Arizona republican., 1920-07-22
(CoPqriqht 1920. bl(
THE BOOK OF ANN Bob, In Letter, Explains Why He eft Me Tn Such Haste

Bob, In a Letter, Explains Why Tie
 Left Me In Such Haste
 wrenched my thoughts from Anns | affairs. My own required my care full consideration. I reviewed the news | Bob had so carefully set down in the | letter he had left on my desk My | estrangement from my husband, Whlch | had been caused by the murdered | mans impertinence, which had threat ened to come to a bitter conclusion was in way, Daddy Lorimer's fault |
 Bob wrote that his father had in vested some pocket money, as he calls his Hextra" dividends, on the side. He had bought up some of the necessities of life and was holding them for high CT pricesi Bob considered 1t a blot on the Iorimer 'scutcheon, although sev- eral other minionaires of the utmost responsibility were doinC the same thing, and calling it clever business.
 The game was altogether outside Of his fathers line, Bob wrote, and it was especially disreputable because his father hadn't the slightest need Of the money Now the government was trailing similar investments and so Bob and the lawyer, Joyce, had gone off to negotiate the sale of the hoard, at any price. to get rid of it and avoid publicity
 Bob loathed the job. but he had de- cided to get the thing over with as soon as possible. He could manage,
 
 his fathers affairs since his fathers last sickness. But if his dad knew about the government investigation, he would be aroused to an awful fit of wrath and none of us could predict the consequences. If brain lesion did not prove fatal it might paralyze daddy for the remainder of his life
 Tt was this business which kept me away from home last night, wrote my husband "Of course I might have sent d messenger to tell you. but Jane, hon. estIy, I was so upset by the whole darn mess that I forgot all about you. It was a secret, and half a hundred of dads business rivals and poht1cal enemies would have paid young TOT times to hang the story on him. 50 couldn't phone you. Even the tele- phone booths have ears at such times DO you get me?"
 more than got his meaning. I real ized that I had misconstrued my nus hands actions and blamed him bitter ly when he was most in need or my sympathy!
 Bob is the most democratic of men. He is for the people by instinct l Lrnex that he must be utterly disgusted 10 learn that his father was taking hand in the great profiteering game. knew that he must have been annoyed almost beyond endurance to have to straighten out such muddle- Ills wisdom and patience would be tried 10 the limit in his endedNoI tO eelisiSS the affair Automatically; that is, with out arousing his fathers wrath
 And I. the stupid wife, had mistn- +arnre+ed my man completely
 "Of course was furious when saw vou with Ives," ran Bob's letter writ fen before the news of the murder ol Ives came out T was in a rage put never meant to let our difficulty drlL1 -S far my dear I determined to go home and hear your story-I can al- ways trust my own little girl That brlIte. Ives. ought to be shot, and some one will do it some day!
 Some man did do it, noC IolB -e. aLtei .1,f- 14-os written was my comment then I went on with Boo's note:
 Back at the office I found father lawyer. Joyce, with the news that tn9s tns rrovernment was trailing dau hoSaIt u