New Britain herald., 1920-03-16

And vet it Is the business of any one who loves Katherine as | do to protest against the brutal caddish treatment you give her." l famed. Katherine has been contidinc in 1 you?" The question came from stiff white lips.
 4Ou know better than that,' I said 1 hotly. "But that speech is on a par with the ones you are daily inflictinS upon Nour wife. don't know whethe" l or not you realize that you're con l tinually .Sneering at her. ansWerin z her speeches with either irritation or 1 icN rudeness, and that generally your behavior is 8 spectacle for gods and men. Katherine has never said one word in criticism of you. but no on@ can help seeing you and not rema rk- ing it. If you are tired of her, do not love her any longer, why stretch her on the rack as you are doing? N-lay not frankly tell her so, let her get ] divorce and each go your way" Not love her-not love ka1h- erine.' He stumbled over the words as a blind man would grope his way over an unexpected obstacle in his path. Then he turned upon me, his eyes blazing.
 ''Will you stop?' he quer:ed fren- Ziedly. GO away at once and let mo think this out
 l hurried away from the summ CT house without another word, wonder ing whether I had said too much or too little. Of course, I had over drawn the picture. His behavior had not been as atrocious as I had pie tured it, but I had sulr-consciouslv 111 oNJiT1 of Ia mothers in my course Of conduct:
 Words of Farewell
 When a pendulum has swung too far in one direction,'' she used to say, ''it must swing just far in the other direction before it can come to rest in it's usual place.
 Jack was so~blind to his own con- duct that I had purposely painted my picture in the blackest hue, hoping that the reaction at the sight of it would bring him back to his old kind 1y chivalrous self
 He stayed in the summer house for an hour, and only Katherine knows what his thoughts were during that time. Then I heard him outside their room door rather gruffly demanding that Katherine should accompany him for a walk. She came out in a few minutes and they disappeared in the direction of the woodland through which. runs the little brook that Dicllv and I love So well and which I had shown to them early in the week They did not return until long after luncheon time-to Katie's dismay. for she had taken especial pains wit n their last luncheon-they were 70 leave early the following morning and I, watching from an unseen post of vantage, saw with an eXultant leap of my heart that Katherine's eyes were starry with happiness, her face transfigured from the lined travesty of it's old loveliness which had trou- bled me.
 EVid ently they had come to a per- feet understanding but I wondered it Jack would ever forgive me for the part I had played. Whether purpose ly or not, I do not know, but he left me in suspense as to his attitude all the rest of the day. It was only just before his departure the next morning that he came up to me I stood alone in the dining room, put his arns around me and gave me @ warm, brotherly hug.
 ''I don;t mind telling you that was angry enough at you to throttle you yesterday" he began laughingly, then he sobered quickly. But I can never thank you enough, little coz he said 8 bit brokenly, for calling me to ac- count yesterday. You were right. l was killing Katherine. But, please God, I'm going to spend the rest of my life ma king it up to her.
 And. with that assurance, I bade them both goodbye.