The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-05-12

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I reached home from my visit
to Mr.. Hatton thoroughly ex-
hausted, but ! was glad that
neither Dick nor Aunt Mary was
there. / am afraid / would have
told them about Mollie. l seemed
to have taken so much upon my
self in the shaping of their two
lives, and yet, little book, I am
not sure that l did anything.
Mollie, for all l could say, is
determined to give up all for Mr..
Hatton, and he has told me that
by tomorrow morning l will have
in my hand letter from him to
Mollie giving her up, that he had
decided upon this letter before he
saw me. that the music | heard
was his requiem over his dead
love. He had not at that time,
of course, decided to send the
letter tome to give to Mollie.
tried to dissuade him from send
ing the letter this way, but he
said as long as Mollie had given
me her confidence 1t might help
to have someone to talk to after
he had gone.
, How well Mr.. Hatton under
stands a woman's nature. Mollie
will be very angry with me at
first, but after a while she will be
glad to. talk to me.
Not one word from Dick. Jack
caQnot be dangerously i'll or he
would write. His mother is nearly
crazy, and, as usual, she is trying
to find an excuse for him by say
ing that IL l would write him he
would answer. She does not know
Of the many, many loving letters
/ have written to Dick when he is
away from me and never have
had but one letter from him in
all our married life. l have often
wondered II he had been out of
town before we were married IL
he would have written. Someway
/ feel rather cheated. Other
women have Rugged to their
hearts letters which told of INDY
ing affection. Since love was first
written. on the sand or carved on
the barks of trees In the rude
hieroglyphics of primitive man a
woman has loved to have her
lover gladden. her eyes as we'll as
her ears by his pleasing batteries.
/ can almost envy Mollie the.
letter she is going to get tomor-
row, although, poor child! when
she reads 1t she will probably
think that she is done with love
forever.
1t is a queer state of affairs,
little book, in the Waverly fam
lily. Here Is Mollie, poor Mollie!
loving man she can never marry
unless his insane wife dies, and
Jack, after saying that he could |
not live without Mary, finds after
three years of marriage that he
can't live with her. I guess Dick
and / are the best off, for really |
Dick seems perfectly happy. Hell
believes in me implicitly and does
Just as he pleases himself with
the sure knowledge that am
also doing just as he pleases.
I cannot be unhappy, little
book, with the knowledge of myl
baby coming. Some way, think
Dick has gotten q little tired Of
ny talk about you. sonny boy. HeI
has never enthused much since
he first time l told him about
gou, and II he loved US very. very
much he certainly would have
written to us. However. when
vou get really truly In my arms
will never be unhappy again"
But oh, little book! little
book! I am very unhappy now.
I'm afraid Dick Il drifting away
rom me and want him to love !
ne, l want him moro It seems to
ne than / ever did before In my
III. Sometimes. baby, I almost
Wish We could both die--the
'uture looks 20 vague and dipep-I
pointing.
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