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Show Her Daughter and His Son 1 A Crat Married Life Story by I IDAH McGLONE GIBSON , fH KEN'S NEW HOUSE. SH I sllpperl Into the routine of the work BSH as Mr Halsey's secretary no easily that HH seemed to me after hnl been there HHB a week or two that th office had always j fl 11 been bij home HH f fslisjj over all his pei-nonal H affair to m to gel Hum In BRI good ahape have to as- Jlmrnle would I bring m a manege: Ami ng Othi r tl Mi llalsey ahowed ? rne 11 ofn dep iali h h i 1 :.. I krpi ever letter Um Ken had Written rim. and told me to he 10 i.r 1, ft Serve ;ill of hi boy'l lettri .in. I m..'.- i t was a atrea.lt of sentiment thai even j j knowing Mr Halsey a. well ax I did. UtHH l hardly expected to find In him Ha IMVMH would often cn to the he, and take- nul i LH nome of Ken's HOtM and read ihim over EH and over njraln ITe had adnionlohed me .BH to ojicn all hla letters, whether they kFH were marked personal or not and read DM them before P'vlng tl.em to him I ake,l , him apei Ifieally if 1 ahould do thit 1 I Krn'K letters and he mid fee, I wan: XH you to know exact;) what Ken writes KftXiH me, l.eeauae 1 hall nfun your ad- 3IkH vide about him." ??gKH I eould not help ser ine from Ken' ' grgjH letters that he was not particular! happ ,i UH aithoMsh he was eVidentlv trying to keen' it from hla father The letters were rull H of descriptions' of y times that thej HH were having at Mot Spring., for they were I ' '.ni ne nr.rlh h) rlecree. having spent HfH Faster at Bermuda, returning by way of I IBJJJJSJJJJJJJ Hot l'i "Grace I quite determined, wrote j Kenneth, "tha' alu . ;n noi arrive until H house." I noticed that Ken never called! H the place home "She drf the onfu-j BH Slon, she says, ami she wants to walk iBfgH into it as though she were walking Into fairyland" j , castle ; klnson pla e months before, and put It : In the hands of an architect and Interior j decorator, with Instructions to make It perfect In design and flni-n ilia anl- to know nothing about ' it. said Kenneth In one of his letters I "Shi. void he had perfect faith In the decorators .and that she wants every : room ! bt .1 surprise to her '" Mr, Hal- groaned as he read this pen te nee and i I "heard hlni mutter 10 himself 'That I woman will ruin Ken before he comes to I hla senses." It seemed to me from the later letteis I that Ken was Coming 10 his senses, for I he wrote that he was getting very llred Of the continual round of BOClal affairs that made up Ihelr lives 'I want to see you. dad." he said. "I cannot understand why you would r.ot . ome to us down here at the Springs. It would do you good and I think you might persuade CJrace to go hack at once t shall b mighty glad when we ge: Into our house and It rertalnlv ought to he., something fine If Ihe I. Ills I have l.een I paving have anything tp do with It. l wish you would ask Ann 10 g over and look through tin place, and write to me I about It Si me i) I am apt lust hails-, lie. I to Irave It all to the de. orators. As Mr. Halsey read this, he sald: .et k .it lonlchl nnd nt the house Ann.' "I don l want to. Mr lalsey." I said, "and besides, I do not think Grace would approve of ;in suggestions ihn' I mush' give to Ken If I don't see It she nn find no fault with me." "I gut ss 1 1 iilsllk hei :i- mm li .i I do"' said Mr. Ilalsey quickly. My fa. e flushed, ami before t thoughi 1 -.i i n I think she Is the moat hateful, a'elflah woman I have ever knAwn." And tii. n i added more calmly; 'But, I ' thing. I sometimes think her mother la move to bth me for her faults than die Is herself. Grace Cameron Is her mother's daughter.'-' Tomorrow A Surprising Letter. |