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Show El I LOVE and MARKED 1IFEI ; bij, the noted author I E idah MGlcme Gibson j fc HAIL WD FAREVflSLL. It was then thut I turner) to my bus j band and, calling his attention to Mary f J nd Robert, who were strolling along f oblivious to everytliinx but each other. I I Bkcd him for the first time In my L life; "Karl, dn you love me. dear? r Lo you think that after twenty yearn, f ou love me as much as that bov loves y .Mary?" Karl moved quicKly and took my liand in his " I don't know, ' he answered, and thm for the flrt time in all the years ' thai 1 had known Karl Shcpurd, he said In so many words: I Katherir.o. 1 lovt- you, dear I love I you bettei than I ver loved you he ft fore At our time of life, beloved. It j Isn't the same kind of love that ttob- I erl has for our daughter, but it I the kind of love that makes me feel that I am missing sompihing when i am I not with you. When I look forward '"i realise that some daj om of u- vll be hen .1 lone eric Ing fo: 1 he f other's absence. It gives me h cold ' feeling about my heart And I am selfish i-nough, dear heart, to houe thai ihat grieving one will be yoj. ') KOR , ,1 . I ould beaV 10 stay In this world .ifter you had gone out of it "In all the long year. we have Journeyed through life, Kathenne. vol; hav teen the one thing that has ' meant to me that greatest of blessings happiness. And now. Kat'-mH Kat'-mH erine, in the sunset of life. I sav f er-' H vently that I would not have had you hwngod In any particular When the Jk Hms comes for me 10 die, I shall ask JJ "" more 01 Heaven than thai ; L pei "Nit rtl ! 1. .,, Mvo , h,. ,,,,,, all oer with you again. ucii' heart. And 1 shall find 110 greater hell than not to bo able to find you, somew her.-, somehow, sometime-out there in tivj Great Beyond." I have written, mi the very end f this little book, all the sacred h:p that your father, Karl, has sal I to me on this day of anniversary, Mory my child, because 1 wanted you to know thai otic cau lie happy in Marriage. Mar-riage. Vhs, that two can be ha pp. In marriage And I also want you to know that it was very possible that had not fate stepped in and torn your own father from me, we. too. might have bee)Q happy. And ye(. sou.o way, my dear. It is borne upon me that Karl's soul and mine ure like tho t. in SOUls of which these little preen id'.'s that 1 nm attaching to this hook, are the symbols. Mis soul stayi-i in the tavern and v:itetl rind mine tivough year? of pain and tears, and misunderstanding misunder-standing came at last to re. beside him Goodnight my child' The: peace and hfippines1'. joy and contentin'eni be your.j in fullesl measure Is the fondest fond-est hope of jour devoted mother, But do not depalr If tears and pain and sorrow come. For, at last, in the full-net full-net nf time, you will ome to know that nothing happens to us that iloes in.; make for better thing and until-Ing until-Ing la sent to us that we are too weak to bear. Keep your courage, my child. 1 .1 courage is the greatest of virtues ind do not let the sin of intolerance fu; others creep in, for that In the fullness full-ness of time you will come to knev is the unpardonable sin for which we moriuls are punished most. Till: EtfD. |