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Show t LOVE and MARRIED LIFi bu, the noted author i Idah MGlone Gibson j JH M.tRRlAUl JH think Alice, that wc nail letter El- -Ls I Intents. In foct. I am o tlied that I I ..tdly think that It will dp any rood to co out without making out B list. Sou see, dear, what I had Intended to do wns to go ijuletly hack (o my loom In John' mother' houe and Itve there until I hud fitted the new house up no I could live In It comfortably, com-fortably, but Ellrabeih spoiled nil that yeu know." 1 enn not understand what John nion wan thinking about to lot thut ncnun come Into the house before o i returned." Interrupted Alice furiously. fu-riously. 'I don't think that he really knew that she mas going to do It so soon.' I answered. ' "Well, you miy think she Is u clever! woman. Katherlne, but I think thut( t he Is a particularly sneaky one." i "Oh, my dear, my dar; can't you see that she had become perfectly sure of John In the long time that I had I on uway from him. I wish I did not think that, hart that flurry In oil not ronin to me. John would have mude me so uncomfortuble that I would lat had to separate from him by this time Elizabeth ou can see was working work-ing for u divorce between us. Some-, ( - niiie-t. you Know, a woman Decern'- ,to.- so thoroughly Imbued with the idea i''B- 1 that she owns a man. body and soul, t think, Elizabeth has done. As It Is. f in i nhall not go Into the new home until I can go Hp HfJH. this on himself and, for once, he, not "Why, Katherlne. I have never Keen IMhI I you like this." in ui vm I 1SP1 RATI i WH' "No, my dear, you never hate, for 1 Jk a4H have never ben like this. I have be n B W (asperated furious with B i ly disappointed with hli Jk brother has taken something oul of Mm Ml 1 a n d th o ug I i in al I p robab 1 j 1 1 i i i . WjT lr" 'villi him, I Know ti .it ! will mlM 'HM ' v " thing ' .. 1 i has . .1 Alice reat hed 6ver i 11 end fBBg touched my hand. I knew what she fBBBfl Wanted to say. What snc did say was Jg BBBBJ Tom," she exolalmed, "Ihc more I &BBb think that marriage entered Into with BVfl John were Biarrled that I had never fjfB seen two people who loved each other IBB ao passionately IBB "That Is Just It. Alice. The love that ik-Vm 1 1 ii n i I; JB consideration at all. And yet, while marriage may be moie monotonous ithun monotony Itself, treated In the light way it Is more exciting than any I excitement that the Imagination can concise. Marriage mukes the taske of Hercules look ik pu. yel it la i the most interesting ot any vocation. .Marriage Is the most bo.esome of human hu-man stittej. and yet It has hours of ecstatic ec-static bltae. Marriage Is dally, yes. hourly, pain, and yet it gives j.-rumliv of happiness slWSJS Just ahead. In short, marriage Is all the world ran give to mortals, and they mn make It . lut they choose. "Woman thinks love Is Immortal and n.ejt men acquiesce in the theory, but 11. er. Is nothing In their curriculum curricu-lum about the otfject of love being Immortal. Im-mortal. In their phllouophy, love Is not only Immortal, but omnipresent, ond always icady to be transferred Immediately Im-mediately from one be- lo veu to another." an-other." Alice pressed my hand "I'm sorry.", she said, "It haa taken all the radiance radi-ance out of your life, hasn't it? I have noticed lately. Katherlne, that your eyes arc somber and that you' mouth has loK those wonderful upturning curls that used to Intrigue nog. 1 huve never seen the light come Into your eyes except when you look at your child ." MIGH I . O MAD. i "Well, we u come somewhere near lo the place where wc look upon life only through philosophical vision, otherwise oth-erwise we would go mad." I "I am sure that yon can't keep this ' pose " "It Is not a pose, but I have almost reached the time, dear, when I am rfady to ask whar Is the use of It r. II. I Per ha PI there will come to me In the future something which will at least pus for oornrcid-Khlp and understanding. understand-ing. I find that I made the same mls-trke mls-trke that most women make. I wanted want-ed to make love all. I was ready to throw duty to myself and all the world aside and throw myself beneath the churlot of Eios. and I have found. d-nr, that Just as sure n.t night follows fol-lows the day, gaiety follows fulfilled desire and life Is made up of many things of which love Is only a small part." We had reached the hotel. I wonder won-der If some time sudden premonition Comes to you my heart grew cold is I took the elevator to my room. As I stepped out Into the hull Miss Parker Par-ker mt me. and she held out to me a ttlegram. saying. "I wag just going to try to Bend a boy to you, as I thought thl" might be Important.'' 1 opened It and read: "Do not be distressed over anything you may hear. I heard John wished to s II the old home and I purchased It and am having hav-ing tho deeds again made out In your ne me. "CHA RLBS. ' i nniorrom Ft inn's lai, .i Mom- |