Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-12-28
CRIME. LOVE N PSY.
GEOLOGY.
Copyright, 1874, by Mcclure Newspaper
IA Indicate
short story.

n all came about through Mrs
Nowh,,y vos-lping about her neigh
tor~ with her friend. Mre. Blake:
What a wonderful work Hannah
srrssu. has accomplished. She mar
rod that dissipstcd wretch. John
~flliinsh,st TO reform him-and
has done a. We all know what he
was. aud now just look at him-not
a more respectable citizen In town
Yes, indeed replied Mrs. Wake.
what Hannah went through with
him nobody will ever know She
martyrlxci herself. but h succeeded.
Hannah deserves a medal.
That vas sli. hu, Il was enough.
Mrs. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sprague
that was from heinz an utterly un-
interesting person Ia Clara sprang
iuto an Incentive and an inspiration.
certain emotions In the persistent
primitive of her unconscious ego was
released into the conscious. and thete
~. wsa.as bent on marrying some
body - reform him. But here a great
and epparently insupcrahlc diricuity
confronted hcr. William Richardson
hai nothing about him TO reform.
~ Was a lover sans peur 81 sans
fcpro, ne a very Bayard, an Ad-
mirsble a. chton "a the lover hue.
clara thoush nj II an over and. for the
nrst time since che had known VIII
lam, felt disappointed with him. TX
s.nutsd ~ n he were cheating her
uut uf something. To he sure Their"
v,re other Young men OF her ac-
u%utintsnce whom she had heard
-. - 81. N.HvU o. fRF from what
they ourht 20 be-. Shc might marry
tlc ~ these 90 reform him II she
didn't want 60 marry one ~ these
she wanted 20 marry William. No
" nder IN. poor SRI vas p~erplcxed
and had a sense cf personal injury
Here she WAS cad TO perform a
areat and noble action and the ma
terial a hand Tor Performine 8, ut
isrlN inadequate. Il was all Ner>
trylns and 10 wa. al Williams fault
When william called hat nlsht rs
tsr achedule clara could not avoid
showing her irritation At his i'm
p%eccahlity by certain vague hints and
inuendoes all of which greatly as
tunished william. Then she intro
duced the subject ~ Hannah Srraru'
and John Tilinghast. repeating AZ
urislnal thc remarks made 10y hci
mother and Mrs Blake.
Al IN. sighed. no, ever,
woman has Ne opportunity Of do
inr what Hannah Sprarue did
William caught h note Of envy an'
dlscontent In Clara's words and ex
claimed Good heavens. Clara You
DON'T want me to no what John TIL
irrhasf was ~ that You can reform
mo. do vour I don't know eNactl,
what my possibilities for crime are
boz / fancy could do fairly well n
that IN. ~ I really put my min q
U'
"Of course I don't want you 20 n
HE John TJuinshss'. reiorted Clsr,
'uh~ -liiv YOU are Rat there wa
q touch % insincerity IN tho die
tlaimer which wiilism perceived an
o. no walked home~srd thst night n
thought. Women certainly ar
curious creatures queer notion. ,hel
take eomc mos nut n thing-the'
coon set over them"
uui clara did not 80 o set owe
hrr notion. The courtship went or
~ course. bat there was always tina
undercurrent which made william
Fee o. % he vss not quite nll!ns IN
hIiI. clara ~sugsested that she Nigh
never marry. after al. "a devote he
ne % turning The heather from III
ilui worship or doing settlement wor
Ir eoms City stun whore che coul
90 satisfactorily uncomfortable. W!
Lam became seriously alarmed
Wei" said he 20 himself. 10 sh
a. bent on r,forminS somebody
HIppo.. I1l have 20 furnish The soms
f.alN Anythins 20 oolise"
Meet men car bear with consoles
q comnlaccncv t~ins regarded as
'lstu % q fellow" but 10 nan ca
bar ~rth compiaeerey having his a
.Hmpfs 20 that direction greeted VII
licuie And ridlcule wa about a
chat Williams at'smr;s A. being
lI.d bad man resulted IN.
That ]. from the pubic. Clara a
rot rdlcuie him. bg; che heard othe'
do o. ard u aeon became painful
Ohviou. 90 him that shs regarded h
ms-v.rsations IA anything but
sorou. lisht-tha; o.. SAL saw In nj
nothins 90 satisfy her desire Z.
m~nrtyrdom. In despair william TOO
counsel With Charley Fosdics Wi