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Show SOVE and MARRIED LIFEl the noted author i Idah MGlone Gibson LOVERS BUT NOT FRIENDS I had not shown Charl the t.-'-KTam and he. with "his unual poli'e n ss, had not come to tlM deek mbtn I waa writing It. We walked hom through th gathering du.-k. in a silence si-lence broken only occasionally with a discussion oaJust how w. were goic to make mother eomfortaol". Churlea insisted that I aftottid leave it all to him. "You know, Kate. I have no one to look after and your mo'hc: baa been more than a mother to me ever since I was a little tad. I will j.tu.. here uii-til uii-til Khe its thoroughly settled rid comfortable. com-fortable. But It seems so selfish. CbftlltM," I said, ''to leave her when hf seems to need m1 so much." "Don't you WOfry about If, mv dear if sh Mants ycu I will aeild tor JTOU at once. I can stay here two or three weeks and you had better go bar'; home whenever your husband wishes on to." What do you fuaaaf" I -.aid, an uoed. "Of course my busband ariahea me to come now. but I. too, ..hall sta here as long as my mother wants me.". All our planning wa.. in vain, how-aver, how-aver, for when we arrived nome v c found that mother had suddenly bios snmed into a woman who Whi rppar ently quite able to tak- care oi lor own nffnlr-H "Katharine," uhe said, i am going to have all the old furniture in jrpur suite boxed and sent to your home. John admired it extravagantly and na it has been in the family .o many years and would come to u e.-n tually. I do not know whv ou cannot enjoy it now " "Are you sure you clont want to come and live with me. mother?" I asked. "Perfectly sure," she answered "There would be no place for me anions the strange as well youthful pi ople of your acquaintance - I really was relieved at mother's decision, because I know that John had made up h!s mind tha o ahould live with bia mother for a while ;it least, and I Just couldn't even in Imagination Madam Gordon ind mj mother in the same house day aft r day. I excused myself early as mothe r seemed very tired and went to my room. But I could no' alt ep I tried : to read and finally w hen my eyes smarted from overwork. I closed them and in fauc rearranged the furniture from my rooms at home, in the rooms of my new apartment in John's home. My conversation with rhntles 'lood-win 'lood-win had made me understand how much i loved mv husband, unci it also made me understand that I did not like him particularly well, and I waa quite aura that he liked me not at all John and I were lover; but not! friends. Could we ever be friend 3 I asked ;tked myself. Would it be possible fur my hus band to allow me the Individuality that I craved or would it be possible for me to submerge myself in his strong personal it ' 1 thought of Elizabeth Moreland and wondered if she could have made him any happier than I? From what I had seen of her I had come to know she had an Indvlduality as -,t.ong as mine and I knew she was not an honest hon-est woman- she not only lied to other peoplo but she lied to herself. I do j not think she really loved John but it seemed to me that he had hurt her 1-n.l' lt. t h In mai rving in- nd thai she had determined to make nn both pa ror it. Isn t it strange that men never give women credit for any kind of intrigue where they themselves are con cerned No man thinks a woman is. trying to fool him She may 100I ev- ; ery one else in the world but i e oan not conceive that she ever would attempt at-tempt to trick him As the morning light filtered in at the open window I dropped into a troubled sleep m which I dreamed that Charles was beating John to insensibility in-sensibility because he had ioind im kissing Elizabeth Mor land. I was conscious once or twice ot some one moving about in '.he room but as is often the case i was so afraid of be big thoroughly awakenod lhal I did not by the slightest movement indicate indi-cate that I was not fully asiep. At last oi) mother bent over to kiaa me. "Dear child." she said. 'I would no' have awakened you. but Charles brought, a telegram over from the office of-fice quite a while ago He s.cpej for It and while I am almost so e it is frnin vnnv hnsh.init in nniaBr in iti. one you sent last night. I si ill cling to ihe old fashioned idea thai a telegram tele-gram is only sent when it has to tc!! bad news." I opened the envelope and .h Ii?: Hip of papei fluttered to the Moor. 1 read the enclosed messagji "Received "Re-ceived your wire, dear girl. Alice and Elizabeth going lor you in motor. ome as soon as you can to yur lo ing husband." I reached over the edge of ."ie bed and picked up the slip of paper on which was tped the Information that at the telegraph office I would receive, re-ceive, upon application, five dollars. Slowly and carelessly I tore ih ilip of paper into little pieces and heeded ' not my mother's horrified exclamation, exclama-tion, that I was tearing up my money order And then 1 laughed Jehn so utterly unconaclbm iItm i ?as not doing absolutely the righ' thing (Continued Monday) |