Show t LETTER J-EITER FROM PRO I SALLY RALLY TON TO LESLIE I 1 CONTINUED I need not tell you dear e Leslie s e fb lIt i I what a terrible thing l it Is to see someone you love very dearly d arly just fading away from your sight while all the tho time you know that th nothing can cnn be done to keep k that loved one ono with you I You went through this when you watched by your fathers father's bedside so long but your our father dear had lived to be much older than was Bee DeE and although I know this would bo be not noi comfort to you yet It made Bees Bee's ease ase take on some Borne trag trag- ic Io quality that could not even cven come tome cometo to you ou In your our grief Bee never seemed to have any particular love for tor her ller little girl although she spent long hours looking at her with a most peculiar I liar expression on her face tace It was wall wasas I as though she were trying to pierce the veil ell of tho the future futuro and read rea a 11 whatever Kato Fate had In store for tor tho the little lithe atom of humanity that win w on the bed beside her I Paula Poula Perrier Terrier como came to see her twice e a day da and made more over ovel I the child than Its mother did It was really beautiful to see Paula pick up the baby In her arms ana and I fondle It and nd lovo love It Bee Be did not say S1 much to Paula but I caught t her once or twice looking at her friend with the same Bame look on her face that she had when her eyes e es were turned on tho the child She grew gr w unaccountably but I steadily weaker The doctors un ma unable able to explain her condition un-I un asked me If It she and Dick had had any trouble She does docs not seem to want to I live said the great specialist who had been called In in and In cases of this kind that has the greatest gr I bearing r upon the recovery of ot the patient reco t I II I told him 1 that Dick was as much in the dark as I and I-and and then I II I recalled that Paula Perrier had lold told me that Bee had never seemed quite happy since she knew lenew she was going to t have a a. baby I I also remembered Leslie what you jou ou had told me about abo t the letter leHer she he had written you OU and I could not help wondering what hat peculiar complex had taKen possession of ot her I Toward the last laRt she spoke very little and then only to give some direction In the of ot words On the day of ot her death she seemed perfectly conscious of all aU that was going on about her She called me meto meto meto to her and asked If It I had hall heard from you ou She sent you Ou her dear dear- dearest est love 10 e. e Leslie dear and told lold mo me meto to tell you OU that she hoped her lit tie lie girl would grow up to marry one boys bos your our I thought that a rather fantastic Idea but I told her I would tell It to you ou Paula Perrier Terrier came In about five thc o'clock In the afternoon and the two were together for a long time When hen Paula came out of the room her eyes ees were red re and swollen ollen but she did not make any explanation and I did not ask her for any an Copyright 1925 1926 O A Service Inc Letter Later from Sally Sail therlon to Leslie Ic lIc ITe cott 00 |