The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-01-04
To Each His
Fear
BY MARY w. OVINGTON
.445, western Newspaper Union)

tGNIOI shouldn't treat your llttie
i Scr So carl"
Il Of three was clasping his
nn.rnr~ skirts and screaming with
telr,r.
y didn't do anything" the child's
5ro''er grunhIed y just said Boo
20 her. Shes 'fraid cat.
ITS wrong to frighten a little child.
NIoNy may never get over it," and the
aIoJlpr picked up the child in her
arms.
Her small son stifled a boot and ran
Off. Tie little girl continued to utter
shrek after shriek. Terror gripped her
heart and convulsively shook her small
body.
1t would have been well if Frederick
Blake had seen this incident before
ne married Molly Carter. However,
ne would have been a small boy at the
time and doubtless would have Joined
her brother in jumping out at her.
When he met Molly he was attracted
DOT only by her good looks but her
high spirits and her fine record at
sports She never lost her nerve at
tennis, even at the most exciting tour
nament. He was therefore utterly
astOnished when his wife went
into Mysteries because he came upon
her suddenly when she was sitting
alone in the library looking into the
Ore, She clutched his arm and
screamed, and he laughed and called
her what her brother had called her
before, "'fraid cat"
MOlly's nerves certainly were on
edge those first months of married
life. Her best friends had to admit
It, But it all began, she declared, with
the awful shock of Fred's entrance
into the library that afternoon. He
had flung his hand on her shoulder and
called in that great voice of his before
she knew he was within a mile Of the
place.
1t was a slippery, sloppy, harsh win
ter. There was no chance for outdoor
life Molly took cold and Rugged the
dre and was often out Of sorts. Her
husband retaliated by teasing her. His
laugh, that his wife had once loved,
grew hateful. At length, one evening,
when as she firmly believed he DELHI
erately jumped at her from behind a
door, her terror knew no bounds. This
time she hurried into her hat and
coat and went to her mothers, and de-
clared she intended never to live with
him again.
"She can't mean it," he declared ia
NrS. Carter, looking at her with fea1
In his eyes. MOLLY wouldn't treat me
IKE that"
When the trunks went out of tn,
house, Carl was standing with hi
friend In the hall. Looks like bust
0ess," he remarked, and then, seem,
Fred's face, went quietly away. H,
could not forget those sorrowful eyes
ike dogs.
Fred began to dissipate. The male
left and his house took on a desolat
look under the chance ministration
of scrub women. He lived a good dea
at the country club. Everybody VIII,
saw Molly told her that she was dOin
wrong. But she would not give In.
"She has been Inundated" Car
thought. "That's the chief trouble
Now If she could only see Fred in
blue funk. To each his fear Di
Kipling say that? Now wonder"
Three days after this, at midnigh
Molly was awakened suddenly by he
brothers pounding at her door. "Wak
up," he cried. "Fred's horribly sicl
Afraid he can't live. I've been wit
MIN two hours and have just rushe
up for you. Get on your things, won
your
He need not have said the last word
for she was already jumping into hs
things.
You mustn't be too shocked" Ca
explained as they entered the hous
-Fred's terribly scared. You rememb,
ehat newspaper story two weeks age
Ered knew one of the men who died
Her husbands face was perfect
white and he looked scared and he'll
Tess. She leaned over and kissed hi
until she brought the color to b
cheeks. Then she looked about.
And now" she said, when the o
dent looked like himself, 'the nur,
Is discharged. 1 want you two
realize" and she glanced from one
the other with satisfied smile, 9Th
I've seen through your little hoax"
Her husband, excited, incoherent q
up In bed and declared that she W
mistaken, utterly mistaken; but h
brother gave an old well-remember
Boys boot. "You caught on, kid, al
no mistake. Only don't forget, FIR
wasn't on the inside. He's innocel
gave him the stuff, but / suggest
poison and he did the rest. He's .
powerful Imagination. FRA
catp"
de stuck out his tongue at his bro
er-h-law as though he were eie
years old, and then dashed out of [
room. Fred leaped from bed and p1
sued him. In second Molly heard I
outer door slam. When her husba
came slowly back she was shaki
with laughter.
/ believe, DEAR" she declared, "tl
IN cured, cured of being frightened
can see the funny side of it."
Her husband did rot 1rofIa 81
cured, too," he said solemnly. g
cured Of teasing. For can see
tragedy"