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This is the story she writes t
me: j
"Dear Mrs. Woodrow: I was mar- I
ried when I was twenty, and have
never known one happy day since
3 am twenty-seven now. WJen 1
first met my husband, he seldom |
worked. I tried to help htm in ev- !
ery way, (and when we were mar- j
ried I furnished our home. 1 also j
kept on working, while he did noth- j
Jng, knowing that 1 would support'
him. When I was a girl I was very t
philanthropic and being brought up !
that way 1 thought it my duty to
him."
I will break off my correspond- i
ent's narrative here to say that the
bother with most of us and the!
fruitful source of many of our tron,
bles is that we think with our hearts'
and not with our heads. Good,
judgment arises from a combination
of the two. Xo faculty was given us
to remain unused. Having minds,
we were intended to think with
them, and to think to some purpose;
in the direction of our affairs.
This girl, naturally kind-hearted!
and sympathetic, was trained in the
belief that she must always be help-;
ing others, which is right in prin-1
ciple. But there's a sane way to ap- !
ply the principle and a foolish and j
suicidal way. And right here wei
come back to the old question, Ami
1 my brother's keeper ? I am not; j
no one is. A higher, greater, more;
omniscient power is his keeper andl
mine. lam here to aid and encour-1
age him in assisting himself; thati
is all.
This woman's husband needed no!
assistance. He needed a hard lolt.i
He needed to be awakened to the,
fact that he was a cur to ask a!
woman to marry him and then allow j
her to work to support him while!
he loafed.
And she, meaning to be kind and!
helpful, was merely encouraging!
him in his worthless, shiftless hab-!
its and his determination to bene-!
tit by the labor of someone else.
Suppose a mother was so anx- |
ious to save her baby suffering that!
she would carry it continually in,
her arms instead of letting it stand 1
alone and have many a tumble j
learning to walk and many loud j
wails because it fell and bumped its'
nose? Would the child thank heri
when it came to years of discretion ?!
Hoes this man thank his wife for
her sacrifices ? Far from it.
Her letter goes on:
"After three years a child was'
horn. I could not go out to work. 1
so T had to take work in the house.!
J also kept a few roomers who were|
friends of my husband's. When tl)e !
child was two vears old I put him in!
charge of a woman and went back|
to business. Rut things got stead
ily worse, and 1 was forced to leave j
m.v husband and board with my
child in order to support the little
one.
"After a year my husband camel
and asked me to take him back.!
claiming that he had changed; so!
1 gave him another chance. He was I
worse than ever, and again I had[
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to leave him for the child's sake.
"He now threatens to take m>
child from me by force, saying that
he will make his friends say thai I
nm immoral. He says dreadful
things to me which shock me. 1
work very hard l'or my living and
try to be a true mother to'my child.
He doesn't give even one cent to its
support. But even so. he will not
stay away. I am earning $lB a
week and can take care of myself
and the child.
"As I am all alone and have no
one to ask advice of. 1 ask you
pitifully to please advise me what
to do. Can he take my child from
me ? I have no knowledge of the
laws and know no one to ask about
Ihem. My child is the only thing 1
live for, and it would cause me
great pain to have him taken from
me."
If the facts are correctly stated]
in this letter—and it bears every J
mark of sincerity —l can say most ]
emphatically that the husband can-1
not take the child. The wife hasj
nothing whatever to fear from him.j
Legally he has not a leg to stand ou.|
On He cc/ntrary, it is he whoj
should be afraid. His wife could
sue him for the support of herself
and the child, and he could be put
in jail if he did not pay the amount
decided pon by the court. She
would also in view of the facts be
able to secure a legal separation
from him. together with the cus
tody of the child.
The law is .-ery reluctant in any;
case to take a child from its i
mother. It is only when she is
proven to be in unfit guardian for!
it and unable to give it proper care!
that this is ever done.
There could be no question of!
such a thing in thi case, where'
for years a woman has by her cwn |
exertions supported not only her-1
self and her child, but a worthless!
husband as well.
She should refuse to be either!
bullied or threatened or bothered by j
him any longer.
"Outwitting the Hun"
By Lieutenant Pat O'Brien
(Copyright, 1918. by Pat Alva O'Brien.)
leeidcs to Fight It Out
It had occurred
rftim 1 that tlle amount
-iaaSyr - <fs demanded was so
,j : . '■ fabulous that 1
- JFjAfc I might have signed
! tlie order without
| any danger of its
SH|K" -S! ever being paid, but
nian - who had
claimed to be be
friending me. en
deavoring to make
] capital out of my plight galled me so
I that I was determined not to give in
| to him whether I could do so in
| safety or not.
i "No, Huyliger," I replied. "I have
I decided to get along as best I can
I without any further assistance from
you. I shall see that you are reason
ably paid for what you have done,
but I will not accept any further as
: sistance from you at any price, and
! what is more, I want you to return
' to me at once all the photographs
s:ind other papers and belongings of
| mine which I turned over to you a
: day or two ago."
"I'm sorry about that. O'Brien."
: he retored. with a show of appar
j ent sincerity, "but that is something
i I cannot do."
"If you don't give me back those
papers at once," I replied hotly, "I
will take steps to get them, and
I damned quick, too."
"1 don't know just what you could
! do, O'Brien," he declared coolly,
I 'but. as a matter of fact, the papers
land pictures you refer to are out of
1 the country. I could not Rive them
. back to you if I wanted to."
Something told me the man was
I lying.
"See here. Huyliger." I threatened,
j advancing towards him, putting my
| hand on his shoulder and looking
; him straight in the eye, "I want those
j papers, and 1 want them here before
midnight to-night. If I don"t get
them I shall sleep in this place just
once more and then, at 8 o'clock to
morrow morning, I shall go to the
German authorities. gi<*e myself up,
show them the passport that you
fixed for me, tell them how I got
1 it, and explain everything."
A Throat for a Throat
Huyliger paled. We had no lights
j in the house, but we were standing
j near a landing at the time and the
| moonlight was streaming through a
! stained glass window.
The Belgian turned on his heel
and started to go down the stairs.
"Mind you," I called after him,
j "I shall wait for you till the city
| clock strikes twelve, and if you
i don't show up with those papers
| by that time, the next time you will
i see me is when you confront me
I before the German authorities! I am
I a desperate man. Huyliger, and I
J mean every word I say."
He let himself out of the door and
1 I sat on the top stair and wondered
j just what he would do. Would he
| try to steal a march on me and get
! in a first word to the authorities so
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) that my story would be discredited
I when 1 put it to them?
' j Of course, my threat to give my-
I self up to the Huns was a pure bluff.
| While 1 had no desire to lose the
| papers which Huyliger had and
I which included the map of the last
; resting place of my poor chum Kaney
j I certainly had no intention of cut
| ting off my nose to spite my chin by
i surrendering to the Germans. I
j would have been shot, as sure as
I fate, for after all I had been able to
I observe behind the German lines I
( would be regarded as a spy and
| treated as such.
At the same time I thought 1 de
! tected a yellow streak in Huyliger,
j and 1 figured that he would not want
|to take the risk of carrying out
jmy threat even though he believed
i there was a small chance of my
I doing so. If I did, he would un
doubtedly share my fate, and the
pictures and papers he had of mine
were really of no use to him, and I
have never been able to ascertain
why it was he wished to retain them
I unless they contained something—
: some information about me—which
accounted for his complete change
of attitude towards me in the first !
place and he wanted the papers as!
evidence to account to his superiors
and associates for his conduct to
ward me.
A Strange Turn of Affairs
When he lirst told me that the
plan of placing me in a convent dis
guised as a priest had been aban
j doned, he explained It by saying that
I the Cardinal had issued orders to the
I priests to help rfo more fugitives.
| and I have since wondered whether
! j there was anything in my papers
j which had turned him against me
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and led hint to forsake me after all
he had premised to do for me.
For perhaps two hours I sat on
that staircase musing about the pe
culiar turn in my affairs, when the
front door opened and Huyliger as
cended the stairs.
"I have brought you such of your
belongings as 1 still had, O'Brein,"
he said softly. "The rest, as 1 told
you, 1 cannot give you. They are
no longer in my possession."
X looked through the little bunch
he handed me. It included my
identification disk, most of the
papers 1 valued, and perhaps half
of the photographs.
"I don't know what your object
is in retaining the rest of my pic
tures, Huyliger," 1 replied, "but, as
a matter of fact, the ones that are
missing were only of ssentimental
value to me and you are welcome
to them if you want them. We'll
call it a beat."
I don't know whether he under
stood the idiom, but he sat down
on the stairs just below mo and
cogitated a few moments.
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"O'Brien," he started finally, "I'm
sorry things have gone the way
they have. 1 feel sorry for you and
I would really like to help you. I
don't suppose you will Relieve me,
but the matter of the order which 1
asked you to sign was not of my do
ijig. However, we won't go into that.
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of It.
"At the same time, I hate to leave
you to your own resources and 1 am
going to make one more suggestion
to you for your own good. I have an
other plan to get you into Holland
and if you will go with me to an
other house I will introduce you to a
man who I think will be in a posi
tion to help you."
"How many millions of pounds
will he want for his trouble?" 1
asked, sarcastically.
"You can arrange that when you
see him. Will you go?"
I suspected there was something
fishy about the proposition, but 1
felt that 1 could take care of myself
and decided to see the thing through.
I knew Huyliger would not dare to
deliver me to the authorities be
cause of the fact that I had the tell
tale passport, which would be his
deathknell as well as my own.
Accordingly, 1 said I would be
quite willing to go with him when
ever he was ready, and he suggested
that we go the next evening.
I pointed out to him that I was
entirely without food and asked him
whether he could not arrange to
bring or send me something to eat
while I remained in the house.
J,eft Without Any Food
"l'm sorry, O'Brien," he replied, i
"but I'm afraid you'll have to get 1
along as best you can. When 1!
brought you your breakfast this:
morning 1 took a desperate chance, j
If I had been discovered by one of
the German soldiers entering this!
house with food in my possession, j
I would not have only paid the pen-!
alty myself, but you would have been!
discovered too. It is too dangerous i
a proposition. Why don't you go out
by yourself and buy your food at the l
stores? That would give you conll- s
dence and you'll need plenty of it
when you continue your journey to;
the border."
There was a good deal of truth in
what he said and 1 really could not
blame him for not wanting: to take
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any chances to help me in view of
the relations between us.
"Very well," I said. "I've gone
without food for many hours at a
time before and I suppose I shall be
able to do so again. 1 shall look for
you to-morrow evening."
The next evening he came and T
accompanied him to another house
not very far from the one in which
1 had been staying and not unlike it
in appearance. It, too, was a sub
stantial dwellinghouae which had
been untenanted since the beginning
save perhaps for such occasional vis
its as iluyliger and his associates
made to it.
Huyliger let himself in and tcon
ducted me to a room on the second
lioor, where he introduced me to
two men. One, I could readily see
by the< resemblance, was his own
brother. The other was a stranger.
Defies Three or Thein
Very brielly they explained to me
that they had procured another
passport for me—a genuine one—
whic hwould prove far more effective
in helping to get me to the frontier
than the counterfeit one they had
manufactured for me.
1 think I saw through their game'
right at the start, but I listened pa
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turn to us the passport we gave you
before we can give you the real one."
said Huyllger's brother.
"1 haven't the slightest objection."
I replied, "if the new passport Is all
you claim for it. Will you let me
see it?"
There was considerable hesitation
on the part of Huyliger's brother and
the other chap at this.
"Why, I don't think that's neces
sary at all, Mr. O'Brien," said the
former. "You give us the old pass
port and we will be glad to give you
the new one for it. Isn't that fair
enough?"
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