Show 1 e Tig Q LETTER FROM LESLIE COTT COTT TO ro RI C 01 ot 01 THE TIU DR THI CO So vou ou think Leslie Prescott that I InveIgle Inveigled Karl Into marry- marry ing marrying me Alice repeated I as I did not answer knowing that it Ir I did she would be angrier than ever IIo e eer er when she repeated the question I said I Well ell I heard you say many times that you couldn't understand hy I married Jack when I ha hae e married that Karl Karl that you con con- consIdered considered con considered I Karl the most splendid man In the world and that you also alo could not conceive a girl mar mar- marrYing marrying I a poor man When vou ou an- an annexed an annexed acted the tho most splendid man In Inthe inthe inthe the world a with Ith ith one of ot its great InI I fortunes I though your ambition as satisfied Alice little Marquise faIrly stamped with aith Ith rage rage And you think she said her hr voIce thick and trembling that that Whitney still loves loses you and andIs andis andis Is perhaps marrying me simply be- be because because be because cause he ho wants to be near vou OU and to know about you I think nothing of or the kind I think Karl Is very fond of or ou ou But I J do think he is the kind of or a aman aman aman man that th t loves to nurse a 0 Ideal I believe that Karl Whitney Is happier because I refused hint him and married another man than he could possibly be with me for he has made me into an idealistic dream woman that I never could live up to Evidently E he knows you as S ou are in a measure for tor vou OU hase hae not scrupled to show your temper your egotism and your selfishness to him Under the circumstances pick on him now about an old ove ove that should be bo allowed to die it if It Isn't already dead You have no reason renson to be jealous of or me mo Alice for you know that I am very much In love with Jack I would not notI trade him for 40 Karl 8 Ith aith 40 10 much bigger than I his hl- Why Why worry about a pearl Dearl neck nechI necklace I lace which I is a s mere string of I beads to a young oun oung man of ot the I I wealth of or Karl Karl-a Karl a v oung man who j Is giving you two strings of pearls I I each one mOl e expensive titan than the tho theone one be he gave me I think iou OU are arc very little minded and graspIng grasping and and I want to tell teU you that if It every overy woman Insisted upon having all the presents to her that her fiance had bad given to other girls a great many women omen in this world orld lose many Jewels jewel Also Alao you must know Alice that very ery v to-v v o-v men marry thell first 10 loves loies es In fact I think that the man who does marry his that 10 loe 0 Is seldom happy happ A mans man's ideal usually changes greatly as he be omes be middle aged and ond matured by responsibility and experience experienceS It isn't that that- that that vou ou know It Isn't I that that Leslie L alle I dont don't care so much for or the money that those e pearls I cost but every evory time I see them themI around our neck I shall thai remember remember I ber the long years ears eara you OU were the In- In In of Karls Karl's aria life lire and the I Jew je Jenels els are the mementoes of the quest I I I l II try not to wear them when I yoU ate aie al e around I answered and andIn andin II tn In my own o mind I decided that I I I would be around her as little as I asI possIble po I m going to atop stop this letter now little Marquise for I have to go I antI and see soe Ruth Huth After that I probably probably probably ably will have lots to tell you Every Ivery day I thank God for you and the legacy leacy that sou ou left me meIn meIn meIn In the secret drawer LESLIE Copyright 1 12 21 NE I Service Inc Ine TOMORROW TO Letter from A ce to Lady Betty Detty Caroo an op 00 |