Show j LETTER niOM rHO lI OM S GY C CU C U UTON TON X 10 TO LL J Mj My M Dear Paula Paulo I 1 arrived home homo from Leslie Prescott's p party rt which Melville Iel c gave o i c her on his hili yacht to find your jour our letter His enter enter- entertainment entertainment came very ery near becom becom- becoming becomIng becoming ing s. s great greM tragedy 1 I am nin RIn sending send send- sending sendIng ing you tho the clippings about IL It ItI ILI ILI I wonder If it you jou OU ever knew Melville Mel Mel- yule ville Sartoris lIe He Is sailing through the Panama canal to Los Lo I Angeles and then on to the Orl Ori Orient ent You lou ought to know him lies lie's liesa a writer In a a. dilettante way wa and Just has as oodles of at money They say siy ICS IC'S he s a regular Prince Charm- Charm CharmIng Charming Ing and if I he ho does doe c everything e thing on the same Mme scalo scale In to which he plan plan- planned 1 planned ned and executed this eU for Leslie he certainly earns the sobriquet I 1 told him If I he lie stopped at lit all nil allIn allin In Los Angeles g to hunt you up and dL say he was a at friend rl of oro mine ln I In the th meantime I would could write you Ho lie really Isn Isn't t a friend of mine Paula Paul but Im I'm quite sure he would amuse amuso you for a a. little while Personally I would like lite to know what you think of him I think you havo have an uncanny Judgment In regard to people You will forgUe e me mo when I tell teU you jou that I smiled over o over your jour our latest problem You and your jour baby bab problems dear child have always s been most interesting to me Talk- Talk TalkIng TalkIng Talking Ing about them thorn I want to tell you jou about little Jack Ja jk lIe He is the handsomest sturdiest lilt e a chap you jou OU e ever saw In your jour our life and life and the way he Idolizes Leslie Ilon- Ilon Paula although I am not telling her I 1 will say ay to you private vate v atel I really think she Is fonder of him thin than she Is 13 of her own baby bab Life Lito Is I qu queer cr Isn Isn't t It Here you arc are having ha had to ghe give away awny your jour our own baby biby because you jou OU did not have ha money mone enough to keep keepIt It and tind l d you jou OU would not accept money enough from me to tide you jou over And then Destiny in the shape of oC motion pictures flings Into your jour our lap lop a a. lot of money mone so 80 that you jou Oll could have ha taken caro care of him him if you could have ha man managed aged to live ll on a n. little longer with Ith him In tho the meantime In a fit of hurt pride and utter itter you jou OU have given ghen him to the wife of his father Now low J ow after atter n. n time lime when the hurt of your jour our own own baby's baby s loss has become perhaps a little softened a woman who thinks her husband Is in love with you jou OU dies die and makes j you ou promise to caro for her baby 1 Fate ate has a way ay of o mixing up things In a manner that mortals could not conceive I 1 can tan see Just the position In which you jou OU are arc placed and I think that Beatrice Summers gave ga you jou that baby bab purposely to make a living bond between you jou ou and her husband I don dont don't I see sec anything else for you jou ou to do however howe but to I take It ii It a though as you jou OU say sa it will probably shake Hollywood to I Its center Why don dont don't t you jou ou care for Sum Sum- Summers Summers' Summers mers' mers mere mers Everybody E tells me hes he's a a. nice sort of or a chap You Tou must have ha a n great man tastes and Interests in common Copyright 1925 NEA Service Inc Tomorrow letter I ter from Sydney Carton to Paula I Perrier |