Show I ciT I L wEe sc LETTER FROM SYDNEY CAR CARTON TON TO JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT Perhaps Td ld better confess in the thIrst fIrst place dear old chap that I Iam Iam Iam am very Tory much afraId afraId-afraid afraid afraid of or Leg Lea U Les-U lie afraid afraid of at and and most moat of ar arall all afraid of you You are arc such a too fool J Jack Jk k You Yau never know kno when you are re well oft orr orrand and all aU the while I feel eel that you are sitting over aver a volcano and that some day this mamed married life le of af o yours wilt will go ga o all aU nuey fluey Did ou ever stop step to 11 think that there ther is a divorce for every eight marriages Dont Don't add to ta your possibilities of af being beine that unlucky number eight Of course I 1 cannot cannat understand how Leslie feels eels about ou au but knowing ou as I 1 do I know I wouldn t I live liv with Ith ou a minute Will ou tell me m just why hy ou want to break up the friendship between Ruth Ellington and Leslie I 1 happen to ta have known Ruth Ruthery cry ery well before beare she was married and as s ou au say Bay she was the gayest and t girl eirl in her set Bet I know that something cry cry terrIble must have happened in the first sear ear of af her bEr marrIage for far she has never been the same since I I net ne er did like Harry Ellington I He Is the mot moist selfish egotistical arrogant man man manI I have over ever met and that's going colne some some What little litti I 1 have hale seen of ef Rut Ruth since her marrIage man has made me think she Is a brave little thIng thine who wha doesn't tell her troubles to ta every cne but I would like to tell Harry one ane thing thine I believe I know Ruth well enough to ta prophesy that there are plEnt plenty ot of o men would auld be very glad to make love lore to her hee There is al always alays ays another man manIn manIn manin In the offing for far a pretty wife lit always seems so sa strange to me m that young husbands seem s cm to feEl their wives are ar Immune You know as well as I Jack that you yeu feel per per- perfectly belly tree fre to ta compliment an an and flirt with the wives o of any young yo ng men meD ot of your acquaintance it Ir they will let IOU au also alsa that down deep in your our heart prettiest you yau think you have hove the pret- pret pret girl eirl in town as iu sour our aur wife wit Then why should not all the theether theother other ether fellows try to ta make love lave to toI I 1 cr or It JC you neglect her I 1 have seen that so many times limes lime and I 1 am satta satis tied Ellington that in the case ot of Ruth Elling- Elling ton tan It If she hl ever falls in love lave with wih another man she will wll very quickly ten tell Mr Harry where she gets sets off She isn iso t a woman to be blindly In Inlove inlove Inlove love or ar blindly Devoted Perhaps you have noticed thIs and that is the reason you wanted to te keep Leslie away from rom her herDon herDon herDon Don t kid Jack Leslie has a mind of af her own awn and aad site will exercise e it in the selection o 0 of lien her friends both bolh men and women Because I 1 know that I w v auld take tako Leslie's Ill I'll put t against lou ou for tor or I know her well nell enough to ta know she shein shein in III neither prejudiced nor jealous I 1 dont don't want ant ani to ta come over and get any I know you ou would be bo just fool enough to com corn comI commence I mence one ane I You Yoa put me in la wrong Tong ith b be- be he WIth that letter I grow erow hot hoi all 1111 over whenever I 1 think thIn of it think there is something be- be between between be between tween you ou and me inc that she should rot rat know Of 01 course there Is la a lot let that she should not know kno kno about you It if she he v wants Mants ants to ta be happy and that's what makes me afraid ot of her for or ar I 1 Itell Itell tell you yeu my friends that 11 JC Leslie a ks roe me m anything about you ou au Ill III tell teU her the truth SYD TOMORROW Telegrams and hurry calls Leslie calls Leslie Prescott in an accident |