The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-09-16
REVELATIONS
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&C A ND then | spoiled my HE,
~ said Lillian Underwood y

married"
Her tone was the essence OF bitts
ness, her face held look not good y
see ! could hardly believe that she |
was the same woman who hut a moment
before had told me OF the happy, strug
Cling DAYS in Paris and New York,
when she aud Dicky and other com
radcN had worked and played and
starved together
Please" | leaned toward her en-
| treatngly Don't tell me any more Il ,
ever there was a sting IN my thoughts |
concerning Your past friendship with |
Dicky you have removed IT by your |
words this morning | am more than |
contented to let the matter rest for
| ever"
81 know, my dear. know But there
are two reasons why want YOU to hear
me out You will be fortified TO meet
any gossip YOU may hear If You know
everything concerning tha, old time,
and then
She stopped and gated at me search
ingy
81 have kept all this locked in my
heart Tor years. she said slowly No
one has ever dared to speak TO me ot
any part OF It. Ii was a terrible effort
for me to dig 1t all up tor YOU Bat
now that it is begun ! feel a, #
weight had been lifted from my heart
There is a certain relief I'm telling YOU
everything DO you know what |
mean
Did l. My thoughts flew back to the
| l,,s -, 4 ,,,atl,aT'A
friend, Mrs Stewart when my deserve
had broken down, and had sobbed out
some OF my troubles in her comforting
arms
"Of course | know" answered her
gently. And won't make another OBJ
| lection Tell me anything you wish"
; Don't misunderstood me- She re-.
o Sumcd When say | spoiled my lie
by marriage do not mean that be.
l,cvc all marriages are failure, be
, licyc tremendously in married happi-
ness. but think | must be one oi the
women who arc tcTpcramcntally uu-
fitted to make any man happy
Her tone wa, bitter. self accusing
you cannot make me believe that
l | said Stoutly ' would rather believe
that YOU were very upwise III Your
' choice OF husbands
Her Work Kept Up.
She laughed ironically
IS We'll we will let IT 20 al that, \,
il any rate there Is only ono word that
y describes my first marriage 1t wa,
& hell from start to finish"
a The look on her face told INC she
c was not exaggeratlng II was loo,
only craven by intense suffering
II was old enough experienced
enough to have displayed some Iudg
" meul, but ! iell IN love as romsntlcall,
and wildly as the most loyeNck school
girl in the world. and married after III,
r brleiest OF whirlwlnd courtships
lc 1T was not three months after m
=, wedding day that discovered IN
m idols feet OF clay, and IT there was
I shred OF youths illusion or my self
tl respect lett when we came to the part
nr ing OF the ways. It was not WI
c Morton's fault lie certainly tried hi
ne best 10 make finished job Of it.
n Il am not going to weary vou wit
: all that | went through Let It b
l. enough to say tina, while on the on
er hand his cscapadcs were almost a dali
IS insult To me, on the other he wa
rn meanly jealous and made my lie mi,
~ cradle with his pettneSS and suspicion
IL prying.
eN 81 had not given up my work whc
rs married, for the rewards were ju,
sa,' beginning TO come in. Indeed. my hu'
u band did not wish me to, aud as N
IT, law practice was very slim, | 500
IS found myself not only bearing the SUI
port OF the home, but supplying hi
with poke, money"
ma Her voice dropped, as with the welgI
nS OF her memories, and trailcd away il
en- 10 silence tried to think OF SOM
'er thing | could say TO her, but | kne
le' that words were useless, so ] wait,
quietly until she spoke again
"Oi course, in keeping up my work,
"" naturally was thrown much with II
no. friends of the studio days ! tried n
Id best to include my husband in my lii,
circle OF ,n,lmateS, but 1t was uScle,
He would not be deccntly civil to the
eN- himself and he said ilatly that he d
ent not wish me either to invite them
our home or to sec any of them wom
or men elsewhere
the " was so much in love with nj
the that ii he had stayed at home wi
,gh me himself do not know but | wou
'S,s have thrown loyalty to the winds a
mn, sacrificed the friendship OF year,
'rel his Unsuitable vanity and jealousy Il
to- all the time he was negecting !
ry 'hameiully lie was drunk for a we
'co. when a year after our marriage ba
.NS Marion was born
Even His Mother Changed.
when the baby came my feeling
ro viii changed He had worn me o
gu The love had given him | lavish
upon the child Wills mother ca
ZEN to live with us-she had been drift
hlle around ms,rably before, and while ,
lest failed me at the time OF the diver
and vet she was a tower OF strength to
the during the baby'S infancy was v,
ina fond OF her, and think she SINGER
om- like me. Bu, viii, her only son. co,
in always make her believe black "