rroborated from other sources, and Mr. Williams'
work references indicated that he had been quarrelsome and difficult
for his employers to get along with, although a competent workman.
The problem seemed to the desertion agent a perfectly clear and
uncomplicated one and he proceeded to handle it according to the
formula. Some very clever detective work followed, in the course of
which the man was traced from one suburban city to another, and his
present place of employment found in the city where his wife lived,
although he lived just across the border of another state. The
warrant was served upon the man as he stepped from the train on his
way to work, and he appeared in the domestic relations court. He did
not deny the desertion but made some attempt to bring counter
charges against his wife. When questioned about his present mode of
living he became silent and refused to testify further. He was
placed under bond, which was furnished by the relatives of the woman
with whom he was living, to pay his wife $6.00 a week. No probation
was thought necessary and the case was closed, both the court and
the charity organization society crediting themselves with a case
successfully handled and terminated.

About a year later Mrs. Williams again applied, stating that her
husband's bond had lapsed, his payment had ceased, and that she had
no knowledge of his whereabouts. Although her home and children were
still immaculate she failed to satisfy the social worker who this
time visited her home with the plausible story which she had told
before. The children's health was not good and they seemed
unnaturally repressed and unhappy. Ugly reports that Mrs. Williams
drank came to the society. The school teacher deplored the effect
which the morbid nature of Mrs. Williams was having on her youngest
child--a daughter just entering adolescence. The son, a boy a little
older, was listless and unsatisfactory at his work, and defiant and
secretive toward any attempt to get to know him better. He spent
many nights away from home and was evidently not on good terms with
his mother. As soon as Mrs. Williams saw that real information was
desired she began indulging in fits of rage in which she displayed
such an exaggerated ego as to cause some doubts as to her mentality.
Baffled at every turn the case worker d