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Show I met PM Waving the grocery etere-late thla afternoon. 1 had a load of auppllea in tha auto, but Well, Kna wao going homo early, flha looked Ilka a rag white and limp ao X took har home In the car. Henry waa oertalnly a el acker all light. ' Whan Ena dlacovered that he had mar-, mar-, tied her only to keep hlmaelf out of the i draft, aha inalared on allcklng to har ob. She wouldn't make a dependency claim when he waa called but now It turna out that aha ought to havo done ao. Hha whlaperad har atory to ma; Tha atork la echeduled to arrive at her houae about the time he ta due at the lorlmera'. But Kna doean't want the tie of a child between heraelf and Henry. Alao aha la afraid he may be killed ahe doean't love ! him. anyway and aha can't bear tha thought of hla being the father of bar oh I Id and what la ahe to dot I waa awfully aorry. Btlll I ran aea Rna'a temptation. Who could poeelbly. want to be married to Henry? I get ao ImpatlerU of all men, oome-tlmea. oome-tlmea. When I have eared ao much, why can t Bob hurry up and tell me thae he carea a little? ' '(To to continued.) Copynght. Itia, by tho Nawapaper Entarprlaa Aaeoclatlon.) ' . CHAPTIft XXV. Why Can't lew Hvrry Up and Toll Me That He Carea a Lime I Every morn lag f deeldo that f will not go down to the plnee at tho gate to wait I for the poet man and every morning 1 Igo For it a lime a letter came from I Kob I ggt almoat auperatlttoua about waiting for one eo anaioualy. aa If by merely watching (or It. I could delay It. .Ilm aaia an occaalonal hitch In the mall from France la inevitable He advleerf; "giir-k It out like a aport, giaay. Bob a I all right." I Bob may be all right, but I am not. and I I never will be until Bob wrltea me how I he rejotcaa beeauae he le to be a father, i and until he promt aea never again to let any trouble come between ua Only I hue can we "make up" completely for our miserable quarrel about nothing. But what If Boh atiotild never aend that meeaage to me? Then I ahall be daeperaha and daeo late. Then I could almoet But no I not that. ! couldn't do what Ena Rooe 'did I There a aomathlng about me that would 1 prober) Inalat on being "good" In eplie of eomethlng ele In me which revolt a when I remember that Juat beeauae I am ja female aid a potential mother, I I haven't the right to eontrot my own fu-I fu-I ture. Nature naa mapped It out for mo fur montha to come. I fltill If Bob valuee hla own queer moody temper more than hla kve for me and our ehltd-to.be then I may again have to remind myeelf that "I will never do what Eue floae did." |