Show o wm l j THE PAST NEED NOT FOREBODE FORE FORE- BODE THE FUTURE It is perfectly astonishing little lit Ill tie tle book to see the wa way Mollie has recovered from Crom her broken brokenleg brokenleg brokenleg leg and other ills She Sho Is now walking with a cane and every everyday everyday day dar goes out on the board walk alk walkin alkIn In a wheel chair Do you know Margie largle she said this morning rooming I miss Malcolm Mal colm Stuart greatly He lie came every lay day and walked beside my chair and talked to o me It ItIs Is a wonder to me ho has never mar mar- ried nod I could not tell her little hook book of or that three days days' marriage for tor it was his secret I I dont don't think he lie likes women ver very well I said And at that he seems to like women better than he does men she answered With the tion of or Dr I have ha never known him to care very much for any man Ho lie seems to like Chad when h he Is with him but I know he likes me better hetter How does he like Dick He lie has never seen Dick What Through gh some queer dence of or fate rate Dick and Malcolm Stuart have never met meL Malcohn Malcolm Mal Mal- colm cohn spoke of or It the tho other oilier day and wanted to make a 11 special occasion occasion oc oc- oc casion caslon for meeting Dick Why hy Vh didn't ho lie Well Voll you see lee I began rather lamely he lie wanted us to go o on onI ona ona a short cruise with him and I I knew Dick would not lo do that t. as ashe ashe aslie he lie hates the water BO so Besides I l Im I'm not sure that lint I want wantI I Dick and Malcolm to meet You know kilo very ery well Malcolm i with I his poetry and almost feminine Instinct for analysis is the sort of or man Dick Jick would loath Malcolm Malcolm Mal Mal- colm Stuart has hag been heen such a a. good friend of or mine it would hurt me to hear Dick make maleo Ing remarks about him Ho He probably will not be here much longer anWa anyway as ho seems very restless and Is talking talk talk- tog ing of or making another lon long trip Well VeIl said Mollie 1 with fInal fInal- Ity Hy I like Malcolm Stuart whatever whatever what what- ever over anyone may mar say about him But Mollie I d did II not know anyone had ever said anything about him They sa say my dear lie he has never put Ills hh money to any but hut buthis his own selfish use that he ho hasan hasan has lias an Idea lie ho can hu buy anything ho lie wants in ill this world Including a aman's amans amans aman's amans aman's mans man's honesty and ami a womans woman's s honor Well he lie almost says sars that about himself I said Only the tho theother theother other day ho he told me that until he lie h had liaa known v 1 ElI nc and nd Mary and you and me ho lie had never nevor known there were such women in the world He said he had always regarded a woman as something a 3 man owned and aud mado made his hits j plaything or his slave sla We Ve he said taught him differently differ differ- call It must be a terrible thing Margie when one cannot speak of or ones one's mother without a a. feeling feel reel ing ig of shame hame said ld Mollie Lots of or us I know at times Umes think our mothers lack sense but to know that ones one's mother had really done wrong would embitter ones one's life lito forever And did this happen to Malcolm Mal Ma colm Stuart 1 Yes His mother left loft him and his father tather under the most distressing distressing distressing dis dis- circumstances when Malcolm was about 6 G years old ald Poor Malcolm I thou thought though ht after the experiences ho lie has ha had with his mother and the woman ho married one cannot blame him for tor being rather skeptical on the merits and morals of the whole sex But lately my dear Mollie I said no one can Imply he be has bas not Hot made up for tor his lack of at interest interest interest in in- terest In humanity That wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- childrens children's hospital and tho the hospital ship he had fitted upon upon his old yacht are something few tew men do And ho has given them outright an endowment that will make mako them independent for all time He lie must be ben a good man Mar Mar- gie gb Mollie dear every man is good and every woman is good We make mistakes only through misunderstanding Because the tho women that Malcolm Stuart loved and revered re failed him ho immediately said All women will taU fall me If It 1 g give them tho the chance So lie ho bought women for tor hl his pleasure and probably cast them aside when whon ho he tired of ot them He Is not good because ho he docs does not understand As you ou sa say we wo tb do ria not know what we wo would do If it our lives hives were cast castIn castIn castIn In different places You are very fond o of Malcolm Mat Mal colm Margie Yes Mollie i I said He to appeals appeals ap ap- peals to my mental and spiritual sides more than any man I have over mot And And she questioned That Is all I answered hon hone estly To bo ho continued |