The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-03
REVELATIONS
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How the Dinner Party Ended at the
Scream Of a Frightened Child.
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xNHOTHER, please, just half
M hour longer"
NA mot a half hour, not even
five minutes You must come to bed
now Marian"
Lillian Underwood aud her little
daughter Marian stood near the door
III our living room, a pretty picture OF
tender maternal authority and childish
procrastination Marian had been al.
lowed to sit up Tor the dinner had
given in honor OF Robert Savarin, a
special dispensation, which the com
bined entreatics OF Dicky, Robert Saw
arin and had wrung reluctantly from
Lillian, and like any other child she
wanted to prolong, her freedom.
But Lillian was adamant and so Ma
rian reluctantly began her good-by
She shook hands Scdately with Mrs.
Durkee. Alfred Durkee and Robert
Savarin, and then threw her arms
around my neck for the bear hug she
always gives me As she released me
she glanced at Robert Savarin WIZ
was watching her with all the hunger
OF denied iathcrhood in his eyes some
thing in the chlld'S heart must have
responded to the unSpokcn appeal oi
the man for she dashed over to him
clasped her arms around his neck, and
put up her lips to be kissed The mans
face was radiant as he kissed her ten
derly, and then with unwonted shyness
she ran back to her mother.
We'll call that a low down deal,
Marianw Dicky said you've never
given me kiss, and I've known you
much longer time than Mr. Savarln
has"
And then from the childish lips came
an answer which amused the DurkceS
and Dicky, but which startled me into
belief ,ha, chld's intuition goes
pretty generally straight to the mark
OF things
"You don't need it," she said en-
phas,zing the pronoun distinctly, and
turning went out OF the door with her
mother.
Rober, Savarn smiled tendcrly.
What a tender hearted little thlns
she isl" he said
"Shc ought to be" Dicky returned
Her mother has the biggest heart it
the world"
Then the conversation insenSihl,
driited to anecdotes OF Lillian and thu
numberlcS ways IN which she ha,
proved her possession OF the 'higgeS
heart" From that it was but a ste
TO her great love for her child, an,
the JOY that we all felt in Marian
restoration to her mother
Some Startling Contrasts,
Lillian always put Marian to bed her
self, tucked her IN and "cudded' he
for little, so that It was some tim
before she returned to the living room
And when she finally came back Sh
was in time to hear Roher, Savafl
utter words through which there ra
, all the poignant longing OF Strons
true man:
"Ihe greatest tragedy in the world
not TO have a child OF your own"
She stood there for minute, lookin
a, him, Will, the color slowly draint
! away from her face, leaving i, ghastl
, pale And her eyes In them wa
such bitter rebellion at the irony ,
fate that shivered as went towar
her, adroitly ooncealing her from IN
! gaze Of the others until she Shoul
d have reganed her composure
. | knew of what she was thnkn,
' and shared her feeling The ut,
I unreaSoning cruelty Of the fate whic
controlled these two lives Here Ma
rian's own father had only cared f.
4 her as whip with which he coul
o scoufge Lillian. And Harry Under
o wood, whom Lillian had married I
the desperate unhappine" following ii
wreck OF her first marital eSpetlenc
had left her bru,ally. because aft,
years Of suffering she was given III
chance TO have the little thing WI
her. lie had said tha, kindergarten,
did not appeal to him, asl had take
himself out Of Lillian's life
| Thank You, But"
H And Robert Savatln had married
woman who had blasted his Lie, an