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Show rHer Daughter and His Son A Grat Married Lifm Story by j IDAH McGLQNE GIBSON I FHi i ' i ( , 1 1 ( f f I Ml hands shook so I could not open I the envelope. By lntuu.cn I Knew t-x- I actly what I should rend. I Miss Huntington threw hf arm I around m and gentl) drew me to i tier. Ti'n-t.iv the lelefi ram from my hand, she handed it to in-" principal. H 1 burled my faio on MLw 11 .mtinjrton a 1H0 l wonder If ftt that moment I felt JBi M i .' some of thoe women d urine In the hUtoiy iUkj. vdil i' they waited for the eXS to defend. Yc4m re pmpressed Into thm Inntunt. and yet I did no'. Wep. My whol. soul. H i whole conscloiiBnecs s'cmcil to speak with nil r.r nii.-hi to push back th" ! fatal instant whan 1 thovld know, f f flf n it ing HH i ; H their head: dropped Into the basket cf l (hi guillotine. 1 "Can you be brave, dear?" f heard Hl I tt Huntington murmur and I opnd IH my eye and cuughl her Rlnnce her H I pitying fclanee. H: I silently bowed my head.' L I Twice sh" essayed, to specie and her IH Arm Isspe 1 ii. a little tighter and I rhen i said: "Never niind. Von ncxl 1 not tell me. 1 know m mother Is j I hue: BalO ih'-e words With j eyes lightly closed, but no - l opened them again arid found con- H j i". i iiiatlon in the face of my beloved III j Neither of the women said anything j more to me. but With the kindest of C d- to my A- i I to me r i r Short tin u L. fore I found myself on B tin tram h ; ded for home. I remember feeling no surprise When l saw Kenneth Heisej npparenr- l.v Waiting for me In the station. He came forward riuickly and snid: "I am Rotng bSCS with you." "How dill know?" "My father wired me and told me Hi n ..on lil ha v mm -ome for you myself, but th re were so many arrangements iu make that LV tojd i e to Ing you." Ml w H ) Kenneth said something under his I V breath that sounded rather profane. Bfll i did not aali him to repeat it. H1 Miss Hur.llngton had come lo the H1 train with me and to her Kenneth cave ) the telegram from his father with the 1 m vci glad, Mr. Halsey. thai l o this for Ml r Whir j fhr- sniii. "i had nol known until to- day t Hd t you and Ann vm re childhood Mcnda I'm clad .-he- in soinp to meet 1 your father when she nrrlven at her R borne for I have dreaded er- much tor her to arrive iu m aloiie." Ah. how nil tho.v hours and min-'He-, r,:,m. ha-., t,, Irf , njs so tirf.,- ! so lonely, so unhappy that when Ken-h Ken-h took me In the train and nai down beaide me in the drawing room, which be bad reserved for me. I made no expostulations when he threw hla arm about me. i Jurt drr-w little - loser to him and laying my tearstair,' ii heart ijpon hla breast, i ;bed out my grief. I hud forgotten all about Orate aruj ( accepted Kenneth juc as I had always al-ways Hceepted him as a child W f r friends and pals again. He v.aii the person I c-arcd for most In the world, now thai HI) mother was ron In a little vh!ie he left me, telhnir me that he was go.'ng to order dinner "I can't eat." I said. Uut v. hen he returned with i h mo' delicately prf!rd and deliciously cooked meal'. I found that I really waa very hungry .hit r-A'infc. i jeu oeuer. m-'xru". Imi't i:. that bodily comfort will help o assuage the greatest grief? Tht . rounds very hard, doesn't It? Hut It iw ne v rthelvss true. I didn't know I wa hungry: I only knw I was ner-fectly ner-fectly ndserable unhappy in soul and body but after I had eaten, my body Krew atrong enough for me to face the 'ii" i ' ro . Mm thai turn , h4ve never allowed myself. In an? way, to noglee-l my body. 1 have con-aidered con-aidered it worthy of the greatest car, ii'- greatest respect and whatever has been my grief. have Imown that as long as I eoold keep my body in a atute of material tomfori 1 could be! Sirring enough to look yvte In the face, , When 1 had finished olnn-r. I be-1 cume much calmer and I told Kenneth hat I thought I woui.l go to bed immediately. im-mediately. "iJcnsible Ann," ho said, ",nd I1 have to add 'bravely to your many o.Iit virtue. I'll !ea e you rfdw be added, "and th- porter can make ji. four i-ed Bui remember I am In ifij. berth Just outside your door ind -jf you want anj'thlng In th night JdRI r"nr nod the port:r can bri'ijr nic Mififl tnosiage." ' j Impulsively I hc!'1 out both my hand;. Keniv th," 1 aald, ' I am sorry sor-ry for what 1 said to you this a Iter-; noon." " And fo run I sorry; Ann. 6orrler than you. I did not men-i to hurt you. I thought I could Joke with you is r did when we were children." "And j on could have, Kenneth," r answered, "if we had kept up the Same childish feHingj for each other." "I fer. just the same towarrl you." I "But I had not seen ynu. Kenneth ' for f-o lone that you seemed (u'.r- a stronger to mc." "I am never colnp to be a strancrer 1 1 you any more, dear Ann My dad .r.vs that you are eclnp to 11- a at our house and be my own sister." Ann" although In my heart I knew it COUld not be, I turned to hvrn an-) like two children "we kissed again"! Ith tears. |
