San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-19
The Tangle
An Intimate Story of In
nermOsi Emotions Rereai.
ed in Private Letters
LETTER FROM LESLIE PRES,
COLT TO JOHN ALDEN PRES
COTT, CONTINUED

Jack, dear, l don't believe you will
know little Jack when you return. He
seems to grow every day, and each
day l find something new in him. |
thank God, every hour OF my life,
that he is mine, mine, There, I've
told you, Jack. and you must think
what you please, after the confession
you made me.
j only know one thing, and that is.
l should be perfectly disconsolate aud
lonely if | did not have him; and
having him, your absence does not
mean loneliness to me. Please forgive
me. dear-nly time is so taken up
with him that / do not miss you as
much as perhaps ! ought.
want TO get back TO the story of
my little coral god. The man seemed
intensely interested. and he kept
talking on and on. He told me that
neither of these gods are happy. Of
allowed anyone else 10 be happy who
had one of them, il they are separated.
They are always hunting each other
l told him | didn't believe the per-
son who gave me the little trinket
knew where there was another. lie
answered l would better ask where
this one had been obtained. He told
me that you could not possibly give or
sell just one of them TO Chinese.
| don't believe any of the story.
of course, or that the beautiful gil.
will bring me anything but good luck
but it is interesting don't you think ::
The man said that if a person.
through some untoward event. became
the posscssor OF one Of these gods and
did not know where the other one
was, the thing to do was to throw 1T
in stream of running water. for It
seems the sculptor who made them
always did this. and they floated about
until they found each other in the sea-
j looked rather skeptical at this.
and the man said not one of these
little carved gods had been found in
modern times except by divers in
the sea off the coast of China. and
4 diver having found one always
looked for the other. If he could not
find it, after a lapse Of month or
two, he threw the one he had back
into the sea.
Tel! Sgd I'm perfectly satisfied
with the little love-god, and I'm GO
ing to make him so happy that he'll
never care whether he finds his mate
or not. The man said, when l told
him this. that l could not help my
sclf-that these little twin pagan
deities would find each other in spite
of anything l could do, and he
added ::
"Your specimen is particularly
wonderful, madam. I have never
seen finer. If.you decide to keen it.
it is to be hoped your husband will
find the other"
Ask sgd. dear. il he has heard the
tradition, and did he ever see two
of them. / think it's very interest
ing. What would you do, dear. if
you knew some man was hunting
me all over this earth because l had
bis twin god. and that l would be
perfectly miserable until ] found
BIN either in this incarnation or
some other?
It's queer idea for modern minds,
isn't it? Tell sgd I'm going to fear
it. any way-all the time. And in the
meantime l shall hope that j will not
be so entirely unhappy that | cannot
enjoy my life with you, at least part
of the time.
Here comes Ruth. Will finish this
letter after she goes.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Incl