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Show THEY SEEK WAY BACK INTO ' PALE OF THE CONVENTIONS International News Service. . MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.. Oct., 9. Unashanied of the year slie has spent outside the pale of conventions, conven-tions, living as the wife of Fred W. Hart, Mrs. Shirley Iva Knox Hall-Quest Hall-Quest today found sympathy and understanding of her "perfect-love" in that all-understanding person her mother. At the home of a son here, the little gray-haired matronly widow, Mrs. M. W. Knox who gave her daughter in marriage to Prof. Lawrence Lawr-ence Hall-Quest at Redwood Falls, Minn., 16 years ago, today received that daughter hacS into the family fold and there was nothing of reproach re-proach for her transgressions. "We stand back of ner now," Mrs. Knox told newspaper men here today. to-day. And with the "We" she looked about her with assurance that she was speaking for the entire family that the business-man sun. the two younger sons, students at the University of Minnesota and the other daughter, a teacher in the public schools at Bemidji, Minn., where the Knox family has lived since they left Redwood Falls shortly short-ly after Shirley's marriage. "We could tell from Shirley's letters let-ters that she was not happy," the mother continued. "In fact, she had told us that in her letters, but Mr. Hall-Quest would not let her go "When he went to New York to take up his duties at Columbia university, uni-versity, he left her at Cincinnati and it was then that she found she really loved Mr. Hart that she did not miss her husband, did not care for him. "My daughter has written me about the divorce, but I did not expect ex-pect all this publicity to result Mr. Hart bad written me that he was going to do everything he could to protect her name. They are going go-ing to be married just as soon as Mr. Hart's wife secures a divorce. Shirley was young when she married mar-ried Mr. Hall-Quest. Rest assured we stand back of her now." Backed by this staunch support of her family, Mrs. Hall-Quest today declared her intention to make all her old friends and the rest of the world see her affair with the former British army major as she finally made her husband see it. How long she will remain here nnd whether or not she and Mr. Hart will go to Redwood Falls or Bemidji could not be learned. Efforts Ef-forts to learn whether the marriage ceremony would be performed at Bemidji also were unsuccessful. |