| Show I Alicia Hammersly I S A Woman S t Remarry By idah ldah McClone McGlone Gibson Tl The c Noted Wr iu S Alicia nee ne nee Alicia AHola At Atwell we II and I commonly called Alix is Alix-is Is telling the absorbing absorbing absorbing ab ab- ab- ab abc story of ot her girlhood she Is en en- to to Hallet Hammersly They risey Sro are married The rhe months roll by and Hal lint is devoted and regretful by turns A child is cOming to Alicia and Hal and she goes home to be with her mother News New comes th that at Hal has been killed In a railroad w wrecK reck The shock renders Alicia unconscious unconscious sc ious and sho is gravely ill III for weeks A b bre boy oy Is born to her r. When Alicia had fully re recovered covered her mother showed her old newspaper news news- p paper aper clippings s 's of Hal ital's Hals s death Then she l'- l' learned arned that Nell tell Marshall had died In the w wA reck with him With returning strength A Alicia licia began to think of ot the future The Insurance in Hal left Is not adequate for her II needs need Sh She is delighted to find that a story she he ha had Written was accepted d b by a maca- maca te tl s st ine flab Bab a had submitted lt de the derr story err without t t telling elling Alicia Alltia and In correspondence with It Jarly garly the editor had told him A Alicia licia's s life lire st story ry Alicia wants to go to N NA Neu tew ew York to become a professional writer A Alicia licia Is Is' surprised at her sister Dabs Bab s ideas o on n marriage nab Dab seems so 80 matter mailer of ot fact oA Alicia licia A tells Dab Bab she is going to NeW York tl to i Interview the editor ot of the magazine who p purchased her first story str flab Dab sagely ely advIses advises ad ad- v vises Alicia to let the editor build up his Ills vo o own wn idea of ot her in his Imagination rather I than han t to know her as she Is 19 Alicia is determined deter ieter- m mined ined to go gro however Alicia Aile feels that her herI I f friends S are neglecting I h her now since e she h hl has as a CI child I to roe care for r but t she f feels little l Hal td Is la worth the Dart Bart Alicia's Alicia s b brother rother comes home from college bringing h his is chum Larry Wheaton with him Larry a admires admires' AlI Alicia las la's s baby and proves provE's very adept i ii in n handling handling- him Alicia and ancl flab Dab ate afo both i Impressed very favorably with Larry They p plan lan a game of tennis Larry Wheaton an and anil A Af Alicia licia stroll down the lawn together Alicia f found him an unusual youth youth mature mature be beyond beyond be- be y yond his years and appearance Ills His frank ye e of his admiration for ther ier surprised surprised sur cur Alicia Site She doesn't t know whether to l laugh laush or cry ALICIA'S TALK WITH Irn nl hEll 0 Then you think Larry that having been married even for a little while makes maltes a a. woman more apt to understand all men Is your sex all cut after atter the tho same pattern That question is too deep for me Mix AUx Having understanding is perhaps t the he reason widows are are- considered more fascinating than young girls But I do l know that men men whether they are ate as young as I am or as old as ss your father have about the same mode of procedure when they want to appeal to a woman Honestly Alix confessed Larry dropping my ny title of Mrs r I I presume if I hadn hadn't t cared for the baby I would h have ave tried to gain your interest by being greatly In love with it when it-when when I you were around because around because naturally I knew that the tile greatest thing in your life was your son and you would rather see eee me interested in him than ih you ou but to my surprise more than to Yours Jours I did care caro for the baby Youre You're a queer boy I reiterated d. d Do Do you vou think so so To myself he said thoughtfully I I seem suddenly to have hate become a man Say iy what's the matter with YOU you two What are you lagging along lJ back ck there for called calle 1 Bart Dart If you dOht don't I get a move on you Larry we wont won't get In u I set before lunch Are you going to Alix Not ot ot today Dart Bart All tight right I see Mollie Miller over there b bj by the nets She plays plays' a good game Dart Bart rushed ahead to call Mollie l and nab flab dropped back with Larry and me My Mv sister looked at me mo shrewdly and I was angry with myself because I felt my face grow hot Then she turned her gaze on Larry and from her ex expression expression ex- ex I felt almost that she knew what we had been talking about When When we ve reach reached d the nets I I seated r rn myself to watch the game and mother c camo ame strolling out She he looked happier happler t than han I had seen her since I had re recovered ov- ov e ered red from my illness ssI ss I I am so glad you jou came out Alicia s she he said I hI wish you would take up t tennis ennis again It w would uld be very good f for or or you jou ou I can see that you are gaining i in n strength and spirits every day clay 1 y Im I Iam Iam a am m so glad dear that you did not allow Y yourself to grow morbid over those newspaper n clippings I gave you I told y YOur our father you would be sensible about t them hem but he seemed to be afraid that y you ou would put the worst construction o on n them thorn P or old dad T Tell ll him mother t that hat I do not allow myself to think of what was written in those clippings at a all ill ll I cannot make It seem possible t that hat while Hal was over here talking 0 l e lo ove to me and making plans for great 0 h happiness to come he was hoping at atthe atthe t the he same time to meet Nell Marshall a and nd go on to Charleston with her You know kno my dear child it might S have been one of those pe peculiar ullar epi episodes pl pi S s oes in real roal life liCe that ate are unbelievable I on one r roads reads ds them in fiction Hal hals Hals Hal's s I meeting with Nell can easily be bo accounted accounted ac ac- accounted counted for on purely circumstantial ground Yes but I shall never know It II Itcan Itcan can never be bo explained and so I am an I going to dismiss It from my mind If ii possible That is the thing to do my dear Always give husband the benefit benent of the doubt If a young woman in lr inthe inthe 1 the first rs' rs her married life lite could couk 1 always think that the things that he her r husband does most does most of them them just Just happ happen hap hap- p pen n life would be much easier for most t of ot us I do not believe that the average I man ever deliberately starts out to de dc deC deceive de- de C ive his wife and the big woman It Is 5 the one who judges a man mans man's s acts accordIng according accord accord- Ing lag to their effect on his own soul am and I character and not according to the effect ef feet they have upon her life and standIng stand stand- Ing Perhaps that that's that's s what Larry m meant mean ant t just now when he said that a young I girl could not understand but a mar married ned ried woman might What has Larry been saying ti to S you jou ou asked mother quickly Oh he he has been talking youthful I nonsense Said he was in love with wit h the baby first and with me second an and ti tried to make me think that both o otus of ot ofus f us would be necessary to his existence oe e for evermore I told him that he mus must it not talk that way to me and he seemed d to feel that he had paid me a great grea t C compliment He lIe said that he had never neve I told a woman that he loved herI her hel I had an idea that he had chanced upon a an entirely new sensation He lie wa wavery was 5 very sweet and very youthful about It it t and mother I am ashamed to say that tha St It interested l me I felt that in some same 0 I way I was being untrue to Hal Hal You must get over that my dearTry dear Try to remember tha that chapter of ot your jour life liCe is ended I 1 know that sounds I t hard but my child you must remember that you are alive Unless yO yop do you yot ou t i will vilt not only be very unhappy yourself but you jou will make others about you un un- happy I think sometimes that Is thi is-thi the great fault of our sex ser We are never content to say It is ended We Ve are al always always always al- al ways wanting to go on and on a little I further even evert when we wo know that It 1 la is impossible Mother lother do you really think that thal Larry has fallen iti lb love with me me Possibly he has you are very tab fair to look upon Surely mother it cant can't be true Wily Why he has never seen me rae before i today Tomorrow Tomorrow Her Mothers Mother's Sermon Copyright ht 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