The times., 1901-06-09

| porter approached her. No one seemed d
| unhappy and her little blue-eyed and
! blonde-tressed girl. Zelma. a child Of
| about six years, was playing on the steps
! in the sun and laughing as if there had
! never been any trouble, or any missing
| father
First OF all. le- me tell you that I don't
/ believe that Mr. Morey would bc so fool
/ ish as to clooc with that woman Mrs
/ Morey said when the question of her hus-
! bands disappearance was broached to
her Il credit him with more sense than
that. 1 think that he has gone out of the
city to get away from her and if you had
seen as much of her as I have. and knew
how much he was run after by her, you
would understand that he could not get
away from her in any other way. one
night she came all the way out here to
see him and wandered around the house
in the dark whole hour. She has been
here to see him, but / can vouch for the
fact that he has never spent a night
away from this house for long time. He
had known her about a year OF course,
I did not like the intimacy. and we did
have some little hot words about it. !
should not be surprised if one of the rea-
sons why he went away was his being
somewhat angry at me.
He left Washington on Saturday and
before he left he sent me a note saying
that he was going to New York to get
work. He said he was tired Of Wash
inston and that l could do what / pleased
with that woman BY that woman he
meant Mrs. ReidelL His speaking of her
in that way is what makes me think they
are not together. If they are together it
is simply because he has not succeeded
in getting out Of her way and she has
followed him. He always did want TO get
away from Washington and he frequent
~ talked about getting work in New
York, though he never told me anything
about his plans
He is a rather peculiar man and was
never very talkative and never let me
know much about his plans. Whenever
he made up his mind TO a thing he made
it up quickly and went Immediately to do
it. That is why l am not SO surprised
at his having gone away without telling
me or preparing me- he once went 10
Alaska almost as suddenly
THE truth of it all is that his life has
been made miserable in this city by that
Mrs Reidell, and he was too sensitive
a man to stand it, He and she had been
much interested in the Bonine-AYers case,
and | think he felt that her attachment
for him might have the same ending II he
did not get out OF her way
There may have been something be
tween them in regard TO theOsOphy. he
never spoke much TO me about II, but /
know mat he beleNCu IN II THOROUGHLY
and that il was his religion. The children
and | go to the church here. but he did
not Perhaps he did not think | was his
affinity.
Last Wednesday / received a note from
him. dated in New York, but ii had no ad-
dress on il. In il he said that he was
hunting for work, and that l should hear
from him again. ! am expecting letter
every minute now. But / do not care much
whether he comes back or not can take
care of myself. l have well-to-do reia-
tfves in OrOnO Me. who can provide for
helped 10 provide for them before this.
But you can calculate upon II that Mrs.
Reidell will be back here soon / feel GER
tain she is not with my husband, and that
she will give up trying to find him
When told Of the two children Wnich
Mrs. Reidell is supposed 10 be leaving un-
provided for Mrs. Morey's heart was
touched
Surely she cannot be intending to leave
them" she SAID, as she reached out her
arms and gathered in several of the sun
burned little ones who were crowding
about her Now l know she viii come
back. My husband loved his children. and
everyone will tell you that he made a
great deal of them. Little Zelma cor
rOborated in her childish voice: Indeed,
papa does love us
There was scent Of peppermint candy in
the eir that indicated that there was
motherly as well as fatherly affection in !
the house. Mrs. Morey had just returned
from a trip to the city.
Il shall not do anything about it, said
Mrs. Morey. If he comes back. all right.
! shall not attempt to have him found in
New York / believe he is there hunting
for work, and ! am satisfied with that"
Mr.. Morey is a marine painter of no
mean ability, and the walls of the scantiiy
furnished parIOr in the house are covered /
with oil paintings from his brush.