The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-20
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Herbert Spencer came to see me
today, and q more abject creature
l never saw.
what am I going to do, Mrs.
Waverly?" he asked. II am dis
graced forever"
really felt almost sorry for
him, poor man. He had always
had such q wonderful confidence
in himself. could not help
thinking Of poor Ktty's defini-
tion of him, "a pedestaled saint"
and now even he himself had dis
covered that his feet were clay.
"The little blonde nurse was
very pretty, Herbert
81 thought that people would
say I was unfeeling to marry SO
soon after Kitty's death"
And so you made love in
secret, rather than face the idle
speech of people"
she was always there with the
child" he said as II in extenua-
ton, doing all those little init
mate things that mothers do for
babies. When she had the Group
for three nights we both hung
over her, watching every breath
that we thought might be her last.
grew to love her. to want her.
She seemed an ideal mother, and
-and-wsll, she confessed she
loved me. We both decided that
We could not marry so coon after
Kitty's death. but, alas, we could
not keep apart
1t seems to me, Herbert, that
your worst sin after all was giving
up this woman who loved you and
announcing that you are going to
marry some other woman"
Herbert covered his face with
his hands. "Oh, Margie, l some
times think that this awful thing
has been sent to me in punish
ment for my egotism. I thought
l was not as other men are, and
l have found out that | am. Mrs.
Almer is a very wealthy woman.
She can help me very much in my
work. She has done so. l know
she was interested in me before
/ married Kitty, and she let 1t be
seen very patiently that she would
not say no IL / asked her to be my
wife. At last she openly limited
that she must withdraw her sup
port of the settlement IL l married
anyone else. She, too, is very
pretty, very sweet (You see, it
is not the woman, but a woman,
little book.) ooh, II you could
know how horrible 1t all was.
finally came to the conclusion
it was not right to my poor to cast
Mrs Almer aside. Kitty had been
dead year and l asked her to be
my wife"
What did you think that little
blonde nurse would do, Herbert?"
The color surged over his face.
II thought she would see 1t as
did, as something that was best to
do"
why, of course. my dear Her
bert, it was best for you-but
what of her? Was 1t best for her
to give up the child that she had
cared for since its birth, and had
probably grown to love with tho
same intensity as its mother
might have done?
WAS It best for her to try to
strange in her breast the thought
that you had never loved her?
WAS 1t best for her to lose
some of her self-respect. for + be-
lieve IL is only when q man leaves
a woman who has given herself to
him through overpowering love
that remorse rears its ugly, ter
rifying head?
"Was 1t best for her to know
that in the future there would be
lonely nights when sleep would
never come to mercifully shut out
the picture of another woman do
ing for you and your child? Was
IT,
stop, Margie-I can't bear 1t.
Can't you see that my decision was
based on my duty to my poor
people?"
Herbert Spencer. 1t were better
that every person = man, woman
and child - In your settlement
should live in want until they died
than that you should have thrown
aside and crucified the soul of a
woman who loved you. Besides.
down in your heart you know that
It was not for your poor but for
yourself you did 1t. am glad Kit
ty is dead. would not have had
her ever know your hypocrisy.
Goodbye"