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Show NHer Daughter and His Son I A Great Married Life Story by IDAH McGLONE GIBSON j Iw mothkA's srom The night I grew Up. After n-.v mothi r drew m( into the H house. wc went lo h-r own room and shf seatc! herself in the low rocking H chair while I climbed into her lap. H For a long tlm. v. gal there !icnt- H ly. my hfari on my mother's breast H ami ixT arms folding me tightly. At H last 1 Bald, "Grace Cameron told me this afternoon that if Uobcrt Carle- H ton was my fHther, whj wa I called H Ann w hltson H Then the flood gate upeneil and nij H mother began to talk, she told nM H how rtlfl had grown up with Kobtrt Carleton. and Albert Halsey, Ken- H neth'a father llow the- had played H in the big house together. Host hi H had hover been rich girl, bid her family was an old oiu-. and had always gon with the children of i.- . very best people In the town "I iio not rem ember the time when M 1 didn't love your father," .he paid. Jm "and my flr.t great sorrow war. whin H he went away to college and lefl me H During thai time my mother i v ,i and H i had a very hard time to g"t along H She left me this little cottage then, IH hut when I was a little girl, women H did not W ork out In the world as they H do now. I taught in the primary H schools and had a little dancing class Winn Robert first went aw.j to jV college, be wrote mv ry often, ut he made new friends and I suppose, ir. time forgot me. During the ari-hual ari-hual college' vacations for tour yearn ho never i ame iack. Once or twice we heard aOmo scandals about him. HH scandals in which Albert Halsey oar- I HI llclpated for tb' were great friends and then 1 thought my heart was H broken for I heard that he had mar H lied an actress. "At the end of six years, however, Hl Ftobort returned to his old home. Both HBI of his parents had died It was said HH of broken hearts- He seemed much changed. 'lone was the IrreSponslbi-lity IrreSponslbi-lity that I loved so much in him. :id ids eyes had that same little wistful Ipbk that is li ki- a knife going through I(sssBBs n,y ncjrl when 1 see 11 In yours." I opened my eyes wide at this, for I ilid not know they ever changed llieir expression. "The very night that Tlober; arrival ar-rival home he came to see nv!. And' we took up ihe old life almost when it was left off l remember vers distinctly dis-tinctly my child, that when he left mi' that niht )! took hoi h my hands In his and said: "Margaret. I cannot Imagine w hv I ever l-t ou stra out " 'l don't think I ever was really In1 your heart Robert, had I been I cei ' t inly would not have strayed out of , " 'Do you mean that. Margaret?' he said. " 'Always.' I sank "And thin he said: I'm coming to morrow night to tell you something' ' AM next day I was teaching -Ti. ol at CHe linn 1 kept wondering whsj be was going to tell me. The 'droning voices of the children were not r. ..i itlng f j little easy sentences, but Instead the seemed to bs saying, ; 'Robert Is going to tall you' Koberl is siolng to tell ynu" "As soon as school was out I hurried hur-ried home. Robert came very early ::nd then lie told me. "1 wonder, he began, if any wo man can understand man.'" My mother looked at me, as I nestled eloper elop-er to her bosom, to see if l understood. under-stood. I was so oroud that she was talking to me .lust as though 1 were grOWp that I nodded m. head and smlbd as nn hand crept up to caress ' her chCC k i " 'Margaret, you know I haw- always al-ways loved you. Really, 1 think I have never love. I any gtrl but you. r.'i yet there Is page after page In my life that 1 would not have you know becaiise you cannot understand In fact, I wish 1 did nol have to toil j cu anything. " Don t tell me Robert if on do satisfied now that ) have you back.' " 'But I must tell you Margaret, one thln' he said. -In my k-.st year at ollege. 1 went ore- nlglu with A lot of boys to a musical comedy and as the Kirls filed In for the first chorus. I caughl th glance of a pafr of Um-pld. Um-pld. blur wis looking slraiirht Into nuin 1 cannot describe to von mj feelings- I felt almost a- though the, glande of thost eyes was of molten I steel, burning my heurt with an ec-j:s ec-j:s I had never known before. My i ompanlons did not understand when a) the close of the first acl I left . i Seat and started for tMe door.' 1 " 'Bob, where you going " they asked, 1 did not answer, In fact I hardly knew where i was going until I found mvM-'f at the stage door. ' 'Here, you can't iro In there,' sti.l the door keeper. 'So one Is allowed behind the scenes while the show Is on.' " 'Ha-:ilv I took oul mv card and tol.l the "man to Kie it to "Ou'ng woman i i :ii-e.i tefllrig her that i would be Back after the play. Then i rnshed back to my seat, The next time she came out. she bowed Blight-1 Blight-1 and smlli ' I Trev hot and cold bv turns I, peemed to me the hours i airv i i i rmlnably bul it last she came as 1 stood In the shadow of the allev way.' Tomorrov. M' Mother's Story - |