New Britain herald., 1922-01-09

letter ran on. "l told you in my other letter of katic's strange behavior, of her crying all the time, and shopping around, and getting so frightened when she imagined she saw the man across the road-the one who helped to kidnnp Richard Second, and who is now in the pcnilcntiary Well she has been keeping up most of the fool ishncss, anu we found out last night that she has been slipping out of the house almost every night. staying away, sometimes half an hour some times an honr sometimes even longer, And she and Jim have been quarrel ling for several days, and although I couldn't say positively that was the cause, yet we couldn't help putting two and two together
 But last night we heard Katie screaming and Elizabeth and I ran back to their rooms, and we heard Jim say:
 "Im tired of this. Youl not go out of this house tonight unless l go with you, and know where you're going. and who it is you're meeting
 And then Katie was like a wild woman, begging him to let her go, and saying over and over agan:
 "'Oh, Jecm, you don't know what you're doing if you don't let me go :"
 Then she tried to rush by him, but he must have caught her, and then there came a thump just as If he'd tossed her on the bed, and we heard him say between his teeth
 "'Lie there and cry your eyes out if you want to. You're not going to stir from there :.
 "Poor Katie !"
 we went away then, because, of course, it wasn't really our business to interfere. but I am worried to death I know Jim thinks she's stealing out to meet another man, and l suppose she is, although I hate to think it of Katie. We all Know she's an ape. but I never thought that of her. And l imagine Jim, if he got started once, would be a mighty ugly proposition. Why. he might go crazy and not only kill her, but the rest of Us l want you and Margaret to come home right away. and see to things
 I looked up from the letter to find both Dicky and Lillian watching me.
 What do you think of it? ?" DiclIy asked.
 1T don't know what to think of it" I replied truthfully. T only know that it's high time we were home. Poor mother and Elizabeth What a time they are having "
 hot half as worried over my relatives-in law as l did over Katie. While did not like to have Mother Graham bothered, I could contemplate Eliza beth's dsquietude with a great deal of complacence. I know better, how ever, than to pity Katie aloud before | expressed concern for the comfort of Dicky's mother and sister.
 "You'd better say poor Katie. with mother and Elizabeth on her trail, Dicky retorted perversely, as l ex- pected he would do, and I smiled to myself at the success of my little ruse. Mothers bad enough, but Elizabeth has a notion that she was put on earth especially to form the young fe- male mind of the lower clawsses, She'll be in her element trying to drag out katies soul and viNisect it.
 "I wish we could get home tomor- row night" I said worriedy.
 Well, we can't, so don't start Wor- rying But if luck holds, we can be there fairly early the next day. ] wired mother we'd he home in three days, so as to allow leeway getting ready for us. but that will probably be good for the girl--take her mind off whatever is troubling her. Now, of course, you two will want to dis cuss this thing in all it's phases and linwardness, so I'll take myself off There was that in Dicky's voice, faint but unmistakabe, which told me that his absurd jealousy of my con sulting Lillian instead of him about anything was still rampant. although just now under control. How could I best banish this thought from N,,1rt mi q