Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-01
leslie's Confession

,oeJ cow, os,.,,, ,o,,od ON n woman
"eeu some ad'l''. ! 'a'''" u" " ""'''I'" -,
this afternoon. You know who she is
Beverly CarIyslc."
Joe whistled softly.
That's not the Ioint. Leslie DE-
claimed, in n trucuIeut voice. II III NOT
offending myself shes friend We
got a right to call there II want TO
sure you have. su0thC! Joe.
well, You know the situation ~
home, and who Livingstone actually Is
The poin, is TINT. while that poor KID at
home is Sitting around killing herself
with grief, Clarks gone back +" her
To Beverly Cariys.e.'
How do you know
know saw him this afternoon,
at her house.
He sat still. moodi!y reviewing th'
situation. His thoughts were "hHot'"
md unplrasant uuxtur" Of jcai"uNH'
fear of Nina, anxiety over Elizao"'n'
md the sense of lost roman't" "d-
venture After while he got up.
..Sbe's nice kid" he said. II
fond of her. And don't know what
10 do"
Suddenly Joe grinned.
~ SOC" he said. And you can
>el, her. or tLe family. where YOU saw
him,
mot without raising Nt4N h'AN' - -
roc,
He bacsn, automatically. to dress for
a;nncr 10. moved around the room,
ronr for n waiter. ordered orange lui""
ond ire and uroduccd bottle of gin
from his bag. i.csli" did NOT near MN
nor tho later preparation OF the cock.
.oi,s He was rejecting bitterly on the
fact that a man who married built him-
self wall against romance, II wal
compoundel of his own new sense of re-
.ronsibility. of family ties. and fear.
.Ioo brought him cocktail.
Drink it, old dear, he said AnH
when II : down I'll tcll you Few niue
things about playing around with ladies
who have a past. Here's 70 forgetting
'em"
Leslie took the glass.
"Right-o." he said.
- He went home the following day.
leaying Joe 20 finish the business IL
New York His going rather r"semb eu
n flight Tossing >leeplcss the night
before. he had found what many man
had discovered before him. that his
love of clandestine adventure was not
Is strong as his caution. lie had ha0
~ shock. True, his affair with Beverly
had been a formless thing, matter OF
imagination and a desire to assure him
vet dead. True. too. that he had moth
ing TO fear from Dick Livingstone. Bus
the encounter had brought home 10 him
the danger of this old.new game he was
playing. He was running like a fright
eped child.
He though. Of various plans. One of
them was TO tell Nina the truth. take
his medicine of tears and codnesS. and
then 60 TO Mr. WA"el"r. One was to
60 to Mr. Wheeler. without Nina, eud
make his humiliating admission. Bat
WnIter Wheeler had his own rigid id.a.
was uncompro,ui>ins in rccti,uGc. and
vou,d understand n. orIv man could
,ho, wbiIa 60 far he had been unIv
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h ham more c"p,I"us ,na u" ep" 'n nS
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nas w. s,"tI nn tbo w,,o'o y rcnarnna c and kind.
ly impulse thHt lay behind ms ultimate
resolution TO 'el n"r ,Lat nrr Desef-
tion was both wli.INl ana cruel
Yet, wheh IN" t!N'r 'ah!"' ne louhd
u hard to tel A"r' II" TOOK n"r t"r
drive one evening .omn after his return,
forcibly driving oil NnI!I" S"Fre {" d"
so, and "y"inS Surr"riu"us.y no" ana
then her pale, rather H"' face. II"
found quiet Ian" ana >topped the rur
there. and then turned and faced her.
"IIow'vc you been, iirtIn sister, While
We been Wandering the gay white
vny:" he asked.
I've been all righr Leslie.
Not quite all right. think. Have
van over Thought. Elizabeth that no
man On earth is worth vLar Won We been
roinr through:''
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