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Show W IlLOVE and MARRIED LIFE j toq, the noted, author I Idah MSGlone Gibson - I in RI6I6 MH "The time lias come. Joiin Gordon, fl when you and l mast have thcae nml- tcra 9 "For heaven's aiko, Kotherinc, don't br bo tragic. Von know that I have never car i-J for that Iioukc down In 1 the country und 1 nee no reason why jou should kMp It Just to provide a resting place for you. mother's maid." B.H "Keep still. John. 1 don't want to jH feel more exasperated and more dia- H appointed In you than I am." I John looked up as though to speak again, but I held up my hand. I L 1 "I don't kpov Just when the time I came. John, when you firs: began to low tired of me, but I think, pcr- li:'ps. It wrm when you found out that fl 1 was a real human being Instead of Rf B the plaything ou evidently had meant ifl me to he. Something with no mind . 'i thoughl me, except thai which B might belong to a petted eat that m would purr aa h basked In the warmth 1 Of your smile." GOING TO Il IJ, THE TRUTH. 1 "Oh, yes, I know." 1 said, as I no- ILgJ ticed the gray loo: come over his fpee and the smile of sarcasm trans-l7 trans-l7 form hla mouth into n thing of ugll- nrss. "Vou are thihklns that l Hm 1 I posing as an abused angel, but -. on'l i "ii pleast lusl foi ones take v c.i as honestly s--iing exactly what Ij think. Won't you try to understand?! filL I'or I am going to tell you the plain HjW' until, .-.ii if if i- i'ii: Into the lAV I lain, ugly language which you so of- t n have used. John, 1 don't think ou have ever loved me. 1 think the Vfl woman you QAVO really tared for is III Elizabeth MOreland." I IUs. "Are you going back to that again'" J' 'Stop' Hear me out for upon fai what I am saying and upon what you k lj shall decide depend our futuie lives tW i 'j" nol know Jusl what II Is that at- I ' Iructars man momentarily; lhal takes h oi off Is feet. I do imi Know why r it la that sonts women will have this attrai tlon for some men and leave oth-A oth-A rs cola but I .... I. sow, John, that 1 j have given you that strange magnetic JfR nrlil. I know that the first time jroti MUk i1"' i n tell II did Ltid from kfcaGL. 'I'll : 1 1 . 1 .Hi' n i.i , il i )- . hi t 1 1 1 1 lls' lit WfKT of nothing except thai i s tould belong BfjiH o you. But after all. John, you and jm I have very little in common. 1 can not JHH hypocritical, 1 must be frank. ou i rHSaH 'n your brutally maacjijiii e w have hSI overruled and overrun all the women- folk .'..in ii ivc h id . n you. it has jflU i you it h when , the f Iral KH wa-man you liavc ever known to do so, have stood up to you, holding my own HH oven though yur blows always reached BD ii y heart. If you will look you will see i i t) n i r hi r Blia it" ' b H i no In tendeit me to have this letter, and sent j ,i to inc In this wuy purposely, or. ! Whether she wna writing to you at! the same time fn1 got the notes mlx-i en. Hut It was Just after my hIM I was born, John, aud I mads up my mind that I would come here and fight, toi my own Then, If I found that you till wanted her more than you wanted me, 1 determined I should take my baby and go away, back to that little haven of rest which had come to me from my mother, ami to her from her mother, and on oack through generations genera-tions that I have hardly ounted. It belonged to me and mini- But you have taken this refuge from me with a cruelt that might be thoughtless, hut which you must have known would be barbaric In its torture of me If you had stopped to think at all on th" stlbjei t " John had not read the letter, and I said to him, "Read It!" He opened It mechanically. He turned ashen ;is he read the first line. And then ha looked at me and suld, "At least one woman has loved me. even though she knew 'hat I did not love her." 'I'O you mean to tell mo, John dor-don, dor-don, with that letter In your hand, that uu do not loc Elixubeth More-, land?" MOTHER I )K His CHILI) REX, "Of course I don't. ; guess I have hten born without the power to love any woman. The nearest I have come to loving ws In lov.ng you. Vou mean to me what 1 want. A woman to grace my home, a WOmafl wh can gii- e'.i-dence e'.i-dence of my prosperity. That Elizabeth Eliza-beth Bforelahd never iould do. What are ou going to do. K.athcrine 0 You are not foolish enough to make B acan-lia acan-lia at tiiis late day Perhaps you are only looking for something that will give you nn excuse to get i Id of me. Yen know that 1 could make II uncomfortable un-comfortable for you if i put n copy et those letters from Karl Shepherd in any dlvori proceedings that you might Ihstltflti ' How lttto vou understand women, John If anything would make me get a divorce thai threat would do it." Then you won't xet a divorce .' ' he asked eagerly. 'nt if you accede to ray terms. I shall never live with you as your wife again unload apme thing materially changes n y views, tiood night. John. I n m tin d " 1 did not sleep and If was the next morning at the breakfast t.iMe when l looked across at John, stolidly reading read-ing his paper as If nothing hnd hap-I hap-I ned that I I'ou.id nivsdf wishing that h were dead. i 1 ii Be ( Miitlnneil. ) |