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Show . , " 1 Hr Her Daughter and His Son A Great Married Life Story by 1 IDAH McGLONE GIBSON MRS CAMERON'S PRETENSE BtHI Sometimes I wonder If women are not fiB the bTSTeT sex. On the tvbv to' the C;im- fflHfl eron hom" I oould not yet out of my 'iiSflKsl mind the look of intense rrlirf that I av jnVjH on Mr. Halsey's face when I told him that i would i :n on Grace, although WS both reft) ec thai Grace .1 ri her mother wire awflltinff Mr Hslsey a next movi y And yet it wu hot bo much courage on PyBB my pnrt ns n kind of nURlbnsss Of mind aAD ant' heart. 1 -mrd another personality '' if&fWH than Ann Whitson as r thought of th DjHH 'tranBenes of the past few days' events. HHB 1 had refud proposal! of mnrrlaire from H two de.slrahle ounc men only in find out afterward that the one man I rcel-B rcel-B mlpht have married was wedded to HH un LRHfl As I sat thlnklne of myself In a whol- 5t3sBBM ly detarhed and Impersonal wsv I In- ml Later i ihall feel sad aboul thla but flll Jut now my inly i motion Is that of eu- J l. rioslt to )wi uiir.t i shall see when U I reach Grace Cameron's homo." JH Introspection, however, for the taxi M tlrlver drove rapidly. It seemed slrnnpc HL4p think tl,. -H he mi i MV living in the same city with me some HHflH months and I. had not known It As I (PBB inns the doothell I wondered Idly what1 f ' would !iae done if I hud known it. j HPS A trllrl maid took my rnnl and 1 noticed, that the houe was decorated In a way; . .j'. v than HrJjHBlBj Xouvcau art MrincKled with the gho.'t.-' of HviEH bouts XV, and neither seemed to have JttflPH benefited. jv3fl 1 had hardly time to wonder at my fan- i tastlc tho .1 i rag mo of m lift bcfoi tin maid i turned and HQa DflJ "Mi.i. Cameron win see you. Mis.' W' i followed her Into a black and white HJBflJkflJ loudoli Mrs t'.niieroe. r,ros anil -iimioiI J. jT toward me. i 1 1 v' t h was gfolng to' throw her ansa about my neck, t'-.-Lstllti lively T drew back. 'Oh. Ann. Amii. rav dear child' Have you hear! nbout my joor little f We have unci the doctor :in-l nUnu with bar II day." Dill she rlrln'. some of th .ulsoncd h J o,uor, too?" I asked brutally. "Of course not." And then she stopped, for she renllze.j that she had by inference acknowledged that Grac I lind inveigled Kenneth Into dunking heavily while she. I heraell kept up the pretence of dolnp hk w ise. W. II. what Is the milter with Iter j then" ' I asked. "W'hv. don't you ktiow'1 Kenneth Hal 1 s .-wept m Wor little .irl off hef feat I hibt nlchl and Insisted upon her marrying him You know thy have heen sweat hearts ever since they COTjld talk, and I 'as I niphl he declared chat lie could he without her no longer. Oh. why wns I , not with her.' i could have prevented '.ill Oil, but she. poor chiid. WAS uelplens. I At last i he pave In to his Importunities and early this moniriK Ksuiwth otyak lenod justice of the peace and Uicy were married." "Where did Ken get hla license?" I ssked For n moment Mrs Cameron seenied embarraaed and then said: ' i do not know; Kenneth nfusl have ha 1 It. I oMy know that when '"iroee oo,me home in an almost lielirlou condition thIJ m -tTilnp slo hand ' I me her m.ir:ii;i i i tifl-viti anti thr i hyVlerically mutter1 some thing over end over 1 linsllv rnthererl from nee the fact thnt rhe hd married Kenneth ur.J that he was at the hospital, d) Inc. " Mrs. Comc'ron thrust the triarrutgo eer- tificste Into mj hand. s! icd fj want mo to I w thai th- dec was legally le-gally don-' I laid it on the (able Without lookinrr ,u It and asked "May I se.r ;tacc?" |