Show r 1 S Annemarie's A s Secret S UV no noI I 1 T J 5 f I I. I I Is ita I n condition very ry I he the physician h hid 1 d It It I. I lit I reliable nur nurse e eIf p. p I I pI necessary r lo n a If m my orders art are rp not nI followed in f every even detail 1 will not nat h be responsible responsible- forS for or I S I A reliable nurse nune I ITh Th The young owner of or the Hen LII inn wn was In despair HI ills 1119 poor you young vite Ills beautiful beloved wife nOW How hn had they Jc not both been ben looking foi ward to th the birth of or their first NIt hi Id EaD Especially he h. She was a of ot a y quite and o calm lm disposition I and not hot given g to show her JO Joy by any visible via vis Is ible signs igns And Ani then h she bad had utI cutI cut ut I r. r red f-red rod so 10 much because of or the enmity I r hJ his mother And still when whan he heh I h id h been n able to tear himself loo ri rr tini O m hl his business IS for a moment ment and I stolen Molen a n few minutes shone alone with AnneI Annemarie Anne Anne- I m marie m-irle rip he hp ha had seen In her eyES eyE'S ve how lion I happy sh she shA was I I Now NIu nW a n. JUlIc baby boy their beir first u I horn had corns come and was resting quiet quiet- I M Min lv Iv in his lila cradle but who I had never IW been boon v very t strong ng wa 8 ly- ly y- y i lag Inc in tier her bed In high fever struggling I death If H she should tile MercIful Merci Merci- i rill fui lod od if tf she Bhe should die dIe dlE I 1 I 5 V reliable nurse nunc She who o. first of n nil all II should hould ha have P bo been n sitting at the I Ink bed did not think of doing doing- so 90 S for one on moment She did cud not nott t even en o offer pr to relieve relle him of some of hl hi s duties that he might spend a lit lit- 1 tic u while hll at bedside of hi his wife he When hen n woman luat hato For Tor more than thirty five years nar the mother had hind worked herself almost to death cleath trying tt to ti-i serape crape together a fortune for Cor hron her hr herson son Ron on Never hO bad hod a l mother molher thought less lessof lessof 9 of herself Elf and never nAver had there been beena a It more morp loving son until he met Ann Anne Anne- marIe and made her ler his hia wife TI Tie had never seen anyone as beautiful beautiful beau beau- liCul as Annemarie She had first come corns S Sinto into the house to lo help waiting on the I guests guest t at the thO Inn on special ne- ne occasions antI and It Ii had hati been a 11 case of or love lo at or first sight with him lie JIp had hoped that the charming and loving Io and anti graceful creature would In time lime overcome the j Jealousy of hl his bis mother who vho hated her front from I the hI first moment she sho saw her as os much muchas a as her hr son lover Jo her bel All efforts tomake to tomake S make her hem forgive e and had hod b been en wasted She hc admitted hA herself that her only thought was to get revenge over o her who had 1101 deprived her of or the thc S nr first t place In ITt her sons son's heart Not even in the heavy henvy hours of ot the b childbirth hat had she felt the least leant pity Not ot once hint had sh she entered the room roam in which stood the bed of her sons son's dying dying dy dy- ing wife WItt Not once one had hud she expressed any desire to see AN her grandson When hen women hate Jh The loot door opened anti and th the old wo woman woman wo- wo 0 man sneaked into tho the room Where are art you Bert You do not seera to care carp whether bm business gO goes B Boft off oft to the thA dogs logs or not The wagon has Just jUt come back tack from the market lIe He did not answer He lie only lifted up uv his head hend and looked at h her r with an L expression of the utmost despair In hl his eyes eye red reel from weeping There was something In his eyes which touched the heart of his mother and S with trembling voice she forced herself herself her her- S self to ask How Is she h now no now The Tho tall shouldered broad strongman strong strongman strongman S man stood tood slowly low ly up from the lie halt chair S 1001 looked at athis his mother with an expression expression sion lion o of contempt and hatred In his stern blue eyes Ores Tie He stretched out nt IiI his arm and to thi tho l Q What you havo n nJ n I Is low lo o I nt ts II v past paL her 1 inid lM tB v stood a as if pare parD paralyzed Her Het face uva was deadly pale and awl her heH eyes stared Into space When Bert ert w was WAB about to leave heave tho the room loom a feeling reeling of oC took look hold of her She hp 1 rushed to his side h hero are arC you gol goIng nHe n- n Ho lie pu pushed hd her away You Yon need not be afraid that I J am going to do tie nn anything rash ash he said not as lon long as theres there's the least bit of breath I am only going to go o like Ulee a beggar from rom house t toi house to 0 find a n woman who has hilA husband and child I herself nn and who is willing to nurse I The mother shrank back bacle as ns If It struck h by 13 a n. whip I r will do o It it she sho whispered lie Hc looked fd at her hr and smiled con- con I will do 10 it for tor your our sake salcE my own boy boy boy- it But nut 11 he did lId not listen and antI left leet th the room without another word At this moment tho the old woman re realized re- re what sho ho had done Jon n Realized that sho had made matt ht her r own son hate h hot her as ns she had hati hated haled hI his wife and a strong resolution to tn try and w win win 11 back hI his love lovo came cam to her Sho She went over o to the th bed bod mind look look- wife 1 at t th h young je t at with fever tr ann who kept ills but bLit l InK ug at first plain a aft fter r II a while ot or her were ri 11 words they I I sin or of her and on only wet scot was IOd she When he hart and antl hOr n eyes eg with her sat t ther fell feU anti alit she old woman womanlike th the her fate and s rn like a n stone lone image vable In Inthe Inthe A terrible struggle tr 1 glo was urea going on n l the fl soul Joul of ot the mother Jt re refus was fus Ju JUS jUS- jUS j now Until or of her hatred 1 could not reproach ch she ID but butof t could not accuse her Iter of ot anything anything her life UCo's lifes s Inmost hi In- In An And now nO of oC being poor hand hanel I If she sno most secret wo In tn h her r to her son SOIl anti and sa say to should now go him t 1 havo have h heart heard ard It from h her f own onn n Ups lIps that that- her child h Is not jour our oJ J from tho the street you vou have hn taken her r In wife wHo In n have made inde her the wealthiest have ha allow ed her to 10 lie whole count country country- mother out of or your lour O Jr your own S I It was a terrible temptation nn on unlooked un- un to to triumph look looked d for opp opportunity I over ever this woman who had hiatt crowed rOHl herath her path ath and stolen Dort h heart Life is in worth nothing to me ino without without without with with- I out her he had stUd She Sho herself everything everything every every- t- t had seen how ho A was thing to him lion how th lovo lov of or her tho thic great passionate love lo was the only feeling in the soul and ho he knots knew what a love Jove like thai that means m to a a. hm human hilman h heart lart It was ru Tier r own bio d which hiti harl I spoken from his hp lips and life Is of or orno no value to mo me without her In the tho same sn-me way life was nA worth nothing to the thA mother without the love lovo of or her herson herson son Her henri would break If It sh sho could uld not nol win cin back what she sho had lost The old oman woman stood up CuRl ond there ro was a changed expression In her tier taco faco ace and ond a ft smile around 1 her thin lips Sho She had conquered h herself and she sho felt happy and contented already She Sho 1111 the bends of perspiration n from the forehead of nf the patient nt and lifted up th the beautiful palo hood head anti and arranged arranged ar ar- ar- ar ranged the pillows under lOl It Ii Then Jhen she folded 01 her hands bands an and 1 her lips whispered whispered whis whis- pored a secret promise Your secret I t Is l m my n-my secret 1 I will wm help you to bring U up yom child tI ns as If it It were el my own and d I will do this to make him happy whom horn I have l loved since ho he paw saw tho the thoI light of ot d day I will help you to learn I to 0 10 love him as nCI nhe ho hn loves you ou 1 |