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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, May 10, 1915, NOON EDITION, Image 14

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en." How strangely descriptive it is
of the present situation! Yet it was
written several years ago and re
ferred to the first presentation of the
play, in Athens, in the spring of 415
B. C! Athens itself-was the great
state mentioned, and theTittletisland
of Melos the neutral people.
Granville Barker's beautiful wife,
Lillah McCarthy, will play a leading
role in the drama. Her excellent act
ing and her charm, seen In several of
Bernard Shaw's plays here during the
winter, have won her much praise
from critics. Edyth Wynne Matthi
son will also be of the cast
, . CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE
(Copyright, 1915, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.)
CHADWICK HATTON GIVES UP MOLLIE
Chadwick Hatton looked at me a
moment and tlen said: "You know?"
"Everything. Mollie told me all
that passed between you the day be
fore yesterday."
He grew paler. "You cannot de
spise me any more than I despise my
self, Margie," he said, using my name
unconsciously.
"Today for the first time I have
seen myself my weak self as I really
am. But as God is my judge I did not
intend to tell Mollie I loved her when
I asked her to come over here. I in
tended to ask her, if she could, to
love and marry Pat, and then when
she came and sat in the chair in front
of me looking so pure and sweet and
altogether lovely I just went mad. I
guess instead of telling her how fine
and straight and good Pat is, cad that
I was, I began to make a bid for her
sympathy by telling her my own hard
luck story and as I told it I began to
think that, perhaps, I need not be as
miserable as I was all my life, for in
her dear eyes I thought I saw more
than sympathy, and then well, you
know if she told you, she told me that
she loved me and would share my life.
Margie, I swear to you I did not re
alize what I had done until that bless
ed "child had left me. The feel of her
dear innocent lips against mine still
burned and my body quivered with
the feel of hers as she gave herself
up to my arms. I love her, I love
her. and the want of her is more than
I ran bear alone."
"Yes, you can bear it," I said, "and
ywi will bear it, for you know what
it would mean to so proud a spirit as
yours not to obtain from the world
the respect and admiration you have
for the girl you love. You know what
tt will mean for Mollie to skulk with
you from foreign part to foreign part
to keep from the ken of those who
might know you and her.
"You know how many things love
has to contend with after a marriage
that has been blessed by the church
and pronounced good by the state.
Would yours be able to best all these
with the added one of conscious
wrong-doing?"
"But I am not sure it would be
wrong."
..,iher am I, my dear Mr. Hat
ton. I am beginning to be rather
hazy on what is right and what is
wrong, but I know this thing you
and Mollie are contemplating is the
greatest sin against convention. It
is the unpardonable sin the sin for
which in the soul of society there is
no forgiveness no forgiveness for
the woman at least she must pay,
pay, pay, to the end of her life. If
anything should happen that you and
Mollie should separate after months
or years you might come back and be
forgiven, for you have money and a
pleasant personality, but poor little
Mollie NEVER!
"Mr. Hatton, I had a girlhood friend
who vainly thought the world ,..
lost and all for love and so she went
away with a married man. Some
years afterward she came back t,o her
native town heartbroken and alone.
She took up her life and asked no fa-
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