New Britain herald., 1916-05-01
REVELATIONSOF A WIFE
By ADELE GARRIGON

I waited quietly until she spoke again.
 'Of course, in keeping up my work, l naturally was thrown much with my friends of the studio days l tried my best to include my hus- band in my little circle of intimates, but it was useless. He would not be dccently civil to them himself, and he said f1atly that he did not wish me either to invite them to our home or to see any of them, women or men, elsewhere.
 'I was so much in love with him that if he had stayed at home with me himself I do not know but [ would have thrown loyalty to the winds and sacrificed the friendship of years to his unsuitable vanity and jealously But all the time he was neglecting me shamefully. He was drunk for week when a year after our marriage baby Marion was born.
 Even His Mother Changed.
 When the baby came my feeling for Will changed. He had worn me out. The love I had given him I lavished upon the child. Wills mother came to live with us-she had been drifting around miserably before, and while she failed me at the time of the divorce, yet she was a tower of strength to me during the babys infancy. I was very fond of her, and I think she sincerely liked mo. But Will, her only son, could always make her believe black was white, as I later found out to my sorrow.
 With the vanishing of the hectic love I had felt for Will, things went more smoothly with me. I worked like a slave to keep up the expenses of the home and to lay by something for the baby's future My husband was away so much that the boys and sirls gradually came back to some thing like their old terms of inti- macy. I never gave the matter of propriety a thought My mother-in- law, a baby and a maid, were cer- tainly chaperons enough.
 'Afterward I found out that my husband, equipped with his legal knowledge had set all manner of traps for me, had bribed my maid, and dia bolically managed to twist the most innocent visits of the boys own vile meanings.
 
 IF one Sunday afternoon and I saw at once that he was really i'll. You know his carelessnes He had let a cold go until he was as near pneu- monia as he could well be. sleet st orm was raging outside, and when Dicky, after shivering before the fire, started to go back to his studio, WilPs mother, who liked Dickv i'm mensely, joined with me in insisting that he must not go out at all, but to bed. Dicky was really too ill to care what we did with him, so we got him into bed, and I took care of him for two or three days until he was well enough to leave.
 "Of course, the greater part of his care fell on me, for Wills mother was old and not strong. I am not going to tell you the accusations which my unspeakable husband made against me, or the affidavits which the maid was bribed to sign about Dicky and me. You can guess. Worst of all, Will's mother turned against me, not because of anything she had observed, but simply because her son told her I was guilty.
 "I never would have thought fe Of you Lillian,' she said to me with the tears streaming down her wrinkled, old face. T never saw any, thing out of the way, but of course Will wouldn't lie. And I loved you SO
 Poor old woman. Those last few words of affection made it easier for me to give the baby up to her when the time came. She idolizes Marion. She gives her the best of care. and 1a n 10 xxi11 hate me as Will would"