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Show Her Daughter and His Son .4 Great Married Life Story by I 1 I PAH PIcGLONE GIBSON MR. HALSEY REMINISCES. The letter frc m my father dropi'tJ froii B I, am' as I finished reading I:. K . i Un' fa.hcr I had navci lar. ' .'" T i I nol kn.,-,v I WSI r ratiw nh... onlniowlngl) haJ Arok i m; mothcj - liMtrl ami who h : Un -Il ' tan Win: I thai k ' . YV I . i I ' Jaere tvn v. Ik. .ul I t vi f-a )l oll r I. . . ii i ri 1 1 v. i i ill In all faith i i rr i i ni. t.. B j 1 1 n f i 1 i of man-made i . married, and timt ihef Had no rlK'Ii ii.i nri - f. r i in n,-. h Kr t rccocnttlon from othen JiJ over the years that m y PmolliT hu'l i '.ii frnm the man M jhe loved tho man to win in she had In I all h"inrty given liorsflf Hip man for whom lie HvnI a llf of loneliness and I'rv'r In Hlon-v v ll- In- Ik, I Ron l" JV " other end of the world iirid there lie I had worked out an expiation for his un-I un-I witting c-ln. .9 "l wcn-h-r If they mi' rlht (n Ihi-lr $J Spartan adherence to principle." 1 asked . "It was your mother. Ann. who wa 'I Hie Srarlan." answered Mr llalsey. "Boh j 1'ild mc the night he went away that he had heseeehed your mother lo go aw iv i i .i J5 "'I a? aim-1! insane.' ! said, 'at the K ''10u"iit of leaving Margaret, it seemed i 31 1 '''at we ruuJd hide ourselves away J H from the world, hut Bhe.gaid that we m I .mild r,. ! hidfl I r i . Ourselves.' C "'noii." said Margaret, 'i would always I nv lime , n, -r .. Has well an hupplin-xM la n state of mind "J -.lie !",'' H. it-'. . ' .i k'n il love in i ii i I i xi-usc a ureal sin. i.u' i always1 feel (hat si ' . hi-. 1. 1 LT'-il Imvi I iiri.-t l""i in1 ..'! I . IIIii. ill - la In " 'M . "'When your father toll ine that. Ann. . he wls naarb baaMe hlmeelf. ' Think what t have brought on Mar-raret.' Mar-raret.' he said, 'the woman for whom I s mid WlUlngty give my life. I dare nol . ueak of the other who. not eon tan t with takln all mv faith In Wnmanhopd. n-.w 1 whM a svreat. pure oiil restorca It to nsea I nlnily thrusts me out of what ha? been a heaven on earth Into the nethermost depths of hell." . li "What happened or rather how did it happen thai my father did not know that hU former wife was alive. Mr. Halsey. Mother told me roinetMni: :uwut It and I was going to tell all. There Heemed to be BO many more Important thingx for me to know jiist at the last." " kVell. you tee. my dear. a on probably prob-ably know your father became desperately desperate-ly Infatuated with an actresx. much older than himself, while he was a beta at jI-lege, jI-lege, ami in wild moment he marrlci I i- She was a fiend Incarnate and shortly after the marriage she heecani? Insane. Then, of course, he could not divorce her and for a number of yean lo-was lo-was nearly Insane himself, lie drank and lt all hi Old friends drop away frn him I Citing to him and when he . .,! ' let me, I made him nuet mm of m friends. "Your mother, my dear, had ajwayi been one of OUT old childhood coiniui:. lon.s and I know now that she had al-waya al-waya loved Bob. But after he nAii . ir-rled ir-rled arid become dissipated she had seldom sel-dom seen Mm. "One summer we went up to my camp In the Adlronda.-k.- and your mother was staying at an adjacent place: The three, of us fell back into our old youthful Intl-mai Intl-mai y. i "One day the news eame Hiat Bob" wife had ' caped from the asylum nnn hal committed suicide. Although hci body was not found, everything pointed to her death. "At the time Bob told your mother that he loved her and they were married quietly afterward. I "Afier only a few months your mother) received a letter from Bob'.s wife's fam-j lly saying that she was .till alive and asking where ftob was. They wanted her commuted to 'he asylum again a.s iior ungovernable fits of temper made restraint re-straint necessary "Then, of course, the event happened that ruined both your father nn. I mother's lives i "And no..- Bob Is coming back ' Tomorrow A T.nirjled Skein. |