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Show I LOVE and MARRIED LIFE! 1 fctj. the noted author 1 f idah M?51one Gibson J fWl Elizabeths other n.uihi rB As I read th's little poem, the same j 9bH thought came over me that had come rJSfl to Alloc when I read her Karl's letter . No one, at least i. could possibly i-VmW.0. huvc dreamed that the girl 1 had! 'kmWmj; known as Elizabeth Moreland cold ' rjSH hard and brilllanth facetted as a dla- , Vm mond I here saw the other sldo of riSoaM her; the sldo that love had made, soft,! translucent and as lovely as a pearl. ;iH No wonder that John could not un- :r$lB derstand my appraisal and opinion ofl Jfl her' And he never could have nude : me realize that she bad this side , B which she probablj was showing con- stant to him. iH Some way I am beginning to feel; H that John Is not worthy of her., for hej JJB has taken of her. as all men take with-, CnH out one thought beyond the moment, and she has given gladl. unreserved-1 ym l. tor Eternity, knowing all the time; that the consequences mlcht mean ' death In life to her. She delved lnto $Mt, the holy of holies of her soul In her . '.Aril poem to John and tod him that th-- WAmg thought that She was with one htil- tWM hour of radiance blest" was enough I for her to fce-d on memory for ever-j &9 I don't think that T shall ever tell Elisabeth what 1 know This morning M 1 thought l would. It seemed to me I 7 lhat she deserved to know that I was: jfm cognizant of her episode with John I 9M Hut now 1 know that she does not need Sb 'J 'bi knowledge to make her punish-1 WZmTn ment almost greater than she could Y haby had gone to sleep in myj 'zJlk arms when 1 found that I had made i at best one decision I would not tell 9 Bllsaheth Moreland that I know And tht-s was followed quickly by another: if John went back to her again, I JWm would go out of his life, taking with me this memento of our love our Quickly there came to me a feeling "H lhat perhaps that this was the trouble gHI that Kail Bhepard had mentioned as H coming and then I pu It aside for I I H knew that If this was to be the heated 1 JH plowshare ov r whic h I was to walk. VH I could not share us hurt with any man least of all with Karl Shepard 1 Putting Mary, In her bassinette, I called the chauffeur and told him that I would be at the door directly to go to the new house. 1 wanted to see how the decorators were getting on putting on the new paper in the lining room hen 1 arrived, I found both John and BHIzabeth Moreland standing uncomfortably un-comfortably In the middle cf the room while the workmen were tearing off the expensive paper that Elizabeth had ordered on "Oh. I'm sorry" she hegan "I Was po sure, Katherlne, that you were going go-ing to carry out thl room in the Colonial period, that when I saw some of that lovely old paper down at the shop, I thought It would be doing vou a great favor to have It put on the room before you arrived." It was beautiful paper, Elizabeth,' I said, "but you ser. my taste has always al-ways craved the color and magnificence magnifi-cence of Oriental decoration Just where I got the idea. I do not know But it has been Implanted In mv soul and I determined that If ever I had the chance I would have a Chinese living room. 'f course you and John and everyone else seeing me In the Colonial environment of my mother's homo and among the furniture which she sent me as a wedding present, took It for granted that I was exerclslnK my own tastj In the way of household decoration." "I have almost come to the conclusion.' conclu-sion.' said Elizabeth, "that one must never take anything for granted." Bh looked at John as she spoke and I could see that her words had a different differ-ent meaning for him than for me. "It is certain that I shall never lake anything for granted again," said John grufflv, "at least where a woman is concerned." "I think my dear John. " said Elizabeth Eliza-beth softly, "that vou. as well as most other men would be happier if you did lake more things for granted, as far as a woman is concerned. I am quite sure that Katherlne will I. ear mo out, when I say that I believe that If a man took the trouble to study a woman as he does his business or any other of the material affairs of ills life, he could always take her for granted. Most women I know run true to form." |