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Show i Ar Uugiteti and His Son A Great Married Life Story by PAH McGLONE GIBSON A VISITOR a Mr. Halsey looked at me frr a mn. jP ment. and then I heerd him murmur. as if to himself: "Why, pf course, Bob Hr Carletcn.'" And then lie turned and Df held out his band to me, and Bald.: Hft "Tell your mother, little girl, that I Hlj am oipg to call ou her very socn " Bif, "I don't bolieve I'll go riding cn the L pony. Kenneth.'' 1 said. "I want to H' see my mother. 1 want t: si-e her rfght away," and I did not know why HI i:.y voice choked as I said (his., 1 1 turned slowly and wmt acroo'rnd H 1 down the street to my mother's cot tage. She was at the gate to meet me as usual, and before I said anything else. I blurted out: "Mother, dear, ft nrhp i Boh Carleton?" My mother turned so pale I though: ;Iie "- going to faint, oud tben ahe jnK gasped: Where did you hear that Hi Hfl "Kenneth Kenneth's father ha-- Jufil Vil come heme, Mid when I told him (hat HEl 1 :. - Ann Whltson, your little girl. jRlfl be said; 'Why, of course, Bob Uaile- nl ion! Mid he told me to tell you he KTi weft ceming over very soon to b e HI- Mj mother (rembled and caught lie; Hl'j bands rcross the fence to steady iier- Hl self. "I am afraid we won't be able to 91, m-o Kv'nneth's father," hhe aid "be: jElj cause we're goiug to SeaTP here loaior- Hl! row." 9r I "Why mother, you never told me Bl abour if Where are w go'ng?'1 Hlll My mother hesitated ahJ then said. Hl i ate going to roc about putting you pff PCilOO this fall." HV "Lut I don't want to leave you, and Hff besides I thought I was going io ihe Hl same school with Grace Cameron Hit, "Do you "love her so much?" she III ,;i '' For the first limp I stopped lo 'hiv;k about ihe matter, and I discovered Hr much to my childish surprise ihur I rii Jn t !ove Grace at all And i said so wi h the usual frankness of cli i. !un ! "Then whv do yen w.i. i to gv to selioo' with her9" my mother a.s'u J, Again I found a reason that sur priced ce, "It is because, ' 1 bfthl, quickly "that I I do not go to school vvitft lier I will nevei see KeLLetb, again, for he wcnl visit me v .my i I ciu . I, nhd I know he will visit Grace." "Oh. It's Kenneth you love!" said lay nil thcr. '.'Yes, I lo c hiui 1 w.ml to see him , always, ami I think perhaps tha: -f I cat: only see him when Grace is ground I'll try if endure h - "I fiink Tt is high time that you wens, K0ng away," said my mother. "Don't you i;now, Ann. dear, that you mutj reVer that yoa love a little boy. Glil? de.n't say these things. You urej g. tting to be a big girl now. you I'll aw." 1 remember," said a voice close he-s!1e he-s!1e ua. and my in ther and I both hioi: . i startled; ' I remember . tine'ly. Marga'-et Whilson. when you would not tell a man thai you lned, him oven when he told you first ' :h. mother, it's Kenneth s daddyl" I exclaimed. "Yes, dear, I know!" s,he answered. "Yp.il look quite as young as you did ! when I left you. so many, many j rs ago Margaret' said Kenneth's fa-: ther. "Did vou know eaeh other when you were liltle boys and girlsr" I asked ; eagerly. "Yes, dear," ahsjrered Mr Halsey. I' Wt v.sed to i:njw each other when ! we were Just about the age of you land Kenneth." Then he turned to my mother, and bald in a low voter "Why did you take ! your own name?" It was the only name, 1 learned. 1 ' had .he right to bear!" |
