Show I I 1 I WW Q LETTER FROM LESLIE PRES TO o LESLIE LESLIC PResCOTT PRESCOTT t IA L THE THC SECRET DRAWER I lettera letter Here It Is lg little a Marquise a let let- let ter-a ter ter a love letter such as aa I am Sure not even ou e eer er received from sour our kingly lover I L too am going to forget I too am goIng to 10 b be happy and I 1 am sure dear little Marquise that unless a man I really and truly loved yo you very much he would neer ne'er ne cr get a con con- con constraint from a letter which ou I had tried tiled your ery cry ery hardest to tomake tomake tomake make unconstrained A man can get the nuance ot of ota ofa ofa a tone will tell him hini moro more than reams of ot 1 mitten words for tor sou Oll OLi know ar ara ari cold on paper bohn whatever they might bo hn they Issue from human lips When Jack sits down to try to understand me he does so with witha a p pi cadence that Is 18 almost un- un uncanny Uncanny un uncanny canny and sometimes little Mar Mar- Marquise lo eIs quise I think Jacks Jack's and m in mi Jose lo Is greater and sweeter and more beautIful little Jack Is just what and who ho he I la There 1 I se said ald It and antI as my husband saId I 1 m never going to mention It all again Jacks Jacka Jack s a letters lettera to me are so sos sosweet s and as aa I load lead them I en- en envelop envelop en envelop him with such an ideal that I hale base come tal to thIn an absent husband huband I Is more morel companIonable than one who Is ala beside you confiding This letter which I am I ing to your k keeping little Mar Marquise Mar Mar- quise I I think Is la the 8 sweetest one I ha e ha e e eel eie el recel cd not for ahat hat it sayi lY but for tor what that hat It doesn t and sa-and say and after all alt the things that people do not say Bay to you the things that you yourself read Into their spoken or written I ord are much more satisfying and precious Jack Jacks letter has made me want made him made me glad that he Is Ismine ismine Ismine mine and I believe now at least he loves me better than any wo- wo woman wo woman man In all the world orld Intend Dear I didn't In- In In tend to say t hat I t wonder nonder onder why hy I put in now now at least Is ho he II right Is some of my trust In him vanished Oh I WOn wont t hate hae hai ha e it so I will lit believe in Jack Fee Othera Iam I am lost There Its it s nil alt gone Im Im I'm not going to wait walt Jade Jack dear for your return to enter that beautiful beautiful ful tul land ot I m n I Inside the e portals non no waiting alting to tow elcome toI I a you's you But men are such auch que queer r crea crea- creatures crea- crea creature creatures ture tures little Marquise Think or of ending the gorgeously tempera tempera- temperamental temperamental temperamental mental love lovo letter with aith such auch ex- ex extraneous ex extraneous details as those whIch concern even the bereavement or of thy S-thy Atherton or the m tion of ot Sydney Carton It Its It's s a strange thing alt all this that goes on Inside of ot u us the thing that we never tell tell-at tell at least the thing we wo only tell once In a awhile Jack has haa told It to me In Ills his last letter leller and when he ho come bank back to me m hell he'll be quite QuIto as i no as ever over and Ill I'll wonder If It he really wrote It even eton e on while Im I'm accepting his hill kiss kias In Ina lL iv way say ay that thai will wilt probe probably bly snake make hIm question what hat there was In me Inc that would draw out such an as he has written n Little Marquise we we- w certainly understand ourselves just Juat as little as we understand others other LSLIE Telegram Prom Irom John Alden to Leslie LesUe Prescott Homo home tomorrow Meet me mo at atthe the train rACK JACK Leslie's Q Comment Written on the Bottom of ot the Tub Tele Telegram gram grom HI I hate meeting Ung anyone any any- one at rail rail- railway rail rail-ay wa way stations 1924 1824 NEA Serlee Sei Inc mc Tomorrow Letter from Beo- Beo Beair tr tr ir ie Le t Grimshaw to Sail Ather Ather- Atherton Atherton Atherton ton A l 1 Browns Brown's Boy I think III I 11 invite him to breakfast It If wo tie e breakfast together I am sure we no e will nub be befriends befriends friends for all time So moving about unhurrIedly Farmer Browns Brown's Boy cooked his breakfast At first Jimmy Skunk paid no attention to what Farmel Browns Brown's Boy wis doing But when the delicious smell smelt of ot ff fr frying Ing bacon led filled the little sugar house Jimmy began began- to tako a el y 11 ll cl eJ In- In Interest Interest In Interest terest Farmer Bron Browns Brown's Boy fin I fin fin- fin finished frying the bacon Then he I frIed some eggs One of the eggs egga J and some little pieces of ot bacon he put on a plate and act set it on the loor beside his hh own onn 0 n scat seat Jimmy Skunk i Is a gentleman Ho He was hungry very hungry In- In indeed In Indeed deed But he ho didn t gobble UP that food Ho lIe ate ato It as a gentle gentle- g gentleman gentleman man should When ho lie had licked up UI the list hat bit of egg and hi his plate was ass quite clein n he ha was still sUII hungry lie He looked up at Im I'm Fanner mer Browns Brown s Box Boi with hi his front front feet teet At first Far Far- Oar Farmer Farmer mer Browns Brown's Boy didn't under under- understand understand understand stand Jimmy became a little Im- Im Impatient Im Impatient patient Ho ito showed It In the way he stamped Then Farmer Brown s 5 Boy Bov guessed what Jimmy meant Why you hungry little rascal saId he I I do believe you want ant antmore more mores lIe He took an egg from his 0 oan n plate and put it down on Jimmys Jimmy's plate Then he put a saucer r of or milk on the floor loor Jimmy ate the egg and then lapped up the milk His stomach was nas full ull It If he could have purred as aa Black Pussy the Cat purrs I am am sure suro he ho would e I hat hae e purled purl cd Jimmy walked o cr to the bunk and under It It There It was as dark darle- darkest darkest est His full tull lull stomach made him sleepy He III curl curled cl UI up fOI toi a nap nop Farmer larmer Bro Browns Bron n s Boy was i cd ed it H Ho 0 knew now that ho lie and I Jimmy Skunk would g gt t along alonS to- to to ahel perfectly He ITo knew that JImmy knew v that there was noth oth nothIng I Ing log him to fear In that sugar sugarhouse sugarhouse I house lIe He knew that this Jimmy would never use that little scent gun Un of his TIle Tr dishes had Just been washed up when Farmer Bro Brown Bronn arrIved I I had company tor for bl said Farmer Browns Brown's Bov Boy Who asked Farmer Brown Jimmy Skunk replied Farmer Brown s a Boy Good land exclaimed I Bro Brown Bron n Where Is ho he now ho be asked looking about an anxiously i Under that bunk fast fat asle p replIed Brown Drown 8 ii Bo Farmer armer Brown Drown began to back hastily to towards ards tho open door I Copyright 1924 by T W Burgess Burges The net t story Jimmy Digs Dis 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