The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-14

LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN
PRESCOTT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT

LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN
PRESCOTT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT
Well dear, we got sgd over to his
apartment yesterday, and last night 1
read him what that man told you
about the coral god he sent you.
sgd told me that the Chinaman
tried to tell him a long story when
ne bought It. explaining something Of
which he could not make head or tail.
He told me to tell you that he hoped
that he had not started you on the
still hunt for some impossible ideal
masculine member OF humanity, and
told him. dear. that you had already
found an impossible masculine mem
Der Of humanity. At that he said he
guessed everything was all right.
was somewhat disappointed. dear
heart, over your letter. missed some
thing from It. 1 wonder II II was be
cause I am a little sensitive these
days, that I am always looking for
what is behind your words Some
way I felt some Of the sincere spont-
aneity Of you, some Of the realness OF
you, was not in that letter. Darling.
have lost something by telling you
that story? II have, I shall wish I
had never told It.
You SEQ am selfish. dear want
to keep your love-now know
you're smiling that dear. intriguing,
inscrutable smile OF yours. that smile
into which I read all my moods. Just
now am reading into It: Jack, you
want to eat your cake and have It
too"
guess that's true. wife o. mine.
We men are always naughty little
boys. and It takes all your mother
love to make us bearable, doesn't it2
You know love you, don't you? You
know I've never loved any other
woman. but you--and here is the COM
pick nature Of mani should never
love any other woman but you even
though I were untrue 10 you.
Some man told me the other day
that a husband should never be frank
with his wife; If he wanted to. live
happily he should never tell her the
truth. II by telling you the truth,
dear, haven't gained more Of your
trust than J had before, II indeed I
have lost some OF It. I shall never
be happy again.
You have made me very happy,
LESLIE don't know why put that
in the past tense You are making
me very happy. It's only I, myself
my own soul questionings. my own
unworthiness-that makes me UNI
happy.
I'm sitting here at a table in the
room where Sgd is lying, and I'm Won
dertng Just what he would say If he
could read this letter For OF course
you have learned before this, Leslie
dear, that Sydney Carton is a much
stronger man than I. I can't con-
ceive Of him writing letter to any
one like this one I am writing to you,
and probably you can't conceive, of
him doing a thing that would, in
time, make such a letter necessary to
his peace OF mind.
I'm never going to mention all this
again, Leslie. I'm going to try and
put It away in that place that you
have called my forgettery." I'm COM
ing home to you within a week, and
Immediately you and I are going TO
set sail for that beautiful land-of-be-
ginning again.
When I see you. will tell you what
sgd said about the little twin god.
fgent some flowers to Mrs Ather
ton. Poor girl! I think If / were a
woman I would mourn more for hus-
band didn't love than one / did love.
There's paradox, Leslie. that's al
most feminlnel
Al
your eyes with, kisses. JACK.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service. Incl
NEXT: CONTINUATION OF LET
TER FROM ELLEN BLEDSOE TO
SARAH HENDRICKS.