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Show I ILOVE and MARRIED LIFEl 2)ij, Hbe noted author i i Idah HGloaie Gibson j I A DEAIj IX DIAMONDS. I fell a little scornful smile curling my fever-dried lips an I hoard John '7 aslc Alice how much sho had given me for the diamond pin I had sold her. I never will bo able to understand John attitude toward money. To -T' him it is the greatest thing in the world. Every enjoyment must bo of the most expensive kind, and he seems to be afraid lo allow any monoy that ho has. to pass through any l'ingo.n but his own. Knowing John so well, I was expecting an outburst of rao when he learned what Alice had paid mo for the flamboyant brooch Johni had given me. I "I gave her $1,500 for It," sho said.) "Well, you can give It back to niej how,".(he answered, "and I will write .you a check for that amount." . 'T ahnll not do that, John. Kath-orine Kath-orine sold it to nie. She needed the1 money and needed it badly. You could' Just' as easily have given her a chock for $3,500 then as to give it to me now. 1 offered to lend her the money, but she insisted that I should buy a piece of her jewelry Instead. She suggested the brooch, and as 1 always admired; " "Do you know what 1 paid for, that brooch, Alico?" thundered John. ... "No( I don't and what is more, I cion't '.care." I ' . "Woll, I'll just tell you what I paTT for it." ho said. "1 paid $5,000, and I thnf was $2,000 les.-s than its retail "price. But 1 caught SImms, the jeweler,', jew-eler,', one morning when he needed ?5,000. beforo noon, and that js thoi reason I bought it. You're a good enough judge of jewels, Alice,' to know; that' the pin was worth a good deal ! more than -S 1,500, and Katherinc's selling it in this way just, bears out . my statement tha she knows nothing about buying or selling oithe caro of money. I snail Insist that she repurchase repur-chase the brooch with ? 1,500 that I shall give her. It will take her a long . while to repay this money." "Pay you back, pay you back, what do y5u mean? Surely you don't m- ' tend that Katherinc is to buy back that diamond pin, which sho despises, out of her little income. John Gordon, Gor-don, I never thought you were a regular regu-lar miser." Not for the Money. "It Isn't for the money that I am doing it. It's just to show Kalherine that I am not a miser. That she does not know anything about the use f money, and that she would be nuch happier to allow me to have the ull charge of It in this family." "Mr Gordon," broke in the nurye, "I notice thai Mrs. Gordon is .-slightly ! restless. If you and your sister stay I her.o and talk you may awaken her." I "I am just going, nurse," said Alice, land then, .although I did not open my eyes, I knew that she was looking toward to-ward the bed. "Come on, John," she said, "we will finish this most Interesting Inter-esting conversation in another room if you wish." "Oh, 1 .don't wish to talk t'o your further," was his surly remark as ho . left tho room. During their conversation I had become be-come very nervous, as two things had made. lUemaelves. wlain . in .my mirtd. The first was that John fully intended to lake charge of the entire business connected with my mother's estate, and we probably would have a most terrible quarrel ovor it, for I could make him understand that 1 intended to do as I pleased with my own property. prop-erty. Good Business Deal. Thensocond was that even that ox-pensive ox-pensive cluster of diamonds which John had given mo with so much blowing of trumpets was not purchased pur-chased because he wanted to pleue me, but. because ho thought he wan making a good business deal. Although 1 was much concerned of the outcome of it all, I was .quite as determined that John should have nothing to do with any property thati came to me from my mother's will. And I was. quite ay decided that I would never buy back the diamond from Alice. Tomorrow Settling Mother's Affairs. |