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Show I (LOVE and MARRIED LIFfi btj. the noted author I j Idah MGlone Gibson j I MADAME GORDON did not mfun to b Impolite to l. Gordon even after her tirade at but F found that I hadn't will pnw-.nouc.b pnw-.nouc.b eren to npcak. Vh:i' It the matter with you. Ratline:' Ratli-ne:' she akd. and thin time I llied that a little fear had come j Mr voice "Don't Hp there look-like look-like thai' Can't JOB .-peak''" YCS," I answered. Th n why In heaven's uame dou't his Ume I ebook ray head. The last i" bad been too great on effort. ' fftU, If '" can FPpak and won't re Is n USP 01 mc staying here to insulted by your silence. I will John and have blm come home lake away those frrrat box4 that lumbering up the areaway You 1 distinctly told you that I would have this house changed In am ( Ocular while I live here, and I can i understand John allowing you to I j a lot of your old trumpery to house." vn this had no power to make me Hate. I rnlv kept thinking over over: "I wish she'd go away and : mP rest Just lei me rest'-' jtbOUgb my mothrr-ln-law war very! ry I think, 100, she war. a little bit j itc at I for before she left the room ' es.ll .; Henrletie and commanded: ; ;tr.y with Mrs. Gordon while I tele ic to her husband." Cared for by Hermetic, 'cor dear, poor dear, are you so Hit .-nil - he omi' Kro55 the room am! lilting me, adjust Ed m;. plUojWj pic mora I 1. .,, HL, 1 . '! m sympathy broke j fii. r. 1 1 : 1 ' No, I'm 1 Kfi; I haven't run I lust wan' In: I Jusl want to reit I'm ' "Well, it 1 s r. ' t much rest you'll get in mi' hov--. I'm ihinking, II herself has th'' running ot it. Shi VU perl Kjiioii' tin van Eovr up with nd d Ih Wrj th back door femldn t allow them to be taken Into 3 th Wt"i ih, ' 1 though to inysel she, Bo, golnc lo worry me?" and with a Kgh 1 turned mj face toward the wall. Tfce.-'-. r 1 1 . r mj dear, I won't worry I u 1 1 all." said Henrlette, with tick compi 1 n ion, che b t the Boaa In order Then she straihtem d e covers and tin low-j to shut out the light. "ThanU you," I managed to say Uefully. but I had not time to drift , ivay again into that blessed peace, Mfh seemed jusl ahead, b fore Mme Krdon iiine 1 lck K"I uii 11 'i Kin!' rbt .11.1 whj .1 makes iJchn so annoyed to have anyone call him up at the office!" was her first exclamation I told htm what a meH we are in up here, with that avalanch-of avalanch-of stuff from your home, and your stubborn refusal to have anything 'O do with it or even to speak about It. "At first he said that I would have 'o get alone fho best I could, but when I made h'.m understand that you either would or could not speak to anyone, he feemed disturbed and said he would: be up ery soon and arrange things. If you are not able to get up and help up In this matter, you might at leapt signify what disposition you wish us to moke of thoe c:ates and boxes. It will be Impossible for the trades men to drive to the doorway while they are there I managed to say. "You and John can dispose ot them any way you like. If you will only leave me aloue." What s the matter with you. any-' way' If you're ill you must have a doetor ' ' I am not ill I'm just tired. Tired of it all. Please, phase, let mo alone." "Don't you thank." paid Henrlette, "that if Mrs Goruon had a piece of toast and a cup of coffee it might help, brace her up" She seems utterly exhausted ex-hausted " "Exhausted? Why should a young, halthv woman like her be exhausted exhaust-ed '" This caused a rushing flood of remembrance' re-membrance' Why should I be ex-' hauated ! Finds Husband Unsympathetic. In the last week I had lost my father fath-er and been attending upon all th porrowful obsequies which aecompa nled hlfl panning. I pad found that my husband was moat unsympathetic with r.i, suffering, thai he expected me to obey hi5 slightest wish without que tlon. as though I were a child; I foun 1 that he was not above entering info the kind of a flirtation he would never condone in me, an that he could so tar etoop us to use me, without re-Igard re-Igard for my feelings, j'.n help to get1 him out of an ugly mess, and that he had no scruples in making the knowledge knowl-edge of what should be the crowning crlr.ry of my life a burning torture tha would probably la.-t i-o long as I should live. I railed at Fate, for I could not believe be-lieve this was the lot of every married woman. |