The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-11
LETTER FROM HARRY ELLLNG

LETTER FROM HARRY ELLLNG-
TON TO RUTH ELLINGTON
MY DEAR RUTH:
I do not need to be with you to see
the surprised and outraged look that
win come over your face when you
open this letter. You viii wonder why
I am writing it.
am rather wondering, too, but
for the last week have been thinking
of you all the time.
Ruth. I have found that there is
only one woman on this whole earth
that has never bored me. and that is
you.
find this out It has taken me long
while to find out that you are the
only woman who is not a tyrant If
she thinks she can be one.
Wondering
I have been wondering lately If you
ever greatly loved me. Strange as it
may seem, I hope you haven't be
cause now l want you to forgive me
and IL you have loved me very much
your hurt would have been something
that you could net forgive.
am not asking TO come back TO
you, Ruth: that is out of the ques-
ton for many reasons, but you see
have just found out that you were
suing for divorce and I have become
sentimental enough, my dear, to wish
those bonds which brC Ike so easily,
so unthinldngly. might b, st1Il riveted
together so that. in my thoughts. at
least, I might be anchored TO some
one whom I regard and reverence as
do you.
There, you see am just as selfish
as ever and know that You are
thinking that I would keep you from
the happiness and JOY that might be
yours for the sake Of my being able
to still think OF you as belonging to
me.
A ScoundreI
I guess that is the truth. Ruth. I
guess I am not only selfish but a
scoundreI as we'll, but I want you to
knrw, dear. that always my thoughts
my ideals, MY love for you don't
laugh have been the better part Of
my life.
Just why you were not able to keep
that side OF me uppermost 1 do not
know. Just why other women with
half your beauty, half your fascina-
ton and half your splendid woman
hood, lured me away from you, do
not. know.
I think, my dear, you were too good
to me. I think I always had a feel
ing that after my peccadillos could
come back to you and rest. I think
perhaps because I know cannot do
that now I am miserable.
Some way I never had an idea that
j could do anything that would put
me outside of your forgiveness. l
counted either on your love or your
Indifference, and now by your insti-
tuting these divorce proceedings
know that either there Is no love in
the world that Is big enough to forgive
everything, or no Indifference great
enough not to feel pride's hurt
I wonder, my dear, II you have
found some one else. I feel you must
have done 50, otherwise you would
not take the trouble to divorce me.
WIN Not Contest
I started this letter to tell you that
shall not appear either In person
or by my attorney to contest your
suit. Your divorce will undoubtedly
be granted and I want you to know
that after I know that we are ire
vocably separated I shall probably
love you more than ever loved you
before in my life, even in that long
ago time when we were young and
our love was new.
OF course, I shall be still a fugitive,
not only from you, but all my friends.
Like the Wandering Jew I am going
up and down the earth, victim of
unrest, and tonight I stretch out my
arms to you as the only thing in all
the world which can give me any kind
of peace, as long as 1 shall live.
HARRY.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Incl
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