Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-10-03

Ten years is a long time to youth,
and 10 years had elapsed since Betty
and Ronny Craig had sat under the
moon on the Newport rocks and out
lined a life in which they would never
be parted. On both sides their love
had faded into a mild though faithful
friendship.
OF the two Craig's, Betty now loved
Ronny's wife the better. He had made
a marriage not only wise in the world
ly sense, but happy. Della Craig was
one Of those unusual natures whom the
possession of great wealth makes
humble and serious and full of de-
sire to serve the whole world. She was
not very pretty-she was not at all
intellectual, but she was beloved by
everyone, and most of all by Ronny
For the first six years after their
marriage the Craigs had lived abroad
hunting in England, shooting in
Scotland. skiing in Switzerland-the
perfect life for beautiful sportsman
like Ronny. But now they had come
home to live-Europe as a playground
had suddenly failed them. They had
come back to their own country, not
because it offered them much chance
of living the sort of life they enjoyed
as because, at the moment, there
seemed to be nowhere else to live.
Della went on with her story: "Ronny
has been so good-he hasn't touched a
drop for four years. must stop cry
ing before the other people come, or
they'll see something is wrong-but
now I don't even know where he is
He hasn't been home for "a hours . .
and when he's drinking he's so violent
I'm so worried Betty, and I don't know
what I ought to do"
All, but Betty knew. You ought to
send him to DR.. Boone, Della"
Della stared: ITO DR.. Boone?'
Yes. the man I'm working for He's
marvellous. You must have heard of
him.
Eyes, I have" Della hesitated. But
nothing very good, dear. I hear he
finds out what people want to do and
then advises them to do it."
Betty launched into a description of
her employers methods. "Of course"
she ended. "he does free people from
their inhibitions-all psychiatrists try
to do that. He's against the Puritan
straight jacket-and thinks it's respon-
sible for the high percentage of in
sanity-but in liberating the Psyche
1.-The PSyche?" said Della, who had
vague recollection of a statue of two
unclad figures with wings that used to
stand in her grandmother's drawing
room, before people learned not to
have marble statues in drawing rooms.
THE soul, dear, the spirit. the
"I don't think Ronny would go to
an analyst"
'Dr. Boone isn't an analyst. Oh, he's
adopted some of their technique where
he finds it useful-he takes from all
schools-he's very ECLECTIC -. :"
II don't know what that means"
said Della.
Not very many weeks before Betty
hadn't known either, but she explained
without touch of patronage, and she
added: you must go and talk it over
with DR.. Boone yourself. He'll be able
to tell you candidly whether he can
help Ronny or not. He likes to do it
that way, because, to be honest, when
he does take patient on, it's apt to
be expensive; he comes high"
But Della had no reason to worry
over expense, and the next day bright
and early Betty saw DR.. Boone before
any patients arrived, and she gave him
an outline of the case.
She often thought that social life
would be more agreeable if your friends
would listen to what you said as Doc
tor Boone listened-his unflickering,
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