Show I Alicia Alicia Hammersly IIA II Woman an ioV Wouldn't L By By Idah ldah McGlone Gibson II i Alicia Hammersly neo neo Alicia Atwell Al and commonly called Allx Is Mix Is the ao- ao story of her hor girlhood She Sho Is engaged en cn- a ed to Hallet Hammersly They rhoY are arc married Tho The months montha roll b by and Hal fal is 18 devoted and re regretful by 11 turns A child chim chimIs Is coming to Alicia and Hal lint and sho shu goes homo home to be with her mother News comeS cornea that Hal lIal has been Killed In a railroad wreck Alicia determines to win her own way In the tho world Sho tries short story writing and ami Is b delighted to o ha her firsti first i attempt accepted by a n bio big New ew York maga magn- zine The Tho editor Roland Ear Early Carly believing d she ahe e has Great erent possibilities offers her a n nl l position She Site accepts and goes coes to NewYork New r NewYork York where Roland Early J I I. I Is er very atten- atten I tive to her At A t roof garden theatre a aI litho I dancer a caught fire tire A panic i ensued Roland 11 Early fled led to safety Judg Turner an admirer of or Alicia rescued tho the thoI Girl Irl but at nt fearful cost being burned and almost blinded Alicia's slater sister Bab and I her husband husban Dunne Duane Benton and a Mr Ir Henderson are aro with Alicia Ju Judie o Turner I I was rushed rushe to a hospital Tho The newspapers no print a n big account of or the fire tire Judge I Turners Turner's Injuries proved pro severer severe Returning homo homer cia Alicia took up a story sho she wa way I writing hoping to Ret Jet her mind off oft tho the I tragedy of Jud Judge o Turners Turner's life Sho knew now that oho sho loved lo him Unconsciously 1 sho had made malle him tho the central figure of her herI new v story Under her door she sho found a a. aletter I letter which she took to be bo from tho the Judge I To her surprise It was H a proposal from Allen Henderson Tho The letter was glowing t I with lovo love for or Alicia cIa and ami sho she knew V th the sterling worth o of Allen en Henderson but eh she he shedid did not lovo o him Alicia writes Allen Henderson Hen llen- derson declining his proposal She Sho then Roes goca for tor a walk and Inadvertently hears hear Bab and Duane Duano quarreling quarrel Things or I Inot not going smoothly with them Babs Bab's pre- pre I marriage Ideas o of allowing her husband free freo rein had gone When hen henho ho felt out of harmony with married ties Bab Dab tried to wind thorn them nil alt tho the tighter tighter- and produced a a. rebellion Duane Duano went vent away and stayed all night Bab came sobbing Bobbin to Alicia AI BABS BAB'S TROUBLES l Oh Alix AUx I am so unhappy ir j i I r Bah Bab dear I know Imo I Then Duane was ms right you ou knew nit all the time she sha confessed raising I her head d from Crom m my and looking at me with tear-swollen tear eyes I INo I e No Xo No dear I never suspected were unhappy until last night Why h I W was wasso wasso so sure aure of oC you two that whenever I thought of or marrying again I said There can cnn bo be happy marriages Look at Bab and Duane Last st night after r writing m my letter I took It down for Duane Duano to mall and andI I followed toe the sound of ot your our voices to toward toward toward to- to ward the tho sea seawall I did not mean to listen dear but the things you both said were so 50 surprising that I 1 did not for a time realize what I was doing I will never never- forgive him Never ever He lie told me deliberately he W was bored with me mc Yes but he al alo o said that he was wa bored with himself Oh I know he said that but hut he did It only after he had seen how he ha had hurt me I 1 do not think so You iou know business has not gone along at all easily I and I dont don't think that you OU and I 1 havo have ever over let him forget Men cn are arc only children children children chil chil- dren grown own tall m my dear If It the they grow ow tired with work worle or play their thoughts must be taken awa away to somo some other th thing ng that Interests them or else olse they will kick tho the whole play Nay house over and march awn away b by themselves In sulky silence to I II pastures new I knew the simile was somewhat mixed but Bab Dab did not notice It tt and the Idea Ide seemed to strike e h her l' l as sound But dont don't you ou see Hee AUx Allx si s1 e a remonstrated re- re that Duane Is It drinking al altogether altogether altogether al- al together too much for Cor his own good Ins Ills bUt business will never go on straight and right as long as he takes a muddled brain to It over every morning I wish there I Iwas was wu no such thing as a drop rop of oC liquor In tho the world i havo said cald that Many many women WolDen I before you OU and many man many women will sty It after aCter you OU Bab The They tell us I dear that In a few Cew years cars we vo will have prohibition In this countr country Oh I don dont don't t believe the they ever will but what a n. Won wonderful erful thing It would be be AlIx Allx If It Duano had too much liquor he ho would never havo have spoken to me as he ho hoI did last night But ho he would havo thought It It my I dear girl ho he would have thought It But where Is ho he now Dont Don't you understand AlIx Allx that while wo are arc talk- talk i ling Ing here ho mn may be lying lying- In some lonely j I place all mangled and maimed out oCI of oC I rec recognition under his leis car Stop Bab You Get a hold upon yourself I r cant can't I cant can't Duane Duano told toM mo to take It standing but I cant can't any mor more Alix Mix I cant can't any more And suiting the action to the word v she dropped heavily II on tho the divan at her side and burled her face taco In her arms Neither of or us had heard the tho door bell Hannah came In and handed me a n. tele tole gram B Bab rose roso up convulsively convulsively uV What ti hat Is It AlIx Allx what is It lt Is la h ho he dead I 1 have havo not read it yet ct Let me me and she sho almost tore toro the tele tele- telegram I gram cram from Crom m mv my hands You must be quiet dear I I took tho the telegram aud and turned to th thI the window It was signed b by Allen Hendel Hendelson I son I All that It said was Duane In a litI littie lit lit- I tie tic trouble Do not let your our sister worry j i He notified mo neo this morning and I 1 will I take care of oC him Without comment I read It to B Bab b. b But Dut It doesn't say nn anything It Is worse than no news at all No It isn't dear Wo We know that Duano Duane Is alive I I I 1 Woud would rather hear that he was dead deRl I than know somo some other things thinS's about him Now you OU are aro not on only I cruel b but t I craz crazy Of or course you know Bab that Duane could not do anything so er very terrible I ul dont don't know lenow anything about It bUt bm bUtI I am going to find ou out t. t She Sho picked up the phone 1 but ul be before foro she could take the tho receiver off oft the tho hook to call her number the bell rangIt rangIt rang rans It is for tor you OU Alicia she sho said handIn handIng hand- hand In Ing- Ing me the tho phone I Is this Mrs lolls Hammersly Hamm Yes I This Is Allen Handerson speaking ng There was a slight hesitation at al the tho theother I other end of ot tho the wire but with Bab close beside me the I could not ask asle the tho question question ques ques- I tion that tion-that that was on my nn lips 1115 Your lour law brother after drinking a n little too much last evening has gotten 1 Into a n. foolish escapade I do not think It can ho bo kept out of oC the papers as heI he ho I was as recognized Do you rou think that you Ob ObI could take your sister out of town lown for Cor a afew afew afew I few days lays or at nt Ic least st keen tho Iho newspapers away from rom her I expect tho matter will wll be Le over by bv then I r am afraid that that will be Impossible I Mr Henderson because Bab Bah is s alrea already preparing to go o to tho the city I Let me mo take the phone I want to toI I talk to him hia Before BeCore Bab nab could get to the phone 1 I I hung up Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow-flab's Bab's Babs Plans Copyright National Newspaper e Service |