Show 0 o athleen ahleen norris says when then you call the tune time bell syndicate features aa Q k V 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 C I 1 begg ed him to help her gei a divorce from harry and legitimize her ps aion dick newly made a lieutenant commander would not hear might break into a scandal that would injure his ATHLEEN NORRIS 3 story of helen van inc is a most unusual e c like all the rest 0 of f has carefully made mad n troubles built hor her cross she has to car t in her case it lorance stupidity or iciness that some of us irn m as an excuse hel brately era tely broke the law v she has to pay for it een years ears ago she was ifal woman of 22 marthe wrong man there ay iy question of his being the an he did not provide tor for frank he annoyed and h hu U her with what seemed ac screand sure evand and he openly said he e her she had been mard years she met the 9 0 under happier circum been the ideal for liar her ad charm gen manner intelligence sue suc e had hid been a young naval the list war but had after umed flaw studies and was n a remarkably short time tim e offered all the agonies of d love for a while and then dick left town established es in a western state and 4 they now have a boy of i girl giri two years younger i i occasional old friend c en n I 1 1 her helen always said biad harry and a nd dick j but as a matter of 0 was wasa no marriage when A 4 arlt harry flatly to a divorce and had haW already left him and place herself under dicks n sha sh a with any it 1 home ome and children nd ind hilen helen have a lovely lend 1 4 F P prominent romi nent position nall nail town where they live tren iren gb go to high school and arang arl ngor for college richard a appena to be a proud and boy he e has literary abbl kofuki ato refer to his on an its Is good aioo blood his amerl pamela Is frail fine seni both are lare devoted passion thelmi parents arents T dick quite sudden id ad thi the navy and was sent helen had little time to i situation with him before ut she did beg him to help ia divorce from harry and s her present position dick ide lieutenant command I 1 nott lohear hiar of it it might a iii scandal andal that would in career rumors would town and above idd id hurt the children the botlo tai tot do lo was wag to go on as e eurita eu ritU some day harry ea ubey aby could quietly be y jat hatnot not hen heard rd from dick t september he Is perhaps dead and if he omel ornel back her affairs will lessly complicated for at old grandmother as i 1110 richard liard junior who Is go going ing to leave a good deal r t to dicks children but till harrys wife under the crarry tR arry turn up he could er air lives helen knows it U ibea aver over it ol 01 e not had one moments mind for months she we had drifted along corn com tocino so long without ever caffi 3 that anything would ahli old trouble no man and woman ever felt themselves so truly man and wife as we did wo we never thought of the irregularity of our relationship we had decided once and for nil all that ours was a truer marriage than hundreds that are approved every day I 1 suppose we always intended to straighten it out but the years went so fast and were so happy that nothing seemed to be missing divorce too late now to go back to the oldtown old town hunt up harry and make arrangements for a divorce without the chil dren suspecting that something extraordinary tra was going on is utterly out of the question and even if I 1 did what would it accomplish since dick is not within reach the slightest suspicion of it would break pam 8 heart and shame my proud handsome confident boy they would lose faith in their mother forever when dick and I 1 first decided to take this step 18 years ago the letter goes on we faced the consequences or thought we did squarely we even spoke of a possible poss child and I 1 remember saying that if we had one he or she would be a little gipsy who borr worry y about conventional oversights we felt that we were strong enough to rise above the law and to us both it seemed preposterous that an irresponsible idle impecunious and improvident man like harry should have any power over our lives but dick Jun junior lorAs Is NOT an un conventional gipsy type of boy and my little pamela is the clinging gentle type and I 1 dont dare unk think of what the truth would mean to them what is the right way out one that will save us all im not answering this letter because as far as I 1 can see there Is no answer when and if dick sen lor cornea comes home after months it might be possible for helen to per suade him to make things as right as they can be made now it if he come back perhaps helen could confide in her mother in law ask the old lady to make the children of her son her heirs husband always a threat to find harry now do much good because helen even it if divorced be married to dick until dick returns and unless harry has somewhat improved ho he might seriously threaten her peace ut of mind betray her to her children so that the only thing to do is go on Ws this way for the present and hope that time time that brings about so many unexpected solutions to our human mistakes and problems will offer an opportunity sooner or later to straighten out all this ahta it la Is one thing to call the tune at 22 and feel eel quite willing to face the tha consequences and it is another to pay the piper when he comes around with his bl bill I 1 1 real consequence e a 9 have a maddening way of being muc more complicated |