Show Womans Woman's One Way l 0 By JACK WOODFORD FORD nod thought that Alaric I would nr marry Gifted with a e father whore who name on nn II a check heck made mad It cashable an any anywhere her UI upon III Manhattan and a sunny disposition and shyer good god loots looks It II seemed that his hili life s should hould be roll full enough without mar mar- Nut Not f so po The set el was l amazed to hear that he be had hlll married a little horn bom bora he lie had iad met while on fin a I trip out nut West Nobody could ha have e e been ben more scorn tot than mother mothr and hither father when he be brought hr I the he lilt little Ie nobody home It seemed e eten en that did not think much of herTo her To blunt Inquiries as af to why he be had married her he simply replied A woman for fol luck hIck I out of of which nobody of ot course make mAkl anything any thing thing feast least of ot all 1 all perhaps himself However the woman who Will was luck didn't SPIT seen to worry Vorry overmuch o o about the wa way slit was snubbed In e parents parent's home neither did she seem to care much about the fact that Hint she was snubbed upon the tle rare ou- ou outi occasion occasion- ti ion when she went enl out emt with Several Se went Old fortunes fortunes for for- years along tunes grew larger new ne ones out outgrew rew the old ones and n than came n a stock market collapse e. e A few wh who i had been heen too greedy crushed crashed Among them were the fortunes of the old family of lit which Alaric was wn the only son Alaric's own fortune collapsed d wit with h it It They were wre In a Met had plight that thai da day they gathered for n a family conference wife wire store alone rat pat serene e eyed bright ld the same d rP 1 look lick of ot devotion de for her hr husband In tier her Ir eyes pye But Hut the anxious waiting wulling look luok was gone In Its stead Wit was something hl very like but not quite Quit e.- e. If It you had been hes a II little more c tore care ful Cui said Marie Alaric turning bitt bitterly erty upon his wife I 1 might have hu u e hid had 11 II little left lett but Its It's been I ear give me a check for this anon and for for they that they must have havo totaled alto nUn getter gether I lf yeti oll tor for l liu-kt liu but Im I'm darned If It I Ive I've had hail any Youre wrong there Alaric's t wife Interposed firmly her chin thrown up You may think that you rou mottled nv m mt for or some superficial rP reason son Just because be tie- rouse cause I 1 ns s pretty or just jest to be hI dais doing g something different ent but butas as a a matter r of fact you didn't A AV V woman woman knows know love ove when she sees It no no nn mutter matter how deeply deply it may moy be burled Yuu Tun married me because you rou loved m me She said sold It t with an air of finality that was con ron Well youve you've been darned astray extravagant agent the fattier fatter chimed In Alarie suddenly bristled at Rt his hIli fa fa- titers titer's words OIl Ills wife watched him m with a a quiet smile Dont you yon talk to her hr like that Al said to hl hh his tarter father Im m going R to work to take care of her Whatever's What What- evers ever's happened she's my wife wife don don't dont t forget that You wont won't have to go to work for r anyone anyone else pise his wife mild n m 1 ly at this Juncture Ive spent almost t nothing during th the years weve we've b been en a married Ive I've saved everything thing you youve you've VI VIter ever t ghen given me and put pur It out at 01 inter Inter- est st I could see by the way thIn things thing s were wre going that you ou people were going coin to need It some day Alaric his bis father and even his bis mother looked astounded at h bar har r words But nut understand this Alaric's wife went on 00 steadily I refuse to give you the money In in- order to let you OU run another literal cafe coC for tor all 1111 of the social climbers in New York and I refuse to hive give It to you OU to Indulge In lo stock speculation I still ha have VI I the he ranch m my father left me You u were all so Interested In n n your own affairs affairs- that you OU never stopped to Inquire about It but It Its Ita worth about a quarter million now The Income from It Is enough to support us Ill I'll take core care of the family fern fam ily lIy from now on on on one condition That you rou all RII come comp out of ot Arizona and breathe some of Gods Cuds fresh air for a ayar year yar or so Marie Alaric Im I'm going to Insist that you OU take a position as os a cowboy on the ranch MInch until you learn how to torun torun torun run a ranch After that perhaps well we'll have hate time to again but again but for forthe forthe the present were we're going to lend lead very different lives from what we have been beeD leading She rose and left letl the room live enough to know that they wanted to hide their faces for awhile Ites- Ites Alaric came out Into the hal hail after her What can I say VI dear dear deor- he be began be be- gan Kan Nothing Ive I've Ive I've seen It down deep In your eyes eYed oil all this time Well We'll begin nil all over again again differently much dlf and they did right there and then theil with a kiss |