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Show LOVE and MARRIED 1IFEI bij. the noted author i Idah MGlone Gibson I ANNOUNCING OUR MARRIAGE I. Sometime? 1 think thai whn on prH is hmt. one suffer? more- than I fccn one s love is bruised I I managed to finish mj coffee as I thjjRh nothing-out of the ordinal h fl 1 V happened, and started to leavi thi tab! ! whtn it dawned upon me th... I bad i ) ' HP fOI tip a I . ' ' I ' II .1 P . : to h;i e ivy I "' .i I. - villi John. r M not brought my hand bag from tht ! fOOm 1 L I turned to the waiter who seem (J to be obsequiously waiting and said: "Will you please keep these .-rais for i 1 I Gordon ..nd myself for luinhron.' I f ir wni. ii i .. . 1 1 oi h w? nn I up to my loom III Once there. 1 .sat down and laughed j ipln, bce'j i ni that if 1 did not 1 'lioild crj The night befon lonn had to . n.e i I... n .-,.,,n a l breakfast wo 5 ovei w would call Hel n 1 Van Nryj on the phono and telj nci S -' " 1 i "i ni 1 1 1 tinker with hit ) . r,r !or this seemed the right , r. nr v. ,.o Now I suddenl realised tha H .1 S I bum har been Kieatlj worried a I ,h"r' ' ' ' 1 .: I I exPre-"ion that lovers wto iho mo 10 Iwlflahiy- impolite beings in all the worl j I 'Cnt III IK lo fh, ,n I. . -1 lilas a lor. wait before l ronM 1 1 i dl!ian" ini !,''n!::" ' '' - could get into ommunication wltn Holen. The, ionVmi fki heard niv voice she said. "Whore cr earth are you, KatC Horke?" And I ons'.vied: "Not Kale "Burke, ' dear. Kate Goidon." At thta rlelcn Rave such a sigh of re- liof that I co.iio. hear it at ray end of the wire ' I Lold met her that was what md happened." slie said 'Good heavens, was out mother v.or- I iied too?" "Have you any Idea. Katherine Eurke ' ' Gordon, that you could sail out of my I j mother's house at O'clock in the oftei- I noon with the Intimation that you ' would be homo to dinmT and not I j heard from until the next morning ai !0 , ' o'clock, without putting our entire how tu- p hold on the tenter hooks of anxiet) ?" ' Good gracious. Helen I nev r ; thought '" ' Of course you never did Lovers I never do. Mother was sure that yon 'i 1 I ' both been killed that ou and John would bd found underneath the car on some lonely road. But 1 told her that 1 saw marriagv in .lohn'.-- cyrs and possession pos-session In the manner In which he drov off with von yesterday. 'Mother wanted mb to call tip the n-- IJce, but father was sure thnt harl an."- I thing lealh happ'-ncd we should have , I known It before Z o'clock this mornln.r. I when he Instated that we should all Be. to bed " I My heart sank within tne Was it pos- slhle that I had been so thoughtless and 1 kept those dcat friends anxiously awake. .-.II nlifht t Honestly. Kate.' said Helen. "I really 'do think ou might have called us Ui ' laat evening. And yet I suppose that I one must forgive much to people 6n their wedding day. especially if that weddtng comes In the nature of a stolen sweet." "Helen you are awfully sweet lo me. Very few girls would take it as you do. Won't you try and make my peace witn your mother by asking her to look hack J ;ii her own wedding eve and try and re-i re-i mber how little she thought of any-, any-, one except her husband"" You've got her .there. Kate." said Helen, with a chuckle "I don t know that I ever told you that Had and Mum 1 , eloped and I've heard m grandmother ,.! that it was days before they were , j heard from Strange as it may np-! np-! peni mother seems to have forgotten nil that and thnt you had married never 1 enctred her head. Dad. however. Inslst-i Inslst-i ed that such was the case, as soon s ! I suggested It. "What are yon going o do now, my clea r?" "W hy why, I don't know." "What do you mean by that. Kali. ( j Burke Gordon?" j Miist what I say When I left you yesterday I horl no intention of marrying 1 anyone even John and I am gnrc thai, l my mind has never Mopped to consider anything sin e I've Just been living hi ' a happy dream." "Well It's time you wakened up. . KiUo. W" ore s .lohn? Tell him to ronm . to the phone, i w;nt to congratulate 1 him " Ii waa then that I knew that I had awakened from my beautiful dream, i had to answer, evasively: '.John n I gone dow nstairs for a moment, but I just I ' could not wait for his return to call you j up." , (Continued tomorroV.) |