Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-16

Chrys dumbness was mania and
Apfuge which gave her a little relief from
the distress of living
Her mood was not commendable. 1t
was a phase of seIfshness. Why should
she escape the hardships of life?
.'She ought to be punished for making
her family so wretched, just to satisfy
her whim,V / told myself.
/ rejoiced, nevertheless, because I had
some real light en- her peculiar conduct,
at last I could see plainly that she
. had been in a desperate situation when
Asbssshme out of her long sleep. | could
Understand why she had sought temper
rv relief from uncomfortable explana-
Mons: She no longer loved Hamilton
Certeis She had found him OUT
And her great pride was deeply hurt
She was using her queer mania as a
shield
Ii was inevitable that when she viewed
Hamilton Certeis and his activities in his
own hacienda, her sensitive mind should
stagger a little in revolt.
Hamilton Certeis had insulted her in
tel1igenee. She was convinced, at last,
that he was actually in control of the
entire program of German propaganda
against the peaces of the United States,
as it was being carried on in Mexico!
She had been deceived for a long time
because she believed so firmly in the
universal brotherhood of man. She had
believed with Bobby Burns, that some
day, man to man the world DER shall
brothers be BY taking advantage of
her idealism, Hamilton -Certeis had IN
suited her intelligence! Many women
yesv easily endure that insult, but
Chrystobel Lorimer was not of the many.
While she trusted the man, she had been
almost silly about him. Upon her ar
rival in Mexico, she had been so obvious
ly devoted to him that he had caused
spell to be laid upon her.
Had she discovered the truth about
him while her soul had wandered away
from her body, I wondered.
To protect herself from him, and from
us all, for a time, she had lapsed into
silencei
How can she be cured7" put the
question so suddenly that Jordan Spence
nearly lost his remarkable poise for half
a minute
THAT young woman needs to fall in
!. love-violently in loye-with a real man."
Ahe said in a rather icy professional
eOhryI gasped And couldn't take
my eyes from Jordan Spence, although l
feared that they were growing rounder
and bigger as my idea grew.
.sShe needs a child TO keep her busy,
he concluded, with a meaning glance my
way. Perhaps he didn't intend it to mean
so much, but it seemed like a reproof
to me.
aIf had a child I'd make it the Joy
Of my life to take care of it," l said to
nyself "And if I had child, wouldn't
become tangled up Nm such an awful web
ofaccidents and tragedies"
But, of course, ! knew that children
were Jordan Spence's hobby. He intended
to make child surgery his life work,
Gene Archer had told us one morning.
Spence. had come to Mexico to study
the peculiar social conditions surround
ing the Mexican child.
Marital bonds are transient in Mexico,
ne said. More so than in any other
civilized country he had ever visited.
(1ving to the high cost of the marriage
Aenony, many natives dispense with 1t.
zE,1eklakes 1t easy fo- them to drop
d assume new obligations. Few
1tries on the globe have such an ex-
ordinary record-and yet-in few
Knds are little children so beloved, and
the whole so happy. 1t is an extra
H#kEinary state. 1t might have vast
theological significance.
b He had crossed the Rio to find out if
wft had-and what it might be,-Copy-
right, 1919.
(To be COntinued.)