Show Revelations 1 R e I ti of a i Wife X i f e eTIm TIm TIlE STORY 01 A t IIO HONEYMOON By y ADELE GARRISON HOW MADGE 1 FOLLOWED gD ALLEN ALLIN DRAKES DRAKE'S S 'S INDIRECT I DIRECTIONS Ing The Jamaica express rushed along the flat lat Long Lon Island Islan lan landscape illuminated by a wonderful moonlight into which tho spring twilight had merged But Dut although h m my face faco was turned turne to toward toward toward to- to ward tho the window ow and I ostensibly was watching watching- tho the flying I panorama of woodland meadow an and streams In n reality I saw almost nothing of oC tho the sli sll- tinted ver-tinted beauty flitting past my is window In d ow My I brain ha hind had room but for one thought thou ono one question an and it pounded itself against my consciousness again ain and again until even en the clicking wheels beneath me seemed to sound round its s syllables Had I read aright h t the directions hidden hidden hid hid- den en in Allen Allon Dral Drakes Drake's es e's casual sentences I J went over them a again aln recalled tho the cas easy careless grace graco of or the man as he lie stood by tho the side of or Grace Draper realIzed realized real real- hl hits his skill in handling the almost Impossible situation in which we had found ourselves Aline line With Imagination He lie must have meant me mc to wait in the tin tiny like box room on tho the Ja Jamaica Jamaica Ja- Ja maica platform tho the only shelter the railroad provided pro for the thousands of commuters using using- its trains It was the only onh inference I could coul l L from fron his question practically practically an assertion concerning my going home and his sympathizing remarks g about tho the plat plat- form torm An And ho he had escorted me mc to tom tomy toray m my ray train and knew exactly what time lime It would woul reach It Its destination Search m my recollection of or his words wortIs as ns I might I could find no other meaning hl hidden hid hid- den In them At any rate there was no course courso open of to me JIll hut but to follow follo m my o own n con con- In iii r Th t f lip hI lic hoi i meant mo mc to to understand something from his seemingly casual words wortIs I was certain because of or Lillians Lillian's warning warning- I could coul only interpret them as best besl I could But so great was my dread rea that I Iha ha had misun misunderstood him an and consequently consequently consequently conse conse- had hail failed Lillian that I was as i if with cold when the train drew into Jamaica and I stepped steppe out outon outon outon on tho platform The guards wore calling tho the names of the di different bound east trains in stentorian tones and tho tIm platform was vas filled with hurrying hurrying hur hur- commuters commuter rushing rushing- for Cor seats scats I was puzzled at first to account for forso forso forso so man many people at tho the late hour but butI I L remembered tI that there had been leen a national guard parade in tho the city and realized the tho reason for tho the latecomer late com e er rs It took tool all the poise I could coul muster muster mus mus- ter to turn into the lighted little waiting waltIn walt wait In ing room and t take tko a scat seat To my heated imagination It seemed that cyer every commuter on tho the platform must bo ho speculating upon the reason for tor m my sitting down clown thoro there Instead of oC taking tho thio Babylon local which stood waiting for its passengers just outside o the thew w window I nd o a But nut that ordeal was nothing nothing- to theone theono the tho one ono which a awaited waited me tao when the trains ha had all pulled out nut and I as loft left the solitary occupant of or the waiting room I was with an unaccountable terror of or tho the loneliness s for oven even the tho guards ar l seemed to ha have cepa departed ted from I tho the platforms platform Tho Tim fruit stand antI and no n newspaper paper stand were closed As 5 far faras faras I as I could coul see there thero was no ono one besl beside o omo mo me on the thc whole length of or the Platform plat prat- fo form rm An e Guard The windows running tho the len length th o of both boUt sides of or the tho room seemed like so cn i vos I mo I 11 i huddled 1 t di d Into the l corner r cr next i the tho i tele- tele le booth where at least leant there was vaz no window at lU my back and and with tho the forlorn hope that the movement would steady my shaking nerves nor I took tool out my knitting from Katherine's knitting bag As I did i so my fingers touched the thc cold ol metal of or the tho small ammonia gun which Katherine ha had put in her knitting knit knit- tin ting bag for tor any emergency which I J might b b bt called upon to face tace Curiously Curiously Curiously Curi Curi- enough h no rio feeling rc of security came camo to me with the thc touch of the metal Instead It was wan a source of ofa a l terror as I began to 8 speculate late cl upon the tho possibility remote though it appeared that I might have o to use uso tho the little weapon A masculine step sounded out outside i o olho the tho door OOl and ancI in tho the moment that lapsed before n. n guard put pill his hlll head bead In at nt tho the door I suffered torturing sus sus- pense penso Missed lisse your train he vis I answered laconically Which one do you ou want Di Did I 1 imagine ino it or was there suspicion in hi Ills tones I remembered fJ reading that the tho railroads were ere taking extra pro pro- I cautions against ag possible spies in these first days clays ts t's of our country's entrance I Into the war warA A A dt The ono one that goes goe oeM to Marvin in Try as is I J mi might ht I couldn't nt keep a slight tremor out of my voice lie shot Khot a u keen glance fIance at nt me Thoro Thero was no on that thal train he lie said with tho the air of a a. man stating staling Drool Brooklyn n l and Now York expresses pulled up uJ UI on schedule arid Til thorp there was wast plenty of or time for Cor everybody to Sot got seats I Ills manner made mc me search m my wits On I l I i 1 t thought l' l ll l would 1 I. I would have have- time to sen send a a. telephone message I 1 stam slam in C red Ills His face taco cleared I had given Jhen a a. plausible ox explanation of or my tl dela delay clay No o chance to telephone between these trains tonight ht hI he said almost I Jovial jovially Too roo bad badt I You'll have a long watt walt until the tho next train |