Show ATOMS OF A WIFE BY WIlY WHY 1 DID MILIAN N JEEP MADE MADGE IAD E EVOR KOR VOR liEn hER TALK TUK WITH JACK didn't ha have hato to wait walt long IonS to administer the tho tongue lashing to Jack Bickett which she had so vehemently promised In her loyal loal championship champion ship of Katherine On the tho morning of ot the second day after wo we had hat followed old Mrs Morton Morton Morton Mor Mor- ton to her lice last resting place Lillian LUllan and I were c sit sitting tin In the tho big white and crimson living room the coolest room in iii the house quietly knitting Katherine hadn't yet come como comedown do down don n for Lillian with imperious kindness had commanded her to ata stay In bed and herself had carried a breakfast tray tra to her We e both started perceptibly when the doorbell rang sure proof that we wc were both nervous oU for the p peal al of oC a abell abell abell bell was a common thing in tho the Underwood Underwood Un Underwood Un- Un derwood home By Br the pricking pricking- of ot m my thumbs thumbs' Quoted Lillian laying down her knitting knitting knit knit- ting expectantly and anel then as wo we o heard Betty's Bettys voice In tie halL halt evidently evi evidently evi- evi dently ushering In someone familiar j eVI-j with tho the house for tor Betty was under orders to admit no one except a few Intimates unless g Lillian were first summoned to the tho door she door she up impatiently My prophetic sou soul sh slin murmured to me as we both hoth heard and reco recognized Jack deep tones I 1 ha hac had had- hadn a n hunch that lad would come como today I rose hastily calculating c. my chance of ot getting out of the room before Jack should enter It it I had had- no desire to share shar in the scene Lillian was evi evidently 1 0 dently bent upon tipon staging But Lillian willed otherwise A sho she passed parsed me she put me back In In m my chair with a dexterous turn of ot ncr her arm To Io anger Ancer r Dont Donl you dare daro go awa away she wh wh- and the ti-ic next moment she wa greeting reeling Jack Jaek cordially enough at nt Bettys Betty's announcement 1 hold of or Weve Q e been trying to get set you vou for days she wild as the they camo came down the tho room toward me When hen poor Mrs Morton died wo we 0 needed a n aman aman man to see to things and I 1 tried to get bet hold of you ou but you ou weren't t at your 11 0 apartment apartment- If It the subject of ot Lillians Lillian's conversation con conver had been other than what It was I would have havo laughed outright at the tho idea of oC her need needing nJ a nian man to attend to anything In the tho world I think Jack Jacle had the tho same Fame thought for tor ho he offered no e explanation or regret at being boing away only replied In a a. shocked tone Mrs 18 Morton forton dead I am sorry In In- In deed to hear bear It deeply shocked Lillian looked at him quizzically q It Isn't necessary to do the conventional conventional con con- trick with me she sho said In Inh h her r most irritating manner You know neither sorry orry nor shocked You Yon never saw Mrs Morton and her het death only means to you a release for tor Kath Kath- erine arine But were we're going to thrash that out von you and L LIf LIf LIt If It by bp y her unusual rudeness Lillian meant to anger Jack and disturb his poise sho si-ic didn't succeed at least as aa asfar asfar far as his outward appearance went lie bowed to her gravely Whit What Detain DI Dicky Dieky T JQ-T Im at your our service at an any time lime he said Then ho turned to me mc How do you do Margaret I thought I dete detected ted an unwonted tremor tremor tremor tre tre- mor in m my cousins cousin's ol voice and when he bent and kissed me some me-some- some something thing thinS ho rarely did did I I realized that folsome for fol some reason ho was deeply moved beneath beneath be beneath be- be neath his calm exterior Very well weIl indeed thank you Jack I I returned looking at him And nd nd you your Mighty fit it he answer answered d lacon- lacon And how is old Dick Katherine said ho was at an ana aviation camp How Is he baking haking it Does he ho Wee like flying flyThe fly fly- ly- ly In ing Tho The old feeling of ot humiliation swept over me I felt fell a savage distaste for tor tho the words of ot explanation I must utter The Tho feeling made mado m my voice frigid ri ld Katherine was as mistaken I said Dick Dicky isn't flying ins Hes He's making il illustrations il- il for or a new a n serial for one of the magazines mag Oh Ohl Jack Jacl said lame lamely evidently e comprehending m my embarrassment There was something else elso in his tone also something which I saw reflected reflect reflect- ed In Lillians Lillian's eyes ees when I involuntarily involuntarily glanced lanced at her without knowing wh why I did so BO Tho The next Instant Lillian LUlian had swept from her ber face faco and eyes ces er e every vestige of ot expression But I couldn't forget torget the tho look of surprise in her hr eyes ces It was a look of troubled comprehension and all at once I realized what I should bould have known before that no noma ma magazine azine commission would keep Dick Dicky so long There Thero must be some son other perhaps other perhaps lc le less s g. cre creditable reason creditable reason for his absence than the one he had 1 given ghen me inc J I had no time for thought upon tho the subject however for fol Jacks Jack's next nert words gave 3 0 I Lillian the tho opportunity she sho de do- do sired Is Oils Katherine in Jack asked I would like to see her If It she Is Continued Tomorrow p S c I |