Show iI I I I REVELATIONS i i I OF A WIFE Story o of a l Honeymoon By ADELE GARRISON I I WHAT IX IN THE 1 AV X IOUS C II- II TO 0 I anI Only one letter for tor yau au Margaret arct and anel such ii a a queer looking thing Really I should almost be afraid It carried disease germs its it's so terribly so soiled lied Cousin Agatha ad adan advanced an ed toward me her outstretched hand gingerly holdIng holdIng holdIng hold- hold Ing a n Cletter letter whose appearance justified justified justi justl- fied fierI her criticise It was wao the cheapest cheap cheap- est possible sort of or envelope and it looked an as It If it had been carefully rubbed In dust Ut to got et It as dirt dirty as as po possible I I flushed resentfully as I T generally generally gener gener- nIl ally do at Cousin A Agathas Agatha's ath 8 remarks Her ter tone lone Intimated that I must have ha sortie some extremely undesirable acquaintances acquaintances acquaintances acquaint acquaint- ances somewhere But although I had no possible Id idea a as to the tho sender tender of f the letter m my pride wouldn't allow me meto meto meto to gratify s h hop her r petty pett malice by J tellIn telling telling tell tell- In ing her het so 80 She would have ha taken It n as j a bit of oC deference on m my part put to her opinion Therefore I slipped It Into the pocket of or my sweater without without without with with- out a second glance and went o on n with tho the bit of oC mending I had h. in I m my hands until I ha had a a. chance to slip aWa away to m my room I didn't stop to analyze the tho Instinct In Instinct In- In t that made mailo me turn tho the kc key I Ithe In Inthe inthe the lock and lean Ivan can against as the door breathing heavily as if IC I 1 had be been n running hard Instinctively el I felt relt within tho greasy dirty envelope In my pocket was some message e of or evil c for tar me I I took It out and look looked d at the superscription carefully I Mrs Irs Richard Graham Chase avenue Marvin ln L. 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I Chase avenue avenue Then it was from someone someone who J knew ne that we e had moved recently The rhe p was and ond I J ransacked m my memory to see If Ir I could find an any Jon o of oC an any person from Crom there but butto butto butto to no ax avail all all Of OC course the sensible procedure would have ha been tl to open the envelope at once and find out what the thc letter contained but an In Indefinable Indefinable In- In definable reluctance made mude me postpone postpone post post- pone ponc the tha opening as long as possible I J e examined the handwriting care care- fully It was evidently c that of a a. person person per per- son rather unused to writing and the characters were rather shakily made I looked more closely and anel dc decided that a a. childs child's hand had addressed the envelope More puzzled than ever 1 slowly slit NUt the envelope and drew out the enclosure lint it t It was ns a half haIr sheet heet of or the cheapest kind o of or note noto paper absolute absolutely blank c evidently put in the thc envelope for the sole Iole rca reason on of or protecting the short newspaper r clipping t t enclosed The clipping was w from Crom a aw New w York I newspaper nr r and und bore tho heading 1 j I Short Shrift for Spanish Sp Spy The I stor story bore borc a Paris dJ date te line and was wasI I the story tor of or a man of mixed l German and Spanish parentage but e but who ho had lived for years reals Jn In Trance who France who had been discovered ered In treasonable tics and summarily executed There was no name or initial on the thc clipping but the words of the I headline were cre underlined In red Ink and there was a way wavy lino lIrio of or red ink drawn around the entire margin of oC the clipping Co II I In Comments Commend I I T read the thin tiring thing through h and nd then I turned turner It over IWer and anel over In ln m my hands minutely examining it for COr a a. tra trace that ml might ht suggest sus-gesl the identity of the I sender but to LO no avail It might have ha dropped from the clouds for an any evidence It betra betrayed ed of the hand that had started it on its mission I was thoro thoroughly ig-hl ig puzzled and al although although although al- al though I tried to den deny it to myself a bit frightened by this newspaper clipping sent in so strange a manner I tried to reassure m myself with the nr that perhaps the man spoken cn of or In In the dispatch was known to some other Mrs Richard Graham who ho might live In a village of or Long Lons- Island with a name similar to Marvin ln But Bul But I knew even en as It flashed Into m my mind mind that It It was a most farfetched far far- fetched well nigh Impossible explanation explanation tion Th The clipping was meant for me mc Then rhen I thought of or a conversation the DUrl ee and Dick Dicky and I 1 had once had concerning spy liP activities I 1 had ex expressed expressed expressed ex- ex pressed rather a decided opinion that I this countr country was hone honeycombed combed them Alfred Durkee had laughed laus-hed up up- I at m my strictures pretending that he would be afraid to come to my house an any more mor for fear tear that I would suspect him o of treasonable activities and warning his mother with burlesqued bur solemnity to mind her ps p's and qs when she was wag with me or shed she'd find he herself marched oC off to prison It must be Alfred Durkee who had haJ sent me the clipping clipping- I decided with a sight of relief and nd started to tear It up and throw It into m my waste paper basket But some Impulse made mado mo me lock It up In m my desk Instead aI And nel glad indeed I was that I had done so so when the next day Cousin Agatha As with n- n o hatefulness s In her voice olce said as she sho handed me another grimy envelope en- en envelope en en- elope You really ought ht to tell your your- correspondents correspondents corre corre- to wash their hands Mar Mar- garet Continued tomorrow |