Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-13 | Page 5 | Love and Married Life

LOW andMAKRHD LIFEl Jjij, the noted, author 1 I Idahtnmone Gibson - The Money Question. If felt my eyes smart with tears as I listened to Alice'u homily on marriage. mar-riage. With my mind's eye I looked over all ray women acquaintances and I wondered i ono of them could fulfill the requirements of a man who wanted want-ed only a doll. Elizabeth came the nearest. She was clever, I ltnew, more like a cat than a doll. If she were warm and comfortable she might make a pretty plaything, but I was certain that i'f things did. not go to suit her, she would unshcath her velvet vel-vet claw and scratch scratch hard. I was very glad when tho nurse came in and told Alice and John they must leave the room. "The doctor says," volunteered the nurse,' "that Mrs. Gordon must not be disturbed now that she is sleeping normally." Not to Be Disturbed. "Oh, I wouldn't disturb her for the world," said John heartily, and then he evidently looked .at his watc'h for after a moment's silence he said, "Good heavens, how late it is. I had no idea, it was half past 11. and I've got to get up so early in the morning. morn-ing. I want to try and get away froin here tomorrow and I've got to get this whole matter of Katherine's income in-come and the house and everything Jort her by the will, settled. I think I she had better give me a power or 'attornev tomorrow, if she is able to do so, and then she will have no more trouble. 1 will transact all tho business busi-ness for her." Alice began to laugh a little hj'steri-cally. hj'steri-cally. "There you- go my egotistical brother, to do the very thing 1 have warned you against." . j "What do you mean, we have said' nothing about this before?" j I "We have been talking all evening about it John." j "I must be very stupid, for I do not by any possibility understand you. It seems to me that, we have talked ot many things, but not one of them has : been this little windfall of property that's coming to Katherine." "Of course we haven't talked of that .particular thing, but I have been try-; try-; ing to tell you for the last few hours that it isn't up to you to treat Kather-ine Kather-ine always as a beautiful idiot child." "Don't be foolish, Alice." Can Not Understand It. "I am not foolish, but I can't understand un-derstand why a brilliant woman like Katherine should turn over to you a little property that makes her independent, inde-pendent, especially because to my certain knowledge you never have given her any money since you were married." "So she's been telling you that," said John, quickly in an ugly tone of voice. "I supposo that's the reason I you loaned herj:he money to go to j Atlantic City." "I didn't loan her any money." "Where do you supopae she got it; surely she would not demean herself by borrowing Karl Shepard's." "John if you wore not my brother, I would be tempted to stne you. I 'sometimes think you must be a scoundrel scoun-drel yourself, for you are always I ! thinking that overyone else is. Of ', course, Katherine did not borrow any money of Karl Shepard. I think he cares too much for her to lend it , to her." I "You seem to know all about it did she gel it from her mother?" ! "Why don't you ask Katherine where she got it? if you had been the .kind V)f a man I wish you were being my brother you would have written jher as soon as she went to Atlantic i City and sent, her a check. Instead, you hoped to force her to come home to you, to get down on her knees, as 'it were and make excuses simply because be-cause she didn't have money enough to pay lor her sojourn at the seaside. If you want to know I will tell you where she got the money. I bought the big diamond pin you gave her." "Do you mean to tell that Katherine Kather-ine sold her diamond pin, my last gift to her?;' "Of course she did, and had I been she I would have sold all my jewels." "How much did you give her for It'.'' Tomorrow A Deal In Diamonds