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Show fcOVE and MAILED IIFEl bq, the noted author jl j Idah MGlone Gibson 1 LISTENING TO THE TEMPTER. .-- i deceived nobody but in MS when I Mid I had lost Lh mteCk for Charlie said hastily too "".ff check will (urn up some time. rn.Tl then I n let you have what- rSnh'no" I answered quickly, quite .ihlesa "1 WW JUR' wlirnIi ' hand" to pond rm- some by wire." When I stopped, for I realized thai ,A!!d osi told them thai I had lied J T the check I'oor iiitl- inr.-ufM! ' i "mL aid, anxiously 1 .vo I wouldut do that, Kaihle. you 1 aJx want your husband lo think that I so careless as to lose h.. I Mr Haks came to ray .cscuo 'Partly It would not be strange if v.iVerine losl a .book during this Sd'tlme My dear Mrs. Burke, yoti LTve out a thousand dollars in the S!nk and I'll be slad to take your! k a executor for otir hupband. rn draw enough 10 pay your bills ' -Then Kathle. you need not telegraph tele-graph vour huan.l. I..-. ..... 1 . -n Shave some money," .raid my moth JJ almost happy again. : I will wire him. 1 answered de. : BiVrlte it out. Kate, and i II send it ; J fpr you." said ( harlie. . I Was it my imagination, or was there 1 I . Httlc en'eer at the corner of his, J noutir I knew that he knew hal 1 1 h,d lied And he km- ', thai I I new 1 ih.t he knew I had lied. Bui like con-j I ntonal human b ings wc still ent I on plavlng the game, and my anger at John made me stick to my first falsi 1 bood and vehemently lie all he more I l0 make my first lie "good." oh John will be so norrj I said, j .lhat he had to rash ofi in 6U ii a bur I thai be couldn't cash the chck tor : L while he was here. Bui 1 guess it's I just B3 well for you see l might have 1 05t the morjp instead I didn't know that 1 was so careless You can t Lin-I Lin-I ;rlne how many i hints I have los". s'nee niv marriagi 1 ' Charlie 'id 'li m . as !i- I ,rnfiH inward the window and c?re-' Irtslv lighted a clgaret. This llin I did not mistake the sneer at the corner cor-ner of Charlie's mouth and I knew il ira? not for me He realized .is L is I. the many many things that I had j Ion since my marriage. Oh. it isn't necessary to send the' I telefrram." said mothei hastily, lor she, I feenied to sense a strained moment, 1 V "ill just write a check for live hun- I drtd dollars and we will pay up all 'he i I bills Your father, Kathie, never l.k-d bills" Mother was all a flutter at the unex-I unex-I ported business thrust upon her. 1 de L terralned to talk to t bar! about leav. B ing her alone and I had a shrewd Idea I that Sarah knew more about the bu&i -j 'I EPfs matters of the household than I mother. For I as perfectly aware I thai father was on of those old fas'. I oned men who imagined he was lolng I the bet posibl thing lor hi" v. if.' I Then he surrounded her with every I comfort and kept her shielded from r the world. : 1 bellev e m mother bad ben per-j fecllj liapi Her one thought was her husband. Sh had no other life I but his. Would I be happier if 1 could I bring nisself to ff..l that everything': I John did was ripln and il was ray life, I to live within the bounds of his desire? I The modern woman cannot do this.. Perhaps this is the reason why divorce, L Is so prevalent We break away be-! cause we know that we fan suppoit ourselves. I know that tomorrow it I I should leave John 1 eould qualify as a, ivranasluni instructor md aportswo-I aportswo-I man. ( Ju6t before I left home 'o come lo I ay father's house i made Jonn very ibgry one night by insisting that our' I mothers and grandmothers were D0t ; I any less unhappy than ' daughters1 l of modern days I said the reason I there were more divorces nowadays than there used to be, was not he-i he-i cause the modern woman is more re 1 i, ; Itss, and more exigeant th in i-r uo'l IT was, but because her mother iid m I know where to turn to -am her daily i Hnd if she left the household cf tier tusband. John said most peremptorily: "You ? don't know what you are t.alkiug Jbout' Every woman should :nder-K :nder-K tand that there must be vhead lo a hausehold, even il that household is a jl business, as you new women are so i I fond of culling it." I It never entered his mind i hat the I puehoid head might be a worn in. I By the time wp had n-aehtd ihi point ' n 'he conversation, I was too Mud ind unhappy to press mv poinl I But to get buck to the telegram and' oan- With woman's intuition I knp'.v j lust what Charlie Goodwin would ?ay tome If I asked him to go with me to II hd that wire. 1 knew he would tell J papain thai h, loved me lor no man I ho cares for a woman rould ee lo r I through what 1 had b a join ! g uirpugh and be able to keep silenl -fder ordinary circumstances I I would have considered mysell a iriit I to my husband to lei Charlie t II I p this, but us it was I had . . Mil . ' IS11..1 should ,lke ,0 fcnow lusl 'h'.v we other man" would treat this r E ution. and I said: I waome on- Charlie, walk down to tho I 2tion with rnc while I send the wire ; 1 10 my husband " i (Continued Tomorrow.) |