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Show iOVE and MARRIED LIFE Djj, the noted author j idah MGlone Gibson 1 L. A PROBLEM IN CONDUCT E utZr learns m mother's mora thf , .Von confronted mr that u would I cruel to desert her Just now I to homo with Alice an.l Bess I en vivid imagination and 1 I turn's lnlnk " 1? as creat a cur8e I iov A? I thought of my dopar I " j could see in fanry my little 'her standing forlornly on the plaz-I plaz-I 00 v, Wavinc a tremulous goodhye to I more or less young and buoyant I nfn who er turning their barks 1 .. ,., ,,nr i .irs g )ing straight ' I I f Ci world i f Joj an I forget fulness. I rall'd Alice on the tel. phone and i I - cn t go home with you today. A I- I ,f'vl)V not'" she asked In a surprised I I 'nfr misunderstanding angered 1 and I ans ' i ,"1 I vl I do you think i' would be jusi I ihf rish' thing. in d-ai Alu - . to l.;ivi I cr mother In a lime like this, until I ou r? ?urc 8nP was SPlk'tl and , l-Minff.i-t.:bl- ' i am all , I mrmoihrr has in the world now, anri I ?, .pem- to me that John is very ikoacbtless to send you and BeSB alter I jjr-and expect me to fetUIB with you J I toon.' I -W'b). Kathenne, I never thought j -Of course you didn't, but can you how unfeeling it would be In mo I to po motoring off with two new I found tri'-nd- anl leav m mothpi I just now"" I i don't know but you are right " I she eald hesitatingly "but I feej sure I that John will be very much annoyed I )i his pln does not work out Juct as I be made h That 8 exact ly it. Alice. John al-;: al-;: : out. He never takes into consideration the plans o( rhe other person He is an ab-lolute ab-lolute stranger to my famllj and I am beginning to think he Is an absolute stranger to me I am quite sure that I uewr thought tiere was a man who rould br .'O calloused lo Hie feelings of one he loved as John has been to me during Ibis ir-rnblo time'" "Well, you sec, Knfo," said Alice, "John and I never had a father. Perhaps Per-haps v cannot understand exactly nbai your feelings are Anyway I am foroint: to i ilk w Ith you." Pon't bring Miss More-land wuh I pu, Alice!" I heard Alice chuckle at the other nd of the wire. "Wild horses wouldn't pjjl I awa from here," she answer-id; answer-id; "she has that nice Mr. Goodwin with her and they are preparing for a fame of golf." So she's trying her charms on Tharlle?" I said to myself, and thn I renumbered that her game was noih Ing with which to intrigue the affce tlons of a EOlf enthusiast like Charles. "There will be at least one man In the world. ' thought I. "who will be willing to concede that there le something that I can do better than Bess More land can. And that won't make her very happy, I am afraid." for I was quite sure thnt Charles would probably prob-ably tell her this and 1 maliciously i hoped he would I met Alice down at the porch and wg strolled over to the hammock in which my mother had so often sai beside be-side my father's wheel-chair. Again my imagination drew the picture and my heart was heavy with the thought that I should never sec those two white heads close together again. "I was iu no mood for Alice's first exclamation: ' Now, Kate. I don't want you tc be a silly glri! The only way to gel aiong with John Ifl to Let him have nil own way. The thins to do is to go home with us and arrange with Mr Goodwin Good-win he's your cousin. Isn't he? to send ou a telegram signed with your mother's name, asking you to come back tomorrow. For a moment I was too nonplussed Ifl snftk I whi-wr. t-Virlrt ailiiiat had been a reverence for the truth of i speech and action, could not conceive of living a life of petty duplicities and ! deceits. 1 "Is that the WBJ VOU solve your mar riacc problems," Alice?" I asked She looked at me rather mischievously, mischiev-ously, as she answered: "Well, I've I solved some of the biggest ones that j way, and I have found that in marriage mar-riage as In brjdge, a little finesse goes la long way." "Alice," I said earnestly. "I have never with one exception been any- I thin-; less than absolutely truthful with a person I loved. I don't belicv ;that I could tell the tiniest white He ;o John I told one for him to mother jtho other morning and I have been i conscience-stricken ever since." "Good Lord," said Alice, lauchinc outright, "you'll find before you har lived with a man vcr long lhat you 'will have to tell white lies and black lies and lots of splotchy gray lies to every one, including yourself and! him. I suppose that is what the little Japanese Jap-anese girl meant when she said 'It I is better to lie a little than to be un-! happy much.' " "I change that a little," said Alice.) still smiling. "I say 'It's beticr to lie much than be unhupp: a little" " (Continued tomorrow) |
