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Show J ' flOVE and HARMED lIFEl! Ihj, the noted author . 1 j Idah MGlone Gibson jj Ij AN UNCOMFORTABLE DAY. ' Did the nurse or the doctor inti-mi'te inti-mi'te to you that your accident and illness -would leave you with any chronic difficulty?" asked John when we were settled in the car. "No, dear, I ant perfectly well, except ex-cept from weakness," I answered. John gave a sigh of relief, bu: said nothing more until we arrived home. "I don't think mother will have or-S or-S dcrcd dinner for us," he volunteered j as he helped me up the steps. "I told 7 her that we would not be home." "But, John, if you had asked me about it, I would have told you that I ; was almost sure that I would not have the strength to any mere than greet our friends. To sit. through ono of the hilarious Wednesday night dinners at ' the club would certainly be raoro than I could stand on my first outing. Don't mind me, however, I don't care for an.u'ilng to eat." "But I do!" ho said gruffly, and In-stead In-stead of helping mc upstairs he fairly pushed me into the room where Madam Mad-am Gordon was dining In solitary i state. She- looked up in disapproving surprise. ' I thought you wore not going to ' come for dinner," sho said. I 'Katherine thought she was not 1 1 strong enough to stand a dinner at the 1 club," answered John. j Looks the Picture of Health. "Katharine looks the picture of i i i health. Isn't il almost time 'for hci to stop babying herself?" ; Indeed I knew my cheeks were i ' crimson, and I felt my pulse leaping and my temperature suddenly rising. ; "Well, ask Oscar to sorve us, now that we are here." "I told Oscar that he might go for V the day The cook has gone, too. I-Jen- riPtie is serving me and I couldn't ask her to add to her duties for any one else." For a moment John looked nonplussed, nonpluss-ed, and then he began to grow angry, . ' and almost shouted at me. 'Sit down, Katherine. I'll see if in a house that cost3 me about $12,000 a year I can not scare up enough food j ; to satisfy the appetites of a hungry : man and a sick woman." ; I had almost fallen into an arm i : chair placed just a little away from j i the table, as I felt that I could not i ; I ' stand longer. John disregarded his, ii mother's exclamation: 1 t'. "Don't make yourself ridiculous. " , John. I don't think you have been into j I i the kitchen of this house since it was j " : built. Even I haven't been out there Juioro than once or twice." 1 , 'Well, things would have been run ! better and bills not so high if you y . : had," he retorted, suddenly making his I way to the door, whero he blindly ( ? stumbled agalnnt Honriette, who was j 1 coming in with a dessert for Madam I m Gordon. JiVf Gives Her Ten Dollars. John apologized gruffly, hastily put fill- his hand into his pocket, fished out a I $10 hill and thrust il into Honrk-tto's M haml- "' wonder if you've sense enough, ' Henriette," ho said, "to find me something some-thing a hungry man can eat and fix up a little milk toast or some other sick folks' food for Mrs. Gordon." "Of course I can sir," Henriette assured as-sured him. "If you'll just take Mrs. Gordon up to her room and help her to J make herself comfortable I will havo you something to eat down here In ten minutes, and I'll make some toast and : an omelette for Mrs. Gordon while you ' aro eating." j A, this John unceremoniously pick-1 ed me up and carried me upstairs. As we went through the door he exclaimed: exclaim-ed: 'Gad, Katherine, but you're llqhl! Ij didn't realize you had lost so much: weight." The only answer made to this exclamation excla-mation was a snort from Mine. Gordon as she rose and prepared to leave the room after us. i "Look a-here, Katherine. You've got I to cat something more than a piece of I loaa," said John as he deposited mej on the davenport and I closed my eyes wearily. "I haven't been noticing late-j ly what food the nurse lias been giving' you, but now that she is gone I will lake your diet into my own hands. To-monow To-monow morning I want you to oat a beefsteak, creamed potatoes, and I'll! let vou off the wheat cakes if you promise to eat a generous portion ofi oatmeal. 1 can't havo an invalid on my hands for the rest of my life!" Nov She's Sure of It. I bad suspected that John had heard Elizabeth Moreland's speech, and nowi I was sure of it. I had been happy at the club! Ev-j ery ono but Elizabeth had seemed so" glad to see me and now It was all; spoiled! 1 had conic home to find). John giving to a servant $10 for tlie i slightest service, while his wife had j to borrow from his sister. Wearily I made upniy mind that I' would never get well if John took caro of me in his high-handed fashion, and; yet I did not know how to broach the, subject of going away for a time. "I'll ask Alice what to do," I said to myself. Tomorrow Henriette's Proposal. oo Mr. Bryan Is as regular as the sun on the presidential horizon but he only, beclouds issues I |