Show I REVELATIONS OF A WIFE tory of a H Honeymoon I IBy By Adele Garrison b XII Why Did IId Dicky GoT Got Go c MJ T I have o t trio tho lO queerest messa message o from I cannot cannot cannot can can- not make It out M My mother rustled rustle Into m my room room her voice querulous her face ex expressing tX- tX I pressing the utmost bewilderment b What It is Is mother I asked nervously ner ner- ou l It W Was R lato late afternoon of or ethe the la t day ay In which Gordon hat had hadre c his identity Uty as ns my InY father rathel and m my nerves were still tense the Shock oj of the discovery er Why hy Richard ha has left the tIle city He lie telephoned me Just now that wo we had an unexpected offer at an nn unusual um sum to do Jo some ork i In San ban an Francisco 1 1 think he lie said and that ho would be bo gone some somo months If It ho Ito accepted tho trio offer he would have no time to corn con home He lie said he would write to both bothof bothof of or us tie t tonight night What hat do you OU suppose suppo c cI I It t means means' 7 I not do do not know 1 r returned slowly slowly slowly slow slow- ly and truthfully but there was a terrible terrible terrible ter ter- ter- ter frightened feeling at my heart Dick Dicky gone one for months without coming com eom- coming ing ing- to bl bid mo me goodbye g My worMs world worM s seemed to whirl around m mw But Hut I must do or sa say nothing to alarm my mother in Her weak heart he made it Imperative Imperati that she be bo t shielded Irons Irom rom WaTT worry of or an any kind hind I rallied ever every atom of or self control I 1 po possessed There is nothing to worry about mother I r said carelessly Dicky y has often oCten spoken recently about this offer to go 10 to San Francisco It was always tentative o before but Jut he lie knew that when it dl did come como he lie would have to go o at a minutes minute's notice You iou ou know he always keeps a bag baC packed ed edat at the studio for Just such emer emer- Tho The last part of or In my little speech was tas tr tri o o. o Dicky Dick did dill keep a bag packed for the emergency summons he once In a while received from ills clients nut But I had never heard of or the trip to San Francisco But Dut 1 must reassure m my mother-in-law mother in somo some way Well I think its it's ml mighty ht queer sho she grumbled rumbled going out of or the thc room 1 You adorable little UHle fibber Lillian WI said tenderly rising and coming over o overto overto to mo me Her voice was ga gays gay but Lut I who i know its er e every intonation caught an I undertone of or worry Lillian I exclaimed sharply sharp h 11 hat hats hat I Is s It H Do you ou know anything Hush child chIllI sho said firmly i 1 know knot nothing You will hear all nIl about It tomorrow tomorrow- morning when you OU receive Dicky's s letters Until then you jou ou must I be quiet and brave It 11 was like 0 her not to adjure me to keep from worrying Sho ho never did tho the usual futile things But all through h ma may wakeful night whenever 1 turned over oyer or uttered tho the slightest sound she was leas at al my In side hide In n an Instant Never Xo cr c until death stops my memory will I forget that next morning with Its letters from Crom DIck Dicky There was one for Cor my mother mother-In- law nono none for me but I 1 saw an envelope envelope envelope enve enve- lope in Lillians Lillian's s 's hand which I was sure suro was from my husband even en before I I had haJ seen the tho shocked pallor which spread over o her face Cace as sho read itOh It itOh it Oh Lillian what Is It It I whispered I In n terror tenor Walt ait alt she commanded Do not let your OUr mother-in-law mother guess anything Is amiss But Dul when whon Mother Iother Grahams Graham's demand to know what Dicky had hud written to tome tome tomo me mo had hall been appeased b by Lillian's Lillians offhand oft off hand remark that country malls malia art I never reliable and that m my letter would probably arrive later tho trio elder cider women went to her own room to puzzle anew over her sons son's letter which simply said over a again aln what ho he had told her over o the telephone When hen she hail had gone sono Lillian locked the door softly behind her then coming com cont- In ing over o to inc me sank down own b by m my bedside bed- bed I side sid and slipped her arm around me You must be brave e Madge sho she sal said quietly Read this through and tell me If Ir you ou have any idea what It means I 1 took tool the letter she hold hoM out to me I and read it through Dear LIl tho the letter began bean You have havo never failed aile me yet set ot so I l know now you'll look after things for or me now I am going oln awa away I shall Hhall never see sec Madge again nor do do I ever expect to hear from her Will you ou look out for I her until she Is rec from mo me She he can cansue cansue sue me for tor desertion you OU know leno and ancl get et her orce dl divorce I will put In n no de defense tle- tle I Most of or her funds are lre banked In her name an a anyway But for fear she will not nol want to us uSe c that money mone I am going to send a check to you yoa ou each cach month for her which you ou are to UbO uso as you ou see sc fit tit with or without her knowledge e. e I Iam Iam I Iam am enclosing the key to the tho studio ludlo The rent is hI paid a long ways was ahead an and I will send y you u the tue money for future iu- iu ture turc payments and Its care lease have o It kept ready for tor inu to walk In at nt any time Mother Iother always goes Joes to Elizabeths Elizabeth's for tor the holidays anyway Keep her from guessing as long as you OU can Ill I'll write to her after aner she set bets I Ito to Elizabeth Elizabeths I I 11 guess that's thal's all ll If Ie Madge doesn doesn't t understand wh why I 1 am doing this 1 cant can't help it It But Hut Its It's the only thing tiling to do Y Yours Your urs always DICKY DICK The Tho room seemed to whirl around meas me mo as aM I read reaO Dicky gone gono ono forever ore fr arranging ing Ino for me to get a n. divorce orce I clung I moaned Oh Uh blindly to Lillian as what does docs It mean Think Madge Madge e have you ou and Dick Dicky had hall un any quarrel lately Nothing that could be called a quarrel quarrel I rel rel no no I returned and not even the I shadow shado of or a disagreement since my ray accident musingly either elthor Then Lillian sal said Dick Dicky Dick Las has gone bone suddenly ma mad mad mad- She stopped and looked at me s arca- arca Or what Lillian I pleaded Tell me mI I am strong enough to stand standI the truth but not suspense I I believe you OU are she the said and I you 1 0 will have ha to help me find hill out th the truth lri Now uw remember this may have ha no bearing on the thing thim at t all aft an but Harry saw aa Grace Draper talking to Dick Dicky the tho other Ja day He lie said lucky Dicky DIck dl li 1 t act particularly well pleased at atthe tho the meeting but that tho the girl sirl was wasas as asHarry asharry Harry put It It fit Jo put your our t eyes S out oat she looked so BO stunning But Dut It doesn t seem possible that if Dicky lucky had gono gone write that aWU away with her ho hu would sort or of a note nute to mo mc and leave leav no word for tor you ou out Tho The Fit to put 5 your our E eyes es phrase stung me Inc With a quick movement movement movement move move- ment I 1 rasped grasped ra pell the hand mirror that lay Jar layon on tho the stand by In my bed beJ and looked critical critically at the linage image e reflected theroan there thero Wan Van hollow eyed with one side sido of or m my toy face and und neck till flaming laming from m my burns burnt I 1 had hurl a quick perception of or trio tho wa way in which m my husband beauty lot er that he I Is must havo o contrasted my 10 app appearance aranco with that of or Grace Draper Lillian took the mirror forcibly or ibl from fromme fromme me and laid It out of or my reach rench This sort of or thing wont won't do she said firmly It It only makes matters worse Now Just b be as bravo bra as you OU possibly can enn Remember 1 am r right ht hero er c every minute I could only cling cling- to her There seemed In all the world orld no DO refuge o I me mo but Lillian's Lillians arms arras The Tho weeks Imm Immediately following Dicky's departure arc are almost a 1 blank 1 memory to me I seemed stunned In Incapable incapable In- In capable of or action even of ot thinking clearl clearly If It it had haJ not boon been for tor Lillian I do Jo donot donot I not know what I J should o havu done one She car ctr cared ii d for me the with Infinite tenderness tenderness' and un understanding er she stood between i Ime me and the Imperative curiosity and I 1 II f bewilderment of ray mother law I and she made malIc all the arrangements necessary for fOI In my taking up m my life Ufe as nl'S asa asa a thing thinS apart from my m husband I It seemed almost like liko an interposition tion of providence pro that two days daN after Dicky's bombshell ll his mother received I a letter Jetter from front her daughter Elizabeth asking her to go So to Florida for tor the rest of the tho winter Ono One of the tho children had hall been ord ordered south b bv by trio the family phy- phy bician I and Dicky's Dieky's sister bister was to ac accompany accompany aeI ae- ae company her little daughter while the theother theother the I other children n remained at home under l' tho the care of their father fathel and hi his mother mother Mother Graham dearly dearl loves love's I II I to travel tra and I r knew from rom Lillians LillIanA j I reports report anti and th the few glimpses 1 had hall of or she was de delighted delighted de- de my mother law that s e lighted with the pro prospect before her Continued Tomorrow tv I |