Show REVELATIONS OF A WIFE The TIle Story of a H Honeymoon Honeymoon- I By Adele Adel Garrison L CIL 1 Continued Continued FELT as a little child might that I had been lost and suddenly caught 61 sight ht o of its father fathel or mother The awful b burden that had been mine littell lift lift- cd ell at tho the vcr very sl sight ht o of Jacks Jack's pal pale paleface face smiling down dean at me mc I 1 knew that somehow Jack would I straighten everything e out for me mc There there Margaret aret Jacks Jack's well remembered tones huskier weak weak- by far tar than when I had last heard them soothed me calmed mc me Ev E going to come out all right Ill I'll see sec sc to it all Sit down and let me hear all about It It IL There was an indefinable air o of embarrassment embarrassment em em- about him which I I could not understand at first Tl Ten TJien en I saw beyond him the lovely flushed lace face of ot and in her eyes eres there was a faintly troubled look I read it all in tt a flash Jack Jacl was embarrassed because I had so sc Impetuously impetuously embraced him before Katherine I withdrew myself from from his embrace abruptly and drew a chair for tor him near my own Arc Are you oU sure you ou arc are fUll fully recovered recovered reco- reco ered cred I asked and I saw Jack look wonderingly at atthe the touch o of formality in my tono tone Xo ao to I cannot ca say ay that he returned gravely but I am so much better of off than so man many of the tho other poor chaps who survived that r I have no right to complain Mine Iline was a bod body wound and while I shall feel teel Its effects on my 01 gener general generl l health for years rears perhaps all rn my life yet ct I am not crippled His tone was full ull of oC thankfulness and all m my pettiness vanished at the sudden swift vision islon of oC what ho must have havo endured The next moment he had turned m my thoughts Into a a. new channel Margaret he said gravely ra el i t 1 am terribly distressed to hear from Kath Kath- erine that your our husband has gone away In n such a strange manner So she had already told him The little pang of unworthy jealousy jealous came came- back ck but I banished it Now there must be no more time limo lost he went on You have ha had no noman noman noman man to look after aCter things for tor you OU but remember now your old brother Jack Is on the job First I must know everything e that occurred on that last day Did you oU notice anything extraordinary ex extraordinary ex- ex In n his demeanor on that last morning you saw him This was tho the old Jack going directly to tho the root of ot the matter maller wasting toasting no notime notime notime time on his own affairs or feelings s when he saW sav a duty before him I felt the tho old sway or of his personality upon me and answered hI his questions QuestIon as cl meekly as A ra child might have ha done lIe He was just the same samo as aa he had been er e morning since every m my accident I returned m. H Jack thou thought ht a long minute minute min min- ute then began beban again Tell me everything o that happened that da day er c every ery visitor you ou had dont don't omit the trifling most trifling thing he command com corn mand ll lIe He listened attentively as I recalled Harr Harry Underwood's visit and Robert Gordons Gordon's At m my revelation that Robert Robert Robert Rob Rob- ert Gordon had said he was my father his his calm judicial broke manner into I excitement Your father he exclaimed and then after a pause I alwa always s 's knew he would rome come back s some mo day But nut go on What happened when he told you OU he was w-is your our father ather I 1 went vent on with tho the stor story of oC my 01 struggle with my own rancor n. n against my 10 father of oC m my conviction that I had heard my m- mothers mother's voice oleo ur urging my 01 reconciliation with him of m my fa fathers father's fathers father's fathers father's fa- fa ther's first embrace and kisses even of oC the queer smothered sound like a groan roan and the slamming of ot a door which I had heard hard Then I told him of oC m my fathers father's gift girt of oC money to me which I had not yet ct touched but I I noticed that toward the last of or mi my m narrative o Jack seemed preoccupied Did Aid your our husband come como home homo to Marvin ln at all that da day he asked No Xo ho ne cr came back from the city after he had once gone gono in until c evening But arc aro you OU sure that this this day he be did not return to Mart Marvin In ho per per- How lIow do know you OU Because no one saw him hint I re returned returned returned re- re turned and he could hardly hurdly have come corne comeback comeback back without someone in n the house i seeing him lie said no more as Lillian and Katherine camo came up just then and the conversation became general I To my 01 great surprise I did not see him again after that first visit Katherine Kath Kath- erine explained to me mc that he had been Leen called out of or town on ur urgent nt business but t the explanation seemed to me to savor o of the mysterious excitement that seemed to possess everybody e around me Finally Finall one morning Lillian came camo to tomo tomo mo her face shining I want you jou ou to prepare to be very bra brave e Madge she said paid ald There I Is I Isome some some one coming whom I fear it will tax tax all your strength to meet Dick Dicky I faltered beginning t ts tremble No 0 chill not yet Iet she said her herI voice lIce filled d with pit pity but someone I who ho has hai dono done you a great wron wrong Grace Draper |