Show THE ONE MAN ONE MAN WOMAN 1 r THE BANDITS BANDIT'S DAUGHTER c i 4 BEGIN Ui TOD TOP VC tT WARD widow ot of has has a 11 visitor j who says Dan Was Vas father of her child OTHY I Kato lOtte to Is much perturbed T She is 18 wooed by r LATHAM ATHAM who helps help her to gain possession of a trunk Dan 0 Ounce Determined to see e It If Alice the tho trunk Kato Iato mutes Invitee her and an Dorothy to visit at tile the homo of or Kates Kate's father I JUSTIN S with whom hom tile the latter lives hives The two Come came com but ut Alice seeing the tho trunk ghe elves no Sign Pir rhe m A m w women men fall to talking of SI SI G G LOY In tn whole those laundry Alice Allee i works She peaks speaks ot of o Sing kind kind- nes nest but dl i aJ a thought of i it to her own ad GO P ON 0 T-n T TIn TIlE SlOnY I do that The words I w me In a a matter mattor o of tact fact tone Alice Allee ins 19 merely mOrely statIng staling a D condition She Site M t Jut lu t the tho thing thine as heroic bhe Impose upon the Iho kindness of Sing creditor Loy Lor and aho sho ho e expected no credit for or not doing so I I think I must mu t get pet a of that my mother Alice Allee I had a wonderful mother mother- Tell me about her Kate 1 as sas at the mention of Jt Alices Alice's mother for Alice Alleo somehow w gate o ono one the detached Impression of o f being belm quite quit de- de de the tho remainder of the th world unu or d It It It 11 wf i S I ha il i naru d lo tl w mini mini- 0 ti-i-i- ti or ot v her a i w v a as a part parl of any an family My My mother mother- mother Alice began and nd th thit n 11 stopped to rt how i j remember the last la t time I saw tans her was bom boin on A plantation In beautiful It mast 0 been 11 n beau place because I remember her ller bho shoutIng In me pictures of it when hen a hen r I Iwas Iwas was as IittI little picturE i of herself henelt too and nr she sho was beautiful Her Hel borne Iome Alco Iea went on must have havo been the kind hind of at a place where i gal eirl hums has everything e she site needs and andants ants wanta daughter Mother Mothel was tuna a the tho only daugh daugh- ter tar and of ot course that made hp e eten een en more of or a Iet pot than titan sh she mIght hate ha beNl Othel c ie Ile as v sent north to 13 schooL I And whoa when sh bhe tame lam I bac back lak the she was as t to someone the approved ed of and thought quite good enough for fOl her I Mother ne never neter tr told tod me roe about thit t part I It from front thine hing my father said And I dont don't know JUSt how the iest est happened but anyhow mother her engagement and 1 ran away ay wIth v ith my father and 1 my father tather was just lust an bandit a bandit an out out- out out-lavi mit In Alice was as silent for tor quite a a space I Jg 4 I My 1 father was tAS just jost R a an Outlaw I II I Kate atc too retrained refrained from speaking Finally the tho girl Eirl took up the tir story st-ory aln again The rhe home my father took mother to as as-a as a bride was Va ft 4 cabin way ay back In the 1 Mils hills of ot VirgInia At night tile the th lights In Its windows against the black blaek of ot the hills must have look look- I looked looked ok ed cd like stars su midway be- be be between tween heaven Cn an and 1 earth so o steep was WIlS I tIme the crest it huddled against and so blick thE tir Wage I I I remember it reminIscently hind and e cn c cn lot et I 10 lovo leto 0 it As a nothing girt eirl moro more than a aE mother girl mother went to that cabin and ana she lived Ived the tha rem rem of hot hel dais I wax ties her only child rather wa was Ia a away ovine moving i the thio hills gone cone nights nod gone irone dats dat's dav sometimes p I c And mother mOlher alone alon there e for mo me In a 0 a cabin sOt Ht down don almost In time the neL with Ith no carp carpet t on the floor Joor alto very tory little with no mone money no society not en e ally books bools somehow managed to stay loung oung and beautiful and I think happy until until- until Alices Alice's voice olee softened and finally she ceased s speaking akl g To no Tic Continued right 1923 IsEA JaBA b blee Syer lee ico |