The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-01-05

went and had big soul state over Il
saying 1t was worse than Siberian
prisons, and all that.
II went down to Arden last July
upon Upton's invitation. | never had
had any correspondence with Mrs. Sin.
clair; We never had been moro than
formally friendly
Made Her Live In Tent.
when | got there | found the Sin.
clair home broken up. Upton had told
Meta he wanted divorce and he had
driven her nearly wild lie would in.
sist on her doing everything he did
made her diet and live in tent. lie
showed her no affection. Whenever
she would want him to carry In "A
bucket of coal he would do It. but
would yell that was fine occupation
for II genius.
Upton, YOU know, preached free
love. In his Love Pilgrimage he put
forth his ideas.
Meta was unhappy, and Upton was
so excited about his genius that no.
body would have much to do with him
Meta and began to read poetry and
take walks togcthcr Meta and were
having n grand time. We were con.
genial.
by and by | began to notice that
! Upton was becoming sort of funny,
and | went to him and said:
Ft,t I
| tcntion to Meta"
No., he said, go ahead, and if you
can, make her happy
"Wcll, thought perhaps | ought to
! go, but | remembered the doctrines
that Upton has preached and how he
had treated Meta and and | loved
her. SO | remained
Then Upton came to me and want.
ed me to promise that | would play
! square He didn't know"
Changed Attitude Too Late.
The poets voice sank.
"Hc came too late. But I thought
he would live up to his preachings. But
! Upton, who had been radical, then
| began to take the advantages of the
conventional husband just as if he
had loved his wife and as if had de
| liberately alienated her affcCtions!"
Kemp said Mrs. Sinclair then went
to New York to the home of her
mother. He followed her in few
days and lived also at her mothers
house. He continued
"The next thing we knew Upton
came in on us suddenly one evening
We talked a while. and then he went
away, The next morning Upton call
ed up and was all excited.
1.-The reporters are coming!' he
said. They've found out I'm going to
sue for divorce. You'd better get
away
Il talked to him over the telephone
"'Well, Upton | said, you've done
nice trick
81 can't help it, he said, the re-
porters found out about it from some.
body else
Il found out" Kemp continued, that
he told the reporters himself"
Wandered Through Jersey Towns.
Kemp said Mrs. Sinclair borrowed
| 500, and, with some money he had,
they started out wandering through
several New Jersey towns in search
of a place to stay until they found the
cottage in which they are now living
He said Sinclair had come to see him
at a nearby town, but that he had
made him (Kemp) so angry he made
him go back to New York
| Kemp has weekly allowance OF
$3.50 from Chicago man who is in
terested in his work. He Is making a
little money from the sale Of poems
Mrs. Sinclair asked the reporter to
deny her don't give damn about
marriage" interview.
For the sake OF my friends, wist
you would deny it," she said 81 hac
made up my mind to give no inter
views, because they distressed m!
mother. She doesn't see things tn
way l do, you know, and she feels 4
bad over this as she would If ha,
murdered somebody.