| Show Alicia Hammersly A Woman Who Wouldn't Remarry By ldah Idah McGlone Gib Gibson on The Writer r II I Alicia n e Alicia AIIla anti and commonly railed called ie I IK the lie absorbing ab I story of f her lie Mie In Ia cn- cn fI don 11 mf i to l. l I On the ilie e norn- norn 0 In inc of li her hr r day luy he le wh th- th t ter or cor site Mie really know the Ito man mun HI she is 18 to toI marry ie 1 lead l tier her to wU seek I h her mother for e consolation j ta She Mie hJ tl finde i. i hir lt I mother r In th Ii heated i before tin ten old j trunk which In Ia filled with merle memories AH te Alicia lil enters her moth mother cor Is fondling n is pl pair lr lof of baby shoe lioe h Alicia's Allds mother r coon consoles olt's I her r points ln 8 out ii Hie erf great lit 1 happiness to tobe tobo f co d bo be CI found I in a marriage rl based 1 upon understanding under under- standing but Alicia Ii la that hat It IH Ia some hoine- ery ry different from the th lay day dreams drun lof of nn an engaged girl Hal ilni confides In lIel that Ills his Income for Cor Hie ilie first jear ear IU wUl will nCI nC ne- I ClIate economy and antI they hey must live with i his hi parents panl for Cor awhile was wal down down- I cast nt ft s n-s Ifill parents had Imail old fashioned of he slim u ti do Alicia I meets I sell Neli Marshall r H. H nn oh old sweet heart of Hals r. r The same old friends of Hals Hal's Mr ir I I land and r t Mrs C I Lord ord ID nod I n ii Until tI n I call th rom From the conversation she hf l lear Sell Neil Marshall hall Inis long been the belle o of the lie cIty It Alicia awakens In the ni night hl whether r I lint Hal really propose proposed when he lit told toil her hr he lie lo hosed d her or did Mie ht hi innocently innocent misunderstand stand und anti he lit In him turn let lt the the- affair drift hift I I Into matrimony ills Ill reply satisfies her hr I Nell Il Marshall calls aU Ip Speaking to 10 Alicia lIlla of I Slat Hal ell II confesses sIte she had imad been fond foni of h Hal Nell It I. I is going 0 on n ii to Alicia AliI home home- elt cIty Nell ell It foo suggests that Alicia II slit h her r mother urges that Alicia Insist on un ona ona I a home hom of her own own away away from Hals Hal's parents pa pa- rents Alicia 1111 retires late hate IntI Into Int I bed she hf he finds thi the thC rat lit there and anti faints faint In InI fear r. r Alicia Ij retained regained consciousness I to find I time the rr Hammer r. r nC family lyrO anxiously I J gathered Z about her bed Mother I lice her silly Illy to fear CIU n a pot pet cat III Alicia Alicia- now determined de de- de d to go home for n a vIsit Ha hal I Jr pressed 8 ll for her hr reason lice Her r reply surprised d him 1 Hat hal learns with l awe n and delight I t monr 10 mn H that a II child Is coming to hint him m ami l Alicia I Come dear it is time timo for you to go I 1 will see what I can do while O 0 dear you are arc away said Hal my girl you do not know how I hate to have you go Then you are aro happier married Hal I do not know that I am any happier happier hap hap- pier AlIx Allx said Hal honestly for tor I 1 have always been happy but some someway someway someway way I cannot think about myself without you At that time I thought that was rather queer but I r understood Just what he meant as soon as I got home After I had seen Mother and Dad and Babs nabs and Dart Bart I was ready to go back bach oven even en If It I had to stay at Hals Hal's home I for a while I T could not think of or myself myself my my- self without Hal lIal To my surprise I I found that my fathers father's house was not my home any more I was not particularly particularly particularly par par- interested In tn the things that the they were Interested In and with the exception of my mother no one seemed interested In my affairs The short time lime that I had been married had completely changed the tho whole trend of or my thoughts nab Dab could not understand why I preferred to stay at I home with mother when I might be e showing my pretty frocks at the tho country country coun coun- tX try club If It you dont don't wear them tb-em now you will probably never get another chance she ehe warned If 11 I were you I would not like to be bo tied down with witha a a. baby so soon after I was married Arent Aren't you ever going to dance any anymore anymore anymore I more or Of course I am flab Dab I answered impatiently Id like to lo dance this I minute if It Hal were here but someway someway someway some some- way tho the old crowd does not seem the same I I did not realize at that time that the old crowd was tho the same and it was I who had changed I was a 0 little hurt that Duane Duano Benton Benton Denton Ben Ben- ton did not come to call upon me im Im- im- im mediately He lIe was Hals Hal's best beat friend One evening however when he was placed beside m me at dinner I learned the reason Hal wrote you ou thought I was intruding when I suggested that I you go to Niagara ara Falls your on weddIng wedding wedding wed wed- ding tri trip tripI he remarked in rather an aggrieved voice Hal Ihl was not a good sport to tell you ou that Duane without also telling you that I did not blame you I did I blame Hal for taking your advice adIce j I without consulting m me ml that was all i iI Ir I r 1 told him to do so s said id Duane I I but he seemed to think you would be satisfied with anything as long as he wanted to do it HP HI remarked that you OU alwa always were satisfied before mar mar- I did not not say anything for tor I T had to toa acknowledge knowledge a to myself that I had always always al always al- al ways agreed with Hal lIal before I married married mar mar- ried ned him I II I Duano Duane looked booked at me curiously as ag I Iwas Iwas was j and said ald Great Scott I I AlIx Allx old Hal Is a lucky man I expect that you know you are arc the most beautiful beautiful beau beau- I girl here Iere tonight Ive I've a good mind to flirt with you ou myself Are you sure I would allow It It I Duane Duane lowered his hIs hIs' voice to b Just the Che I I ri right ht pitch and cadence and an 1 said I you Alix I felt my i y pulses s tingle lingle and then I 1 Isaid Isaid said to myself Dont be a fool tool Alix Do you yoU think AUx Ally pursued Duane Duano that Hal is not riot having a a. nice little flirtation while you are away a my dear girl I am coming around tomorrow to take you ou out In my new car ItIs It ItIs Itis is a bird Providentially flab Dab came up P p Just ihen then and I did not have to answer but I could not help feeling reeling that an another another an- an other of ot my theories about men was false raIse Since that time I have found again and again that It is not true that men mn are fire greater friends to each other than women are to those of their own sex lX f I have never known but one of or Hals Hal's friends friend that has not tried at some sometime sometime time or another to make love lo to me mo J wonder If that Is the average a ex- 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