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Show mt IjLOVE and MARRIED LIFEj I fcy, the noted author. 'MM j Idah MGlone aiison g mm WW I JOHN s AMAZING PHlIiOSOPHT BST-UM By this time the workmen had sue- Mmmw coeded In denuding our living room EH walls of the much discussed Colonial il paper and were proceeding to put on 'Mm I ''''' P'' ullar square of Cri in komI RtH tea paper, which I had lik."tcd upon MTfcMm I could sec thnt Elizabeth became moro and more surprised as the wall fMW began to gleam In it dcud gold cov- fH erlng Finally she hud to apeak; ' JH 9M "I shall he very much interested in Mm ,nl' room' Katherlne It Is the last j kind of decoration that I would have 1 looked forward to from ou " ft "And yet you've Just been telling Up . j John that he might take a woman for 'VLjI MmmX. granted Is it because you haven't 'Mwf studied me ' nough. Elizabeth'"" ''Perhaps that is so, said Elizabeth, mMr for once In her life absolutely honest ''t with me. 'rTfll "Tnal 5 rSht. Elisabeth,'1 said John. i "I have ft 1 way a told both of you worn- BCaH cn that you would be very good friends If you really knew each other " "1 Eli7.al.eth turn.-il awaj with a sigh MmM rlnd ,h'n fcW with an effort: H "J think 1 oh. ill go back home. Some m way, Killierlnc, thin morning you have seemed to disturb nil the Ideas bi whicii I have tried to discern char- iT"" aoter .kjl- 1 would have said, Katherln, that bj all the traditions of : our nature. l i VMt " woulu have been lovji to the If WW prejudices of your New England an- ' fmmr eesiry ; and h re you seem to be show-! AaB 'ij me that always you have wanted! J Ul to cast them off; that their austerity i '-.Mimi was hlndlng and that when you had, 'FfK the chance, ou had cast loyalty to' Milw your birthright to the win da and' . JTjf : flaunted yourself to the world " vA if , "Good gracious. Kes, what are you 5 S talking about'"" asked John. "What-i RU c-Yer the .subject may he, I know you! ti- 9 l..'e gotten bc-yond your depth." "Not my depth, John she answered I H sweetly, perhaps, I have gone out bi - W jm !! fan a woman be loyal to her ;rL prejudices, ISked John It has al- JiM . seemed to m that the verj word prejudice mi ant being disloyal to orai hing tn fact, I have alwayi had jMjjjMgj an Idea that a woman never was very hSLV loyal to anything." l$mw ! Jonn" 1 fald in horror. If i neems to me that falthfulntsa is al-wns al-wns feminine ' "There you go. ronf OOOdlng loyalt) with faithfulness," he arid, and aa Elisabeth caught his voice, she stopped near the door. 'They're very different. If I were a woman 1 would consider disloyalty as unpardonable sin and unfaithful -i ness only petty. The only Insistence that I should make necessary when I a man told mo he loved me, would I be that he should be loyal to me You I women aro much more materialistic after all. than we men. You put a greater price on a man's material ca-! ca-! res.-ies than on the loyalty of his soul I You will cling to a man whose soul is no longer yours, but who remains I conventional faithful and you will I cast off a man whose soul is utterly and loyally In your keeping because he has erred physically Both you I women should- know that from ears, of tradition and privilege, men hav become weaker than you, we become easy victim to temptations which cen-I cen-I tunes have r.chooled you to resist We have learned one thing, however, ! which you will never know we can give our caresses without damning our souls we can sin so ligtt'ly thai II does not touch our better aelvi B I felt my breath almost start, and knew that I was growing quite as pale as Elizabeth Moreland, for I. as well as she, understood that John Gordon was telling her that she wan really nothing to him S'he was game, however. a3 she laid Never having been married, John, I do not understand why you think i can understand all that you hava bi n saying It has been very interesting, however and it almost makes me feel that a woman is better off If she does not have to understand all this "loyalty "loyal-ty and faithfulness' business that you are so glib about Personally, however,' how-ever,' she continued, I believe and I am almost sure that Katherlne has the same belief, that no one, either man or woman, can be loyal without being faithful; and that no man or woman can "sin so llghtlj that It will not leave a blackened smirch upon his soul " And thus, pronouncing sentence upon up-on herself. Eliza.br ;h Morel.-nd vanished van-ished through the door. (T Be. Continued) |