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Show k LOW and MARRIED IIFEf la, ihe noted author i j Mala MgGlcme Gibson g H Alice Changed Her Mind After I read Bob's letter my eyes HH filed with tears. I sincerely pity Rob H crt, but, oh, I pittied Helen much more. H With woman's intuition she had H sensed Robert's feelings toward his H children. She knew that in tho battle H of humanity against natural laws, poor H human 'beings always IohL H I wonder If Alice knew that Ruth H was here. As if to assure mo on that H matter Alice came in at this moment, H saying: "I did not tell you, Katherinc, H that Ruth Gaylord and the childron are H in town. I saw them yesterday." H "How is she looking?" I asked. H "I think she lms grown old, but iHb j tho Babies are perfect little angels. J Ruth asked about you, and I told her JHttlt v that you would come and see her very TS soon. She seemed pleased that you T' would do this, as sho knows you are L a great friend of Helen's. Someway L I do not think sho is quite so obsessed M with tho idea of making her children I all in all as she used to be." j I All Wrong to Separate j I "Katherinc, I guess it is all wrong I; for a man and his wife to separate if I Ihero are children." I "I guess you are right, Alice." I said I as I quietly put Robert's letter back in I the envelope. I "And you still think that you will I not go back to John?" said Alice. This I seemed to me a little irrelevant. I "How can 1?" 1 asked." "Nothing I lms changed since last night and you I voni'solf nfil (linn th:if von did not: tseo how I could live with John after tho way he treated me." "I tfiink perhaps the letter you have juU baen reading might have changed your mind a little."" "How did you know what was in the letter?" Ijaskcd curiously. I "I didn't. I only know that you have I been reading a letter from Bobby Gay-1 I lord, and I can not imagine his writing1 to unless lie. is. dissatisfied In some, way, or Helen is dissatisfied with the) life they are living. 1 know he wants i you to patch up something." I "-That's purely a woman's intuition, Alice, because Bobby might havo - wrjttcn me a dozen other subjects."! "But he wouldn't have written a long letter." Very Jealous of Them "Goodness, how observing ycu are. Well if you must know, Bobby tells mo he knows Ruth and the children are here? and ho wants me to go over and see the children. You know the court gave them to Ruth and she is very ; jealous of them. She will not let them go to him even for a day." "I expected that is Ruth's way or getting even," remarked 'Alice. "Ruth never struck me as being tho kind of a woman who would want to get even," I answered. "Oh I My dear,, wo all want to get oven when anyone hurts us, and when we get a chanco to hurt them back wo aro very apt to find out that we are human and not angels.'1 "So Bobby wants to see the children does he? Ho used to try and do everything every-thing to get away from tlicni when he was married to Ruth." "Well, he Is very anxious to see them now. And I rather think, Alice, if my baby had lived Bobby's letter would have influenced mo greatly, but as it Is, I have no one to think of but myself." "And John," interposed Alice gently. "Why should I thlnk of him? You say, yourself, that ho has never thought of me. Last night you were quite as Indignant at him as I." "Yes I know, but I thought a lot about it last night, my dear, and do you know, Katherinc, that if you let John go now ha will go straight to Elizabeth Moreland. And that means his finish." "Well, my dear, if I have to lako on the moral support of every man who thinks ho is In love with some unworthy un-worthy woman, I am afraid 1 would have my hands full." Little Soys Grown Tall "You won't have to do that at all, Katherine, but don't you think that ;you could become the moral support of one man, if that man was your husband? hus-band? Call up that divine maternal instinct that is in all women. I'm quite sure that it Is that instinct that makes life endurable to most women after the' find that the men that they have married are not Sir Galahads, but Just -little boys grown tall." "Again I was surprised at Alice. Thcro is so much more to her than I hit upon the very crux of the whole matter. Before she had spoken to me I had been wondering if I could possibly possib-ly give John another chance. "I'll come for you by and by," said Alice, "and if you are feeling well enough wo will go out and see Ituthj and tho children." j (Copyright by International Newspa-I per Service) Tomorrow Aetter from Helen j |