Show ii Ii- Ii Alicia Hammersly lii A Woman V o an Who W Wouldn't d t Re Remarry arr arrI I L By Idah M McGlone Glone Gibson II I Alicia nee nce nee Alicia Atwell and nd I commonly called Allx le Allx la the nb lr story of her girlhood She Is en en- aged to Hallet Hammersly They arc are The months roll b by and Hal Is la devoted L and regretful t by tj turns A A. child Is la IsI comIng to Alicia and Hal an and she goes home ome to be with her mother News Newa cornea comes I I that hat Hal has been killed In a railroad wreck Alicia determined to win her own way In Inho Inthe I ho tho world aho tries short abort story writing and ana nd is la to lu have 1110 her s first tint attempt ce ted by a bl big New ew York magazine The editor Roland Early believing she lisa hRs hasrat great rat otters her a position She and goes roe to New Jew York where Roand Ro land and I Karly Is la yen Nery ery attentive to her At a It root roof garden arden theatre a little costume caught aught tire tro A panic ensued Roland tied Lied to 8 safety Judge Turner an admirer or oC f Alicia rescued 1 the tho girl but at t fearful cost being burned and almost blinded Alicia's clas III sister sinter liter Bab Dab and h hr her r hu husband huband band Duane Binton And nd a a. Mr Ir Henderson are aro with Alicia Judge Turner was rushed to a x has boa pital Tho The newspapers print a a. big account of oC if the tho fir tire Judge Turners Turner's Injuries proved d sever never The Tho little dancer Is la out of ot danger Roland Early left for Washington after announcing an an- flouncing to the tho newspapers his hla Injuries ALICE ALICK GORDON GOnDO CALLS CALIS If It that reporter prints his hla Interview with me ne' ne correct correctly I think man many of oC Mrs EarlYs misstatements will come out out In the afternoon papers looking Very much like lIke lIke- Dont sa say It It Bab Maybe Mayb Mrs Early thou thought ht It was the truth I I dont don't believe It Mix Allx That woman worn wom oman an has been lying to everybody In Including Including Including In- In h herself ever since she he married that man exclaimed Dab Impulsively Well ell my dear If It It makes her any happier wh why not let her go 10 on Sometimes Allx Alix I think you OU ar are arc the tho I most tolerant woman on earth I 1 have often otten told you ou that I try tn to tobe tobe I Ibe be tolerant always I never could I quite set got the point of ot view of the person person per per- son who sa says s contemptuously She never ne deceives anyone but herself fc b was saying to me the tho other day that Use Miss Belcher dyed ded her hair but denied donled the tho fact tact vehemently and then the gossip added the old bromide She fools tools no one but hut herself herselt I felt Celt at the time that If Ie it made Miss Iss Belcher Belch Belch- er happier In thinking that the woman's womans womans woman's wom worn ans an's face faco she saw when whon she loo looked ed Inte the mirror each morning appeared she was It YO ln younger er than she sho knew a e I certainly waa waI worth the effort Mrs IT Early started out with tho th Idea that Mr fr Ear Early was a a. young god prod Bh Eh has never tr allowed herself herselt to wake U up p. p I If 1 she wakens from tram that dream I pity her Mix Allx lIx Try not to be so prejudiced flab Dab Alice AUco Gordon came over o from the office office of ot- I fice while hUe we e wc were e discussing the Earlys and said that the whole stiff In tho the mornin morning morn morn- was agog at the ne news s 's in ing info papers Miss II Belcher Insisted that Mr rr Early not on only onh saved s your our life lite Mix Allx but by his calmness an and good s sense prevented a n. I Yes exclaimed flab Bab Indignantly Indignant the tho truth i c that Is about I as as near Ananias Anania could come He almost led the h stampede and Mr fr foun found him after aCtor all was over down In his 1 car ear Whore here was Mrs Ear Early Mrs Benton Benton Benton Ben- Ben ton Sho She was as nearly fainting tainting at our ta table table ta- ta I ble hut but he ho didn't know where sheI she I II was as I look I had never seen Alice Allee Gordon shocked 0 o Dont think too badly of him Alice Allee for the theman theman with sudden pity d a I urged We Ve e In my heart springing up man above braver bravery extol physical always s everything C else els and yet et we ie e cannot be he sure that physical courage Is superior to other forms forma Some day I 1 am going to write a aMot will I hope prove that Mot Mot- which willing willingto not nol sometimes arc re tho the bravest bra to rush Into danger dancer Rut But surel surely In this Mix Allx you ou Know Roland Early Eart showed a n most that I craven spirit spirit- He pushed that little dancer r pleading for help awa away from b causo simply him and e at her simp the flames by frightened he ht was s so enveloped n her You cannot excuse ex eX- which cuse CUM that In him can you ou I 1 sometimes sometime think we No so 0 but Jut should v pity men who have crippled crippled crip crip- who are arms or le legs s pled deformed t but we havo no ened or ot deformity j of ol for tor those thoe who show sho pitY out soul It la Is only lately that lately that is II Is within times times that that an ln avowedly Christian Christian Chris Chris- modern people have censed ceased to torture the theman I Iman Iman tian deformed and man or wo woman n with a crazed craved brainI brain I 1 confess said Bab decidedly I am not able ahle to forgive a that and I 1 despise a cad Mr T T- T craven t 10 have proved himself both o eem kind Of C double c personality lIt a aIt asit as A A said aid Alice AlIco with a smile smUt It wore worP erp ch change n o th tha subject 1 I announced d To t I 1 was w going oln to send In my r no nation Lion that tha TM This r d Alice no so greatly ot for the mom moment nt the arral arraign arraign- n- n forgot she Bhe he for been giving Mr nt t that flab Dab had r. r Early What hat are you ou going o I nJ t to 0 d do dor oT she Rhe asked l 1 1 dont don't know Just yet ct I do kno know I I Im gro growing n very restless I that am m yet lCt pt found the place of calmness calmness calm calm- have net ness and repose for which I seem stem n to seeking all att m my life It been have mr taint des not seem to 0 be bo In this to town n Alice alice I Oh I T Hm m so sorry you are going Bill will ml mis you ou so I thought you ou this elt city But m my stay b 1 T h C rn convinced me that the th city elt we e dream about and antl the elt city In real real- l It ity can cnn be he vcr very ery different I I I. think now no I 1 would like to get a away way where I Ico co could ld be Jae quiet some quiet somo place where I 1 I could sit and arid look out out- o 0 or m my window I upon mountains or the sea sea or through great leat leafy branches of or forest trees trece I Iam I am tired of oC people Th They dont don't measure measure meas incas ure up Dont ho bo In a hurry hurn AlIx Allx MI U u are all unstrung over O the Incidents Incident of ot I j last night You could no more get I along without people to talk to th than n I I could get along without Bill BIJl It Is j All nil vcr very well icell to sa say that tho moun moun- I I tho the trees and the sea till rill your our lIt life but you would find that the they could not Your Tour stories have I shown that t the most moat Interesting thing to you ou In the world 1 Is the studs stud of or character the seeking for tor motives ana ann I the te work working InK out of or human uman I sies In the men and women about you ou Yes I have havo always alwa's believed belle with Pope that the greatest study of mankind mankind man man- kind Is man But Just now I am ameT eT very tired of ot It all I feel as though there really was no truth In all aU the human r race co And besides you OU know little Hal will soon Roon be bl big enough to need a place where ho will be out of ot doors That you oU can enn get at nt home Mix Allx Interrupted flab Dab Dad and mo mother her w will Ill be he delighted to have ha you ou there thera I did not answer her because I hart had determined that I must havo have m my o li horn home wherever it might be Do you ou Intend never to marry marn again naked Alice as ns Ba Da Bah J. 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