Show Tt LETTEn LETIER FRO FROM LESLIE PIlES PRES COTT COTT corr TO LITTLE CARE OF TIlE THE I have been writing you at t long late lale dear little confidant but bul once In a a L while 1 feel teel as though I must talk to you and this Is la one of at the times Umes Strange how much easier casler It Is for a 1 woman to lo keep her oWn own on counsel an na she grows older I know when I was a girl tirl I had to tell everything that thal hap hap- happened happened hap happened to lo me and ind every reaction I 1 had to Beatrice haw lw Poor Be Bee She's been dead many miny years but bUl Although I think i I have loved Ruth more than I ever loved her heryet yet el I have never been able to tell Huth the things I coula easily tell It'll to lo Bee Bec h I have n needed a confidant ln I have vc written to lo you Little Mar Ilar Mar Mar- Marquise Marquise quise and I think It Il has done me quite as much rood good 11 us though I had placed my confidence In mor- mor mortal mor mortal tal Ite keeping keeping- Those fateful pearls ire are out of I my hands bands forever and from the moment they were nc not t mine I have felt fell a a Treat great freedom as AI though something was taken out of at rny my m soul that had burdened burdene 1 It almost beyond my I know Its It's Billy Billy- dear to be be so 10 superstitious but Ul I cant can't h help lp It and Im I'm sorry Paula aula Pe Perier bought half halt ot of them but perhaps as she Is certainly n t superstitious superstitious superstitious because e she them she wont won't have the b bid d luck lack I have had III since nee I po possessed saed them I know that to lo anyone but bUl you ou Little Marquise It Il would seem nem Silly Illy when I say I h have lve had bad luck when I Intimate that thal I am anything but bul the woman on earth earth earth You Tou m my dear confidant I are the Ihl only one who knows knows all of my misfortunes You Ok oe D well asI as asI asI I know oW that thal while money can n bring material comfort It Il cannot haye the slightest effect upon the sorrows sorrow or the joys ot of the soul Little Marquis I want you to know that l I have nothing In my heart this moment which Is not love and admiration for fot Paula I Perrier She never really volun voluntarily hurt hurl me Indeed she hu has always alwAY I shown me th the greate greatest l consideration and re respect since I have personally known her All that thal tragedy of at hers and my hu bus hus husband's bands band's bands band's was wa larte started at 1 al a time she thought there wo ivaa no other woman but bul her In his heart harl I expect at Al that Um time she rhe only felt fell that she would probably be be A willing to pay for tor the ecstatic bliss she he felt tell then And she has hal paid Sometimes Little Marquise lse I Iwonder Iwonder Iwonder wonder just how John will pay For certainly the good lord would nol not punish one unless he punished the other notwithstanding all the lovely ely lines the poet poel wrote about aboul sins that were done two by two and paid for one by one But Bul whatever has baa gone rone b between Jack and Paula Paula and come If It anything coiner coine I shall hall always alwa bless bleil her hr for tor giving me memy memy my oldest son BOn NES NEA Service Inc TOMORROW This MORROW TO-MORROW This letter r con con- continued continued con continued |