The Washington times., 1938-01-04

vile, OF JIl6 CIlllSuIS OJPS' NAAN ~
did most of her clinging to other
women's husbands.
Among these she eventually
found one who made more money
than Johnny, and so she divorced
the latter on grounds Of extreme
cruelty and sat back to wait tol
her find to discard his wife and
marry her.
For Johnny it was resurrection
One of the first things he did was
send for his mother, whom Honey
had forced to leave when he mar
Sied her.
He had always been particularly
close to his mother, and it had
been a source of secret heartache
to him for more than ten years
that he had married a woman
who could so pitilessly "no
groundlessly attack her; who
could force her, in her gentlenesS
and inability at retaliation. to put
her only son out Of her life ano
60 wandering the earth alone.
DELICATE HEALTH
But six months after he has
brought her home again-to her
own home-the house she haC
given him-the doctors told him
that she couldn't live there.
Johnny wasn't upset at thi
prospect of moving himself with
his mother. He decided to sci
the house, take what little he hao
saved and make a fresh start ir
the West.
And his mother, after thinking
It over from every angle, was al
most gay about the new prospect
of life for him, as well as for her
self. under the SUMMER skies Of
Arizona.
Honey, however, turned up Just
then, in proxy She sent Kenny
Adams to see Johnny. She needed
money, she said, badly. Things
hadn't gone so we'll with her. II
fact, since she had divorced
Johnny, they'd gone extremely
bad.
The wife of the other man had
refused to divorce him, and Honey
had run away with him to Canada
In Canada, however, he hadnt
measured up to all she had hoped
In fact, he'd been rotten. He'c
discarded her there, with nc
money, if you please.
Hotel managementS, however
would not wait, and Honey had 6
bill of four hundred dollars fo1
room and meals that just had tt
be paid, and wouldn't Johnny bt
a sport and let her have it?
Four hundred dollars. JOHNNY
said, aghast, would mean such
hole in his capital that it WouIC
practically destroy his dreams O.
escape for his mother. No, h,
couldn't let Honey have it. Honey
was no longer his responsibility
People haven't got any righ
to leave me in this trouble" sht
said, petulantly. But Kenny. wht
had no money of his own, coulc
offer no solution for her.
TELLS REASON
He was telling all this to some
one, a day or so later. He sale
Johnny would be about ready tt
leave by now. Packing all done
House sold. Happy. Devoted tt
his mother.
I'll tell you one reason why,
said Kenny. 1T goes back a Ions
tlme-back to the year eighteen
nlnety-Slx. when Johnny's mother
had been married less than twc
years. Johnny told it to me.
His mother and father were liy
ing in a little farm house mile
from anywhere, and over a mile t,
the nearest neighbor. They wer
poor, and did the work of the farm
and house between them.
The place was situated in low
land, and it wasn't until the heav,
snow came, that year, that the,
realized that one reason the farm
hac been cheap to buy was be
cause the snow had a perniciou
habit Of drifting very deep righ
around the buildings, practicall
burying them.
The snowfall itself would b
talrish. two or three feet maybe
or even, in severe storms, three t.
four feet. But the wind howleI
through there, and in a blizzarc
the snow would pile up above tn
!lntelS Of the doors. And one morr
ing they woke to find just thai
His father shovelled at the snoy
all day, and came in at night e.
hausted. And by midnight tn
blizzard had piled up the drift
again as deep as when he ha
started.
Still everything would hav
come out all right, if he hadn
the next day. decided to make
snow plough, and having no lun
Der, taken some boards from til
floor of the loft where the hs
was. intending to replace ther
WREN he could get more cut.
He forgot he'd removed then
and stepped into a hole and fe
through, his head striking a heav
oak timber in his descent, and h
leg doubling under him in such
way when he landed that it We
broken in two places. badly ,
that the bone stuck out throug
the flesh.
MOTHER TERRIFIED
"His mother was terrified. H
was unconscious from the blow o
his head. Again and again sh
went to him where she'd dragpe