The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-09-14
TIE DAILY
sE1OR / STORY
Crime Love and Psy-
chology

II all came about through Mrs.
Lsg 3noqg suidIssos 6BIqAoW
netghborS with her friend, Mrs.
Blake. What a wonderful work
Hannah Sprague has accomplish
ed She married that dlssIpated
wretch John Tillinghast to re-
form him-and she has done It.
we all know what he was, and
now Just look at him-not more
respectable citizen in town"
Yes, indeed" replied Mrs,
Blake, what Hannah went
through with him nobody will
sYer know. She martyrlzed her
~, but she succeeded. Hannah
aeserves medal"
That waa all; but II was enough.
nfa' Ttll!nghast-Hannah Sprague
mat was--from being an utterly
uninterosting person to Clara,
sprang into an incentive and an
inspiration. Certain emotions in
tine persistent primitive OF her un-
conscious ego was released into
me conscious, and there she was
1as bent on marrying somebody
70 REFORM him. But here a great
and apparently insuperable dit
leplty confronted her. William
hichardson had nothing about him
tpsreform.
He was lover suns peur ct
ANS reproche-a very Bayard,
an Admirable Crlchton In the low
ter line. Clara thought 1t all over
and, for the first time since sne
mad known William, felt disap-
pointed with him. 1t seemed as
~ he were cheating her out OF
something. To be sure there were
Tour other young men OF her &C.
quaintance whom she had heard
spoken Of as being far, far from
what they ought to be. She might
marry one OF these to reform him
but she didn't want TO marry
one OF these; she wanted to marry
William. No wonder the poor
girl was Derplexed and had 2
sense of personal injury. Here
she was ready to perform great
and noble action and the material
at hand for performing II utterly
binadequate. II was all very try
ing-and 1t was all Williams
taulti When William called that
night as per schedule Clara could
not avoid showing her irritation
aat his impeacabIlIty By certain
vague hints and inuendoes-all
Of which greatly astonlshed Will
liam. Then she introduced the
subject Of Hannah Sprague and
John Tlllinghast, repeating as orr
sinal the remarks made by her
mother and Mrs. Blake.
SAh" she sighed, not every
woman has the opportunity OF do
Ing what Hannah Sprague did"
William caught the note OF envy
and discomfort in Clara's words
and exclaimed: Good heavens,
Clara! You don't want me to be
what John Tillinghast was. SO
that YOU can reform me do you?
Igdon't know exactly wnat my pos
abilities for crime are; but l
fancy l could do fairly we'll In
THAT line II really put my mind
lott
a "ot course | don't want you to
The llke1.lohn .Tillinghast," retor,-
cd Clara, How silly you are"
But there was a touch OF insin-
certify in the disclaimer which
William, perceived and as he
walked bomeward that night he
Thought: Women certainly are
curious creatures. Queer notions
they take sometimes; but one
Slhing-they soon get over them"
But Clara did not so soon get
spyer her, notion. The courtship
went on. of course, but there was
always that underCurrent which
made William feel as IL he was
not quite filling the bill. Clara
suggested that she might never
marry, after all, but devote her
life to turning the heather from
his idol worship or doing settls-
inent work In some city slunl
\Syhere she could be satisfactorily
Uncomfortable. William became
seriously alarmed.
WELL" said he to himself, if
she Is so bent on reforming some
body suppose I'll have to furnish