained to me that she had bad made many large sales gales that day and did not nol dare to keep the tho moe none In tn the house and nd that It was too late to deposit It at the bank hank bankI I How How did she know the combination combination tion 1 I did not know what to answer I could not tell him that I had bad given the combination so that she could get et my pearls out to match them up with aith the tho one the walter waiter was bringing I knew also that that solitary pearl WI wa waa in the safe sate Go and open the tho sate eafe Lalio L li I shall do nothing of ot the kind Then ou do not deny giving Ruth the tha combination 1 I I neither deny nor affirm Jack Jck sprang to his feeL teet He is was made with rage He lie picked me up not too gentl gentis and set me roe down in front frent of the tho wall site from he had taken the picture which had al a hung oser 0 er It Open that safe Leslie I did it reluctantly and the first thing that was wan disclosed was wag the six thousand dollars In a 11 roll of at bili bills There Thero I said eald triumphantly ou ue see K e It Is exactly as she said She had put money here Instead ot of taking It out Jack snatched the bills aWAY from me and hurriedly counted them Then shaking them In mY face tace he exclaimed Do ou for or one II moment think that Ruth Ellington I could sell salt six ala thousand dollars orth of underclothes In that messy little shop bop of ot hers hem In tn one day I Itell Itell Itell I tell ou au she Is II a a thief liar Her husband sent her this money to payoff pay oft off his I creditors and bo he probably has s nt i her other mone money before this which lellO ehe ho has hall used to put up that shop Or of hers Jers And now she Js Is dragging 3 ou Ott Into the mes mess meM I tell you Lea Les- Leslie Lealie Les Leslie lie right now I shall put Ilien a I lien Hen on this thie money tomorrow and also on the shop as asserting n that she sho has bas used money mOlley that belongs to me I II 11 send her to prison prison If It necos- necos neCessary necessary sary If It If you do this John lohn Prescott I walk alk 01 out ott t of ot your house torn tomor or- or orlOW lOW and never look on sour our face tace gain I Good God Coil Leslie what do you mean Copyright 1924 XEA ServIce Inc JO Leslie continues c lies letter letter- letter u tu compari son son I |