Show REVELATIONS OF A WIFE WHAT IL Ml MAN TOLD MADGE L IN li INTHE THE rnE HOSPITAL I 1 fancied I saw a a. quizzical light ht flash Clash the tho into Lillians Lillian's e eyes es when she Jho heard boar first question she sho had allowed allo mo me to answer since m my awakening to td consciousness con con- But nut if it it did exist it vanIshed vanished van van- ishel in another instant and her hea ans answer an- an s was serious and to the tho point I If Jr you ou mean the arm who j brought you Xou ou here to the hospital J ho ho wasn't l killed There was something in her her manner clus unwilling which gave gaye me mc an insight into tho the truth He Ho was badly hurt 1 I exclaimed Lillian LitHan looked at mo me gravely g I IU If U roure going to allow yourself to toI I become excited Madge she sal said I ly I 1 cannot tell you ou an anything thing more I will bo be good Lillian I meekly replied but if you OU on only 1 knew how splendid that officer was and from rom what he saved me mc you ou wouldn't wonder wonder wonder won won- der der- der I j can guess Lillian returned from the tho feat teat he performed ho-performed performed in bringing you Jou to tho ho hospital when he lie himself l ht was In a 3 most serious condition But Dut ho Ito hohas hohas has a splendid physique tho physicians sa say and the they him to bo ho pr practically practically c- c out of or dan danger er now nosy But nut you ou wont won't be able to say thank you to him for several days Is ITs he conscious Yes and resting easily since his nurse brought him him tho the news of or your our return to consciousness He lie evidently was most remorseful about something he told you ou to do do thought thought he hc had sent you ou to death or something of oC that sort sorl and his worry over o it materially in increased In- In increased creased his danger He must have hae been under a 1 terrible strain mentally and physically for Cor be besides besides besides be- be I sides bringing you ou to the hospital bundled into the of oC his car he lie had with him on tho the front seat a a I snarling shifty eyed captive who he lie I must have haYe known n was only onh watching for tor a n momentary weakness on his palto part pal to make malee good his e escape Did he get awa away I 1 asked fearfully fearful fearful- ly h and nd do you ou know what his name name annie I I was I l Ernest nc t or Olio Otlo For into m my mind had come a again ain I tho terror of or the tho giant Otto Otlo which I had felt during m my tempestuous sojourn so- so j 1 journ at tho ho inn I felt instinctively I 1 I that of or the two men nien Ernest had by far ar arthe the better mentality was a much more more- dangerous dang man to have havo at large largo than the tIme stolid brutal Otto with his sin sin- track gle-track mind But Hut from a purely personal standpoint I dreaded threaded Otto far more moro than I J did Earnest Were Yere ho lie alive and free I knew m my life lICo wa was a J I precarious thing thing- I I heard beard the officer address s him halt half mockingly as Ernest Lillian lan replied an and he didn't g get t awa away Before DeCore tho officer collapsed ho he turned him hint over overto overto overto to to- toa a brother officer who happened to tobe tobo be bo here I 4 t T four four nt-four Hour Hoars' Dl Did you OU hear other hear about any other man I queried about I Lillian looked at me keenly There Thero was one killed I 1 believe e she hc said slowly at least that is what I II I gathered from Crom what the officer said to his fellow when he came in here I Silently I leaned back against m my pillows and closed m my eyes for Cor a mo moment moment mo- mo ment in sheer relief relle mO I But I rested for only a moment The relief relict from front the tension concern concerning InS InS' Ernest Er- Er j j j nest had given ghen mo me new strength I 1 felt I i that I could not let lel Lillian cease talkIng talkIng talk- talk j Ing until she had told mo me e everything ng J she knew I 1 II II i I opened m my eyes eres and cau caught ht her looking at me In grave concern I smiled brightly at herI herI herI her I I I am absolutely all right I assured d her Iter almost gayly bayl or shall be he he when I you OU have hac told me er e everything thinS you know I Just Imn Imagine losing all aU this time out of ot m my may life life how how much Is it it b by the II way war You were brought to the hospital at twilight yesterday Lillian an replied and it is now flOW carl early afternoon Almost fo twenty four r hours I cx- cx claimed Tell me how did you OU get bet here 0 re Never ey r mind that now Lillian re re re- turned I want you OU to hear about your officer first Its It's a story worth hearing I can can tell teU you He lie isn't m my officer I 1 returned childishly L Lillian lIan laughed If Jl you ou had seen the way he lugged lug you OU in in here you ou would have hac thought you belonged to each cach other In someway some a way she ahe he said quizzically I To bo be cOntin continued ed tomorrow I |