Show THE ONE-MAN ONE WOMAN r I ALICES ALICE'S STORY BEGIN Y TODY LATE KATE WARD widow ot of oDAN DAN YARD WARD has bas a v t CHINATOWN ALICE ALICD who ho sas says Dannas Dan nas as father ot of o her child Kato is 13 much perturbed Wooed by JAMBS LATHAM of ot whom she sho Is fond 3 let et filled with thoughts or of orDan Dan sh she docs does not know t h to tosa sa say Determined to learn more concerning her dea dead husbands husband's pat past she 10 Invited ted Alice to visit her hor The latter hatter tells something or of o her on life lite Her father was as a II bandit n I 1 1 her er mother It b a woman oman of ot fine tine ho aho eloped an and married him GO OV ON ini TILE TUt With With all nil ot of tho the hardship and de- de denial de denial nial Alice HiS waa speaking again Mother Iother I attractive really 10 eli eJ until ono one ni night ht Father stag stab staggered staggered Into the tho house bouse and ind dropped dead at her dead feet feet dead with Mth too many manywounds manywounds manywounds wounds on his body to count Ho UG IIo had ben been feared through all allot ot of that section Alice continued 1 and finally the men then nho iho feared him him got him I Mother lother became an old women woman during that last moment of o rathers rather's life lite She must have hate lo ed him nl he lie must ha hae ha e 13 loed 10 her bet In spite it f his 1115 roughness an and neglect suffering intense agon agony ho he raced with death t td reach her and die near neal her I I like that memory there was a a of ot pride In her olce olce oice Id Id I'd I rather haie hae that memory of ot hum him than to think 0 ot oZ him hint as a successful busi busi- business business ness man content to lo the lI and dlo dio away from his lila home I must ha e been about ten tea then Mother sta staged cd on In the tho little cabin Nothing could base h dragged hc hel out ot of It St How she e er c cr got food tood uni clothing an-clothing I cloth clothing In for the tho t tito 0 of or us I r don t tI I know now But sho she did It and not did she he complain ot of the struggle gle She bho h I might haie hae gon back to her lath home But she sho didn t They refused to recognize her when ehen hen she sho married 1 After that she ne neer neel no el er expected an- an any any- anything an thing thins from them though I never heard hoi bet speak bitterly ot or her cIa i-cIa- ties ti tl es She died about fIo fl e years ago the words were barely audible She Sho foun found dead lead In tho the cabin by a 0 huntIng hunt hunt- ing lag partI party part I hadn't seen her tor for t tears tan bears ears cars I 1 I as she sho had been before nw was has and hal started my own wi careN leaving lea all ot or my family ties nes lie behind as so many mountain girls girl do The The thing I most about Mother In her later sears ears Is stan stani 1 1 it- it pr 7 I Kate hale saw a aV V In lii the moo moonlight ht the glisten ot of tears Ing lag slim figured slim faced In tn fro front frontU It U ne rie picture of ot her outlaw husband and worshiping it I dont don't she sho had a a I now nc silk dress In all of th thu time tima sho was V married to him I know lo made le no provision Islon for tor her hH aft after his death he death he left her ber only the ha ba little cabin we 11 hied ed In and a few V tc sticks for furnIture and furniture and site she always said hod holl been Leen gool goo I 1 to her I r didn't go back tor for the funeral Alice added because I didn t t kno Ino v y the he was as lea dead 1 until they the d put h hi r body away Il In the tho lIllge hii r I 1 wonder sal said Kate the silence at length it It If It Isn Ian t il- il t wais aas a s true that like juIce jour 5 our mothe women omen bee lo e most the men who damand da- da damand mand the greatest sacrifices and who abc ho hogh gh she ghe e them the least It It does seem said Alice Allee that that o 10 loo 0 Is a n thing begotten and e de deve- deve deve I by sacrifice The Tho girls girl's was isas s unsteady ant I hen ahen Kate hate turned to her she sa sain sav In the moonlight the glisten of oC tearl tear But you haven haten t told toM me yU y l ho t you V-you you happen to be working In a C Ch h nese It was nas half hair a qUI s Inese tion To Be De Continued Copyright 1923 IDA EA IA Sel |