The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-09
THE NEW
GENERATION
BIZ JANE PHELPS
A TETE-A-FETE WITH CRAIG
FoRREGTER.
By JANE PHELPS
CHAPTER 63.


After the door closed upon JOAN
Craig Forester said:
You are delicious. Margaret!
Don't, Csaigt' Now it was Mar
garet's face that looked Almost tear
ful Il have been perfectly shame
less with that child. But do so want
her to understand that !, toe, have
some right, and thea want her to
be interested in me as a woman IS
we'll as love me because am ~heH
mothen I want her TO be proud OF
me. to want all her young friends to
know 1 am a young mother not a
FOSSIL
Il wonder if you have time to
think a little about me, Whlle You are
thinking so much about impressins
Joan? Please try to be nice 20 me-
won't youF You know ! i9vs You H..
ITS much more fun to think ABOUT
well. beautiful one. the rest are
ready to start. Shall We join them
The inlay was a popular one, one
the critics had treated kindly. Inc
Usually Margaret would have been I'M
menseiy interested in both play and
audience. But tonight she scafcely
knew what the play was ABOUT
Her mind was on Joan, her thoughts
with the bewildered girl. she saw
her face the wide-eyed surprise so
p ainly depicted. She saw the dislike
of Craig Forester, not because It was
Forester, but because he was man
and had acted as if he cared for her.
Il shall have a hard time TO win
her over if decide to-" her thoughts
halted. Craig Forester had not yet
asked her to marry him, altho she
knew he would as soon as she gave
him opportunity. She didn't want him
to propose marriage until she had de-
cided. She needed-his attentions TO
impress Joan.
When she reached home she sat
down at her dressing table and stared
into the mirror. AS she often did
now she talked earnestly to her re-
Margaret Hayden, you have task
before you. You've got to make that
child see; you've got 70 make GOOD.
She is all filled with wrong notions
regarding you. and you have got TO
make her see the right. 1 am young,
am not old. Not even for her Will
ever be old again. But she must
love me young Just as much as sh8
did when 1 was old. L tell you, Mar
garet Hayden, you have got to work
hard if you accomplish this, she isn't
inclined to love young mother. |
know I am doing right, that the world
1
missed, some of the happiness other
women have" she blushed charming
". Then she smiled as she rose and
prepared for bed. 1t would take time
to win JoaAt but she could afford to
be patient.
The next day Margaret was quietly
preparing for her visit to joan Craig
Forester came to luncheon with her.
and was disposed to resent the fact
that her entire conversation lad been
given to, her daughters beauty and
graceS of mind.
''She appeared at a horrible disad-
vantage last night, but that was my
fault" Margaret had stated. TT was,
as 1 said then, shameless ON me TO
put her In such position. I am so
glad 1 shall see her room tomorrow.
Now thatlI have seen the darling L
can't understand how / have lived
right here in New York without her.
I'm terribly jealous of JOAN Mar
garet."
Nonsense! I am surprised at you.
Craig Forester. The idea OF being
jealous of a daughter"
THE idea of a daughter being jeal-
Gus of me. oh, don't try to deny Z.
Joan looked at me last night as If she
would willingly annihilate me by the
most abominable suffering she could
think of-burning at the stake o.
something equally pleasant. Truly I
am jealous of her the time you spend
thinking of her when you should be
thinking of me"
isn't sho-the very prett.est thing
you ever saw" Margaret asked.
when she came in last night with
her SURPRISED eyes, her golden hair
flying. around her face I Just wanted
to pick her up and say I was her
mother, her old, satisfying mother,
and that I would give up being
young"
Don't you dare! There are two
things you never can escape: Your
wonderful youth, and my love" was
Craig's answer
rgaret visits Joan's
rooms.)