Show KA KATHLEEN NORRIS pretend fickle lover Is dead ROY la Is 34 her younger L LINETTE years were spent in tho the care of invalid parents and in holding a responsible post office job which she still has two years ago she met one robert francis a lin medical edical student two years younger than herself robert also had had family responsibilities and was only as faras far as his first year in medicine he has now been obliged to i interrupt his studies and is driving for a doctor in a city some miles away hoping howingto ito to save enough ito Ao get started in another year robert gave linette her first thrilling love affair to her hardworking conscientious lonely it was a miracle of delight to have a fine mans companionship to talk over their respective trials and responsibilities hollsten toll to listen sten to his first words of admiration and to feel her own heart respond w well e U perhaps only a woman placed as linette was knows aws what that means they were never formally engaged ed but they became lovers robert using the old arguments of appealing to her trust her belief in his promises linette was not a girl in years thi then en but she was com completely pl ebely inexperienced her father was dead her invalided invalid ed old mother was far past the point of advising on tho the contrary she I 1 V kiil liil ll lAj 1111 1 I 1 1 ll 11 I 1 41 j 01 1 I 1 ij ji 1 11 it her aw first sh rOling tov love faw had returned to childishness and linette had to make her own decisions carried off her feet by the passion and ecstasy that had come too late to ar W she gave way to the emotions that are too strong tor for almo almost stany any woman so ignorant and so isolated miserably unsatisfactory like any other self respecting woman she found this arrangement 0 nt miserably unsatisfactory and when robert went off to take his job in another city they decided upon an understanding that would lead within the year to marriage no matter what their financial or domestic situations might b be c A part of 0 letter follows this was the way things were at new years bob went aw away ay and we wa wrote to each other dally daily at first then his letters fell off as I 1 expected they might ight ati easter he was at home three days and I 1 saw him there three timis times but I 1 felt talat things had changed there w was a s no love talk and no talk of marriage but he was work N ing terribly hard and looked and acted tired that was oil all until this week when I 1 discovered that he has been home was here for two nights about 10 days ago without a word or telephone message to role me mrs Norf ls alnettea letter goes on 1 I was stunned I 1 have been unable to eat or sleep since loving and trusting him as I 1 do I 1 know that something has happened he be Is angry with me or someone borneo ne has told him som something ethling that has changed him I 1 telephoned him at once nonce but it was most unsatisfactory he pleaded that his mother and sisters had absorbed his time that he had tried to call me and so on he said to wait for his letter there has been no letter land and inasmuch as I 1 cannot live I 1 feel I 1 actually will die it 11 things are left this way I 1 am appealing to you yoli of one thing I 1 am sure robert Roberi loves me it if edid idid I 1 did not know that I 1 would try to put the whole thing behind me but robert loves me ane how con can I 1 win him vack back love Is gone linette Li netto I 1 say to in reply teorie the one thing of which I 1 am sure and of which you are yourself suro sure deep i in your heart haar t Is that robert love oyo you any man who loves a woman wont be in the same town to wal with her for three hours much less iless three days with out telephoning rushing to see her dating her for every possible ln in stant your love affair is over accept this terribly hard bard dictum and start fresh tomorrow act as it robert were dead many a brave woman has had bad to io rise to that situation in the past few years plunge into three or four different activities make yourself do it every fibre fabre of soul anil and body will revolt at first but the only cure care study a language that is always my first suggestion then get a puppy to spoil and be spoiled by my own predilection is tor for a cocker they are happy in an apartment and very loving |