The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-09-06
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LETTER FROM RUTH BURKE
TO LESLIE PRESCOTT

LETTER FROM RUTH BURKE
TO LESLIE PRESCOTT
Well. here we are back home
again. II doesn't seem like home
to me. Leslie. without you here. I
haven't been able to get hold of
Jack. and I may as we'll tell you
that there's a pretty kettle OF fish
at your apartment. That Bradford
woman has kicked up the usual
muss. Your cook has left and if
Sarah hadn't been with you so long.
am sure she would do so also.
Mrs. Prescott tells me her son is
so busy he has not been home for a
week except to sleep. coming in
very late at night and leaving very
early in the morning. Sarah tells
me privately that he hasn't been
home AZ all. but has contented him
self with calling up TO find out
about little Jack Miss Anderson
visited me At the shop to-day and
told me that even she could not
stand il much longer.
Last night Walter and I dined at
the Little Club, and over In one
corner we saw Sally Atherton ami
Jack. Now. dear. don't think there
is one solitary hit Of harm i'm Jacks
attention to that woman He's very
lonely and what a lonely man will
do is not 10 he conceived in the
mind Of a woman.
Mrs. Anterior spied Walter and
me first and said something to
Jack I know he was embarrassed,
but she seemed to be as cool as ever.
think she told him to invite us
over to their table. for rather reluc-
family. he cRmo over. and after
groetineWalter. whom he had not
seen since we got here. he asked
us to come over and eat with them
] asked Jack when YOU We're com
ing home, and he said he did not
think you were coming for quite a
while: that he was going to take
business would let him. It was
then that Sally Atherton said a most
peculiar thing.
Why didn't you tell me, Mr. Pres
colt, that you wanted to get away?"
she said I'm sure 7 could man
age perfectly we'll. II Leslie wants
to see Ter boy. she ought to have
him Immediately. Why don't you go
tomorrow"
1t seemed to me Jack was sorry
he had spoken, for he evaded an
swering her, but all through the
dinner she kept referring to it and
finally she said to me
isn't 1t possible for you to per.
suade Mr.. Prescott that can take
care Of his business?"
Jack seemed very much annoyed
and grew very sulky. That did not
worry her. however. She wouldn't
let him alone until he had prom
ised to start to you tomorrow.
Later, in the dressing room, she
said:
II think Mr.. Prescott should take
the baby to his wife and bring them
all back here as soon as possible
His mother and some old maid friend
of hers have absolutely turned his
house into chaos, and he is not
staying home at all.
IOu IpTODtDly KNOW NIT. PRESCOTT
better than I, Mrs. Burke, and you
probably know that for all his cry Of
business he is not, or rather he can
not attend to 1t when his mind is
all shot to pieces by that exigent
mother OF his
Do you know. Leslie, dear.
rather liked the girl. For the first
+iroa In NV life thipk 7 understood
her, and yet I fear her. She Is alb
solutely a law unto herself, always
I can see that.
Jack probably will be with you by
the time you get this letter. Why
don't you come back with him? I
want to see you.A RUTH.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Incl
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