Show Ii REVELATIONS OF A WIFE The Story of a R Honeymoon By Adele Garrison r LAID the letter aside with a a. queer I L little startled feeling at my heart Those two little words Word and yet et Lt it the end nd of or Jacks Jacka letter leUer grayo gaye me liu nuch h food for thought Was It pose pos Ible that before his death Jack had th that his love for mo me was not he ho consuming passion he had thought t t. t but partook more of ot the fraternal that I 1 had had for him I 1 hoped for tor Jacks Jack's sako sake that this peas ras so o And nd yet yetI yet yet- I Iran ran through through the rest of the letters One the third from tho last la t m my attention sharply Such a pleasant thing thinS happened to tone tome tone ne me toda today Jack wrote one of oC tho the unexpected gleams of or sunlight that ire He so much brighter because of ot the general gloom against which the they are I was waa given a weeks week's furlough h last Saturday and went up to Paris with ith my friend Paul Ho had a friend In n a hospital on tho the wa way there headed b by ay Dr Braithwaite tho the celebrated sur sur- jeon eon of ot Detroit I caught my breath As well as If It I had tad already read the tho words ord I kno know what hat was 38 coming I At t an unexpected turn In the corridor corridor corridor cor cor- I almost knocked over o a little nurse who ho was hurrying toward ard tho the office She looked up at mo me startled d out o of the prettiest brown eyes Ces I ever saw and then stopped staring at meas me meas meas as If it I had been a ghost I stared back frankly for tor her taco face was nas familiar to me mc although for the moment I could not tell where whore I had seen her before I Then shyly half she spoke and I her voice oleo matched her eyes ees I You are Mr Ir Bickett are arc you not Mrs Ir Grahams Graham's cousin For a moment I did not realize that Mrs Graham was Margaret aret But that avo mo me no clew to the identity of ot the girl Irl Then all at once It came to me inc I know kno you ou now I sal said You arc are I Mark Earles Earle's little sister r Kather- Kather Inc Ine I n e. e So Se the they had met at last Jack m my cousin brother and Katherine Son- Son not tho the little nurse who nho had taken care are o of m my mother law and whom I I had learned tl to love lo as a dear friend Was I glad or sorry I wondered a as asI I 1 f picked d up Jacks Jack's letter again that I 1 had tad crushed an any feeling I might have havo had in tho the matter and hn had spoken the word to Dr Braithwaite alte that resulted In I-Catherine's I joining the eminent surgeons surgeon's sur sur- geon's geons staff starr of oC nurses It seemed a pity to hao hae ha e these the e two meet only to bo be torn apart so soon tJ by de death I cannot begin to tell you OU how delighted de delighted de- de lighted I was when nhon wo we recognized each other ether You can Imagine over o here thatto that thatto to one American the meeting with another another another an an- other American especially I if both have havethe havethe havethe the same friends Is Isan an event ent Tu Luckily Luckily- ck 11 Miss Son not was ju Just t about to have ha an afternoon off when wo we met an and If It she nho which she denied had an engagement which engagement she sho she was kind enough to break it for tor mo I need not tell toll you ou that I spent the most delightful afternoon I have havo had since coming over o her here You can bo be that I at once exerted ex exerted exerted ex- ex all nil tho the Influence I had through my ray 11 friend and iris his ls friend Inthe Inthe in inthe the hospital t to secure as much free freo freetime time for Miss 1158 S as possible for tor forthe tho the time T I was to bo be on furlough ItIs It ItIs ItIs Is like getting home after being a away a so long to talk tal to this brave bra sensible beautiful young for tor girl for she deserves os I all 1 of the tho adjectives Jc lles In the t O i vo letters which wore thelast the thelast last ones one numbered b by Mrs Irs Stewart Jack spoke again and agahi a J. a of the little little lit lit- tle lIe nUr nurse e A Almost the last line lino of his last letter lotter written after acter ho returned to the front spoke of 01 her Little Miss and I correspond corre corre- correspond spond pond he wrote and you ou can have I no Idea how much good her letters do doI dome dome me They hey are arc like 1 fresh sweet breezes breezE's glowing through h tho the miasma of oC life Ute I In the trenches I fold folded cd the letters put them back into their thel envelopes and anil arranged oll them as aM Mrs Irs Stewart lowart had given hen them m I to J 1 me- me When 1 ho came cam back Into the room she sho found mo me still holding hol them and staring Into the fire ire Yes Yes I replied refilled those last ones onos Dont Don't you ou sounded o is as It If ho he wore really getting I interested In little nurse nurse she dc- dc in In InI Thoro was s i tt peculiar Intonation hor her voi en a which tol told l mo me that In her I I own queer little way war way she he he was trin trying to punish me for tor my fail failure ire to come como to too toso oftener with Inquiries about so o her hor Jack She evidently c thought that m my vanity would be piqued at the thou thought ht of or Jack becoming interested te In nn any I I other woman after his lifelong devo- devo lIon to mo me I But I flatter myself that m my molco voice was wa absolutely noncommittal as I 1 an- an answered an an- her Yes Ye es I do o I n agreed and amI what a n tragedy cd It M scorns m that thal he should be snatched way away from tutu tho the prospect of The words s were cro sincere I was sure And n yet lol fot 1 i v f II GI TV IX u ITT children have havo you ou made s 's birthday birth birth- Dicky's Dicky w W nn any plans Plan for r day Ia yet et chair In astonishment aston aston- I 1 nearly nearl fell tell off Mf m my at the iho friendliness in to my I mother laws tones She had been I sulky ever since wo we had come home homo from our autumn outing In tho the Catskills CalI Catskills Cat Cat- I skills a a. sulkiness cause caused by her re re- resentment of oC what she chose to conI consider con con- I cider sider the Indiscreet interest taken in me me b by Robert Hobert Gordon Cordon the mysterious millionaire whom I had discovered to tobo tobo tobo bo an old friend of ot my parents I shrewdly suspected however that her continued resentment was more because be because because be- be cause Dicky choso chose to take m my part inthe In Inthe the tho matter against her than because of oC an any any real feeling toward Mr Ir Gordon Nearly a years year's experience however had tau taught ht me how best to manage mana-e my mr mother mother in Jn When eh she ehe indulged ed herself In ono one of or her frequent tan runs I 1 adopted a cardull carefully courteous scrupulously formal Cormal attitude toward to her and dismissed her from m my mind Thus I saved m myself much worry an and Irritation an and deprived her of oC the pleasure leasure of ot a quarrel something which I knew ne she sho would be glad to bring on sometimes for the sheer pleasure of or combat Her IIer question was wa waso so sudden h her r cordiality so surprising that I could frame framo no answer answel Instead I 1 looked helplessly at Dick Dicky To tell toll the truth I rather distrusted this sudden ami ability t From past experiences I knew w that when then Mother Graham made a sudden sud- sud den change from sulkiness to cheerfulness cheerfulness cheer cheer- she ahe had somo some scheme underway un under or orna na way Continued tomorrow |