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Show I ' - KbVE aid MARRIED 1IFE j lij. the noted author j Idah MSGlone Gibson j I JOHN IS HAPPY - 'Well, ar you going In In ablo to ' go for a motor ride with r..c this I, morning, Mmc. Gordon, ' ho askfd. ,J I I am nfrald not, Mr, Gordon, fe nurn- answered for me, "but l think she may take a little r k Lpmi lrr jtl I vvrin' I,.- hii i. ...I.. i row :i'(-- . - ,Hi noon; I have goi to return." 8 " h. I am BO son " . ' I Pf Well, the sooner I return, prob- j ably the sooner you will como bach n home yourself. We haven't Been much EH together In the Inst year, have Wo S9H Katherlnc-.' We will have to lm jlII over aguln. Shall 1 move into the now j , . house befor you rc-turn. or would you HfBs rather Jo th.it yourself? I1! You certainly are hrgliTnlnu nil ?KB over again, John." 1 Bald. "In ordi- OTtflfr nnry rlrrumslunce.3 jou would have g3L never asked my desiree on this subject, 3H but moved or not as you thought best.'' T tell the truth. I would rather H not move until you come home." H "Well, anyway. I am pleased that H you have gone about the matter dlplu- B matlcally, and In this case I want to H say to you that your ideas and mine H are in perfet a curi i would rather Hh do the moving. Lctta i. mm Karl. J "By the way , have you heard from H Karl Shepnrd lately-." John asked un- H suspecting! v. "He was so devoted, H sending you flowers and hauling me NHHJ over the coals for my little derelictions WfciY that he sunposed were mine, that 1 thought he must have at least written H you." Fes," i answered I have received w- two or three from him " K John looked up in surprise. H "Where is he?" he asked. "In India, now." I answered 9VH "Have you written to him " So, i havi not .- in fact, i don 1 ihlnk he expected his letters to be answered." "Oh: they were just simply the ordinary ordi-nary post cards, or letters of travel?" '.h i John. , I did not answer, as 1 did not want to .-how John Karl's letters yet. In fact, 1 was not sure that I wo'ild ever show them to him. "Kunny, wasn't it," he said, "that he should give up his business and tnrl traveling nil by his lonely0 However. How-ever. I could do It easy, if I had plenty of money and I don t know that I blame him When I am rich ejiough I shall try to take it easy, too" This morning John seemed perfectly perfect-ly happy The world was USlng him as he would wish 1 1 to. 1 had not only given him a daughter, but she had brought, in her little hand, a 125,000 check. Never Will Change. I suppose I must get over the fact of wanting John to think less of money mon-ey than he does, because I am sure he ncvi-r Will Change In tins direction. I lost ' .isle with him v. hen my father died and he found that 1 nad given up my personal income to my mother I gained it back again when he thought I was an heiress to some splendid i wells . gain my stock was below par when he found that these wells were not paying and now thai Charles had given little Mary $25,004 h- again thought thjat posslblj his life might be worth something after all. I had Just begun to thick that the world was very beautiful after all, and deciding within myself that all 'hat had ailed John, all that had rr;ide our marriage so unsuccessful was the fact that we had had no children, when John abruptly said '"Do you know when we' lenvc for the new house Eliza beth .Moreland is going to conic and live with mothdv?' (To Be Continued.) |