The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-21
CONFESSIONS
OF A Wife
NEW LOVE FOR OLD

Wasn't that wedding Of ours a
fright. MargicY'' wrote Dick nj the
beginning 81 HIS next inntailment. II
atm sure that II any man was ahkci
what was his most embarrassing
moment. he would nay. 1t was at
my wedding ceremony provided the
ceremony was church affair. an
ours was.
Sometimes think that We are al.
most as barbaroua with our wed.
dingn as We are with our burlala.
do you know. MarEic. feel n
cold chill so down my back every
Time I think what win happen after
] arm dead. know that mother will
want tho same owtcntation shc had
at tho tim. OF our wedding"
Poor Dick. that is just what hln
mother did have. tho most os,enta.
uoua funeral that was ever held In
this city.
I can safely say. little book. n
Dick hated his wedding. he would
have been furious at his funeral.
And nos I am coming 90 tho
most surprising and un.xplsinabIc
thing about our love and our rpar.
riagc. Margic. You know. az tho re-
ccption. you met Eleanor Fairlow.
Eleanor Falriow and had been
swecthcarta ever since could re.
member. We took alternate bites
out OF our apples and divided our
dlah OF &c. cream amicably. | al.
ways carried her books 10 school.
and. when we grew older. Eleanor
and I were always paired off togcth.
err. We were left alone many times
In those years OF our adolescence.
and-wcll. ! should not wish my
daughters 10 have tho freedom with
any young man that Eleanor had
with me.
II do not think one of us was
moro To blame than the other. You
see. we always intended TO marry
when we were old enough
Honestly. did intend TO marry
Eleanor That was perhaps the rca.
son why I did not. In so many words.
ask you To marry me, altho. at the
time. | did not conciscly voice that
reason. And | give you my word
that from the time | saw YOU thru
the door OF that school I absolutely
forgot such a girl as Eleanor Fair.
low lived.
II make no excuses. Margic. I
used Eleanor Fairlow very badly.
and you worse. but 1t IL the way OF
the world. my dear--the way OF "A
mans world--thc way OF "a world
made by man for man. 1t Is only
now that | know all this.
Sometimes ! think we viii begin |
to understand. but am afraid II is |
going TO take something very tragic |
In tho way of happenings TO bring
the world of men up To the realiza-
ton OF what are only their just de-
serts.
Think OF Il. After practically all |
my life. from the time l could talk. |
with Eleanor Fairlow, ! forgot her |
when ! saw you. And ! |
never thought "A bit about her until |
two days before we were married. |
when she called me up and asked |
me to come over and see her.
II did not want to go. / hated to
DO made unhappy. and l felt like n
yellow dog. as well.
Eleanor was n good girl. Margie: |
her only fault was that she loved me |
iovotedly. and even you can hardly |
blame her when she said to me that
lay:
"'Dick, l am not going to give you
up. You were mine "A long time be.
'orc she took you away from me- |
tried to tell her that you had not
aiken me away from her: that. the
! saw you. you had bowled
ne over, and knew ] would be per-
'ectly miserable II | did not get you.
but. Dick, she whispered, you
will get tired of her
II started to protest, and she said.
Yes. you will. for you have tired OF
ne. and she can't love you any bet
.er than do. She can't be any more
devoted than I have been to you.
II am pretty. people tell me. and
I want TO toll you. Dicltle. that | am
going to wait until you are tired OF
your school teacher. and then you
will come back to me-
Il fairly skunk from that girls
presence, but as soon as | saw you
again / forgot everything except |
that / loved you and you loved me-"
ITO BE Continued