Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-18
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and two together and getting the
wrong answer"
II don't blame you at ALL she said.
but little stiffly. 1T was perfectly
natural No." she said my daugh-
ter is at Carcasonne House. She had
very heavy cold-and other troubles
and two doctors agree she had a
very heavy cold-and other troubles
and two doctors agreed that her lungs
were threatened Well, perhaps they
were / sent her to Carcasonne
House on the doctors recommended
ton And it seems that she's just
as sound as | am"
What a relief to you, Ma'am, y
said Saterlee hastily.
YES she said, but without en-
thusiasm, "a great relief. But"-she
hesitated-you see-she has made up
her mind to marry young man
whom ! scarcely know. But about
him and his antecedents l know this:
that his father has buried three
wives."
The blood rushed into Saterlee's
face and nearly strangled him. But
the lady, who was leaning forward,
elbows on knees and face between
hands, did not perceive this conVul-
sion of nature.
IF blood counts for anything, -
said she, "the son has perhaps the
same british instincts. A nice pros
pect for my girl-to sutfer-to die
and to be superseded. The mans Sec
ond wife was in her grave but three
weeks when he had taken a third
am told he is great rough, bullying
man. The son is tremendous great
fellow, too. OH blood will tell every
time" she exclaimed. IN. A. Safer
In I'm NTT
him.
"Yep." saterlee managed. with an
effort that would have moved a ton.
Il am going to appeal to her" said
the lady. IT have been good mother
to her I have suffered for her. And
she must-she shall-listen to me-"
'If I can help in any way said
Saterlee, somewhat grimly, you can
count on me. Not" he said
a little later. that I'm in entire SYM
pathy with your views. ma'am.
Now if you'd said this man Saterlee
had divorced three wives. -
The lady started And in her turn
suffered from a torrential rush of
blood to the face. Saterlee perceived
it through her spread fingers and was
pleased.
IF you had said that this man. he
went on, had tired of his first wife
and had divorced her, or been di-
vorced by her, because his desire was
to another woman, then | would go
your antipathy for him, ma am. But
I understand he buried a wife and
took another. and so on. There is
difference. Because God Almighty
Himself says in one of His books that
man was not meant to live alone.
hi Loo
wife the quicker he is driven to find
a living woman he can love. But for
people who can't cling together until
death-and death alone part 'em-for
such people ma am. | don't give a
ding"
and you are wrong" said the lady,
who was nettled by the applicability
of his remarks to her own case. Let
us say good woman marries a man.
and that he dies-not the death-but
dies to her; tires of her, carries his
love to another and all that. Isn't he
as dead, even if she loved him. as if
he had really died? He is dead to
her-buried; men don't come back.
Well, maybe the more she loved that
man the quicker she is to get the
service read over him-thats divorce
and find another whom she can
trust ana love. ouppOSG lildl DtlppGiiS
to her twice. The cases would seem
Identical sir, | think. Except that I
could understand divorcing a man
who had become intolerable to me
but could never, never fancy myself
marrying again--if my husband had
died still loving me, still faithful to
me-"
II take your point" said Saterlee.
81 have never thought of it along
those lines. But l may as we'll tell
you, ma am, that / myself have buried
more than one wife
"If we are to be on an honest foot
ing" said the lady, II must tell you
that | have divorced more than one
husband, and yet when l size my
self up, | do not seem to myself a lost
woman. It's true that / act for my
living"
'T know" he interrupted, you are
Mrs. Kimbal. But | thought I knew
more about you than ! seem to. I'm
Saterlee. And my business at Car
casonne House is the same as yours. "
She was silent for a moment. And
then:
"Well," she said, there we are. And
that's lucky in a way. We both seem
to want the same thing-that is, to
keep our children from marrying each
other. We can talk the matter over
and decide how to do it,"
eve can talk it over anyway, as
you say" said Saterlee. But and
he fished i'm his pocket and brought
out his sons letter and gave il to her.
She read 1t in the waning light.
But" he repeated gently. that
doesn't read like a letter that a brute
of son would write to a brute of a
father; now, does it?'
She did not answer. But she open
ed her purse and took out carefully