Show e g LITTIER 1 FROM LESLIE IRES IllES COTT TO TilE THE I E MAR MAlt MARQUISE QUISE Q UISE EI CON TIN I ED EDI I rose from tho the table suddenly und and faced aced Jack when he said sailI that not one of his chums would come cometo cometo cometo to my luncheon on board Mr 4 bar bar- ar- ar Loris Loris' yacht acht hat W hat will vill you ou bet I asked airily A A 1 hundred dollars for or the first one and doubling It up for each succeeding one on he almost shout- shout td sd angrily I knew he was too angry quite to realize what his hili doubling and redoubling would do to o I remarked I I wonder Jack It U you vou know lenow what you ou are doing If It I 1 get the whole five of those hose men It will mean thirty six hun hun- dollars ollars you ou know Jack looked hooked surprised but he was game and ond ho he bowed Lowed his head saying All Alt right Go ahead Wait alt alt a minute and Ill I'll call them up uI now I 1 told him ashe pushed back baele his chair from th It table lable I I 1 cant can't wait walt another minute Leslie I Im I'm m late enough as it itA Itt itA t tA A woman seems lo to think that a ii anan tan nan has nothing more to do than to 0 talk polite nothings to her at atthe atthe atthe the breakfast t table lable I did not tell my m husband that he would have been gone long ago ngo if he had bad gotten up at th the usual time I thought he lie was be being be- be beIng ing lug hell enough for the bad liquor he be had drunk the night be before be- be fore tore All right Jack Go ahead ah ad But bring brinS' your our check book with you ou when you come home tonight Ive I've wanted a gorgeous old Spanish chest cheat that I saw sav In Duveen's Duveen s the tho thelast last time I was wall in New ew York but thought I could not afford it It The thirty six hundred will wiit Just pay for It Jade Jack said nothing and he left lert without kissing me inc Immediately Immediate I hastily ha called up the wives of or orthe the five men and asked aked them If they the could come como to luncheon on the yacht I Atlantis the next day You ou don dont don't t mean to say sa Lea Les Leslie lie said the first one that you ou 01 ole e inviting me lo to that gorgeous yacht acht belonging to Mr lr 1 I 1 didn't t know you QU him Yes I do know knot him and that hat Is I the yacht How Ilow generous Of course courle I will I-will will accept with the test greatest of ot plea plea- pleasure sure The other four women were Just all is enthusiastic Three of them had engagements which they the glad glad- gladly ly ty broke to accept my Invitation li 11 of them wanted me to call up their husbands hUl bands and ask them myself my n self elf lIe He will come if you ou ask asle him each one said In turn but It if f I ask he will wilt feel lel called upon ic IG t G decline because he does dol not want sant me to think that he can get getaway I away from his business in tho the middle of the day It lt would woul 11 h a wrong precedent Copyright 1925 1921 NEA KEA Service Inc MONDAY Letter nn Ix from front I Leslie lIc Jr OU to the Little Marquise |