Show t LETTER t mOM FROM LESLIE IRES I IU COTT corr TO ro TIlE THE LITTLE MAR MAlt QUISI QUISE CONTINUED We e had hardly hard I got inside our car when Jack broke out Im not going to that lunch lunch- luncheon luncheon eon cost with that damned cad tomor tomor- tomorrow tomorrow row Syd Sd and you know it so why did you sa sa that you will pick tomor-I tomor me mo up You know he ha makes make love lose to all eli the women women-in women in the world and he can do this for all of ot me but buthe buthe buthe he must leave mine Jack what arc are you OU saying I asked sharply Are re you ou trying to I Insult me inc before belore Sydney Jack saw that he had made mode a aIT mistake t te and he con con- continued conO continued IT I didn't t say s anything h l about b I you O Leslie J I I 1 was s only calling at attention at- at attention to the fact that Sartoris Is up to his old tricks again Oh perhaps that is what you were svere doing I commented per perfectly er- er furious but in doing so you were also intimating that I Iwas Iwas Iwas was allowing him to play those tricks trl s. s for my m benefit h you OU sulky husband his plans plan After Arter what he has Just said Bald to me I Iam Iam Iam am out of ot it 11 IL ILI I sank back in the corner of ot the motor and said eald no more un Un- until til III I 1 arrived home Syd helped me Inc out and I 1 ran lightly up the steps The butler opened the door I I waited walled to give Ive you OU this tele tele- telegram telegram gram Mrs Prescott he said My 1 hands trembled as I tore It U open Something told me tue before I Ithe the tho letters formed themselves into words that I 1 could read Bee Dee died today at twelve twel Her baby Is la a fine healthy child Will write Sally I 1 said nothing to the men I 1 could not discuss poor Bee Dee with them at this moment I recalled her last letter in which she sho ex ex- expressed exI expressed I pressed her fear far of or dying and I 1 had pooh it And now she sho was dead dead and and she had left leU a I child things always IW seem ee so un u un- un te equal eo We are never e ready a to I give gl up those we love There was wa poor Paula who had to live lic I and suffer surfer for Cor a long while and i she had hasi no way wa to take care of her baby baby ln In ln her desperation she abe sends it to roe me or rather to Jack As this came camo Into my mind my thoughts went straying off oft on an an- another another another other tangent I thought of ot how I had forgiven n Jack for Cor this great big thing he had bad done only to find him so nastily suspicious I when I talked for a little while in II private with Melville Sartoris Everyone will say Poor Bee Dee I I said to myself but I think perhaps that after atter all she ahe is bet better ter off out of ot it Sho She had begun be n 1 to be b rather unhappy In her mar roar married marI I ned ried life although I am sure this Unhappiness came from an nn un un- unfounded un- un unfounded founded Inferiority complex I can tell you OU Little Marquise Ill I'll never think myself inferior to any woman woman woman-at at least leat that ii 11 i how I feel teel now I am ant as good as any other woman and Ill I'll keep my myown own no matter how many girls try tl to vamp ramp Jack I did not know what to do about going to the tho luncheon the next day but I finally decided that tho the people who are living In this world must still go on on no matter what comes J. J was there She Sh 0 j jI I mu must t keep an eve ce on s thought thO Danny Dann reach and so 80 Longlegs advanced a afew afew afew few more moro steps Then ho he stood waiting as before So little by hy lit lit- little littie tie tle Longlegs drew nearer and anti near near- nearer nearH er H to the island lu tussock sock of ot grass glass on which Danny Meadow Mouse ouse was hiding There were two or three other ether tussocks not far off Long- Long Longlegs Longlegs legs leS looked into ach tach to see if It by hance a a. frog might be hiding There Danny knew that Longlegs would do the same thing when he near enough to Dannys Danny's sock j lie He knew that once more he had to swim if It ne be would save his life lICo It wouldn't do 10 to swim ashore for there Longlegs would be sure suro to catch him He lie looked hastily to see where he might find safety safet At first it looked to him as if 1 he would have hare to swim the Smiling Pool He lie could do it lie Ho knew he could clo to it It if no enemy discovered him in to the water Wlter That was where the tho danger lay Then Just a little way out Dan Dan- Danny Danny ny saw an old pl piece Cp of ot board float float- floating mg ing Danny waited only long nough to matte make sure burc that Long Long- Longlegs Longlegs legs really intended to examine that tussock of oC grass rass Then he slipped lipped into the water and started to swim for that piece of board Longlegs saw him at nt the same sarno In Instant In in- slant stant Ho lie waded wadel out as far as he ho h could and lunged nt at Danny with that great bill of or his But Dut Danny Dann Dann was Just out of ot i t each teach Once more moro he had escaped d l ly tv v swimming Copyright 1112 by V T T. W. W Bur Dur- gess gass g ss The next story atory Billy Dill Mink Pass Passes Pass cs es a Good Dinner r Is a 0 tower of ot strength In let such crises But Dut what will become of ot the baby I said to myself I Iwonder Iwonder Iwonder wonder If It Its It's a it boy bo or a girl Then I 1 smiled a little It H was like Sally Hall not to mention the ba ba- baby's babs ba- ba baby's bys by's sex Copyright 1323 1925 NEA r Service Inc TOMORROW LETTER LI from front Sail Sally to Leslie Prescott lre oll 0 |