Show KATHLEEN NORMS When Hubby Finds True Love HUSBAND is Ray Runyon opens her letter is no other word for he is what he has been for the 13 years of our a devoted husband and a successful professional popular in business and club he is inflicting upon me and upon our and as cruel a persecution as any torturer of old could He has fallen completely under the spell of a woman two years older than a twice-married and twice-divorced a woman whose dyed coarse and low associates ought to repel as they do all self-respecting Chuck invests her with every charm and virtue on the can hardly speak of her for the reverence and emotion her name evokes in and proposes to tear our lives to pieces so that he may place her in the proud position of his wants me to give him a accept a third of his which would not be a keep the allowing them to come and stay with whenever he and that I keep friendly with Daisy and never say anything that reflects on Never Loved Me says he has never loved me this after years of such companionship and happiness as few women He says Daisy will be a far more Intelligent mother than to his and he told his own devoted mother that he had never had much respect for her He continues to live at seizes every opportunity to win the children's telling them kindly that Mother isn't and that's why she is so nervous and He never speaks to me at declines all invitations that In- the children's sympathy elude m ind to my in a moment of desperate that he move to his he returned calmly that he could not afford as he expected his expenses to be doubled Daisy's birthday he ordered a white cake frosted with in the center of he placed a ring worth thousands that he had been up to that for some When he took Charles into the mountains fishing for a she went If I force him to speak he says don't you act as Daisy She has never done a small or a mean thing in her And he told me that if he threw her down now it would kill and brought out the old argument that it would be better to have two of the three of us rather than all be Heartbroken I can't or or pretend I not This horrible vaguely suspected at this time last year is reality This for the first time in Chuck was loving and coaxing with He begged me to be to be nice to to realize that she was taking nothing from because he and I had lost all love for each other long This last is completely And as I did not he hinted what I have known must that no household bills would be and that the children and I would have no money at all until I agreed to his When I said I could claim support under the law he said by all means to do this is like a What shall I Help and tell me what to What you must will be done for Chuck's sake as well as yours and the You must stick it Even if the woman were a finer and there were a faint chance of his really loving you would have to pursue the same You cannot fail the children because he If you have to take or a or move back to no Stick to your You cannot And the person who will be most deeply grate-til to you in the end will be Chuck But the eternal mystery of to a Not that a man can be attracted to another or want a Those if indicating a weakness for flattery and are natural But that the man should want to insult and hurt the woman he sweep all the value of the happy past Injure his children as no enemy could injure and add to all this the bland assurance to everyone concerned that he is acting and with a cool His he assures never really loved |