The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-12
CHAPTER XVII.

one thing which Kitty Malram said
keeps coming mp before me.
You talk like an untemmcd wSm-
an
She struck u note OF truth and IL
mas made me humble
/ wonder il conditions had bcen
diffqtent--if, Tor instance. / had not
met Dick until after he had married
and become estranged from Eleanor
FairloW If l would have resisted him
and his cyclOnic loye-making?
Perhaps It is because man has al
ways known the strength Of tempta
ton that he has tried 10 keep his
women "unspotted from t1o world "
And yet--which one OF us can claim
virtue If it has not been put TO
test?
want TO be strong, and staunch
ana true. / want 20 feel that under
any and all circumstances ] VIII do
the right thing. But is the right thing
always the conventional thing?
Is II heresy TO wonder II poor Kitty
VIII gain anything by putting Love
out OF her heart?
You see, little hook, according to
the worlds decree. IL Is Kitty who
must do this. Her world would treat
her as q criminal otherwise, and. with
its thumbs turned down. send her TO
that awful prison called ostracism--
While for that good fellow, Bill Ten
ney," as DICK calls him, there would
be no such punishment only perhaps
q sly Jest or two among his Cronies
and hope on the part OF his friends
that Bill Will soon get 0y>r his fool
ishness.
Already her world which IS the
little coterle OF men who know her
have passed upon Kitty, and their
judgment was voiced by Dick when
he told me the other night TO cut
her out and all the Uninterrupted wom-
en- will probably follow this lead.
have determined on one thing
however II Kitty is big enough to
60 away for little while and work
II out alone III stand by her and
thank the Fates which have con-
spired not 70 lead me into tempta.
ton.
said something of this TO DICK
when he came home last night, OF
course not mentioning Kitty, and he
looked perfectly hornhed. He seemed
10 feel that in some way ! had
stopped from that pedestal on which,
as hts wife, | an supposed TO stand,
by even thinking that by any com
biuatiOn OF circumstances | could con
ceive OF temptation coming to me.
Men seem TO have all sorts OF dead
ideas and lifeless old beliefs on how
certain things change the character
OF a woman in the twinhing OF an
| eve. and, no matter how hard you
! try to show them that YOU are the
same kind Of a human being that they
are they still persist that always "a
( them you shall DC something entirely
different
! Since our marriage Dick has been
| changing his idea of me. During that
wonderful three months ] was the
woman to be desired. Now am
/ his most priced possession And
as such be guards me most jealousy
II annoys him when | show any 81
those human qualities which made
him fall in love with me.
| oh, Dick. il | could only make yol
understand that | am no better tina!
any other woman; that nave th'
same belittling insincertics which are
! the heritage of all women in this hu
man world; ii could make you un
derstand this and YOU would take m'
OF 81 the pedestal where you haVt
placed your most priced possession
and make me your confidante an1
| chum as we'll as your wife, not only
! /. dear. but YOU would be inlmeasur
ably happier
Dear Dick. 7 only think these things
when YOU are away from me; wher
YOU are here beside me and take mt
/ In your arms all other thoughts, save
those OF Love, hnd no resting place