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Show m f ToVEarai MARRIED HFEl I the noted aiathor r J Idah MGlone Gibson I .M ST kBOl T TIM It IBI I; "I think ; i vh'.ii:.) t r tnd rdeop .1 EfS I little while, Mrs. Gordon. " uld my I nunte. I looked up quickly. I had bSM H I so arunrhed In my fetter tha I had not H I heard her come HB I "I am not a: all sleepy.'' I protested, f I I'Ko, you don't look sleepy." she ob- g T "I have neer known any one to re- II cover as quickly a you have done BHI f from such a serious illness If you H I mill try to sleep, or at least res', quiet-HHI quiet-HHI ' ly for a while, I think you my sit up IHI for a little while I prepare your bed for th i ffhl WmlK 1 "That will l.o fine, and I will try and J c be pood en'iuKh t deserve It, for I am HBfSf I very tired of lying In bed " i "Mr. Gordon Jus: called up a-ln on DBEr f the Ion? distance telephone nnl told KHn j me to tell you that he would be here 9Hk' late tonight, but that he would not M I disturb you until moaning He Just r -wanted you to know that he would Kj f be In the house to call when you tosHV awakened. Darkening the TVom j gBf f As the nurt aa ruiylng this she was MH t deftlj s'ralghtenlng my bed and dark- FH cnlng the room, and although I . I thought I could not sleep at all when j H f she first 8urf-vsted It. I did not know, H when she left the room. H I It was late In the Afternoon when HH I T awoke to f inl mj baby n my breast ! I and Ruth nt the door with her arms! TS. full of rntf piT I "How well you look, Katherlne." sho ; h"v exclaimed In surprise. ax I "Do you think so "" It eemcd to me , MHttt I ns I looked In the glass that I VTM I fMVH very white nni thin tLKfwl I "Oh. of course your face is a llft'e gWjU I thin, but you hoc a faint color whl h MLH t Is very' becoming. JrUf ''Ruth, I want to tell you that you I W an? right There Is no tr-r.il like that HjF of bolng ftble to look down upon your baby ?s I am looklnur on mine." SafiM1! Ruth smiled "Lei rre see how you J n look. Miss Gordon. ' she said, hendlnK JJQ ovrr r.v hi'--; " ' ;o n v..ur ev e find sr. p m rlnl ling up l h utile y nos? of yours Jut OUT mother does V when she is h i pj j A I "vThv, Ruth. I never knew I wrlnkle.1 up my noM ! said in slir- iH F prise J am sure I never saw It wrinkled in the glass. - nd ! alwaya I V! smile ;, n s'-!f . tii. gla c as ever li on else do LH li "Ycm." commented Ruth, that is IH one reason I npprov Of mirrori ( n- SH I never looks In a mirror without try- H I lng to look his beet." iH I- "And 'b-st,' of courFC, Is smllinj. ' Ruth Tnkos Mary . flH I ? Ruth had taken Mnr In her attns ! rH I j "My tjin't sh- lovely?" sho exclaimed 1 tjH If "I think nh ban the ood points of I H j ' both John and you, my dear. 1 wan co KH j j afraid she was not coing to have your KJBI o wonderful hall." 1 I "Well, ahe hei not gotten It yet," i a j was response. IH ,, "Wh;. , Katheiine, she baa a lot of j HH IH m "Do you call thai fuzzy silk on the I s top of her he-id hair." IStH I p ' Yes, don't you?" B h "1 don't m1I It anything, hut s'm-e HBK t 0 both you and Charles proclaim it hair I f r" that is Just like mine. suppose 1 will have I ,i be satlsi ed W "All bobi'-s look thi:- w in said Ruth In tones which showed she though' 1 wu.i dls-ippoln'ed In mine. "Oh. no, they do not." was my quick assertion This baby Is the loveliest thlnjr thai wft ever born Into this world." I "Of course, answered Ruth. That Is what I thougnt of every one of m three babies Ruth ' I asked solemnly, does the l same ecstasy come with the birth of .other children, or 's part of It the 'newness of the sensation""' "Do you remembor. Katherlne that isllly little song from some forgotten musical comedy about tne Joy when you first kla- the last glH you love? I always thougn that a bit of cynical smartness until the firs' time I kissed my second r.nd third baby. Nature, my d'-ar Katherlne. Is a pretty (rood friend to all of us If we let her alone to work out her wUJ with u In her own way. ' "Then jou think It Is nature that sends us love, either romantic or maternal ma-ternal " Docs Sol M-S.S the father "Honestly. Ketherlne. I do not know from whom or what comes love I do not even know what love it; when I find that what I called love was In some cases pride. In others a poetical Illusion Truly, since little Eob is back ond I find him "till devoted ti me. I do not particularly miss his father any more " 'So Bobby. Jr.. 13 back. Is he"1" I asked ' Yes. he came the next diy after his nurse cot my letter sr.ylng I did no wish him to QVoretay the time agreed upon." 'Is he looking fine ' "Yes. and he speaks ciftcn of Helen ; A,t first ft gave nu a distinct shook I but after I found how unconscious the child was about it and how lovely j I Helen had been to him I began to see 'how foolish I wfis Little Bob v..is real- ly glad to get home,' continued Ruth. unconsciously answering the question I had been wanting to oak ' I thin ' It was hev-iuse he missed his little , brothe- and bdster You see. over, there, there were no children. The. othfr day I heard him 'alklng to them when he did not know I was around I You see, Ruthle.' he enld. 'I've got I two "muviers,' a real one and a kind of make-believe one My real "muv-ver" "muv-ver" Is yours and Ruddy's, but nv. mnke-belleve. one is Just for m- ' ' Where le she"" asked Ruddy, and doesn't she want u. too?" uu Not Have nv " 1 don't know, but s'.e can not have any 6t us. Our djddy said so the other night when 1 v.iis there.' "9'e said: I do not se Why we can ; not have Bobby hre with us all thr time." and daddy iMld: 'Helen. I would not take Rob awa from his 'muwer' I for all the world.' And my mnke-belleve mnke-belleve mower Just said. ( In,' but I saw a great big lesr on her cheek and I climbed up Into her lap ami kissed It away, and Ruthle, It was Just i as altv aa It ould be.' " I do not like salt.' said Ruthle,. primly. " 1 do not believe ?he likes 'em 1 either, for this one mule a great red 1 spot on her face, and when I kissed 1 It away sic sld. 'You blessed child."! and crleO nr,i more.' ' T"T-.i irrov John ( " .tnes |