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Show WL Her Daughter and His Son MB l Great Married Life Story by M IDAH McGLONE GIBSON H THE SJNS OF THE FATHKR jEQI I left ihe room hurrlcdl, Tor I f-lt lliut KB T could stand nn more It was the drat SjflH tlmo in my lift tluiL 1 had looked upon a HH human soul, naked and unashamed of Its festering notes. T had conio in contact mW with something so disgusting, so debased, iM tlmt I mum physicall nauseated. I needed iM old nnd Uio light of day. jfBjj So I vr.-tlked to tlic hospital -whore I WSmt knew that Mr. Hulsty was uwnillng tnr. Jflfl rnd I almost hoped that when 1 arrived JBCTJ thr I would find Kenneth 'dead. It jHflj icmed lo me that when he would H( nwakon to the consequences of thestep WJti he Iwtl taken, he would not want to live. HMH And then I smiled to myself, treatise r tM ' whs sure that Grac Cameron hnd never DM shown Kenneth the side of her nature iho VMj had revealed to me today. lyfl Would she show this side of heitelf now j that she hHd him, 1 asknd myself? Ami Wtlm I folt Mire that (die Mould, for sooner or KU later wu must nit doff our niak". kK It vri(s with heavy heart that 1 went MB Into the reception room where I found Mr. O Halsey imclng up and down. MmS One dance at my fnre and he said: M "Then It in true." Htfl, I bowed my hesd ciml RSkftd: 3Pft "Hasn't Kenneth told ou elncc I've Mjfil -jtjen R-one?" jB ''No. Ib .-Jink lwck lnln stupor soon JHE after you loft, hut he sterns to he sleep- QV) lug peacefully and the doctors say he Is UMl out of dimmer. Qn "J lit Ann, honestly I would rather see sfjm lit in dead than In (he power of those two' KatC - harpies. Thev will squecto him dry, not , JmU only financially, hut of his love of tiff I kVI and confidence In human nature. Thev IBB v III destroy all the pood tlmt is in him. M "What shall I do. Ann, what shall 1 do?" i vjH Ho cnnie forward. And taking m hands gmj In lKth of his own, looked Into iiij face ; It's a piti notion world, isn't it. dear?" I. threw bark m head snd looked Into hlr fe. No. Mi. Ilso). It's nol. Tt s n la- ; Uful old world. The only trouble is. wc make. It omethIne tlmt It was never In- t-nded to be., You will forgive me. My, I Ilalscy. If I iy that oti 3iv0r huve i trslned Ken In th ways of riRht iiylnc.' "Uut he hasn't been a bad boy," he In- 'terxupted esicerly. I 'No, he hasn't been bad. simply because be-cause his iihiur' was sweet, but you have Wen selfish and he has been celfish. ou ' did not tell him when he , was dolus wrontc, bec.iuic you Ud not wish to make yourself unhnppyr nnd ou have broucht jlilm up to think that his romfortv , and Mhtit In- thinks Is. his happiness, wero of jinorrl!iipoitanco to him than any service . that he inlRht render others." "Ann, deer, whcie did you gel those lideasr' . r I "From my mother. . Mr. Hals-iy. I ' learned from her that the finest happi-I happi-I ness -in life lies in serving. "It's Just tho difference dear Mr, Halls Hal-ls oy. between tho phllnsophy of a man of j tho world a philosophy of polished and i Rood' mannered slflshiwss which h ' teaches his son and tho spirit of a i;ood I woiimii like my mother, a splrii which 'ho tiled to instill Into her daughter. M ' mother did not dream that 1 should meet the o-vpedence which have come to inc. And you. Mr Halsey. had no Idea that , Kenneth would not be nbc to turn lill of ' his worldly experiences to advantage. I . have had to face the world In iRnorance: I Kenneth has learned that knowledge of 'onsequerirrs Is not a suffiHrnt liHrrjer acainsl tfinptalion I'hararirr nuKl be i mon firailj built " 'Aim.' Ann!" exclaimed -Mr. Halcj ! "Vli didn't ou ninnv Kenneth?" |