The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-31
Loves Masquerade
A Dramatic Story of Love and Romance
 By IDAH MGLoNE GIBSON

what I felt for her was love or not. l was crazy about her. I thought of Ter constantly. I uped to call her up two or three timess-a day just to hear her voice-she had beautiful yoice-and I married her, only to find. as did you friend, Harry Glen dening, that the woman I thought was taking to myself and the woman I married were perfect strangers.
 with me there was the added tragedy of knowing very early, as a physician. that the seed of insanity was growing In my wife's mind.
 "--Oh, well, why should talk of my little affairs. I could not do so even to you, my nearest and dearest friends, If I had not reached a place most purely pathological.
 Tn this way. too. I think Mar garet Earle's story really interests me more scientifically than 1t does emotionally."
 Look here, George" interrupted Clavering, you want to be sure that scientific interest is not some of that bunk which you spoke about as used by men who try to justify them selves in certain actions
 Perhaps 1t is, Jim. We may talk about that later, but now I want to tell you more about Margaret"
 After that wire telling me about his wife. dear Dr. George she said. honestly I did try for a while not to think of Harry Glendening any more, and succeeded in almost becom- ing obsessed with thoughts of him.
 "I found myself wondering If he would like me in my new fall hat. never passed window of a tobac- conist that I did not want to send him carton of his favorite cig- srettes. I did send him a gold cig- arctic case and matchbox which used up the entire proceeds of what he paid me for my first story.
 "T had an almost irresistible de- sire to write him or communicate Before I went to sleep at night I used to close my eyes and try to send my thoughts winging through space to him. I cultivated people that had known him, just to hear them mention his name.
 CT met by chance one day two lovely women. both writers like my self, who had known Harry we'll In his youth. One of them told me that she believed that she had been his first sweetheart and she recoun.cd the story of one day when he took her part in school when she was wrongly punished by the teacher and from that day he was her knight errant.
 Both these women believed in him quite as much as I and they be- walled the fact that he had thrown all his splendid gifts aside.s One of them added:
 "'It Is his wife that has ruined him. She has killed all the initiative in him. She insists upon him giv- ing her always all his Individuality. Even his time must be where she can obtain 1t upon demand
 ""They told me of this friend and that who had dropped his friendship because they were made to feel that Harry's wife did not approve of it. They did not want to interfere be- tween husband and wife.
 "'They also said that this was the case with Harry's men friends quite as much as with his women friends
 "I know you have never met Harry. pr. George Margaret con to understand as diS that Harry always exerted the same charm over men as he did over women.'"
 That is true" asserted Jim Claw ering 'T know no man today that I would rather be with than Harry Glendening on any occasion"
 Margaret said that these women with whom she spoke of Harry Glen dening seemed to understand that she loved him and she said sLe thought that they felt"
 Now. please, Milt, don't, tell me-" commented Davis. that your friend Margaret Earle told you that those other women felt sorry for her and let her see it."
 Copyright, John F. Diile Col