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Show I (LOVE and MARRIED UFS M- Imj, the noted author 1 I Idah MSGlone Gibson j BESS MORELAND'S MANEUVERS rH I rlki not speak. "Oh. of courbe I know you do not -sjB approve of it," he said roughly, hut 'rjM yoti know Elizabeth is nil alone and f I think she will ninke a nice companion Ul for n-other." JB'I Hid your mother suggest Ihe part itersbip?" ; asked tfrM Well, I have really forgotten who jMM suggested it, but Elizabeth told mc ''ttfl that since living had bpcome so ex- MLLX pensive it wasn't easy to get along CH And I thought, that you would bo much fH better pleased than to have mother jM corao with ua " iB "I certainly should," I -c.'id irmly, lpJH although my tirsl impulse had been rJjB one 61 annoyan'ce, when I though o( K if l-:iizabi-ih Mm land living with John's J Lher, 1 quickly decided that I would noi go there when Bhe was at home.! fcSjB But 1 was quite sure that she would not remain verv long, because she and mRM Madam Gordon could not get along JKj together Wk What's Alice think about it all?" fiH Alice didn't say much." he said eva-; H "John, vou are not telling me the 9H whole truth,' I said with a smile "You '.H know Alice always has an opinion or JH every subject and she certainly would have one on this." H "Well, she said," spoke John slowly, MMI "that probably Klizabtth and mother PjSK would have a cat :nd parrot time. 0e "I don't know why you women are all so down on Elisabeth Bforeland 1 wouldn't be half so attentive to her fi as &m' ' were'nt so ashamed of the way you women treat her." ' "Oh, that Is it, ia it?" I asked. 'Yon ujVfl mean to tell me that it is only be- , cause I 6nub F.iizabeth Moreland that on make yonrstll conspicuous with your attentions to hr" , "How do you know that I make m-self m-self conspicuous?" , "Oh, someone has told you, have 'they?" "A good many people have." blurted Oil! .Tolin. and then 1 was immediately r.orry. "1 don't know why people should be bo censorious," he said "Elizabeth and 1 have been children playmates and friends all of our lives, except when we quarrel." oh you !o quarrel occasionally"" was my comment "Not very often.' said John honestly. 'Elizabeth and I do not have as man: differences of opinion as you aud I have (Catherine 1 suppose It is be cause we have crown up together and formed similar tastes and Ideas "Oh. by the way Here is something that she told me to give to you for the baby 1 had almost forgotten 1 And he handed mo a tiny box. A' the time i was rather surprised that he had spoken ol her now 1 kn n there was method in his madnr s I opened the box and found I very b( au1 1 1 u I su mp of aeed Fparl "Let's see how they look around h I neck,' Bald John, starting up. 1 No. we won't disturb the baby when she Is sleeping," I said as I put th-tinj th-tinj bead back in the box and covered it up. in my heart l had determined thai my baby should never wear those pearls. Was i wrong? 1 do not know (Copyright by National Newspaper Service) Tomorrow A Note From Alice |