San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-16
The Making Of
a Husband
A nm Lisle' s N e 10
Phase of jim, and
Anne's Marital
Adventure
BY ANN Isle
BY ANN Isle
Chapter 66.

Copyright, 1925, King Feature syn, Inc
You'd better see about getting the
dinner, May, Mr.. Harrison will be here
presently" / said in the common
place tone of one to whom the din
ner hour is an event to be properly
honored.
But May Valleau was too primitive
" natural to swing at moments no.
tlce from life-problems to a question
of dinner.
"Why you ask if my little sister
Arlette she likes my mama| demana'
ed May, returning to the precise point
from which l was trying to SHIFT her
interest. =,
."Oh-I Just wondered" said, try
ing to make it sound idle and casual.
1T is not that" May said half to
herself, setting her lips and wrlnRllng
her brows in a concentrated effort at
thought. After a moment or two shc
spoke and again her shrcwdness, her
crude honesty and her indifference
to accepted standards Of ethics anu
morality startled me.
",rarasov he never make my maman
happy while she all time AFRAID OF
my papa said May quietly. Maybe
YOU think it bad my maman go away,
from drunken husband who beats her
all time. | think she maybe not wick
ed 20 away-but for her baby. Sne
never forget us. She never stop frald
my papa he make to beat us more
while she gone. So ! think she cry
all time and never make TarasoV hap
py. But he have image of her-here.
And my Arlette she look so like our
maman. l 'fraid for her. If TarasOv
come back and see Arlette-I 'fraid all
times"
May put her hand on her heart
and looked at me as II pleading Tor
Observation-Disclosures Interpretation pei
haps.
/ found myself liking her more and
more and entering into her problems
with whole-hearted admiration for the
honest way in which she was trying I"
\ come to conclusions and to solve the
riddle of life.
"The modern psychologists say
there are people who don't love an in
dividual so much as they worship some
love image they have made for the n
selves" said slowly. 1T may be that
a man carries the image of his mother
or sister or nurse, or first sweetheart
around with him, and falls in love
with every woman who looks like his
dream woman. You think Tarasov may
be CARRYING your mothers image
around in his heart and that he might
fall in love with Arlette. But sup
nose he does? Why need that worry
YOU, May? Arlette won't meet him,
she won't know about him. Her life
at Nicholas Perry's protects her. You
are morbid. ] don't believe in that
love.image theory and | don't believe
in borrowing trouble even when there $
lot around to borrow. See-this note
doesn't impress me as much as your
own fancies about TarasOv trouble
you"
Saying this. ! finished my long
speech BY folding up the note from
the "red palmer" and tearing it into
small bits. I was glad Of this excuse
to dispose of the misspelled threat. i
didn't want Jim to see it. i dldn |
want my maid TO suspect that l was
afraid to have my husband aware OF
the events of the evening. May would
think it was husbands place to in
vestigate the happenings around us.
knew that it was not wise to add new
worries and burdens 10 those fropl
which Jim is just emerging. And |
don't trust the Harrison temper to dc
the wise and moderate thing - the
thing one has TO do to deal
with a mailman such as | feel sure
is threatening us. ~.
So tore the note in bits. and flung
the bits into the paper barrel with
laugh. :,
That's the thing to do with all
nonsense. Make mental mincemeat oil
it. Destroy and forget it"
"But don't you go for forget this.
cried May earnestly. IF Tarasov he
20 mad for loving my maman and
missing her, he fierce mans and he
danger for you while he not like some.
one else shall be so happy where may
he he hide my maman three foul
week and be all time miserable be-
cause she miss her babies so and SO
fraid my papa shall find. If TarasoV
he threaten you, you better max
move away. Find mother houses. &c
anywheres. Don't be here all times
days alone maybc-and this TarasoN
he mad for think mother woman happy
where my maman, his Rosine, she die
so quick"
"Have you seen this Tarasov re-
cently?" / asked.
81 never see him at ALL" said May
CURLY. MY naman she send M
away convent Quebec year it all hap
pen. Arlette she too little notice. II
/ know enough stay home protect my
maman. Tnrasov he never make hel
think she be happy living lie"
"But, May. / don't understand"
protested. IF this was long enough
ago for Arlette to be baby, this
house wasn't built. Pertie Lingart
built it, -,
'"Tarasov he have shack here" said
May, simply. Il not know how Mr.
Lingard he get place. Maybe by Mr.
Perry. Maybe by Tarasov, But h
live lie too. He hide. He afraic
say world that he got better righ
woman he love than mother man go
her be make hate him. He think h
got to hide from law. 1t all wrong
I'm only one year by convent. l not
understand much. Zeke Schmidt h
infidel. but he good. Me l nOthings-
while l don't know what good. But
for this l know. / protect my lady
/ take care you. / take still more
cares Arlette. / die for her, but first
/ kill man who make her unhappy
like my maman was. | kill man who
make her hide from world sh
ashamed look in the eye"
At Mays words a SILVER ran dowr
nv spine. 1 tried to dismiss them
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