The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-07-12

lied the amour Divorce was sucl
a horror.
It was Valerie who mentioned
it first.
"Sib; did you ever think what
might happen if you should die p
"Val! Don't tell me YOU are
philosophizing. Death and Dam
nation!' Oh, Vail" Sybil laughed
mockingly.
"My dear, l didn't mean THAT.
l was thinking about the baby
and your husband"
What about the baby?"
Sometimes Sybil felt mother
hood rising like a tide within her
filling her heart and her whole
being with an exciting sense of
achievement.
Her maternity had been so
triumphant. The child was so en-
tirely hers. The perfect extension
of her own ego. She was very
proud of him, and of herself for
having created him. Richards
contribution to the creation she
distainfully discounted.
You know" Val was saying, 'if
you should die, your husband
could claim the child. Your
mothers prayer in a court of JUS
tice wouldn't count for a row of
pins, Teddy is his property just
as much as yours. If you were
dead, there's nobody else would
have legal right to him. Tad and
l wouldn't have a look-in.
You owe it to Teddy to get a
divorce, and absolute custody. OF
course, if his father didn't want
him, that would be one thing.
But, my dear-he could make al
awful lot of trouble.
81 happen to know something
about it, because Julie Johnston
got Bunny away from her mother
in-law. After Julie and Joe sep
arated, the old lady took Bunny.
And then, when Joe died, she
wouldn't give him up. l don't
blame her either. Julie hasn't
any more affection for that kid
than if he belonged to the washer
woman, and Mrs. Johnston simply
worships him.
But Julie took the case to
court, and won. Now she's stuck
away at boarding school,
and the old lady's dying to a
broken heart.
"Sib, you ought to safeguard
from his father. Poor
baby! Imagine him under that
mans influence"
The child, playing at their feet,
looked up and laughed. A lovely
practically toothless, and in
each fat cheek a dimple showed.
Angel" cried Sybil, and clutch
I'd him to her heart.
There was never a baby like
Such a darling, naughty
creature, with innocent, long
ashes, and eyes as blue as paint
ed china.
There was something of his
about him. His forehead
and his chin, And nobody but
Richard, Sybil told herself, could
,aress as beguilingly as his son.
Biology was a queer thing. The ,
rood and the bad of 10000 alien
1ustises coursed through her boy. +
What dark traits had Richard be- {
lueathed the child she bore? +
Richard, worshiping the softness T
# her skin, the curve of her lips, :
he loneliness of her shoulders !
What thought had he of father !
iood? 7
Yet in his delight of her charms .
miracle came to pass. The
reation of a child in his W i'm !
.ge and likeness. Oh, magic of r
he thing called love! And, won n
erful to contemplate, Richard, CO. a
reator of the miracle, knew it v
In all its beauty and lowell Z
.ess it belonged to Sybil, wholly
nd entirely, forever and forever, T
.fe of her life, heart of her heart
the child called Teddy. +
Fearfully she entered the Offices h
f Smell, Peterson and Mulhall, c
nd asked for Mr.. Peterson, a p
entleman who handled divorces
18th ARE silence and discretion. n
.ttentively and ~interestedly he
card her story. r
CHAPTER XXXVII s
Mr.. Peterson beat a gentle ia "
20 with his spectacles on the d
ridge of his nose. u
"Mm-m," he said. "a most I'M S
sual case. And the defendant, h
wing in New Haven, is ignorant 81
the birth of a child? You have
, mutual friends-no acquaint- v
aces? The situation is almost p
comprehensive.
'You realize, of course, that it NJ
i'll be necessary to apprise your
Isband of the existance of the Sc
You wish complete Gus W
dy. Separate support, perhaps?" ct
Mono" Sybil interrupted E
.gerly. 81 don't want any money W
all ONLY Teddy 7 don't even it