The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-10
Vera Talt. wlth Kcllh's Molhcr.

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was rnckcd with iud"cialon.
| Mother Sandorson was coming
| home in a few days should I APP
/ peal 10 her not about kcith'g In
| tImacy with Alice pc idslc. but TO
! hcg her co. use her Influence once
! again tp got mo q home of my own,
I however simplc7 or should I make
/ kcl'h Jealous and sO work on his
| feelings ihai ho would bee willing TO
promise mc homc' Then came
| do" startling thought suppose iu-
stead or making him jealous. /
should simply be making % possible
fDr him 10 rid himself NJ mo and
marry Mrs. Do Lislo2 or of giving
Margaret l chance to mako hin,
ecud me aWay2
decided 90 90 TO Mother Sander
SON
Tom Benedict was my devoted sd
mircr lie had not boon ablc 10 hide
perhaps hc had not tried that he
wns becoming very fond of nae Not
mat there was a thought Of WrOnE
in either or as, but wc were both
young, craycd Compauionshlp, and
happiness and we found II when
together
decided 20 have talk with
mother before ! said word moro
tp Keith. lic had said I might Wait
her. go I would have rvuiy oppor-
tuuity for good long tplk with her
While Keith had been away Tom
Bcnodict had often dropped IN to
tea. and twice / had played cards
with him al Ermaa Margaret
knew nothing of this, but she opoply
anccrCd AZ what she called his "culf
loy"" and threatened to tell Keith.
DO. II viii surely worry him
because / have written him every
time anyone called, ana who" Mar
rHrct looked furious. had swept
tho ground from under her feet as
Gar as tCllinE OF Tom was concerned.
Az first / had thought I would lot
Margaret carry out her threat ~
that Keith would be Jealous. hut the
more I thought OF II. the less likely
did | think It would affect him that
way. | loved him. wanted no
one elise. SO WHY risk putting into his
and Margarcta hands anything they
could use against mc2"
TWO dayaa aftor Keith came home
hnd four days after / had overheard |
him tell Margaret that II was her
fault he had not married Alice De /
LiSlc, ! took June and went down /
TO Mother Sanderson's for u week. /
Keith took US down--he was to re- I
main over night--thcn he would 1
come at the end Of the week and .
take us home. lie had matters Ht |
the factory to attend 90 each time
aside from his desire to see his
mother.
never shall forget how delighted |
| was when mother first saw June.
and the way she fusscd over her.
Margaret paid my baby no attention
unless II wal4 10 complain
OF something she did or the way she
was dressed. But mother cuoed over
her. pottcd and loved her 80 that 1
almost cried, | was so happy.
! put oft my talk until the day
Keith was TO come for me. II had
been such n happy time | hated to
bring argument. But at last | ven
turcd to say;
Mother. will you try to put your |
of something2 | am not finding fault |
with Keith. | think you know I
love him more than ever now that
| have baby. But l must talk to
someone"
'Go on, dear child. I will trp 10
remember that l was once young"
She smiled NO swently at mo that my
eyes filled.
I started from tho beginning. n
told her of many episodes I tried to 4
be fair to Margaret, and often
my story to insert some
thing she did that was done better
than / possibly could have done 1t.
But ! told Of my feeling that | was
an absolute nonenity In the house
Keith paid over half OF the
expenses told OF Martha being
taken from me, and that was not
to call upon the maids for
anything. ! confessed tho hurt I