Show I i iTHE I 4 THE ONE MAN ONE MAN WOMAN f Ir r 1 KA KATES KATE'S QUEST I K Ji JiT l T TES TE'S S 'S liv Hv Ruth goes limit TOD Y KATE ATC WARD ARD widow v ot of STIV DAN DAI WARD using with her lather father S P has It a a fOWN ALICE AICE who I says aa a Dan was the Iho rather ather of ot her child Kate Cate is much perturbed A few e later Katt Kat and her father find lind the tha unconscious 0 of an au auto o crash near their home and larry carry him in cling Jt hughes IU gl es his name as JAMES LATI 11 asI and 0 woos os KAte I ho aho fond or 01 him set iet et rs Dan and does not know what hat 0 t tSal sa Sal Then a letter l e an lies from Alice Allee begging Kate s q aid Accompanied I by Latham KAte Kata hurries to the girls girl's homo borne but finds her at- at absent ab absent sent At this point a strange ito O itoman wo woman man who ho has heard her Inquiries approaches GO 0 ON OX Till TORY 5 ORY What did ou want ant of Alice Alloe asked tho the woman Her tone was isaa loss 10 There was a trace of ot suspicion In It Kato Kate Immediately cataloged her as aa a 3 friend of o the girl q I want ant to see her bel she he replied 0 o hers the tho woman oman per per- per persisted sl te Yes a Yes a friend of licis Kate re-I re re- re re repeated Then rhen Do you know where she Is I ant nant her tory lery much And that I cant can't tell iou ou sad the woman Im tl the tle e only she's got here hero e except the folks folls at tho the laundry but sho she don Leven l t even tell me where she goes these days And Ana e wele tsee been friends tor for a good m many ny years the woman oman went sent ent on I onI kne knew kness Alice when she first started out for tor herself How long ago was nag that Kato Kate Katoa a she had bad often wondered about Alices Alice's earlier life Iv About 10 iO lears ago reminiscent reminiscent- 1 lv Sho She Sho couldn't a been moren moron 1 it then Pretty a little II as e er e er I seen And ga gas gai Mi 1 bo be sou think she t have hase the beaux She might a been a Do fine lady now It If she hadn t fallen for tOr the tha wrong arong rong man And say she lowered lo her olce Ise got a Idea that hero she is now She fell tell dead for tor CorI I this man couldn't see sea no other and him just a plain tramp using living 11 Ing any anyway nay ay he could I bachelor Alice Alire and meHre me were acre keepIng bathe bache lor br room rooms when hen she met this tello I dont don't know now how she sho happened LJ t hit it off oft with me I was as on thi stage yu know dancing and tell felt I Ino no neter er got over it enough to go ball bal again as-aln I wasn't doing much of any any- any thing anything whet when Alice lIce came along and she doing much either so we e te put our cups and saucers together an and I decided the bacon d go farther If it I L- L l jW r I I II IS S 0 I I r wn t I I I E NEMR NE EIt SW S M M 1 R L Gg LICE E was all fried In one pin Many a time that girls girl's i bet hel last dime with me mc cause causo a e always al could g gt t along better than I could being Net Net- pet tier plot tier tieI and about 10 leans veara ear younger lounger Then thil guy came along ant an tAlice Alice Alico left me inc But sho she never forgot alt me me alwais s came caine back bad brInging 11 nu things The woman oman delonce C once In a while shed she'd come back an as I stay with m me a week or IT te 0 o shea go away assay again But nut for tor the past three cars sn s abeen been living living- rig rig-at 11 here ere and me too Once in a while like no now she gO gocs alsa a saving sa nothing of wh where re she going and doesn't come bade back for tor I v aday da day or two And when silien h n she sIte docs does come oman Oman s s 's voice olce became thoughtful she al ala alsia always a s looks as aa It If she's be 1 cr cring Ing a lot Sho She was sas ab a a lase II e to that thaL man man-I man think she's still keeping In ith him no account as lie he is 1 asked She Sha ho married him then Katt Kata Married him repeated the we- we weman wo woman I wI man La Law Lan child I don I t know I never sw sait their marriage lIcen- lIcen but she's the tho best little I et e en cr had To nc no C Continued Copyright 1923 IJA Service en |