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Show Her Daughter and His Son A Great Married Life Story by I IDAH McGLONE GIBSON I SPIRJ I I I' ERS TMV Thank you very much, Mrs. I'ain-cron," I'ain-cron," sjiki Kenneth, ami even unde"r th.s( -kI u unista rite?, lie ou l.i not resist wlnkiiig at mc. " but unless you have something very Important In mind, I think I shnll tay with father and Ann." ' Surely a boy of your nK" would have nothing to offer which wfeujd be of iiny great help to your father or Ann."' "Qji, I don't know. Mis. Cameron," lie Mid with another lowering of the eyelid, "I nilsrht offer mysiir. Dear, dear "Irresponsible Kenneth. Ke would Joke it he were dying a id smile ai you if he found you I"- li.e same condition. Ills levity hail a Rood effect on tux. - however, foj l could not joshi a miie mh as I turneil to Kenneth and said trite- H iln. Cameron looked at die In H ror. for she was one of those literal H who would bel:evc we were H ii-ist partially in earnest. And I HH n iso had a feeling thai sue would go .i..y and tell that I was laurrhlng and ' LM Jolting with Kenneth Halsey at a time IjfjB Hke this. , w . I l wonder w h n is. that w Impose fl such horrible conditions, uiion those 1 who nre sunnased La hr- erlevine Sure- II we want everyone to be hiv. but hty strictly conventional etiquette, phi must neer have 'he appearance of think lifg of one's own self lab grief. This i-Qtavejiitonnllty . on a par with the old-faahlOnel iieu of draping one's o il' iii sombre mouniins, and always i rnphaalzing ine tac o( uncontrollable mi everlasting grief. It makes one hyppcrltft, be'csfcisc one cannot shut out all Idea of world -I) affair, oven though one is rrushed ii (hp loss of One's nearest and deur-t, deur-t, Somehow mourning has always s enied to mi .mi ostentatious ifisplsto of n vjpr severed emotion that should e, Ui.pi from mortal eyes. At this moment Mr. H,alsey arose ,tull reiemonlously and said. "Well, Rood afternoon. .Mrs. Canl" -roii. and walked toward the door l She had to follow and did so with hj , sood trace ''s possible RSOrtng: "Then you're not comiug, Kenneth' . I have a letter from Grace 1 would like to show you. In It she that you liari promised to take her to th- h xl ororlty hall, which. If am not mistaken. mis-taken. Is tomorrow evening. Are on leaving tonirht for oajlegc?" r have already vvhrd Grace that it Will he Impossible for ine be with ,-i and have alo wired thy chum. :-1.:i:k him to take her. I cannot aVf Ann until I know that hr has al least settled upuii n'hat site is iroint' to .Io." " Mrs Cwmeron could not rrflyj one rnOTi thrast ami luioliic '.o Ml" ll"t-sey, ll"t-sey, shQ said: 'fiirahgc. Isn't it. that our children think we can do nothing without the advice of their Irexperrcoce ?" Mr. Ilalsev Jum bowed and held Hi" doer open a little Wider; As Mrs. t ahi sron passed through, closed it softly soft-ly and wlUi a stjrh of relief said: "Sti-anfre how thm woman alwavf-rubs alwavf-rubs me the wrong way She always did this as a girt, when she, your father and mother and I, Ann. belonged belong-ed to the same set " "Someone told me she was angling for you. dad ' ylylv said Kenneth. "Hush lad. ihut Is one of the things ,'hlch a reatietunn niver dlKiissea I wonder if you know dad's creed, Ann? ' "I: ' thai om rjn do anything yon .mi nt to in this wmi'. if you arc ifr-fectly ifr-fectly still abput If hut If tu should he fonrd out. thf'n vim will bo pnp- Ishcsl. I'e has an idea one is punished.' nol for One's 'i. hut tor one's rnre-lessness rnre-lessness in beitts foiUMl out' "I shall have i-o Sfijd you after Mrs i . ineron." sail K uni-th'.i father Jni-palien'lv. Jni-palien'lv. "if you i. s st upon dragging an irrelevant, as well as nonsensical. Meg. Can yQU never be serious". Ken' 1 1 io ii f i ' i i mi Settles iiii Vf fairs. |
