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Show Alicia Hammersly j A Woman Who Wouldn't Remarry By lda.)S rVUClona CibMP ! TV, n JrlM. I 1 1 I ALICIA SWCDOINQ DAY. i Thla morning I am AHria Alwrll. Tonight I will ba Alter IUmmra1y. It glvaa ma a fat har atria foaling to writ a thoa word a. It la Ilka aaying ; AllcU commonly railed Alls by har 'frlrnda Atwall la today allvo; tonight' aha will bo no mora. Anothar woman will hava tukm her placo another j Ufa will hava brgun. I hallev t am filing vary irnirh aa a rondrmned paraon doea In thr ihour of aiacutlon. Ila cannot viaual-j I isa what tha great adventure wl Iu. , I hut hia vary aoul tremble aa tha hour i apnMvhea. ) Krr tho U"t twantv four himia I 'hava boan wondar1nr If 1 t.iI1v do, rar enough for llillat ITnintnTlv , tin marry him in want him with m" (avery dav. 1 am beginning t ahml-der ahml-der over that "tinill death d.i ua part" tin tho wedding aerrlre I an nn wondering If ha will not grow tired nf i having m alwnva umuh.I to rrko.t Iwlih to think about not In terma of, lovo but In terma of reapon!Mlltv Will I love him a- I do now hn , be hna grown fat and bald and ihu k-j lev hka Tntd. or thin and a.iH.iw nnd ant limine like fnrle Tom? I Interrupted Inter-rupted my ihiitight with u lnnh, f"ii I cannot think aerloual of Jlal I Ing changed In any partlctilnr by time.; . Aa I picture him to mvoelf, my love j cornea .bark with roh I i amud , Hive without him. rom whit f have1 aeen In the older married emipt j about m I know that Hnl a life and mlna will he very different. I nm aura! that our love will never be awallowed up In the commonplace atmn-phere of evervdav life. "Why." I anld to my- flrat tlm ha aa w mo--thAt dtiy laat aummer whn I went tn the country club with lhid and mother for dinner.; From that time forward he certainly ; lot It ha aren that he had no tlmo for! any oiher girl. I think I. too, foil I tn lova tho moment my ryea met I llala j Tall, atralght. atmng. virile, hia pre at ' brown eyea are alwya laughing, even when hia tender mouth la not amlllng I drew a long breath aa t thought of thnt firm mouth anttdeciaivg chin. I What did thav portend k I I have nrvrr aeen Hal angry, but! roma way I have an Inptlnrove plrtitre of how hia turn wl'l nk when hia! mouth, v. hb h lo me hi a. alwava bn the abd i f trnd-r tiimlra, will cloa ; ltalf to plr;iinnf Ihon.litP and InTome ' m lUiii. alrui'l't lln - wlii'tt It In rhln , wiM miinr- ii at f until hia lean lit ! will fttinnn chow Ihe t-lenrhe.l . th bfh.nil It. In I moMv know the man alma, a. f I nm to be within flu- nct f.-n hoiir Kven now. In iintlnpa: in . I grow a lit cold. I nn ri-iii fnl.f' ' ptfeK tha Ihrill IhiH mm in f- rt' when f e tan fill Into tin rlnthn' nf t he In i-.- e. but I i , n ' 1 1 t r ii'iiilr i a hi hr ! h- aver tM n i iii h- ' Hot iiit Ih iHireJ lo ij-Jift if nr.igred hilti ! I'li'lh tnnonu (onirt. whithl I i- an emiuiH ia i!.iHiir lo iw knou I vr rad nrn -f llr.l'a r.ire-vng otr. I but I have nevr tit.n -l ,i Q how aMind when h fmU f.inli wittt' a nm expenditure of iulni ih.it l-r ! i-onaldera foollrh I tan r mv rya and give myetf up to itw f. t- of llai'a aitddan klaa dacridlni; iiTvon mv hnlr or rl alnr my otjb. iut b no utrrtch of Imngln -itlon can I picture him atnrmlhg atMiiit the houae lMrauaa hia' . ahlrta hav not rom back from the liiiindrv. I rrnllar. nf rnurar. that Hal la arrnilv IritrrralrJ in t'.m hull. Hnil I ' hnvr often mm1 nnr of th sallrrv which followed him around the vlf raurar. but I dn nnt know whrlhrr hfi may not consider Ihr tinarhall corr ! In Ih mornina pnprr more Intrrrat-1 ln than my breakfnat rnnvrraatlnn . Nrtther hav I any knnwirdit nf whrthrr h haa any arruplKa naalnat 1 . maklnc m a ajolf widow (,n Ih only i nftrrnonna that h take, away from! hia hualnraa In aummrr. t 1 I hnvr a dlatlnrt rrrollrrilnn of lha 'rnlilrn rIow that cornea Into llal'a rvra when h nava. "IVareat. you arr' , th mot brautlful woman .hrr to.! lahl' but I hav never nntlcrd ' , whether he look Ih ai.nie when he eompllmrntf another woman. I I (To be continued ) j Copyrlithl National Newapaper ricrvic. alf with a audilen ruah of aurnrla and dlamay. "I have not aren Had klaa mother In montha nnt alnr hrr return re-turn from her vlalt lo Aunt Ilrtty'a. and then It waa only n Utile rtyty klai " Then came th memorv of Hnl'a I ImpawloneU klrae. Surely pad hud ! never been na linpetiinua a lover aa Hal. for If he had he rertalnlv rould I not have aettlrd Into thla kind of calm acceptance of "hnvlna mother around" that aeema to be IVtd'a only reaction lo her now. I And mother dn not acem lo mind lit. Hhr la more Interested In Itab and Hart and me thnn ahe la In father. (I hall never allow myaelf to care more for mv children than 1 d for my huaband.) Kor the lnat week mother haa locked at me ao queerly when ah thnurht I did m ae her. I think at llmrai her eyea were mlaty. It waa almnt a thnuiih ahe waa aorry fur m. nndi vet that cannot be, for ah la verv , fond uf Hal and I know that ah la not a lltt'e proud of in carrying; away Ih nlreat young; man in our art All the clrla hav been angllna for Hal aom year evn before my time Hal I. aeven year older than I and ha la one of tha moat popular men In th older crowd who nit her turn up their nnaea at ma herauae I am quite youna19 and erarcelv four month nut cf fntuhlna achncl. 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