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'ELATIONS OF AiWIFE The.Story of a Honeymoon A Wonderful Ilomance of Slarrled Lite Wonderfully Told by ADELE GARRISON CHAPTER CCLXX WHAT KATIE WISHED MADGE TO TELL THE MAN SHE LOVED . . As Katie felt the touch of my arm around her shoulders and heard me ask her to tell the reason, for her Rudden. outbreak of tears and sobs, sue clutched ;me convulsively with both her strong yohng hands and put ting her head down on my shoulder wept as if her heart would break- 1 let the tears have their way. reasoning that no matter what their cause, they would relieve her. Hut 1 could not understand the outburst. Katie had always seemed such a vol atile, happy-go-lucky creature, with only occasional? fits of sullenness. Since her engagement to Jim she had been wildly happy. But as I reflect ed on it, I bad seen' her several times musing as if worried.- Her sobs gradually grew quieter, and at last she withdrew herself from my arms, and, faced me,, her face all swollen and creased with tears.! - ":" "I guess you tink I'm crazy, Missif graham," she said, "but I so wor ried. 'I not know vot to do, I have to tell somebody. sometings. I 'fraid to. tell Jim. He, maybe get so mad by me; 1 guess I tell you. Maybe you tell me vot right to do -.. She walked over to the door. closed and locked it. Then bring ing her rocking chair over to me, she rushed me s:entlv into It and sank down on the floor at my feet, clasp- ine my knees and looking up into my face with all the pathetic humble trustfulness of a dog. "Don't sit down therel Katie." said, with a vague dislike of seeing her in that nostu re. "There 13 an other chair over there." V "I feel so mooch better here," she returned, pitifully. For a long time she sat silent, while I waited for her to regain control of herself. "I not know joost how to tell yon, Rh said Rlowlv. "I so ashamed." ,"Never mind being ashamed, Ka tie' I said, a bit impatiently, lor that , was Katie's phrase, her excuse for everything that went wrong "Just tell me whatever worries you Perhana 1 can help." . "I mess I beein at the beginning." she said, after another long pause. "TW vn hack in FoianQ wnen i so Pershing's Son Falls Back on Baker-Welz Une in His First Battle With New York Reporters ., . ........ ,r - - - I , -llV.-,;'- j f' J I I- . r- - ' JV ! . C M J U-L: v;iw; . ! i ; : I : WARREN PtKSRIKO SEEGTl JCPII A.WEO. . 1 , ,j thing to say, ab-so-lutely nothing to say," was how Warren Persh ittempted to 'win his first encounter withthe New York shipvnews re Vrs who Interview notables when they, leave for abroad. But the r-old son of the leader of the A. E. 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' Katie's air of maturity: nf having experienced all the problems of the ases, maae me want to smile, but I knew better than to do anythine Which WOUld StOD thA tnnA nf dence she was evidently about to yuur uui 10 me. "I only sixteen." Katie' went on. ven such a handsome man ramo tn our town. Oh! so handsome, beejr. like Meester Underwood, joost sooch oiacK eyes liKe one devil." I smiled mentallv t th rmn.r. son, wondering what Harry Under wood would say if he could hear her. ui i coum not resist one mischie vous question. "Handsomer -than Jim. KaiipV i asked slyly. "Oh. Ant Jlm" K.d.'. .u - half-contemptuous -inflection. - al- inougn li was run or the very real affection which I knew she had-for lire man she was to marry Ro poon "Jim. ho not handsome. He joost KOOt." "Which is much, much Iiettcr, Ka ne, l could not help saying. I was . really bewildered at the girl's attitude and worried lest the Recret which she seemed bent on tell ing me should prove something which might stand In the way of her marriage. .. ; : ; "Yes, I know." the girl agreed quickly, "but ven I sixteen 1 not tink so. I ting din man dot. room to my town jooftt one big god." "He likes me, too." she went on simpering with the recollection of bcr youthful conquest, "but my wind er she no like heem. So , I meet heenu you know, on sly. I one little fool." she reflected calmly. "Katie, Katie." I reproved. "Plees excoos. Missis Graham." she answered mechanically, evident ly too bent on her story to mind ei ther reproof or interruption. "Hut ven I tink of dot man. 1 get so mad I coutd joost keel. "Meets me lots times, make me so much lot I tnk I lof him. . I joost crary about dot man. so ven he fay. 'Your moder-one old fool, you run away and marry me', I go right along." "But. Katie." I protested.. shocked and horriried. "yon have no right to marry Jim if you have been married once." , "You Tell Jim." "Joost you wait," Katie said calm ly. "I go wit him to anoder town, long way off. We get married, we live dere tree, four mont. lien my moder and fader, dey find me. after dey hunt for me lots. You see dey find out dot man he have one wife, four kids already, and my fader pret ty near keel him, he beat him up so. "Den my fader, my moder. dey say dey not take me home, because my marriage to dot man not real mar riage.' Dey say I dis-gr-r-ace. Hut dey goot t me. My moder she stay wit me. My fader go back, get all my clothes and dls stuff," she Indi cated the embroidered linens on the bed-V'frdm , my grand moder. bring back, gif the money, put mo on train so I get ship for America. Send let ter to my cousin in New York, de one I stay with before I cimin to yu, n look after, me." "Well, 'Katie," I said relieved.' "there is nothing in all this, that you cannot tell Jim. .Of course, you were a very foolish and wicked girl to rutt away from your people, but you thought you were married to the man. I do not think Jim will be ugly about lt.'r Katie's face still Leld a worried look. "I not worried so mooch vot Jim say." she returned, 'but dot oder man, after my fader beat him tip. he get back, lie room to house where my moder and I stay. He says he craxy about me. say to remember if I ever get married, he find me. keel me. keel man I marry. You tink he find me?" s Katie's eyes were full of .reminis cent terror. "What utter nonsense. Ka(ie." 1 spoke sharply that I might better bring the girl back to herself. "1 that man stayed in Knropo he very probably Is dead before now 1n the fighting over there, and If he came to this country, even if he ever did find you, he wouldn't make you any trouble. Men like that talk a great deal, but never do anything. lie probably has forgotlen all about you long before this." Katie nked mutinotifly unl- lifting. I "Maybe so. maybe not." she said non-committally, "but I wih you would do one ting for me. You tell Jim all di find out vot he tink. afraid." ; . (To.be continued) Read Ahc Classified Ads. The Victory Loan HP0M0RR0W the Government extends probably its last call for patriotic invest ors in Bonds. The Victory Loan is for the balancing of the Nation's accounts, and it is no less of a duty to meet the issue now than it was during the war. It is really a final test of citizenship. As usual the United States National will be lending its assistance to subscribers. i! vjre$on. Solom Small in size sreat in results SUtcarrTan Clarified Adl