El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-08
CHAPTER XX,

perate measures Almost any
- daughter OF Eve seizes upon the
first expedient at hand when she seeks
to forget In striving TO conquer her
memories Marian Farley became that
patbetfcaIv Ioatnsome thing-"a
secret drinker." and my husband an
my protege, LenOre Wallis, attempted
1 sat aIoof. disguised with 8Iarian's
weakness. absorbed in my own woes
and never guessing how unfit ] might
prove TO meet them when / saw lneHt
face to face in their sheer brutality
one afternoon, when Lenore had been
living with Marian for about month";
she phoned me with a request th'lt SUI
prised me exceedingly Marian Wlsheq
very much for me TO come and spend
the afternoon with her
However much one dislikes an midi
vidual it is hardly in human nature
to refuse a request to spend an AFTER
noon with her If she is sick and sur
fering and asks for your presence as
a favor I wonder now what all the
rest of my life would have been II 1
had hardened my heart and refused
TO 90 TO Marian Farley
The ravages of disease have palnos
that wins respect; the ravages OF drink
turn the human face into a caricature
Of itself Marian. prOpped up on white
pillows and wearing wonderful PINK
crepe de chine negligee, was a traN-
esty of herself.
.
isn't IT, COnnie2" she laughed 'Itusn
me around for a week to theaters and
teas and shops All under the careful
surveillance Of little Miss Wallis. ana
then when I find I can't stand the
racket any longer poke me into bed
still under the careful surveillance OF
the same efficient young person NOT
much chance for me to exert my IN
dividuality. is there
The Terrible Habit
I shuddered a bit at Jne way Marian
was by innuendO and suggestion skirt
ing the problem Of her weakness sud
denly queer, sharp look came into
IRIS an awfuuy enervating day
wouldn't YOU like something to drink
Just ring and ask Judson 10 bring
US some whiskey and soda
-'Oh. 7 couldn't Marianl You dldn
send LenOre away this afternoon and
get me here just for thatE' / ques-
toned
, Mariau's eyes changed slowly 70 one or
bitter antaEouism and then hardened
TO cold. sneering derislon- suddenly
she was not the pathetic victim OF
habit denied the means OF satisfying
that habit-but instead a bitter tor
tured woman on the verge of Wrestling
some crude satisfaction from life
But what that satisfaction was /
did not guess, and II had wonder
if 7 would have tried TO stop Marian
! Farley from telling me what she
thirsted to imparL
Were two in a boat. COnnie-two
women with wrecked lives" she
sueered in sudden vindictive triumph.
The same thing has done II TO Doth
OF us-marrying the wrong man Har-
Vev Blake loved Vou-he might nave
been decent if he'd gotten you And
II was meant for Peter Second best
wouldn't do for me-not my second
best nor Harvey's- And after COZ
4 into the mess and il wrecked me J
tried 10 float myself out with strong
waters Now. how are you going 10
get out2" -
she settled back on the pillows al, all
most as If she were spent, and looked
at me with somber eyes in burnt
Connie l. strpened.
Get out Of WHAT I suammered, like
the silly fool five years OF Jealousy and
suspicion and morbid introspection had
made Of me- Even as ] said IL rec
] ognized the fact that Constance E-lott
the best settlement worker IN New
York" would have known how 70 han
die n drink-c razed Woman-and that
Constance Drayton. jealous wife ana
Intellectual mother. was not aple 10
cope with Marian Farley at all
"Oh. i suppose its really VINE InaL
has wasted my life" said Marian But
it's lack OF understanding Of that
wonderful husband OF yours that's 90
{ ing to wreck yours Peter Drayton
needed a different woman from YOU
! COnnie-he needed a woman who loved
I him enough to think about him first
Z and herself last-a woman with enough
real maternal instinct 10 make ner
/ mother her husband as well as her
You've loved yourself first all the
I time-yOE've always wondered II Peter
was giving you enough love-if you
/ were getting square deal 4
/ doctors wife has to be helpmeet-
7 won't listen cried wildly. You
| sha'n't get me here and abuse me like
this. I'll go"
, undo Peters work. Oh no. II there :
I nobody to watch me I'll get up and
| forage for drink. and the last four
/ weeks will have gone for nothing
l You'll stay. 7 think. and you'll listen,
I too You know that however hateful
/ hear me out and learn some OF the
/ things YOU need to know"
! Marian. YOU hate mes-yOu tried 10
/ harm my little sister Betty. and now
/ YOU want to undermine the one thing
| that I've got left in all the world
] my faith in my own love for Peter
The one thing you have left-your
I lOve-alWays yourself and yourself
l It's time you stopped being petty
! child and grew 10 be a woman, Connie
f, 7 started. Peter had called me a
I child and pleaded with me to try "a
be a woman. Marian had found a way
/ TO arrest my attention. listened with
/ mind and heart
The Reproaeh Terrible
| you haven't given Peter what he
! wanted, ever. You haven't tried TO uu-
I derstand his work or his nature You've
| been jealous Of every pretty woman
! he looked at You've never thought
/ OF him in terms Of the temptations he
/ might have been strong enough to with
! stand. You've always thought Of him