The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05

she thought about Katherine It was Katherine she W
 last. Now that Katherine's
 had disliked Alicia; and she, Fort. heartily. Tho greatest sor- row of her young womanhood, next to her mothers death, had been Katherines marrying him. For the two girls had been inseparablo.
 "T simply can't come around, darling, after you've married him." Alicia said; and, T won't have that Richards girl In the house." said John. That is, not unless you lct mo get out before she comes In."
 Fortunately, Alicia now thought with sigh, Dick Maynard had come along almost immediately, and sho hhd married him and gone away to 1.-Two for all these years, with the thick of the world be. tween her and Katherine. For, hs much nS they loved each other, 1t wns easier than in tho same town, Alicia and her Dick had lived, and still lived, in Australia. This was her first visit back to the States for Il long tlmo, and on the one other she had made sho hadn't seen Katherine. What was tho msc. with only pain to como from it, while John wnB thero for them t0 quarrel over?
 THEY HAD QUARRELED
 OVER HIM
 For they hnd quarreled ov6r him, even before Alicia wont away. You may break your life to pieces against such n man, but you'll never be happy with him, He's remnant of the Stone Age, or something"
 Don't let's talk about him, You've never understood him, nnd you never will, love him, Hos whnt want moro than all it'g going t0 cost me to have him--nll that I'm going to have to give up, AB, for example, your undcr- stand, Lots lot 1t go at that"
 And they hnd lot it go at that, And n bitter mnttor it had been an irreparablo matter but for Dick tho new vivid exciting llfo Alicia tHtu BVuU VII bO tItD hbCTHt VIuB Vh the earth to shnre with him,
 sho sIghod and looked out through tho rnin, thinking of hor friend, They had wilton to eneh other, but only at long Intervals, and only to Bny they loved onch other and always would, Down under everything" ench had snid in ono way and another, nothing Is changed botweon us, nothing oyer will cbnngo" And had known lt for tho truth, "Wo don't oven bayo 10 writo about it," Katherine hnd sDid once in ono Of her letters. And nfter that they hadn't written.
 But other people had written Alicln about John and what being married 10 him meant, plonty Of other people. She had managed, out thore ht tho worlds far end, to rocrehte KntherIne's life, after h fashion, on down through tho years.
 "He is psychological leaves over," Addio SyfncB wrote. "A man who believes In the divine r'Rht Of tho mnlo { 0 rule. And, believe it or moi. Katherine nes eepts that and abides by itl" Ho had. Alicia had gathered from hor letters, hired nll tho servants and dismissed thom; given his wife m allowance and lot It stand m. altered year after year long after his income had swolIod Co twenty times its original proportions, and even planned their holidays and bought somo of Khtherino'B hate for h0r. And, by goiIy" tthis from PhlllIs Bond, with regard to one Of thom), "shes wearing itl She's wearing it, Allyl I suppose lt might Do worso, but imagine Katherine letting n mRn--any man pick n hnt---any hat--for hor! He geems 10 have turned hor Into n scared rabbit. And yet swear think she's happy Can you got itV
 No. Alicia couldn't get t. Neither then nor now that she was on her wny to that awful house John had built md loft his widow living in, Everybody who wrote Alici0--nnd sooner pr lator that aB everybody she knew-Bald tho house was terrible. John hnd built and furnished it while Kath. erine was away on q visit, and had it ready to hand over to her ns surprIBe when she camo home.
 "Ho put nII the I0vel. old things she had from her family into stor. ago." phiIlis wrote, "and bought