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Show Her Daughter and His Son I A Grant Married Life Story by F 1 IDAH McGLONE GIBSON i MR. HALSEY TALKS "You do not mean, Mr. Ualsey that' Ren attempted auicido?" "So, Ann, bnlesa j 6u would call Wliat l ho has been doing for tho last two! montjis suicide." "How could It have happened, then?" "As nearly as I can learn Kenneth was it with his sMne old, wiiii crowd last nigh', lie managed in seme way to jet some liquor from the house which he need surreptitiously In the glar.ses at the I reaiaurant. You haven't seen Kenneth I much fon. some time. If you had von ' would have learned that even a little i liquor changes -him entirely. Sitmetimen. anil I say this regretfully, I think chat i-s why Mrs. Cameron not only allowed, her daughter i mpany him to these di .reputable parlies. but encouraged j them. I feel that Mrs. Cameron wax sure' thai somc-limc she winild be able lo make-Ken make-Ken do exactly what he has done ' r.ut surely, Mr. Hautey, Mrs. Cameron del nut want Kenneth to die." "No. ,-.r course she didn't.' "Then what do you mean?" Just then the telephone rang and as1 t answered It I heard Jimmi. Callahan's voice: "is thai 'on Ann?" Yes. Jlmmle " "is Mr. Malsey there?" "Yes' Tell me how Ken Is." "Then you know?" "I know very Utile. I only know that Ken is at the hospital Suffering from tin effects of poison." "Maj I speak. to Mr. Halsey?" "H he worse, Jim?'' "Not anv worse, really, but they sav his recovery is doubtful." Jlmmle. you don't think he tried to! commit Sulcida, dp you?" ' Xe1 er in p thousand years, mv elear girl, it looks more like- wood ajcohol. ' "Has Krnneih been codscioun at all?" "Thai's why want lo talk to his father, lb seems to be coming out of : ih) upor and the doctors want bis father here." "Are you at the hospital. Jim?" "Yes. Mr. Halsey sent for me nnd I told him I el stay here, while he went over and broke the new lo ou and got or to co and see ' trace Cameron." "Hul he liawn'l salt) anv thing to mc aboni Grace Cameron. He seems So broken up about Ken that he's unable tn tell mc much about him either, f don't understand. Jlmmle. why should I la,! WM assjj "Well, somijone must go to her and Mm find out where they all were last nig In WW Gwace was with him whe.-n they brouch mm him to the hospital at midnight, hut shes ma-!e such a fuss that ihey sent for 1 her mother to come.- after her nnd take mm her home Klnep then that Idiot mother of hers lias been calling up the hospital -JH every five minutes, caving that her daughter Is al deatli's door and aaklng how Km Is i if course we're not sun- fJJJJJ whethei she sot some of the stuff. ..I really hope she lias. but persotfnllv T think she's te i clever to drink much i -H when she's out with Ken. Will you tell Mr Halsey for me that he better try to get here as soon as possible. On the j way over. If he has anv. Influent with ' fSyJ the newspaiiers bad better :;et in touch with them personally and have them call off their reporters. The waff ffffl Ing renin here is full of them. Go alone. dear girl, then hurry to the Camcrons at oni Telephone me what you learn ,Mm there." SBBBJJ Tomorrow Fcirlng the Worst. |