The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1913-10-18

\. and Carried Her Ashore.
n ! can help In any way said
Satsrlco. somewhate grimiy. you
can count on me. Not.
no said little later. that I'm
Ia entire sympathy with your views.
Ma'am N0N. n YOU d
aald this man Saterloo had Di
Z NORCED three wives.
The lady started And In hor
turn sufforcd from a torrontiai rush
OF blood TO tho face sAtcrioo per
coiycd II through her spread fin.
gers. and was pleased
II YOU had said that this man.
/ he went on. had tired 81 HIS first
wife and had divorced hor. or been
I divorced by her. because his desire
vas TO get another woman. then |
would so your antipaihy for him.
Ma'am. but underHtAnd he buried
wife. and took another. and 20 on
/ There IL a difference Because God
Almtghty Himself SAYS in one Of
Ills books that man was not meant
60 live alone. Maybe tho moro n
man loved his dead wife. the quick.
or IL he driven 20 find living
woman he can love. Hut for poo
plo who can't cling together until
death--and death alone par; EN-
for such people. MR'am. ] don't give
dag"
And you are wrong" said tho
lady. who was notified by tho hppll
cabili,y OF his remarks to her own
case Let ne say n good woman
msrrica q man. and that he dies
not THE DEATH--but dies 10 her
Tires OF her. carries hla love TO
anotaor. and all that Isn't he as
dead. even " she loved him. as II
hn had really dicdl lie IN dead to
hor-- buricd-men don't come back
Well. maybe tho more she loved
that man the quicker she ~ TO ge,
7 the service read over him that's
divorce and find another whom abe
can trust and love Suppose that
/ happens TO her twice. The cRses
would seem identical. sir. I think
I Except that ! could understand al.
vorcing a man who had become In.
I ;olerablo 90 me: but | could never.
never fancy myself marrying again
If my husband had died still low.
Ina ne. Eiill faithful TO me"
Il infc your point" said Saterloe.
/ Il have never thought of II along
those lines But | may "a well tell
you. Ma'am. that | myself have
buried moro than one wife"
N We are TO be on an honest
| footing" said tho lady. i must tell
you that have divorced more than
one husband. and yet when | sizc
| myself up. | do not seem TO myself
a lost woman. TIA true that act
, for my living --"
Il know" he interrupted. you are
Mrs. KImbal. But thought knew
more about you than seem TO. I'm
Saterlee And my business at Car
asonno House is the same as yours. -
Shc was silent for moment
And then:
Well" she said. here we are.
And that's luck IN q way. We both
seem 10 want the same thing-that
is. 10 keep our children from mar.
rying each other. We can talk the
matter over and decide how to do
e."
I'VE can talk Il over. anyway.
ms you say" said Saterloe But
and he fished in his pocket and
brought out his sons letter and gave
II to Der. She read In II the waning
light
put he repeated gently. that
doesn't read like letter that a
brute OF n son would write 20 a
brute OF n father: now, does it,
She did not answer. But she
opened her purse and took out a
carefully and infinitely folded sheet
OF notepaper.
That's my Dolly's letter to me, s.
she sDld. and It doesn't sound like
-" her voice broke He took the
letter from her and read IT,
NO. II doesn't" he said. And he
said II roughly, because nothing
brought rough speech out OF the
man 80 surely as tears when they
were I'm his own eyes.
We'll" said Mrs. Kimbal with a
sigh. Tets talk"
NO" said Saterlee. Tets think.
They could hear from far ahead
n sound as OF roaring waters.
THAT" said Saterlee dryly, will
be ella River Mebbe we'll have
TO think about getting across that
first It's river now. by the sound
OF II. II II never was before"
Fortunately it's not dark yet,
said Mrs. Kimbal.
THE last time had trouble with
n river" said Saterlee, was when
my first wife died That was the
American River in flood. had to
cross II TO get doctor. We'd gone
prospoctin just the old woman and
me-more for n lark than profit"
He broke off short And there's
ella River" he said.
u hoped you were going to tell