Show e Q ng n I I FRO FRO I LESLIE PRIS- PRIS PRES-COTT PRES COlT TO JOHN ALDEN I PR COIT The Th train was very cry late de dear dearheart dearheart r heart consequently I got tot Into New NewYork NewYork York just In time to drive 0 dl- dl directly di directly to the th dock There was as a 0 abad abad bad accident on the tracks track In front fronto of us u and we w had to watt wall alt until It was cleared away For the first time Ume In my life Jack dear I got a a little creepy feeling around my heart when hen I saw tho the long line of ambulances and undertakers wagons taking the tho people past my car In the early morning from the wreck reck Just u t ahead It was as wa almost a 8 stroke of o that we e v e did not I lun tun un Into this wreck because our engineer missed the th sIgnals and only stop pod top top- pod our train within a 0 short dl- dl dis distance tance tanco of o the other However ever It If we alwa always s worried about the tho accidents that mIght halo hae ha e happened or the tho troubles that might have been ours but buttor for some lucky stroke of o provi provi- providence providence dence I think we rte would beery be sery ery unhappy people I 1 got cot a rather morbid feeling Jacl ho however ever as I wilted welted there thereIn thereIn therIn In my compartment for the traIn to start 1 I wondered just what hat you and little Jack would do Ir if IrI I never came back to you you 1 0 hatI I that Isn't a nice Dice thing thine for tor an absent ab- ab sent ont wife to write rite to her hus hu- huband husband band is It if But I 1 in m trying to I Itell tell you vou ou frankly wkly just what hat I do doand i oa nail il think f from now onI on onI naI I dont don't know now ow whether hether I men men- menu mentioned to you u au that I had a a letter of darn c Grimshaw the day before Sales I came cam me away ay and Sally Atherton A had d written her that she thought all of ot us were more or orless less les h hi ideal and said hypocrisy was as the attribute that animals and tootoo took k on with their souls noula I wonder Jack Jaek just how al she sh thinks think you are She's a very sery ery clever girl firl and she's not telling you iou 00 or anybody else all ali alithe the things thines she ho Is thInking She comes the tho th nearest being belne eon confidential n- n to Beatrice who ho by the th way wai a tells tell me m that her engagement encasement with Dick Sum sum- summers mers Is liable to be started again Why by Is It my dear that the women who ho and ar arc most fascinating for the moment to men arc the women omen they would never for tor wives Ives Personally I think Paula Paulo Pener Perler would make malte a charming wife for tor any man Perhaps Per Per- Perhaps Per Perhaps haps ho however e eer er she he he herself hei hN elf el did not want ant to marl mart many y Dick I thInk that might be the case cae although I would not tell Beatrice I wonder why I have hav written II all this about Sally Atherton and Dick and Paula Paulo Perler to you when I should hould be tolling telling you vou meeting ny my father and anel mother Ihen and Alice AliceI I wonder onder If It I looked as e to them as aa they did to me moo Alice Allee caught ht sight of me on the dock first first as the ship nosed Into the slip and honestly Jack 1 I would I not h have hate e kno known know I her If Ie she sho hadn t shouted m my mv name over and over Daddy Daddys s looking very sery ery well ell but I much thinner thin when hen he left lett-H lett He seemed to bo be aw fully glad clad to I get back Into America again I Karl ar arV W is more mor solemn ht i th than ever V and dear r dear mother made me mo realize how much I ha hale hae e missed her when hen she sh took me In hot arms and told me now glad she was as to see ee sc me again acain Jack Sou vou ou t know Alice AliceC C 1924 1 24 NEA Inc Tomorrow Letter From Leslie Lelle Prescott to John Alden Prescott continued |