Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-20
Evening Star S
Daily Story
TRMA INTERPRETERS
BY MOLLY McsrAsTER.

III MS love Tor nef TO demand Inat
she leave the stage and live a quiet,
domestic life at his side. He had
fallen in love with her as a star,
wooed and won her as such, and now
as wife and mother Sybel Craig still
shone, a respondent star in the
theatrical armament
John Junior was a scant three
months old when his mother began
rehearsal for her new play. 1t had
been a shock to Craig. He had
somehow counted on the arrival OF
John Junior as barrier to Sybels
pl olonged stage career, but she had
laughingly told him that she could
act the better now that she had q
son to be proud of her.
you would grow frightfully tired
of me anyway" she added, IF was
about the house all evening"
II grow tired of not having you
DEAR" Craig had told her, and was
not quite aware of the extent of his
WEAKNESS. He only knew that his
evenings alone in the house while
his wife was playing to crowded
theatres were beginning to bore him
John Junior was four months OLE
when the new nurse arrived. She
Irma Newton, was lovely to look
endowed with womanly charm thai
entered the appreciation of John jun
ior, his mother and his father. She
was one of those fortunate women
who understand all human wants
and woes and administer according to
needs.
John Junior loved her instinctively
Sybel loved her because she possessed
all the, domestic and sterling virtues
that Sybel herself lacked. And John
Craig? But he did not know that he
loved her. He only knew that eve
Rings of complete boredom were a
thing of the past and that his wife's
career was no longer so severe a
thorn prick in his happiness.
Had Sybel loved her husband in a
more unselfish way she would have
sseen that Ir1na's position in the
household was nothing but tempta-
ton flung in the path of two per-
sons. But Sybel felt secure in her
husbands love, and it did not for a
second occur to her that he would
turn his affections in another direc-
ton.
Craig, however, was only human.
He had married because he wanted a
, home and a wife to tread the path of
life beside him. He had regretted
that love had come to him across the
foetlights, but she would love him
more than her audience and applause.
The time seemed long in coming. In
: the meantime Irma Newton entered
the Craig household and discomfort
turned slowly into a most delightful
feeling of peace.
When Irma had been in the house
six weeks Craig knew that his con-
tentment would vanish if she were to
leave. He knew also that his wifes
career was seldom in his mind and
that his evenings were not marred
by her absence. Neither did the fact
that Irma was bending over John
Junior when it should have been
Sybel, annoy him. In fact Craig
found himself appreciating the iighi
on golden hair and finding it more
lovely than on black. Sybel's hail
was raven black: also he knew thai
he was beginning to study Irma's
eyes for an expression he wanted tc
see there.
The situation was SO completely
harmonious for all concerned that il
was not until the serpent was already
in the grass beneath their feet that
Irma awoke to the full significance OF
It. She had been sitting beside the
, fire with John Junior in her arms
when Craig had come quietly into
the room. He had not spoken, but
his eyes had revealed the whole truth
even as if his lips had spoken it.
Irina knew then that the serpent had
stirred. She wondered how long the
serpent had been there and how deep
ly Craig's happiness was affected
She was more grieved than stunned
when the truth dawned on her Trina
spent a night in grave thought. She
knew that Craig could not long re-
main silent and she shrank from the
scene that must assuredly follow. She
recoiled from the knowledge that she
had robbed another woman of her
husbands love, innocent though her
own action in the matter had been.
There must be some way out of
It," she told herself over and over
again. John Craig is far too fine
a man to wreck his mo trimonial craft
on the rocks, and his wife is too
thoughtless to put out a beacon light
for him. / wonder-I wonder how
can save him." Irma felt that Sybel
Craig was more to blame than her
husband, and that he would have re-
mained faithful in his love had she
made the very slightest attempt to
hold him.
She must make that attempt
Trina told herself. IT shall tell her
exsctly how matters stand
1t was brave decision to come to
but Irma was no coward. Besides
she realized that should Sybel CRAIG
display the same pride In her per
sonal life as she did in her public
life she would strive to maintain her
position as John Craig's wife. She
would not, Irma reasoned, like to see
herself as the deserted woman.
Sybel was having her II o'clock
cup of tea when Irma knocked at her
door. 1t was not an unusual visit
so that Mrs. Craig was not surprised
They were wont to talk things over
at that hour of the morning.
Mrs. Craig" began Irma without
preamble, your husband imagines
himself in love with me. and want
you to help me to prevent him tell
ing me so.'
Sybel went a shade pale. She was
not, however theatrical in her pri-
vate life and her answer was unex-
pectedly calm.
why do you say he imagines him.
self in love with you?"
Because he is not really-he only
thinks SO. He and / have been
thrown together continually and-he
is a man essentially fond of femi-
nine companionship. He has not had
that from you. 1t is most natural
then. that his nature should respond
to the presence of any woman sensi-
tive to his personality"
Sybel Craig gazed in more or less
vacant way at Irma- Perhaps for
the first time in her life she was
looking at situation from another
persons point of view.
you are not so selfish as you are
thoughtless," Irma went on as II fol-
lowing out her own thoughts. Your
husband loves you and wants you at
his side, and you have never stopped
to realize that you have never con-
sidered his desires-only your own
In this life we really should try to
be oil =. f.ax "a nIIT.