Show V i Confessions Of Bride J L a Bob Draws Nearer to Me and I Rejoice Re Re- I joice Too joice-Too Too Soon What if Bob did happen to bestow on Katherine Miller l the half admirIng admiring ing half indulgent smile I coveted formy formy for formy my own I hadn't the right to complain com corn plain for it wouldn't be with him a question of loyalty at all 1111 It would be simply one manifestation of his natural self reacting to the presence of a pretty woman woman his his natural self unhampered by the knowledge that he was a man led manI man I knew Bob so well I knew that his loyalty to his wife could never be questioned If It his mind were normal Some men practice loyalty to their country as a it supreme duty and loyalty to their mothers as a matter of masculine mas mas- culine euline pride Bob was one of those I who ho believe that loyalty also ha has Its own high place In romantic love and that it should be cultivated for its own sake by all good husbands and wives just as they cultivate honesty and truth and other virtues More orore than once in the days of our engagement we had exchanged defInitions definitions definitions defini defIni- of true love as all engaged ed perSons persons persons per per- sons are sure to do And Bob had insisted that ordinary loyalty is the only factor in love Jove which will w a am aman aman m man n and a woman a happy and peaceful peaceful peaceful peace peace- ful life together This wa was wag good for me to recall in inthe inthe inthe the bitter time of our estrangement The mystery of the third divera dIvers suit gave Bob many an excuse for talking ing with meIs meIs meIs me Is there any way by which you could positively identify Identity the costume you saw in house Bab asked one morning There happened to be one although I had never recalled it before In my mad race for a safe refuge the night I had hidden in that same suit I had scratched my shoulder on a buckle of the costume I didn't try to relate all of the circumstances of that able adventure to Bob I only said of ot the Im sure that on the lining costume somewhere near the left shoulder there Is a dark brown blotch as if It a drop of blood had dried there No need to make a a. memorandum of that laughed Bob Its such a curious detail that neither you ou nor I would be apt to forget it Neither you nor I will wll ever er have a chance to certify it I retorted After we had reviewed and ex exhausted exhausted ex- ex hausted all the the evidence for and I against the chances of escape from the sea Bob hit upon another reason for lingering near me part of every morning I Baby Barbara had come home from the sanitarium with her old nurse She was lovely and loveable but rather shy Mother L Lt Lr eimer imer and I agreed that the child needed to get acquainted with I her relatives and her home So it became became became be be- came my pleasant duty to take her on ona ona ona a little round ot of visits after breakfast daily dally First we always went to see Chrys in the darkened boudoir where she elected to pa pass s the best part of ot her time And where she will surely drift gradually into Insanity thought I. I unless somebody gives her a big Jolt Next Dabs Babs and I always called on Mother Lorimer as she was saying goodbye to Daddy for the day and andI then we were accustomed to ride with I him In the car as far as the big gate I And there Bob Dob always came to find findus findus us and t to walk with us to the blue gar gar- den It was the event of my da day I And I flattered myself that the curIous curious curi curt ous pull which existed between us which had bound us so subtly from our first meeting was renewing the magic of its tension Theres but one man for each woman wo wo- wo- wo man and one rea real love for each life I said to myself In my gladness But the serpent serpent Lamia Lamia the snake e woman woman stole stole into my new Paradise To be continued |