The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-03-06
Letter From John Alden Prescott
To Leslie Hamilton

You will notice that l have writ
ten no salutation at the beginning
of this letter, Leslie darling.
1t is not because l want to be
unconventional, sweetheart, but
, because | have found no endearing
! word in cur language that adeQu-
ately embodies what you are to
me.
When l put you on the train
/ this noon-after three weeks Of
such thrilling happiness as l did
not think could come to anyone on
this earth-my heart became lead
en- at the thought that ! would me-
see you for at least month, and
my only comfort was that at the
end of that time ! would 90 to
you to bring you back to be with
me always.
i After leaving you came back
to the office and plunged into
work. Honestly, Leslie dear, l
wanted to forget you-it hurt me
so when l remembered and realiz-
ed that when night came you
would be hundreds of miles away
from me.
After an hour Of loneliness. so
poignant that the discomfort was
almost physical, l gave it up as !:
bad job, rushed out Of the office,
got into the roadster-that roads
ter which has been blessed with
your dear presence, and ate up
the miles for hours.
Oh, my girl, my girl, how am
going to get through the next
weary days, and weeks-and per
haps months? You know that
think it is foOlishness that we
must have a wedding and that you
must have a trousseau if, because
of them, we will lose out of. Oul
lives all this eternity of compan
ionship and love?
And to think that three week:
ago, my darling, | did not know
there was such a girl as you in al
the world. 1t doesn't seem posi-
bic that | could have lived al
these years without in some wa!
finding you before this. | rail a
Fate for keeping you so long from
: me.
! At this moment my fingers ar
. tingling with the desire to tcucI
: that little curl behind your ear.
You will never know, dear heart
. how much will power it took in tn
long, long time before | told 20
that l loved you, to keep fror
kissing that curl of red gold ha!1
noticed it the moment | me
YOU. Its invitation was the mos
alluring thing ! have ever known
1t threw the transparent white
ness of your skin into high relic
{, 1t made me think of alabastel
/ warmed by hidden human flame
Strange, isn't it, that such
= little thing as lock of red gol
d hair will change the whole destin
u of a man? l remember that fo
h days after meeting you, ccul
& fairly feel the electric thrill
that lock of hair, caressingly er
s twining itself about my fingers
II !, The days passed only too quicl
n ly when | was with you and Tin
II crawled on leaden feet when yo
= were away from me.
=" One moment asked myself VIII
girl like you should care for
man like me, and l grew cold wit
- fear that you would not love m
IL IL and then said to myself, "A 10,
's like mine must bring something
" return" knew that you were tt
- one go,l in all the world for me-
all other women that had know
~ seemed but shadows fitting aero
&c dim screen of half remembrance
'e This letter, dear one, will pro
70 ably seem to you the rawlings OF
A. mad man. am mad, deares
mad with love for you. And as
write to you tonight, l know tn
YOU and l were meant for eat
,e other from the beginning of tim
at and if | had not wen you now, II
r. spirit would have gone throul
other countless cons, seeking 20
For it was written in the Bot
of Fate that some day-and thar
IS God that some day is to be soon
ID you and l would be one!
Dear heart, l hope at this m
J ment you are thinking of me as
am thinking of you'll hope tn
err you wish that my lips were soft