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Show ! Her Daughter and His Son Groat Married Life Story by I IDAH McGLONE GIBSON fcTlfW LUNCHEON WITH JERRY ijySJH HATHAWAY. HBII "Tin you know. Ann.'' said 3jBTt J in O "I ha'vs nCVlr J nation of Grs.cc Cameron. 1 must con- H fes.s thouch tlitit sho linn a certain mnfr- H netism nun mor.' B jell in her harlo(. Whon I am wllli her J I cxpeoi haf the same shameless !-1 HLH Mrt tlmt Kciinolh HnNoy Mf ii: i to have. I H 1 -i i ' (mi mil huit 1- licr. She In a luscious I'll of fominlty. Slip looks no civxJ, and whon she pak , you vtKldenly find ut that hfr soul li I Iwid." "Oh. Jerry, you must not ray thnt. I exclaimed, quite shocked. "Perhnp you don't undegstsnd srha.1 ' mean." lie returned. "Grace Cameron Is ; iir t v i j oi woman who would tell lihlf truth alont anyone she disliked. misreprinenilnir more ly what she wiih-j held than whnt sio said. She would Slander one by llrndlni; n bit of truth With much that ss.i- untrue the inostj pernU-loiiH kini of falsehood. Ouch! ihn 1 I hate such a woman and t I fully un-( i!r;--t,snl 1 or Hpell. And I hate to pee jjjbjsh Ken FTalsc one Iter victims. However.' Id's don't talk of hrr :ms Let'l . I"- uicnii oureeive?. -i -i i l'-'i m triumphant!) into the dining room of Hie Rrcat hotel and ( round n tabl" nil derorni'-ii with flower m-ar a window. The luncheon was perfect per-fect and. with I he know l.-.ii.- that 1 ha-l money In the hank, a jui In prospect, n jroml looking man across the able from me rns spirits rose I forgot all ItlV trodbleq .ini enjoyed everything with ihe ci t "f youth. Jerry waa a dear. In snuir nr atari ma way he had learned fcnd orpered Ihe food I Ilkr'I mo:l ami kept ip a COfl- slant xiream of dclicat flatter'- ' told ; hi m thai lid s rs fllrfinc with me au-, duclously. "But I am nt flirting with you Ann." i h said. "I brought you here io tell you! Ih.it I believe I have 'oed ou ever;. ; minute since I saw you a little, frlpht-: en eel nervous girl upon the train. While; sou were working ;it tl e reatatfrd.nl I did not. come near you. for I kept hoping thai in tltrte ypu would trrow tired of 1 1 - - work and rome to mo f'r advice." "And all that tlm u did no, sua-' port lhai it waii 1 wh had loit lha mom) on found? Surely li must hnvi aeemed 'irange to you thai i wpuli I have accepted position of that, kind" "I thought that 'ii miriii haYt Hnowi Manile Reilley somwhe--e. .aid .tprrs j "or thai -m of her people mlRht have worked f'ir your, pcrhar 1 Knew Ma niic ually more from the speech Ql !.tlr. thnn from lalkini. or bclnc wit! hi-r and I knew that he wax a irorx cnl ;mr! lhai J on wore in o.-xl hands ! nop better, ir you ranted to barn how 1 to lake care of toUMclf. out In the worlrl ' i "Then you did nor bear how 1 hail conic io cf the placed" You did not know that I rlarleil to work to pay for m illnnrr when I fohnd I had lost m mone) ?" Jerry' fap rvprssed Ida astonish-menl astonish-menl ' I eer,talhly did not." he Raid. ' iii talked to tiia- bounder. Bailers, it I oould help It And I was afraid ibai I I I lokr to you or paid on any l- tentlon, mj oonduoi would be misunier-ttoi misunier-ttoi d. not f.ni. by those about me, but by you, too. You mlffht think I wn Using m father's ownership of the rew tuuranr to cti some hold upon your friendship. And Ann. I wanted you to iik.- me for mysejf, and dear. I wanted to aeservc your iikimr. "I happened to come In'.o ih"' 'llnlnc v om that nlplu Jn-t as ,Iin ktrnr lci I that rplter dow n and I want to I' ll "'i : r.ar. nlthough t kept out of your siithi I until ou and Jim left Sellers .'ind ilo I house detective were discharged shortly 1 afterward. "Uin. i was wr anxious 'o have you meoj mj father toda for t aani him to know you. I ''ant him to 1 now that I loVe you and want you to marry life. It makes mv blood boil to think of your having to put up with the kind of treatment treat-ment you have received Oh of course, l know that you have plant of friends to i.'iki care of you. nov, that Ken and Jim hne hQth found you but Ann. tht-re was never n nlchi thnt you-were working In (he rlstaursnS that i did not hover about lm of the tim to see that J'OU iverc safe. I would never have aliowil you to stay there one m .men? bad I aoi i,ppn so vure of Mam I ' Uellley and her care of yon. If you still wonder why I didn't lei you know I was near III tell you frankly I didn't want to seem tol make irnlhvlied advances." Tomorrow Jerry Propose |