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mfwvMPWPPPViiwp " ' "CONFESSIONS OF A'WfrE" r oH HATTON CONTINUES THE TRAGIC STORY OF HlS MARRIAGE. (Copyright, 1915, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) " 'Mollie,' continued Mr. Hatton in a hollow voice, 'women have used me very badly. " 'My mother- always disliked me because as a babyl made her give up some pleasures in the care of me. When I was eight years old she de serted father and me and ran away with a distant cousin and soon after died in a foreign land. The name mother meant only sharp speeches and reproofs until I met Mother Nora. " 'My father died when I was 15 and until that time, with the excep tion of Mother Nora, I had never found anything but lies and deceit in the form of woman, nothing but un happiness where they were. "'You have heard how I met Pat and Mother Nora in the park and be cause she caressed me a little as she was in the habit of doing to her own boy I insisted she should come home and live with me. " 'My father gave me everything I wanted but his presence, and until I left for college Pat and I were insep arable and he was, I think, the only person that ever really loved me. " 'Do you also know, my girl, that I have no right to love you that I have tried hard not to love ydu have tried to live without love, but you can't cheatnature after all and to live in this yorld one must have a little love, " 'I thought I had found it when soon alter we Pat and I returning from a trip around the world met Fanchon Davis. Up to this time nei ther Pat not I had paid much atten tion to women. My father had taught me to despise them and Pat s whole mind and heart were full of seeing the glories of this old earth and the fullness thereof. We both had the arrogance of lords of creation when we thought of women. " 'I thought Fanchon Davis was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen and I immediately fell in love with her. So engrossed was I in my own passion that 1 I did not realize that dear old Pat was in love with her, too. " 'We had been so used to always going about together that I did not realize that Pat was always with me when I called on Fanchon. , All at once, however, Pat began to make excuses and I went alone once in a while, much to my surprise finding Pat already there. " 'When I asked Fanchon to marry me she told me that 'she had never loved anyone but me. " 'In my happiness I lost sight of everyone but Fanchon and I djd not see Pat for several days continued Mr. Hatton, 'and when I told him I was going to marry Fanchon he grasped my hand and said rather chokingly, "I hope you will be very happy, old man." " 'I did not know until I had been married six months that Fanchon had been engaged to Pat when I pro posed to her and that she threw him over because she thought I was the richer man. " 'Pat was almost heartbroken. He made some excuse not to come to my ' wedding, which hurt me terribly, and for the first time in our lives my foster-brother and myself drifted apart through a misunderstanding and the wiles of a woman. " 'Fanchon and I started on a long wedding trip and before it was ended I came to know that my wife was of. the most violent temper and that she was addicted to morphine and alco hol. It was almost impossible for me to please her and during one of our frequent quarrels I "learned, to my horror, the truth about Pat, and I also learned that, whatever love Fanchon had for anyone but herself she had given to him. " 'Loyal old Pat had never told me. !?-&ggS'a'!'ggrggS!