The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-25

PRESCOTT TO SYDNEY
CARTON.

If there ever was a lost man, Sid,
it is your whilom but evidently for
gotten chum, John Alden Prescott.
With my wife and my only man
friend gone completely out Of my
life, I am wandering about a howl
ing wilderness that mistaken people
have named the world.
Although outwardly calm, inside
of my physical body there seems to
be whirling dervish that up to this
time l had enormously called my
mind. 1 can't eat, can't sleep, can't
think. I'm in worse condition than
when 1 was so desperately in love
with Leslie that I could only think
of her.
This is the state that I'm in just
at present. I catch Mrs. Atherron
looking at me very queerly from
time to time. Yesterday she said:
What a strange noise-did you
speak?"
I answered grufly, NO, I hic,
cuped."
Il thought It was a groan. she
remarked.
Uncanny
That woman is positively uncanny.
She seems to read my very thoughts.
have only had a somewhat per-
emptory command to send or bring
her little Jack from Leslie since she
left. Can you beat that? 1 gave her
about forty-eight hours after she
reached her fathers house to either
return to me or ask me to come to
her. and here she has been gone
nearly a week. I didn't think It
possible for her to be so stubborn.
never knew. either, that she was
such a mercenary creature.
just can't make It out. You know
how much Leslie forgave and forgot,
and how sweet she was when she
adopted the boy. In that she full
filled my highest idea of woman
hood. Since then I have always felt
she would stand by me if I were &C
cused Of murder, and now she balks
at sending back TO the man who
gave them TO her a string Of pearls,
although I. her husband. have re-
quested. IN fact, commanded. her to
do this.
1 expect every other man from
Adam down has had the same feel
ing that I had when Leslie politely
told me that under no consideration
would she give ~ her necklace. Out
side of feeling there was something
my wife cared for more than she did
for me. there was also a complete
shatterlng Of my trust in her un-
derstanding She doesn't seem 70
realize that no red blooded man could
possibly allow his wife to wear jew
els that represented more than four
times his entire -capital; besides. it
wouldn't lobk very we'll for the story
to get around that my wife is wear
ing a hundred thousand dollars
worth Of jewels while I couldn't
scare up money enough to make the
first payment on a block Of stock Of
fered me by the firm
She's Clever
I think she's wrong. and I was
sure when she thought It over she
would come TO the same conclusion.
But Leslie is clever. Sid-cleverer
than I dreamed. Although she has
not sent me a word. she has man
aged to get her mother TO wire re-
4uesting me TO visit Mr. Hamilton.
who you know has been very Ill. OF
course I wired saying that business
would keep me at the Office for the
present.
This sounded very churlish, I
know and probably they will man.
age some way to get me over there.
as I can't keep refusing to visit
sick man, when that man is my IA
ther-in-law for very long.
I don't like your tone, Sid. when
you speak of my attention to Paula
Perrier. I think she is right about
the money and the kid. I wanted
to talk 1t over with Leslie before I
accepted 1t. but I can't do that now.
Copyright. 1924. NEA Service, Inc9
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