Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-02-04
Confessions
of q Bride

Chrys' dumbness was a mania and
a refuge which gave her a little re-
ief from the distress of living!
Her mood vas not commendable. II
was a phase OF selfshnes5. Why
should she escape the hardships Of
life?
She ought to be punished for maxi
ing her family so wretched, just to
satisfy her whim," / told myself.
l .rejoiced, nevertheless, because 1
had some real light on her peculiar
conduct, at last. l could see plainly
that she had been in a desperate stu
alton when she came out of her long
sleep. l could understand why she
had sought temporary relief from I'M
comfortable explanations: She no
longer loved Hamilton Certeis! She
had found him outi
And her great pride was deeply
hurt. She was using her queer mania
as a shield!
1t was inevitable that 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
intelligence. She was convinced, at
last, that he was actually in control of
the entire program of German propa-
ganda against the peace 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
Ger shall brothers be. BY taking adj
vantage of her idealism, Hamilton
Certeis had insuIted her intelligence!
Many women very easily endure hat
insult, but Crystobel Lorimer was not
of the many. While she trusted the
man, she had been almost silly about
him. Upon her arrival in Mexico, she
had been obviously devoted to him
that he had caused a spell to be laid
upon her.
Had she discovered the truth about
him while her sou had wandered
away from her body, L wondered.
1o protect herself from him, and
from us all, for g. time, she had laps
ed into silence!
How can she be cared" I put the
question so suddenly hat Jordan
Spence nearly lost his remarkable
poise for halt a minute.
His answer came back so sharply
that it was my turn to be startled:
THAT young woman needs to fall
in love-violentIy In love with a real
man. he said in a rather ley profess
sional tone.
OH" 1 gasped. And 1 couldn't
take my eyes from Jordan Spence, al
though 1 feared chat they We're grow
ing rounder and bigger as my idea
grew.
She needs a child to keep her
busy" he concluded, with a meaning
glance my way. Perhaps he didn't in
tend 1t to mean so much, but it SEEM
ed like a reproof to me.
IF [ had a child. I'd make it the
Joy of my life to take care of it," /
said TO myself. And if / had a child,
I wouldn't become tangled up In such
an awful web Of accidents n trad
gedies."
But, of course, l knew that children
were Jordan Spence's hobby. He in
tended to make child surgery his life
work. Gene Archer had told us one
morning.
Spence had come to Mexico to study
the peculiar conditions surrounding
the Mexican child.
Marital bonds are transient in Mexi-
co, he said. More so than in any
other civilized country he had eve
visited. Owing to the high cost of the
pense with 1t. That makes it easy for
them to drop and assume new obi
cations. Few countries on the globe
have such extraordinary record-and
vein few lands are little children
so beloved, and on the whole, SO hap-
py. 1t is an extraordinary state. 1t
might have a vast sociological slShlh-
canoe. -.
He had crossed the Rio to find out If
it had-and what 1t might be.