El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-02

phone with very grave express
sion darkenins his face.
That was Jimmie Farley
Marian has come home She's Ill II
sounds as II she had left Blake for
good Poor girl, She wants me, so IN
cut the hospital this morning and run
right over
Peter You never cut the hospital
for any cause / sasped-
No, not for any ordinary reason
But when my old friend Marian Far
ley comes nome desperately i'll and
Jim phones for me, 7 conclude even
STAFF puyslciaLs ere justified IN acting
Ike mortal men q Poor little Maidie-
Your friend Blake must be a pretty
bad sort Jim says she has the
grip. a bad case. and is a nervous
wreck Jove- I'd like 10 get my hands
on BlaEel"
Peter " ent to school with Har-
vey Biz ke-he was always the dearest.
kindest bOy-nOt particularly magnetic
not charming, perhaps. but fine and
good He wouldn't hurt any woman
Perhaps Marian just didn't care
enough Perhaps he failed her-but
he never was a brute. I know that"
'Oh, wise young judge-' laughed
Peter Maybe you're right. dear. But
whatever it is, little Maidie has found
lie ira gically disappointing and we
must help her"
And then I said a foolish thing-a
TINS 10 which I tried stubbornly 70
be loyal-a thing that has affected The
course Of my life.
4 suppose YOU viii stand by 1Iaidfe.
as you call her Well. ! shall do the
same by Harvey He was my friend
for years-just as she was yours. You
I shan't fail him,r
Test Of Wills
Peter lOOkel at me cOIdIy. Marian
Farley marries your friend Blake
sHH arHn IS.
six months are UP. She is your hus-
bands friend, sister Of his lifelong
chum- She Is a woman. needing the
understanding sympthy Of other wOm-
en-and you calmly array yourself
against your husbands wishes ana
your own sex and announce that you
intend standing by a man YOU knew
when you were a child and haven't
seen dozen times in the years since
you came to womauhood. surely.
Connie. YOU see the absurdity Of your
attitude"
If Harvey needs me. Z shall be
loyal, I said primly and with a feel
Ing OF righteousness and martyrdom-
80 many women take a foolish stand
AGAINST the interest and wishes of the
man they love And il is generally
on some point that means little 10
ellher except as test Of power. Per
Iect love should say. Thy people shall
be my people" Peter wanted me 10
stand by Marian because she was his
friend But she was the woman IN
Peters life OF whom had been
tanglbly Jealous before she married
my old friend and eN-suftor-and
though 7 had no interest at all in Har-
Eey, l ranged myself on his side be-
Iore i heard the evidence knew I
was stubborn and absurd-but I had
10 cling TO my own fOlly-it seemed
10 me | was taking the only dignified
and fair attitude.
IL turned out that Marian had rushed
into marriage based on Ouick-flaring
qu1ck-dylng lnfatuation. In her splen-
ald JunoeSque vitality she had borne I
IarVey TO emotional heights where his !
ploQulng administrative nature did nor ,
belong and could not long STAY He .
could not understand her craving for /
owe and the constant expression there
~ To MN marriage was a partner .
snip They irritatcd each other and ]
The man grew morose and suuen ana 4
so mean and cold
Marian starved and froze and grew 4
70 nate the man she had married. She !
was lonely in Chicago. She missed .
her home ties and interests she mad
no one 10 whom she could talk. no /
me 10 act as a safety valve
Her bitterness and disappointment
urned in on her own nature and cor
'oded it. Life seemed TO her an empty
lusN- grippe pulled down her physical Z
'ltaltty-her mental strength had !
weakened by too constant thinking OF
lerself And so Marian Farley came I
he case"
All Depends On Him.
marian mad always been fond Of my .
husband And now her healthier
-ery sanity depended on him What
more natural than that she should be-
I'm 20 love him with all the starved
Intensity or the nature Harvey had
allied And her pathetic dependence
ttracted Peter. That could not be de-
lied either.
Then Harvey came TO New York ana
honed and asked TO see me. 7 knew /
e would not be a welcome guest in I
'eters house, but Peter was making 7
us round OF calls. and I knew that
he last and longest would take him to