The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-09-05
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LETTER FROM KARL wHITNE.

LETTER FROM KARL WHITNEY
TO LESLIE PRESCOTT.
DEAR LESLIE:
have been wanting Alice to write
you ever since our marriage. She
has promised to do this from day to
day, but she has become very much
interested in some lessons in dra-
MATES and dancing, and hardly gets
time to eat properly, let alone to
attend to any of her other duties.
I have come to the conclusion If any
explanation is ever made to you, /
shall have to make 1t.
Now want to apologize for her
act in writing that letter 10 your
husband. I do not think, Leslie. that
1 Alice really realized what she was
/ doing Surely she would not do II
/ because OF those trumpery pearl
beads. I have come to the conclu-
ton, however, that in her great love
/ Of drama dzing herself she wrote this
( letter to your husband for the adven-
ture in It.
/ On tho day after her hysterical
outburst before your mother and
myself. I found her in the summer
/ house crying as though her heart
would break. she had a vial marked
/ poison at her mouth. l snatched It
from her just in time. She told me
that In a spirit Of fun more than
anything else, she wrote your hus-
/ band the letter telling him TO ask
you about the necklace.
/ She said she had no idea that John
would he so silly as to take the letter
{ seriously. I tried 70 get her to tell
me just exactly what she wrote in
/ the letter. but she had already for
gotten Her whole explanation was
incoherent in the extreme, for she
was sobbing Historically all the time
At last 1 succeeded in calming her,
but she seemed 70 think she could
not stay in her fathers house any
ffopser.
+ "Take me away, Karl take me
away" she pleaded Il don't want
to stay here, I want to be alone with
you. For some reason my family
don't understand me. no one loves
me but you. Even my own mother
takes Leslle's part all the time" OF
course I knew that she did not I'M
promised to take her away immedi-
ately.
She was a pitiful little creature.
| Leslie, and would not be paCified
otoherwise. I told her we would be
married Immediately. Poor child, !
am very sorry for her She has such
an Imagination, and she plans not
only her own life but every one
else's out completely and then she
is very disappointed and unhappy
when it does not turn out Just the
way she thought It would.
She tells me she is sure you will
never forgive her, but she loves you
greatly, and it Is breaking her heart.
[ wish you would write her, Leslie,
and tell her that you forgive her. !
know that you are even big enough
to do that.
I think she should be back where
her mother can talk to her. / never
realized before what a strange dispo-
sition my wife Alice has. She now
has the peculiar idea that she wants
to go on the stage-says she must
have something to do when J get
tired Of her With her temperament
! I cannot allow her to do that. !
shall rely upon your father and
mother to talk her out Of 1t.
I hope by this time that you have
explained the whole thing to your
husband. and are happy and con.
tented again. I expect you will
never wear the pearls again. but I
would like to have you keep them
and give them to your little daugh.
ter, If you should have one; If not,
to your sons wife.
If you wish me to write to Mr.
Prescott, I Will do so with pleasure
Let me hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
KARL.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.l
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