Show m 3 REVEL REVELATIONS A MF LOF OF A WIFE r The Story r o of a Honeymoon By ADELE GARRISON GARRISONs GARRISON's s 's J There was a long lonE silence In Lillian Underwood's s 's library after m my outbreak against the mocking mocking- cruelty of oC her husbands husband's letter lettea to hor her and her re resolve resolve ro- ro solve to don deny Harry Un Underwood's erwood's re request re- re quest for tho formality of oC a divorce because of the notoriety she and her little daughter would suffer but to leave him forever Core free tree from ao any claim of or hers With her chin cupped in her hands I she sat gazing into the fire a mournful mournful mourn mourn- ful rul stare which made m my heart ache for her ter I knew kne tho sense of failure the humiliation which was stretching her sensitive soul upon the tho rack knew al also o that until she Iho broke the loe silence herself It were better bettel not to question her I 1 was was in In no no mood for speech myself There were a number of barbed arrows ar- ar arrows arrows ar ar- rows In Harry Underwood's letter Jetter and with an amazed self-contempt self 1 I realized realized real real- that one of oC them was waR the fact that the extravagant admiration for me which he had alwa always s 's professed proCessed ha had 1 had so slight a tenure had hail been heen so easily ensil displaced by the man many attractions of oC Grace Draper the girl Sill whom I had bad the greatest reason In in th the world to distrust distrust dis dis- trust and dislike 1 have alwa always s feared fearer and disliked Harry Underwood HO so o that there was no reason for m my feeling of pique save savo woun wounded ed vanity My 1 cheeks burned with shame shamo as 1 I forced myself to recognize roe rec that underneath all all my my repugnance repugnance repugnance nance to Harry Un Underwood erwood all my real leal loyalty to my husband and Lillian there had run a secret despicable feeling feel feel- ing Ins Insor of or gratified vanity as my evident power over O th the man With Ith a little shudder I put the rca realization real real- 1 behind me and turned to o an another another another an- an other recollection of the letter I I. I had Just rear real read that which perta pertained to m my father T Y had read it hurriedly but I should heed I picked up the crumpled sheets of oC the letter from the floor whore I 1 ha had thrown them and smoothing out tho pages found the place for which I was as looking The Tho words in Harr Harry Und Underwood's Under Under- rood r- r woods wood's bold ItA hl beautiful h f v vt t rv t V h u. u y stared up at me A AA A Cold Little Fear A more mysterious old cuss never nc lived moro more more intriguing intrIguing- and thieving officials coming to se him thau you youcan ou can couitt If It I had an m imagination 1 I should say he was an international SP spy but he lie probably Is playing some sonic little graft game Jame of oC his own My 1 first feeling was one of oC unbridled led lcd anger against t the man who ha had written the wor words words s The cheapness of him revenging himself upon th the old man who had res his wickedness L by slandering him In a letter Then u No cold little fear clutched me What hat at after r all did I know of m my father fa fa- fa ther 0 of the mysterious business bUsine s in which he heas was as enla engaged ed or of th the source of his income All 11 m my life I had schooled myself to dislike e and despise c him because of his cruelty to m my mother He lie had deserted her and tak talc taken taken en cu with him her hel closest woman friend when 1 w was s but 1 1 years cars ol old But m my mother on her death bed had asked me to forgive o him if Ie he should ever er come corne into m my life again a and when after aCler I had met him as Robert Hobert Gordon the mysterious Quester of Broadway he had revealed himself to mo me as my father Cather I found Cound that all aU the hatred I had felt Celt for him melted awa away at the sight of his contrition an and of oC his love lov for me And now I 1 faced tho possibility of disgrace perhaps worse for hIm The wor word spy l has the terror for Cor me that it it Il holds for all or women and In a moment moment moment mo mo- ment my thoughts had flown Clown back to the stranger strang-or whom Diet Dicky had brought ht to our home the tho man Drake who asked me so man many questions about my father Cather that I guessed ho he had secured the invitation In from Crom Dick Dicky for Cor the thu purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose of questioning me mc How flow glad ad I was that I 1 had been un unable unable un- un able to give I Mr Drake the address for Cor which he ho asked I had not heard from Crom m my fa father Ure r for Cor weeks even en months and he had harl no other a address of oC mine than Lillian's Lillians apartment I 1 determined upon a n. course of or procedure which I 1 meant to broach to Lillian i when she should be ready to talk to me again Sn Say That flint O Over r or Again nin Dont worry over o your our father rather m my dear dean Lillians Lillian's voice olce broke into my reverie erie with the clairvoyant understanding understanding under under- standing which is always hor hors You I know Harrys Harry's unhappy habit of oC Your father tather evidently o j an annoyed annoyed an- an noyed him b by his championship and Ual he said the first unkind thing about him him that came Into his head hea But you Oll know now ho must have havo had some foundation for those particular remarks I answered and besides 1 I Iam am afraid there thero Is more reason for Cor his hll chatter hull lian you Imagine Why h She Sho looked up startled I 1 told her the whole hole story of Mr Drake his Ills visit to our home rind and his 1 questioning of me 1 was glad to se see that with the problem of oC another to meet slue she lost lust tie the tenseness of oC emotion that thal had been hers hors With ith Hh characteristic tic energy r she bent hent all ill her faculties acuities to toward toward to- to ward helping meSay me mc Say Sa Sat that over o again slowly she site I said ald I 1 think there is work wo-k for me to do o. o I Continued Tomorrow |