Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-02
derstandlng / am grateful for the OPP
portunity to clear myself.

derstandlng i nm grateful for the OPP
portunity to clear myself.
ain the first place, there has been no
deception of any sort about this en-
tire affair l knew from the first that
Mr.. Earle was married man. l knew
1t, and the friendship that sprang up
at the very beginning was not friend
ship that violated the knowledge OF his
marriage to another woman"
"Then the friendship was matter
of your first meeting?'
Eyes, Will confess that mutual
understanding sprang to life ut our
first meeting. As soon as we had
talked with each other this bond OF
sympathy was established"
ut was love ut hrst sight, then, was
1t not?"
mo, mol should not call 1t that.
The real understanding came after
ward. This immediate comprehen-
sion or sympathy, or whatever you
choose to call 1t, was not Of romantic
nature-not then. You see, I did not
permit myself to think Of him as other
than friend under those circum-
stances"
"Then when did you permit yourself
to consider closer friendship?
mot until he had told me OF his I'M
fortunate domestic affairs, not until
he had revealed to me that he and his
wife longed for relense from each
other; that they could not be happy to-
gether. Even then I strove to reunite
them"
when did you first meet Mr..
Earlier
about two years ago. Our interest
in settlement work in New York
brought us together. Our sympathies.
our tastes, our activities, were In har-
mony. We seemed to be at one in all
our ideas. He understood me. I'M
derstood him. That was alive UNI
derstood each other"
when did the acquaintance ripen"
mot until within recent months,
not really until we took the trip to
Europe-my brother and land found
ourselves, quite by accident, on the
same steamer with Mr.. Earle. That
was this last June. When we arrived
In Paris, Mr. Earle stopped at tie
same place where my brother and
stopped, and we saw him often. We
went motoring together and took long
tramps together, my brother accom-
panying us most Of the time. We oil
three spent most enjoyable season in
each others society,""
''Mr. Earle speaks Of the psychology
zeal moment when you realized that
you cared for each other" I observed.
when was 1t, Miss Kuttner?"
''Oh, can't tell you that-it Is too
sacred. That shall never reveal. All
Gun say Is that the revelation came
to me quite unexpectedly and with
sweeping certainty one day 81
At the new, thrilling tone In her
voice looked up quickly. Her face
had grown luminous. Her eyes, for
merly so steady and controlled. radiat-
ed swift glory. Her entire being
see ned exalted. Then she spoke in
hushed voice, with her eyes on the
mountain that lay yelled in mist.
ut was wonderful understanding"
she said.
Speaking of the time when the de-
cision was made that left Earle's hap
piness in her hands, Miss Kuttner
said:
ut was one week after had been
in the Earle home. l had made every
effort to reconcile the two. ! begged
them to make one last trial-to see eur
nestly If they could not adjust their
differences did everything in my
power to this end. talked to each
separately, and I talked to them to-
gether. urged and pleaded. But one
night-it was Saturday night, or rather
Sunday morning, for IT. wasf2 o'clock
or after-Mrs. Earle left her room and
came upstairs to mine. She sat down
by the bedside.
Julia, it is no use,' she said. i
can't do 1t. 1t is impossible. We can
not be happy-we cannot Why should
we try any longer? Love cannot be
forced. 1t must come Of itself. We
are hopelessly out Of sympathy. Listen,
Jul1u. lOu uAOSASIuAu u4u. 4Ou SS1A
make him happy. want you to prom
Use me you will
eve sat there in the dark talking 1t
all over, as women talk In the silence
of the night, and that hour decided It
There was no longer any battle, any
doubt. There were not two paths any
longer. She had taken the choice from
me-"
She reverted to the psychological
moment in Paris when she and the
artist realized they loved each other.
"Just so soon os we realized 1t we
wrote joint letter to Mrs. Earle ex-
planning the entire matter" she said.
1--WE wished above everything to do
honest things. Then we went to the
parents of Mrs. Earle and told them
everything. They were perfectly sat
lsfied and happy to think their daugh-
ter would be free at last and would
return to them. l had become &C.
quainted with Mrs. Earle's parents,
and they were lovely to me. My
brother and lived on the same street
In Paris where they resided. We were
all very congenial.
II really do not quite understand
Mrs. Earle myself. She Is, confess,
an enigma to me. No matter how l