Show I LETTER FROM MELVILLE SAR SAR- SAR SARTORIS TORtS TORIS TO LESLIE PRES PRES-COTT PRES CONTINUED COTT-CONTINUED CONTINUED Madonna of oC the th Snows Snow my say dear Leslie ehe my brain said ald the moment my InY cye found lour our face and only a ase se second ond afterward my heart told me that thai you must bo be b my InY Madonna adonna ot of lite Snows lou ou remember dear when I 1 gave the tho party for you for you for It we was wall for tor you Yost whatever I said about It to keep from the th censuring word words ot of conven convention you ou tion you remember when I gave you ou the th little littie jade Jacl god cod I almost thought that night that you ou knew v I 1 sailed not as your husband rather contemptuously remarked thousands ot of miles mile away to get cef a little piece lor of jade No Ko I did not sail lall for Cor II a aHill little piece of ot jade jad but for lor a woman glorious beyond the Imagination th one on woman of ot all the tho thousands that I have met who seemed to satisfy my m 0 ery ry desire desir I 1 am superstitious Leslie LeslI I did believe when the th oh old Chinese Chines se told mo me and I 1 lt left the th little jade god with OU and Intended to keep tho the other one because I 1 wee w s sincerely Certain that b t they would bring brine us together I did cJ not r rk k know hO how nf 1 I d did d not fe care car When hen the th Chinese wrote wrol nr me that ho he had the th complement to the th atatu- atatu cUe ette I left lert with you I sailed way away and In all alt the th letters I 1 have hav written to you IOU OU I have havo liv kept up a certain plan which whim wouldn't let you ou forget torget She me I 1 lied when 1 I told you OU that I never ne expected to see aee e your our face tace again I lied when I 1 told you that I 1 did not want to hear from you ou because I knew t if 1 you answered my letters I could not write writ to you with the same amo am fervor I have been doing dolne eV ever r since sine I left America I Intended to come corn back directly A C possessed U ot VS the I 1110 other A C U VS I 1110 I r U lC neon gleen god Do you know dear I think I should have done don this If you OU had kept your our pearls for tor I am not sure ure sur that my reo re- return turn r-turn turn to America not have hav been the ho most tragic traffic thing thine that could hap hap- happen hap happen f pen to you But when I 1 got tot to the Interior ot of China and met the th little taciturn Chinaman and We w both vent to unlock the th clamped recep- recep tirl tI tints le which held our treasure Jt It H was not there Someone had stolen tolen It ald airl It if the tho th cur curses curs that frenzied Chi Chi- n ns nase sr made mado mad descend upon him he h will wish h as did Judas Iscariot that he had never neer been born I am Ilm giving you OU up Madonna adonna Mia Ela In fact I 1 knew a aj U soon oon as all I found that lint the tho th little tittle Sad jad rod god was wa not In the I expected to find It that you ou were not tor for me sue And now lest someone comes come Into possession ot of that treasure that will make mak you Ou un- un un unhappy happy because of oC the th desire desir for tor your ROdden to be b with her hr mate mat I 1 want w you to gO eo alone alon to the th sea ea and hire hirn II a la launch uncia from someone ot of the th rna many ny boatmen about the place Let him take you a few miles out and while standing In the tho th bow of o the th boat gently drop your little piece of cf j Jade de Into the th waters water beneath MELVI MELVILLE SARTORIS Copyright 1926 NEA NA Service Inc Tomorrow Letter from rm Leslie Lulie Pru Pres cott to the Little Littie Marquis |