The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-15

moved MS snOeS. Inc action reused
him for a moment to a sense Of fit
ness, and he caught her hand and
kissed 1t.
Don't do that" he exclaimed.
That's no work for you'll I'll get I'M
dressed all right. You go to bed"
With a muttered% goodnight the wife
went into her own room and shut the
door. Very softly, that her husband
might not hear her, she turned the
key in the lock. Then staggering al
most as badly as he had done, she
entered her dressing room beyond
and washed her face and hands, scrub
bling with feverish intensity the spot
on her hand which the hot and fabby
lips had kissed. As she lay down
on her bed her tiny baby stirred and
w~himpered. With a passionate move
ment she snatched the child from the
crib and pressed it to her breast.
"Oh, my baby, my baby!" she MUIR
INJURED, my poor little woman-child!
II it were not for my children l would
get out of it ALL" And then she
whispered the only prayer that had
come to her mind that night, Lord,
let me live until they need me no
more, until l have taught them to hate
the things that l loathe, until / have
made them believe in things as they
should be, not as they arel"
AS years went on Tom Marshall
never interfered in the training of his
daughters. He loved them and petted
them. In return for an uncritical and
over-indulgent devotion they gave him
warm affection. Dad is such fun"
they would say as they grew older.
HE is always in a good humor." True
to her determination to spare her
daughters the knowledge Of the sins
from which she shrank, the mother
fostered In them a belief in their
fathers goodness.
Still, even her most intimate friends
did not suspect that there were more
thorns in her lot than in that of the
average wife and mother. Perhaps
there are not" she would muse.
Perhaps all men are like that"
Then her reason would insist that this
was not SO. She had made a mis-
take, she acknowledged to her inner
self, in marrying a man whose ideals
did not coincide with hers.
Once her husband suggested ten
tativoly that she might be making a
mistake in the training of her girls.
Constance is sixteen and Ruth four
teen" he reminded her, "and they
know just about as much of life and
its problems-yes, and its facts-as
they did when they were born"
They know all that is needed" she
said defantly. They know enough to
hate to lie, to tell the truth, to shun
vulgarity, and to love God. That will
carry them pretty safely through the
world"
1T is the kind of training that you
had" unused Tom Marshall. do you
think 1t fitted you for what was before
you?"
my training was not to blame for
what came later" she began, then
checked herself. After a moment Of
silence her husband said, doubtfully:
Perhaps you know best what girls
need, but that kind Of teaching, with
out knowledge of things as they are,
would ruin a boy"
THANK God l have none!" she
calculated %fervently.
1t was on Christmas Eve OF that
year that Louise Marshall, coming
suddenly into the drawing room, found
her husband standing under the mis-
tletoe he had just hung, his arm about
the waist Of the pretty governess who
had lived with them for the past
two years. The surprised pair tried to
laugh, and the girl caught Mrs. Mar
shall's hand and begged her not to be
angry.
ut was all in fun, really!" she ex.
planned. But 1t was a silly thing to
do. / did not think twice about It,"
In a moment the wife had collected
her wits and resumed her usual man.
ner. Il understand" she assured the
embarrassed girl, that at Christmas
everybody kisses everybody else"
And she tried to laugh.
"Of counsel" said her husband, as
he stopped to kiss her. Her hands
closed upon each other in a sudden
grip, but nobody was looking at her
hands.
Later, when alone with her husband,
Louise asked for an explanation.
why, Miss Drayton told you how II
happened and that it was just a
joke" declared Tom Marshall easily.
Don't make so much Of a t%rifeI"
1T is no trife, Tom" urged his
wife. For some time l have been
uneasy when / saw your attentions
to that girl, but I chided myself for
being suspicious, and persuaded my,
self that you would stop short Of
familiarity. But you didn't. How car
you do such things!"
"Well, II you must know" he said
with an attempt at a laugh, when
woman is a bit In love with a man II
is rather hard for him to get out Of
paying her some little attentions"
His wife sprang to her feet and
confronted him, her eyes flashing,
For heavens sake" she exclaimed
don't make me despise you as vel
as distrust you'll Any man who says
that q cares SO much for hin
that he cannot avoid being dishonor
able in his dealings with her is a cad
n man who says such things of {
woman years younger than he-fol