Show I I REVELATIONS I IS S OF A The T Story of a H Honeymoon I By Adele Garrison c CHAPTER Continued I H TIT IS MOTHER has been taken ill an and I am Yer very much worried about her If ii Mr lr Graham comes in itt or telephones will you ask him bim to i Of or mc home at T once phoning tn t.- mc me 4 ti first la 1 10 if he be will I ther there here anything 1 i li c else I can do do Nothing thank you ou you ou arc aIO very ery kind I returned and there was genuine warmth in m my voice this time timo For FOI the ho discovery that I had been mistaken In m my idea a a. oi luncheon lunch- lunch eon con engagement made me so 80 ashamed of ot myself that I had no moro rancor against my husbands husband's beautiful I laughed bitterly at my own n flOss ns na T 1 fr n it Mio tho fc I I Th lon I h had lc been t tormenting tn il myself i for fOI hours at the picture I had drawn dran of Dicky and amI his Ills beautiful model lunching a via Dicky had been keeping a prosaic business engagement wit with h a man and his and h i model had pro probably probably babl b- b abl ably lunched frugally all and unromantically unromantically call cally on a a. sandwich or two brought from rom home CIL CibA XHI CAM CHT MC ME MOTH lI 1211 H YOU VOU X C. ILL HL you OU kindly tell teU mo who Is W the best physician here Why h I hY pardon Y-I-pardon 1 pardon me me- me metho tho the dlug store clerk stammered Walt alt a I moment and anti Ill I'll Inquire Im I'm new here The Tho boss says sas this chaps chap's the best I around hero He lie held out a a. p penciled 11 card to me Dr Pettit Madison Square Dr Pettit I repeated to myself Wh hy that must be the physician who came to the tho apartment the tho night of or orm m my chafing dish p party rt when hen the bab baby across the hall was brou brought hl to us Ina in ina a convulsion A sudden swift remembrance came to tome tome tome me of or the tact and antI firmness with With-i tho timo tall young oung physician had handled the difficult situation he had found In our apartment He lie was Just the man I I decided to handle landle m my refractory mother in So I called him up UI and I hu ho promised to call as soon as his office hourt hours e were over I M My feet traveled no faster Caster than my thoughts as ns I hurried back to my own apartment and tho the bedside of oC my mother mother-inlaw I ended dreaded ded Inexpressibly the conflict I J foresaw when wIzen tho the autocratic autocratic autocratic auto auto- I cratic old woman should find out that I had harl sent for rv 1 c t h ht i u I As I entered the living room Katie I I roae rose from her seat scat at the door of or my mother laws room She not move while you ou gone she j said Sho She sleep all an time but I raid she sho awful Beeck she breathe so hard I went vent lightly into the bedroom and stood looking hooking down upon uon the austere old faco face against th the tho 0 pillow It was a l f lu hod I old face faco now and tho the eyelids I I twitched as aR if It there were pain somewhere somewhere some some- 1 where In the tho bod body Her lien breathing too was as more rapid and hea heavy than whon I had left Jet her or so I fancied My Iy Inability to do anything for Cor her hem depressed me By slipping my hand under the tho blankets I had ascertained that the hot water bags were ere sufficiently sufficiently suf suf- warm There was sas nothing more for tOI em me to Lb do but hut to sit quietly and nd watch her until the physicians physician's s 's arrival arrival ar ar- ar- ar rival rhaL I wanted to bring Dr Pettit to her har bedside before she should awaken Then men I would let him deal with her obstinate refusal to see Bee a physician lint Hut how ho hoI I wished that lint Dick Dicky would collie home hom I AH if I 1 had rubbed Aladdin Aladdin's s lamp I heard the tho hall door loOn slam and m my husband came canu rushing into tho the room What hat Is the mat matter ten A Aith ith mother r. r Dirk Dicky Dieky demanded his face tace and ofru filled with anxiety I sprang sprang- to him him and put m my hand I Ito to his hit lips hips for he had almost shouted the words Hush flush She Sho Is asleep I Ih h whispered Dont waken her I If you ou can help It it Why WIn Isn't there thero a doctor here he demanded fierce fiercely Dr Pettit will be hero In a very cry few moments I whispered rapidly Your mother said she would not have havo a physician an but ut gho sio l c appeared p. p so 50 Ill 11 I I am ala not care lIaro to wait walt until your our return to tho the studio I telephoned you and when Miss Draper sal said she did not l I know where to get got you ou I phoned to Dr Pettit on m my o own n authority I You dont don't think mother Is In any danger dans-cr doWhy do lo you rou Madge I II Wh Why I dont don't think I am a a. good g 1 judge of ot Illness I answered evasively evasive evasive- ly h unwilling to hurt Dick Dicky b by the r fear in my heart Tho The physician I I ought to be here hero an any minute now and then thon wo we will know A sharp Imperative ring of the bell belland belland and Katies Katie's entrance punctuated m my words Dick Dicky started toward the thc door loon as Katlo Katie opened it to admit the tho tall 1 figure of ot Dr Pettit Ah Ab Dr Pettit r I believe bellee w we have hae met before D Dicky said Bald casU easily Yh Mrs Graham spoke of ot you ou I did not remember that wo we had seen you OU sd ad r re no- no I am glad that wo we were able to ze get t you ou Thank you ou the physician returned gravely ol Where hero Is tho the patient In this room Dicky turned toward the bedroom door loOr and Dr Pettit at once walked toward It I mentally contrasted the lie two tO men as aa I followed them to my mother-in-law's mother room There was a charming case ease of oC manner about Dick Dicky which tho lie other man did ibid not possess He waR wan in fact tact almost awkward awkward awk awk- ward in his movements and decidedly l Ii I stiff In his manner But there was an nn U I appearance of ot latent Intent strength In every en line of ot his figure a a. suggestion of oC N power lower and ability to cope with viLh emergencies 1 I 1 had noticed It when he took charge of ot tho the baby in convulsions who had been brought to m my n. apartment apartment apart apart- ment meat b by Us its nurse I marked It again aa as Dick Dicky paused at nt the tho door of ot his mothers mother's room m i I don't dont know how you OU will ill mana manage e doctor He smiled My I mother positively refuses to see see a n physician ph but wo we know she needs need one You are arc her nearest relative Dr Pettit queried gravely grael almost formal formal- hy His question had almost the air all of or securing a legal right for tor his en entrance entrance entrance en- en I trance into tho the room Continued Tomorrow I |