Show I GIVEN IN lEN MARRIAGE I By ADELE GARRISON I Hugh Ast Astounds u ds Madge Madg With Theory That Avis Avis' St Story ry Part Patt of ofa a New Nev Scheme By Dy ADELE ADELE GARRISON Hugh gave me a quick startled look lookas lookas' as as' I told him th that t the way of the tr transgressor gr ss r had just been unexpectedly edly made mad easy and I 1 hastened to explain Mother Graham wishes me meto to go to Bridgehampton on an errand fo for her without first returning to the farm arm I told him I HI I suggested as' as you heard icard that I would go on to Hampton Bays to look at a a hat and she commented commented com corn that I probably would be gone all the afternoon So So as soon as Mrs Ticer returns we we will start for Patchogue to meet Avis Arlen I 1 will have lave plenty of at time to do both er errands errands er- er rands either cither going or coming But Hugh looked look troubled I not Ido do not wish to cavil at the goods the gods provide he said said- but what but what about your husband Didn't you say that you were going to ask Mrs Underwood Underwood Un Un- derwood f His voice trailed off oU un un- certainly To tell D Dicky that I 1 was going to Patchogue with you I finished with witha a cheery nonchalance I was far from feeling eeling Yes I did tell you that but butI I had not counted upon my iny mother mother- laws law's whims If It I stop at the farmhouse farm farm- house in direct disregard of ot her instructions in in- there will be what Mrs Ticer calls calls' ructions Dicky In all probability will not miss me and 1 I Ican Ican can explain everything to him after I get back DICKY WONT WON'T WONT WOl MISS HER IIER not miss yo yol you l Hughs Hugh's voice was as horrified as as' as if it I had told hurl him Dicky had just murdered his I ignored the serious note and answered with casual lJ lightness He and nd Harry Harr wouldn't heed GabrIels Gabrlel's Ga Ga- briels briel's tr trumpet today they're so engrossed en- en grossed In their electrical effects like small boys with a anew anew new nw electric railway but butI I 1 imagine they hey are going to work out something beautiful Xo for tor the wedding d decora- decora cora ions Im sure they ar are arC Hugh said and distinct relief relic showed through the he comm commonplace words Ill just see ec that my my car car r is brought around so so that we wc shall be ready to start when Mrs Ticer comes comes I 1 hesitated then spoke rapidly furious CurIous at myself because I felt as asif asif asit if it I 1 were doing something underhanded underhanded under under- handed but impelled to the words by the thought of at Mother Grahams Graham's p possible pos s. s sible watching for my car to pass the farmhouse It would be like her to satisfy herself that Iwas obeying her commands promptly I I think it would be better to take my ray car I I said I Z am sure neither of us car particularly cares for for comment comment and I think we shall mIni minimize it ilI il if f fI I take J. J Mrs rs Ticer home saying that I have an errand at t Bridgehampton for formy my mother law and land you casually casually cas cas- offer to go along in case of ot tire trou trouble le or r something like that hal CAUGHT STEALING JAW JAM My fury a at myself was augmented as I I felt my cheeks burning under Hughs Hugh's look which to my surprise held amusement instead of ot the subconscious subconscious subconscious sub sub- conscious censure which I I. I feared would be his at any touch of duplicity in n me mc You look exactly like a little girl caught stealing jam jan he hel said With Witha a chuckle After all you are arc not doing anything for which you you need to blush ever so faintly But as as' as we have to to wait Ticer- Ticer suppose Ticer-suppose suppose you tell me what distressed and astonished you so much just now when you finished talking to Mr Of Ot course he e. e amended hastily dont unless you wis wish With his his- unfailing tact he was sparing my confusion by changing the subject I caught at his cue cue grate grate- full fully HUGHS HUGH'S GH'S THEORY OF ARVIS YARN N NI I suppose I said slowly my ray imagination is working vertime overtime as as Dicky puts it but I could not help feeling that Mr meant something something something some some- thing special when when he he said 1 I would be glad to know kno he hc was on the trail of the missing letter Ietter No doubt you ar are right Hugh said but I do not see why you should b be bri concerned Of co course it |