Show e n ny nG y G 1 I LETTER LETIEn I LESLIE PRE PRE COTT CUl corr TO RUTH CONTINUED The Th first year of o Jacks Jack's Jack and my married We life was wa comparatively bapp although we w had to make mak maka many adjustments adjustment The Tho second year you know dear little tittle Jack Jaek came to mo me after atter my serious illness ill li linen ness nen and I found out about the pearls I wish Ish Karl had nev r conceived the tho romantic idea of o COl- COl COllecting collecting coi them thorn It was not until the beginning bei ot of othe the third year that I 1 found OUt that little Jack asa wa my husbands husband's own child I forgave him thIs thi but now seeing how Jack acts act about the pearls I am wondering If It I 1 would have hav forgiven Jack it the tho whole hole scandal had become public property and my pride hurt s ace well as my faith in Jack Jaek You know dear you said sald you thought I should tell Jack It if I 1 had the slightest Idea he ho would hear hearIt hearit hearIt It from any one on else ele Your our In- In intuition In Intuition tuition was waa correct but Ruth I Idid Idid Idid did not expect that I would be b tabbed stabbed In la the the th back by my own sIster dieter and it never occurred to mo me even it if someone else told my hus- hus husband hus hUs- hUsband husband band that when hen he ho he head tho truth of ot the th whole story tory he would actual me Ine not only of disloyalty to himself but to the tho th very name ot of wife wit I was as so happy dear to that Jack and I could say when our third anniversary came aroun arouni that thai with all the stress tress and storm ot of the th last three years we had ha l lr r really JIlly never ner ne er r had a Teat great Treat differ differ- difference a ence-a ence a difference that lasted over 24 hours hour Then the very last day and aft ern oon bang bitt-bang- biff bane and everything went up In smoke It lust seems u as though I 1 am a target of ot the th anonymous letter lettu writer I wonder If It everybody gets two or three anonymous anon letters letter la 10 hIs life Usually these letters lettera ire Ue more or less les a tissue tl uc of ot lies lit andI and andI andI I think It is about the th meanest way wy fn n all the th world of ot breaking the tho ninth commandment and bearIng false witness against ones one's on neigh neigh- neighbor bor bore bor boreI I boreIn In my cue cast however howver the th story happened to be b true but e n though I 1 suspect that my own sister wrote it her pen was tipped with the venom of ot Jealousy y and she he intimated that Karl and I 1 were still till lovers Can anything be more mors terrible than the tragedy that has ha ha com comb to me m T 7 Like lightning out of ot a clear sky ky I nod find that my sister Bleter l tr has betrayed me mo and my husband thinks I have hav betrayed him Could anything be b worse Oh Ruth nuth I 1 dont don't know what hat todo to todo todo do It If I should tell Karl what lies hRS Happened It if I should show how hm the letter which Jack In his hi excitement ex- ex ex excitement did not auk ask me m to return to him Karl would never marry and Alice and that would matters further i I I think perhaps the th best thin thing I li liI of all Is I to have haie a regular show show- showdown how down I down between Alice Karl J eJ land and and myself and you my deer der d a r be- be because be because its I cause you know so BO much about it nil all together and simply Imply have hav the tho matter settled once one for tor all aU Just now however howver I am too worried bout about my father and too hurt and unhappy to think It would he north orth the th trouble It If dad were welt well I 1 would go o to tl him and tell him the th whole holo thing thIn He would understand But my dear gentle mother would proba proba- bly probably ly never be able ablo to hell believe eve that th ton one of or her dRug daughters had hd don dons such a thIng as aj I am sure ur Alice Allee has haa done Jack Jilek hen s ha Bent sent me m no word since tineI I came cam over hero here 1924 1124 NEA NE ServIce B Inc Ine I t TOMORROW The Tho c letter con COil continued tinned 00 |