The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-05-08
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Mollie burst into tears.
II was her first great grief.
Woman-like. In her pity and SYM
pathy for the sad life OF Chadwick
Hatton, she felt that perhaps she
was commissioned by fate to be
his solace and his everlasting Joy.
To be told that no woman can
be 10y forever" to any man
brought her romantic dream
castles all about her in ruins.
could see that she did not quite
| believe that this wonderfully
| beautiful thing that had come to
her could vanish, as II were, In q
breath; and yet she knew | was
telling the truth, AZ l saw IL, and
telling 1t as ! knew 1t from my
own experience.
"Mollie, dear" I continued.
| chadwick Hatton Is probably
blinded as you are by the circum-
stances which surround your case.
! think he Is perfectly honest In
his feelings that his great love for
you will make him careless OF
public opinion. He also realizes
that his great wealth will enable
you to go anywhere you please, to
the ends of the earth to get rid OF
prying eyes. But, Mollie. Mr..
Hatton is very vulnerable to the
speech of people. His whole
method of life since he has been In
this place shows that. IL he had
not cared he would have paid
open court to you and let gossip
have said what It would.
Another fact you must reckon
with is the attitude Of Pat Sulli-
van in this matter. Pat stepped
aside and gave up the woman he
loved to his foster brother when
he made her his wife. Have you
for one moment thought that he
will give you to him when he
knows all it will mean to you? My
dear. IL you persist In your plan
Hatton will lose both Pat and
Mother Nora out of his life.
as the love you can give him
worth 1t?
"A love that must stink about
in foreign places. that must blush
for itself whenever 1t happens to
see a happy mother grooming to
her babe in the twilight? A love
that must shut out all the hope OF
children that can bear his manner
A love that puts you on the same
plain with the mother he despises.
for you are probably giving the
same excuse his mother did when
she ran away with that other man
and left him to suffer?
"Oh, know, l know, my dear"
I said, as ! took the weeping girl
in my arms, lit looks as though
you could not live without this
man and this great love, but you
can We can live without any
thing in this world but air, food,
heat and water-purely material
necessities. That our souls are
starved, our hearts are frozen,
our hopes are stifled and our
longing dies of thirst In the arid
desert of a loveless life means
nothing-we still live on.
"But here let me whisper .
WOTu Oi COiulOTt. INcituOk Coh buA-
fering last, and in your case. my
dear child, that love does not last
is your salvation. You are young,
Mollie, and love will come to you
again in a form that you can ac-
cept, and because you have passed
through this terrible cataclysm
you will know how to appreciate
it."
"But. Margie. ! can't give him
up. / can't tell him that am
not big enough, do not love him
enough to make this sacrifice
which you think SO big and which
seems to me so little-why, Mar
gle, he has never been really
happy in his life."
II do not think, my dear, You
will have to do this, for think
Chadwick Hatton is too big q man
| to let you do 1t for him. III he IL
not, he surely Is not the one In
which to trust as you will have
| to trust him."
''I'm going to, Margie, I'm 60
Ing to II he wants me-"
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