The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
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LETTER FROM SALLY ATHER-
TON TO RUTH BURKE
My Dear Mrs. Burke: 1 hope you
win pardon my writing to you and
that you win take this letter in the
same spirit in which 1t is written.
I assure you that 1 would never
write it II 1 did not think you would
understand what I am going to say
better than most women / know. j
am really at my writs' end and /
can only turn to you to help me.
Do you think that Leslie is ever
going t. forgive Mr.. Prescott7
If she is not going to do so, she
had better tell him so Immediately
and get the break over as soon as
possible. He Is at present no good
to this business. himself. nor any
thing nor anybody.
Yes, I quite agree with you, 1
know he is only getting what Is
coming to him, but that does not
straighten out things here at the
plant. He keeps every one on the
jump down here with his orders n
minute which he countermands the
next. He doesn't seem able to think
consecutively and he seems to have
lost all that great constructive
ability which I have admired in him
so much in the past.
Honestly. Mrs. Burke, I do not
think that Mr.. Prescott realized that
his absence at the time of Leslie's
sisters death could make any par
tscular difference to her. He Is one
of those men that is always f1atter-
ing himself that he never makes a
mistake about women, and he un-
derstands them not at all.
You and I know that when a man
has@something ~disagreeable to go
through-and that was what Alice's
death meant to him-John Alden
Prescott-he simply gets through
with 1t with as little fuss as possible.
He doesn't want any one outside to
help, and more than all else he does
not want any outside sympathy. His
whole desire is to get it over and off
his mind as soon as possible. He
doesn't even want to talk about it
for fear he will remember 1t a little
longer than is necessary.
Besides, you know. Mrs. Burke.
that Mr.. Prescott did not like Alice
and I think he thought IL he were
homo he might say something that
would hurt Leslie more than II he
stayed away.
Do not misunderstood me. ! am
writing no brief for John Alden
Prescott. / am almost sure had I
been Leslie l would have broken
with him then and there. / would
not have done. however, what Leslie
is doing. I would not have gone
away to eat my heart out in soil
tude and sorrow.
/ have the greatest sympathy for
Leslie, and I acknowledge her right
ness in most matters. She Is look
ing at the thing only from a wom-
ans viewpoint now, however. and
IN this case, though. I think she Is
wrong.
Copyright. 1926, NEA Service. Inc.)
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