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Show : 0VE and MARRIED LIFEl a J j fcu, the noted author i Idari MGlone Gibson DOES JOHN CARE? irr.l home I found telp John It rend: .J ffinr irpu . vl, ,, lovf in your H) , borrow Conic Lome o mo as ;'-ni ' ihfP' :'iid tore thai telegram l'roukl not make the pieces s!ob A,.rh 1 1 'seemed to me thnt H ffi-e'doii. nolhlnc. that would :jl yVC i ne as did this t legram Mrrnirlv easy to di intc a " , to his stcnoKraphrr but he MfT not discommode himsell the CUI h for mr Mechanically l be : , mko off the close bonnet nnd -',3 ,0J1, veil 'It-'" Prescribed for ' ,n .-, small town Just ?s I ,;J,e ,u to ko to mothers room fitl; and said: SgtSSne. or mother wants to feed to feel by the toss of Sar tCd and her manner her deep- disapproval of m husband. 1?ent iUn to mother , room and , n!bfr with her old fashion -d put i inside out on the table beaid. There were two or three bills frrae small change on .he table. St said to me "Kate, darling, i k, me have sonm money un AT H eks -ells me where I stand? ?Jr father, al.hnush he was confined li rSair. always tool" care of h.s Jv matters-he never boihereo me ST h5!-and of course for the last J?S bo has been so ill that I r not ranted to anno him with, ffil oMhs kind. Here is a bill I Sftfce telegrams 1 sent prrpa.o I it never run a grocery bill In my I Sand Sarah has just brought me the Si toiys groceries which I find Kl lakc more than the cash I have llt'xnt then for the first time 1 re JiYhat John had not left me any Sir-in fact he had given me, Irv but once since our marriage IS hat was in playful liquidation of lnce-which 1 had won from him. Of Kf, hr had told :,i- io havr anj .J..', .inrce ! thai 1 mid" - "r I i"nl of tne s..,r.-. 1 .mild sign his! Lo at the tlubs and he ex en had ae lent a' Ihe theatres, but more than i Lfp'l had been rather embarassed rththe realization that I would scon hvcto ask him lor money. Mv trip home had taken almost all of i in available cash and I expected when arrived to find my girlhood allow-jc allow-jc awaltlnc me. I had less than a I ijdllar in nr. purse 1 tried to makei 1 aTlf think that lohn was quite as cicired a? 1 with the rapid movement M events in tie- la't few days and had; (ergot ten to as-k m- if 1 had any money !c current expenst , did not know wi-at io do 1 did I sot tvant mv mother to think thai m j bwband had one awc.v under sik h ( reams tan res. and hail even forgotten (ifiihad not been intended) io leave! m any nione.i Kor the first time in mv life I told raj mother a lie L'John rame away in sin li a hnrrv he i ' mi- iia1. nun h ms!i and he le' t nie adieck. 1 will have to wait unti' Mi , 1 Hick, i onie- to a.-h it H" v'ill be m soon, I think. It is the proper! I 6ing, you knew mother dear, to r.avej affairs settled immediately Do 3 Tw know anihing about father's fi-j UflffS"" j Mother looke.i ai nie in uiter sur "Why, of course not my dear M p If'Sinnin? of each month j our fath-1 j nalTavs gave me two hundred dol for hen -i-hoal i xp.MiM ; and one j I psdred for my own utie, and he sent I Jcj one hundred dollars when you j i wen'1 at home Someway I bad a 1 I fcdlng that our Income was about six iindred ilollarp a monili I don t know a ty I have : h is impression because I Mr father never discussed it with I htbut he never failed to gie me the, Dee the first da i ot ev ei y n onlli '!P' this month when he was so ill He er-uifd rather worried at limi 'l- ' inolh. r eoniinned. 1 mink , lihould have asked him about things,! I PI my dear, he was always in sucli fJt .hynral pain that I could not I m to it by disturbing his mine in i Oli I i,ope it will he all '-nd 1 1' i :,- i(,-hr-: i-:n. i h- i I Witened oves to me and whiFpered: ' J tLi n' un(i"' lHn'1 ,if'nr h til." JJ Urd did noi takfl us both to I f'-"' with blip he has laki n ail 5 r love, nil thai makes life v orlh living for ,lie." 1 put, mother, you still ha- . me lo I r't llavcn'1 you?" Vl'Di not necessary i0 von. d .n , 1" h;n' husband votii .'("hn to lov. and f;ire for v0U "I IfcniS 'd ;it h'r r,,ir,:l' n kthctj awa. I (Continued tomorrow) |