The Detroit times., 1914-06-09
CHAPTER cLxvlII.

DO you know. little book, | believe
l am actually jealous OF Mary! |
know Il speaks very badly for my
strength OF character or my regard
for Mary, who is one OF the sweetest
girls have ever known, but here are
the facts in the case land | would
rather die than to tell them to any
one but you, my dear diary
No one. If do say It myself, could
have been more sympathetic and
helpful to all of Dicks family than l..
/ have given ali OF myself not only to
Dick, but 10 Aunt Mary, Mollie, Jack,
Mother and Dad Wayerly whenever
they needed me. and here Mary steps
in aud, because she has lost her baby,
which she ought not TO have had at
all, the whole family is ready to fall
down and worship her
Jack Is, OF course, adoring, which
is as 1t should be, but he is much
more demonstrative than Dick has
been, and sometimes it hurts me a
little when think how almost al.
ways Dick takes everything l do and
say as a matter OF course, while Jack
seems 10 think that no one In the
world could ever do as fine as Mary,
who is just lying in her bed at the
hospital and taking everybody's ador-
alton with very sweet smile.
Mollie has not said much about
Mary yet. | have feeling she will
never be as great friends with her as
she is with me, for, Notwithstanding
Mary has been on the stage, yet she
Is sinGularly conventional in her man
ner of thought, and Mary. God bless
her, is as original as she is clever
Mollie has the making or one OF
the most splendid Of women or she
may bring about the greatest Of catas-
trophies, and Mary is one or those
lovable little women who never steps
on anyone's toes. because they never
walk out OF the beaten path or try
to pass anyone.
am too independent, too aggres-
slye to gain universal love. Those
who love me, however, love me very
much and those who do not like me
hate me. | don't believe anyone is
ever Indifferent to me.
Just now everybody Is talking
about Mary's apartment, and Aunt
Mary and Mother are both advising
Poor Mary IL lying back on her pill
lows and smiling and making each
woman believe that her advice Is the
one she will take. while |, in the same
circumstances, would simply hold
forth on plans OF my own and prop
ably make them both angry,
guess / am also a little envlous
because Mary is going to have home
of her own before | do.
do wish Dick would let me go &c
house keeping. l need not be alone
while he is away; we could have
Aunt Mary with us. There is one
thing | have noticed. and that is tina
Aunt Mary, no matter how much she
has planned for Mary's housekeeping
has never once suggested living witt
her and Jack
certainly will be envious while
Mary is furnishing the fiat. although
she will have to get along with very
much less money than | would.
have made no suggestions to Mary
about her home, for think that is
thing In which every woman should
exercise her own taste and indiyid
uality. | presume I shall be away
while Mary is furnishing, for | have
determined to go somewhere, all by
myself, while Dick is away this time
I would like TO take Mollie, and may
be her mother will let her go with me
am so fond OF MolIie that perhaps
| worry more about her than | need
to. But IL ever a girl had the at