Show HER ROWN OWN AY AY I cA GIRL iy G TIlE TIIE CRESCENT MOON Joan however had apparently I gotten gOllen rid of most of her troubles and she aho exclaimed that she ho was I Ivery very ery hungry as the tha Chicken with Its it potatoes po mound of ot fluffy mashed 1 po- po and dishes filled tilled with peas were ere brought In Jerry In the fitful candlelight as he answered politely that he h was WIlS very glad seemed d cold and stern I who had looked forward to thIs evening ening meal nith ith pleasure could not cat I realized that the world In which I I had been living the tho last few tew months was IlS not a real world peopled by normal men Inen and women but a 1 queer little le corner of that world which vas nas al filled with the tho kind of ot people which one sometimes reads about In books The thought came camo to me that maybe fate had allowed me to mingle with this kind of ot people to show me how foolish and futile were ere their lives There must be some other kinds of oC people I said aahl to my- my myself myself my myself self and Immediately I knew koew that there were other people kinds kinds like Manila 1 who could not only resist temptation In the tho person of the man she loved devotedly but resist something much harder the pleading ot of her own heart I 1 raised my head Over Ov r Jerrys Jerry's this time I saw that cres cres- crescent crescent cent m moose moon on Ith ith its lone star al- al almost al almost most clinging to its Ita lonest et point and I knew that the real world the world In which most people live was IlS now about me inc and that It was full of ot such human beings IlS as the motherly woman who with witha a starched apron tied around her ample waist was waiting on us usHer Her faded eyes were full of oC kind kind- kindly kindly kindly ly curiosity She did not seem to he 10 ablo able to quite make out whether It was Joan or I In whom the handsome young man was WIlS Inter Inter- Interested interested Interested ested Joan JOlln was eating her dinner con contentedly con con- contentedly contentedly She was so BO Interested In herself hersel and her own affairs that the she got no Inkling of ot how things stood between Jerry and an- me In her care for Lela 11 she ahe seemed to have havo merged all that love she sho had had tor for Barry Sho She had bad for tor- forgotten gotten tor-gotten gotten that Lola Leia had tried to hurther hurther hurt her and she told minutely of oC Lolas Lola's las la's condition and how bow she wasso was so 50 comfortably fixed at the boa hos- hospital pital Sho She rejoiced that within a afew a tow few days her property would be bo turned to her and she sho would be beable beable able to make Lola Lela and her baby babi comfortable for tor life I I 1 think she sho said tild that we w had better tell Mr Hathaway all about my affair with Barry Darry Ito HI can advise us what I had better do about the twenty thousand dol- dol dollars dollars lars I feel teel sure that In some way Jem Smith is mixed U up in III but It It bul we ve must have bave no scandal until after my es estate te Is ia turned over to tome tome me For the first time Jerry seemed Interested Has lIas Mr Robinson said any any- anything thing to you about when he waS wa going to do this Miss Meredith redith he ho asked No she answered But sure sure- surely ly Iy he must remember the date Copyright 1926 By NEA NE Service TOMORROW Joans Joan's Brother |