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Show Her Daughter and His Son A Great Married Lifm Story by IDAH McGLONE GIBSON IIRfl, M1 -RON INTRl ll VH "Oh, I I"-? your pardon I tltuifetv jH you were Jon, Ann." Efl Evidently. Mrs Cameron yctu ht H seen me." .xi1 Mr. HaUoy, hn H had been "landing out of her hn ' i H confem ihnt I hsd she n- H -wared a-i.erity. Ami if you were not here i woiili not hove dechv WM .1 it possible thru codld allow i . , . i in expresi mpathy- in vfl "My dear Mrs. Cameron." sxid Mr. HalM suavely, ' short tlmi ako you jH Intimated thai ion wan a ffetitk- H .'.v I : i r i poIHK to "' 'o H that of all ih' i.untf women I have H met, Ann evm- to me to lc the iweft- H eat and most womanly." B "Oh, Mi iininey. l did not mean to JB insinuate anything. if t ourse. I know H. v that Kenneth and Ann h;nc heen Ilka " . I. 111. MI' lU. - I W.i- only Attempting n little pleasantry." This hardly eetn- 'he lime H pleasantries, Sklii Cameron," and then 1 ihiniinp h hod been too hasty, Mr B Halsey H "Kenneth n ... promising to always H be u brother to Ann, juxi s i irotiM HHH like to aland in the place of her fa- B I my thing H ul ir, .Mi-s. Cameron?" 1 'I came over, my dear, to aV sun H U I'd a u eek or two with ine Up" til your affair arc settled." I felt n old shuddrr run down my ' . . . r could conceive o nothing worse than hetng under the Imlcful ey-fti ey-fti ot Mi- Cameron for the next two RLJ weoka und having to listen to her fe hone.ved Insinuations and veiled eug- P icestli nt in rfj-ar.l to m friendship .with Kenneth. So I answered quPklv: "1 am not going to remain In uwn. I am extremely anxious to n ; to . work " And what re juu uaiii to work I at?" she ankerl. I could ee that she a relieved at my intension of leaving leav-ing the (own. yet I thought there wa till a intir anxiety on her pai a to whether ( would remain SWay. I Then, hefore l, could reply, she tinuedi I am nlxd to know that y.mr mother moth-er ha left you enough money so that you an lake up s..m profession " 1 Imply bowed niv hend In aknowl-dgemani aknowl-dgemani f her intessV- l would no' fcr the world let h-r know what I Was gOIUNT to do. I-or .- moment after ihl? there was an Pncomfortable alienee. I had not ank.-.l Mik. C ameron to b ested, loit fhf ei.ientlv waa fletarnjripe'd to know ha . v s going on. Finally Mr. HalSCj sil I am sure ou will pardon me, Mr-. Cameron, hut Ann has aonie ln-portatu ln-portatu lusine.s ii talk over with nra before she leave?.,'' j "Q-b, I nidn'i moan to Interrupt Kenpeth's Hp" straightened acros'. hi teeth. "1 didn't intend to IhtsrTUpt," she re-peatedj re-peatedj I only wanted to he of ti i if. I onh .n : I ! to roaki Ann understand un-derstand that uh'dei1 fht clrctlnsa'nces perhaps it woujd be, letter if he had a woman wit-li h' r at thl time. "Thank ou very much. Mrs. dim- run, byl i shall nave t depend upon myself, larpelj . and I may as well he-kiii he-kiii :it on s." "Tttsh I'll nkf K. nil. iii with m'ei1 ihe si!fl,";mj leave on with Mr Flal-sc. Flal-sc. liinnniiiM Spirited Convcrsn- i ion. |