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Show I iLOVE and MARRIED UFE txL the noted author J Idah MGlone Gibson M R AlVKIts.RY 1 Mi. vrhat beautiful car and what an pxtravai?ant man you arc," I exclaimed. ex-claimed. Sureh I didn't need a car all to msoir." ' Tou didn't think 1 would bu somf-thinR somf-thinR ou nefid for a present, did ou. Kathcrlne ' This car t oUr?, m dear, and that cllnuffeur, a long a? he pu.t youf, i? to drive it Kirl then introduced introduc-ed my chauffeur. Jameson, to mc Take us to Mr?. Ali Staunton's.'' 7 said to Jameson and ihen turned 10 Karl and added lion't ni think I ain foolish, but I have an idea this a the very car that Alice described to mc ft! ill most beautiful one she sa and 1 rant her to know von bought it for mc " Before -we arried at Alice's home, 1 if heard m daughters oice calling. Ji "Mother, where you going, mother i" Jameson drew up to the , urh My goodness; but ou'rc swell." yi'i Robert Ga lord Jr., who was with hfr, Io ou think." he said in Kail with a smile thai Mrs 8hepard i sroing to (five this car to Mf'r; uid me for a wedding present ?" "Ko sir, I'm not." I answered and' as Janteson opened the door for them to step irt the tar T added bantering ly. "Cars like this are given onlv as reward of merit " , 'Xet me see. how Ion has it taken ,'Wgr. ;J ou to earn it, mother. ' sild Mary M 13 J' mischievously. HmM; Twcti'x years." -aid Karl. Xi-U&ml "Gracious Rul. if you don't give mc '$fWi h ' ai UUf" le's-' tban iwenti ; K t. i n les.ve you for a man thai ) Will. ' w You Fee. (Catherine ' sai l Karl, I "that's the modern girl talking 8h A(', doesn't hesitate to tell the nir.n she's fcoing to marry that if he doesn t mind g (' and lc l.i'. luniin-.f. he 11 find no liappy home with her Knb put his hand oxer Man's. 1 knew he wasn't Quit comfortable under un-der Karl's misehiev ous characterization characteriza-tion of Mary. "Never mind. Uoh," I said, "we'll sec if We cannot throw a stop to War'' mcrcenarv nature and keep pp' !ue for you h lending her this car, i occasionally. " "I don't bare s bi.t about your ar," said Mary unexpectedly "1 m just as happ riding around with Rob In his little fli r i ' Where shall we take you?" T said Where wre you jjolng. "Well, we weren t going anywhere In particular," said Roh, ' There are so man;, of Ihe children about over at mother's that we thought we just bad to gel awa'j and talk it all Dver.' Talk What over?" asked Karl. Well. I don't suppose it does seem very wonderful to you old marrte3 folks, but Just at present the most wonderful thing in all the world to Mary and me Is that we are going t" be married three weeks from today." i Ton see. w e decided to hold a kind of j q r.ni ersar " Well, you are modern, tun if iha' el th case, vou must want to be alone., DltLyou know", Mary, tha.. your mother and I are holding an annlversar) ' "Oh. ye?, 1 remember.-' said Mary, in matter-of-fact tones, "yon and mo-; ther liae been married t p. nt years As she said this, both she mul Ho-hert Ho-hert turned and lOeked at us curiously. ; And 1 heard Mary remark a;; they lef; us. "Do you suppose. Rob. they can: love each other as bluet) now, when1 they are old. as we do now, when we are young.?" I didn't h:,ai Robert answer-, forj .Jameson waapwhis'king us away down the long shore flri e riimorr(i Heil nml I nrcwoll. Copyright National Newspaper S r- vice. |