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Show ILOVE and MARRIED LIFE fcq, the noted author I Idah MGlone Gibson IV TM K WITH Kni. "Do you know," said Karl, 1 that Is what I thought you woul do with those bits of Jade give them to Mary." I turned round from the mirror where' I was pulling on my hat t g" lor a ride In Die new car and looked :t my husband rather gprlpusly. That foolish little speech orchis showed me again how Karl was a part of me antl I a part of him Neither of us .spoke however, as we exchanged that look of understanding Instead, Knrl smilingly laid "That s some hat you have on Katherinc.'' "1 in so glad you like II. I was not sun;- It. was not too young for the mother of a daughter who .is to bo married so soon Do yeu realize Karl, that it la on thf cards that I may be a grandmother before I'm f i f - nrds our grandmother!" ejaculated ejacu-lated Karl That's Just what I said my dear. I remarked as I smiled ovr his slang "Turn around.' he said and suiting the action to his words, he twirled rtie about where he could look at me. So long his eyes rested on mv face that I Vk i Kan to feel the color mounting slow ly from my chin to forehead v Bail grinned. "Don't you tell me young lady, that you're growing old.. '.-n when the glance of your lover can fc' lM ' n,a vnu ''"sh Ilk.- that 1 ft lM Nl yu " lover. Karl' 1 asked ' jPm "Don'" you call me your lover" lie, ' parried You have alwuvi been mj ! 'jl; fl sweetheart, Katherine. always from! ! the first time I saw you " "But Karl. 1 was then the bride of 2 John." "I can't help that I nas like this' I little greed god with only oae eve II could see only a part of the jo and happiness of this world and I was, waiting waiting, for the other part ; ""Jr of me which should come md present hy me with the other eve ihr.t might fc make, rnj vision complete. I.ong, long, f 1 had said to myself: I I ' " 'There is anothe: 1 1" - I long to meet. Without which my life Is Incomplete' Incom-plete' and do you know, dear, at that very moment I wanted to say to you: :'''Oh, sweeter self like nae ore thou astray, Striving with all thy heart to find the ) way To mine, striving Ilk. mine to find the breast n which alone can weary heart find i rest.' " "And vou thought that, my dear when vou looked Into the oj es of your in-st friends wife'" T asked. K m i had 'hi grace to blush, as ht answered, I "Well, If I thought It. you know lhat vou didn't hear that I thought It intll a lonp time after vour husband died." I suppose It's up to me," said, "to Bay that I didn't know vou loved m untll we were married, a year and :i half after mv husband's death Wliy, you simpleton,'' I continued, "Alice told me she knew vou were In love with me Ifss than a year after that. Xo man goes around as you did paying pay-ing no attention to the women lh.it up to (lint time he had seemed lo c a r-vciv r-vciv much for, without the vvln.li of the little gossiping world about lnm looking around for the one woman on IVhom he has pinned Ms affection Well, anyway. I don't think John was ever jealous of vou, unless It was perhaps Just for a moment when 1 gave him the three letters thai you wrote me when vou were in Bgypt. And he immediately recovered from that, for John was so constituted thai he was rather flattered bj the thought that he owned some! hint' thai other men would lki to possess and he always al-ways hud the greatest faith and trust In mc " "But, Karl," I broke off eagerly, "my car Take me to see u ' Anil hand in hand Karl and r went down the street Tomorrow Our iuiiv erSSH"", |