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Show My Heart and I My Husband Adds Garrison's Kw Pbsss of Revelations of a Wife i MOW A 1,1410 II OM OWaJK RKTI KNUD TJ THK B) UUOL, "Where's Alice? He sa Dean popped her head In at the office door, aaw that I was alone, came Into the room and shut the door behind her. Hhe'a gone to the Tillage. "When will she be back? 'I don't know. Hhe may not return at all. There's nothing for her to do. "I II bet a cookie I know where she's rone." Miss Ivan put her palms upon the rather high deak, leaped lightly to the top of it. and began swinging her feet, tfhe evidently was In a gossipy mood, and I wiahed her anywhere elae. "What are you doing here" I anked. trying to turn the con vsrBtion from Alice Unicorn be. " ihouajht you had left with tha rst of them aa soon aa you reported this afternoon."' UK a a UK AY eikiUS. Oh, I'm trying to get In the class with Winsey," she aaid airily, '.she w uni,i Juai a rew minutes a mo. That a the reason I proreeded cautiously cau-tiously until I saw you were alone. 1 thought perhaps she waa akinnlng and cutting you up. and far be It from me to Interfere with a lady's little aiver-aions. aiver-aions. 1 laughed In spite of myaelf, her saury nonchalance waa Irrraisttble. I have often envied her power to throw off everythlns; disagreeable, and at no time more than at this moment when the weiKht of the world seemed to be renting upon my shoulders. Then you've really been working" I tried to speak bantering iy, but failed miserably. "J'oa-l-tlve-ly. Got everything cleared up for a week. And let ma tell you something don't look for little Hessie In the morning, 'cause she's going to be aound asleep in her little bad. oh. vea 1 know the orders that old stuffed owl left today, and anybody can obey them who wants to. Hut not for me, dearie not for me? You can send In a written report If you like oa my abaem-e. but they won t fire me for oversleep! n. and I ahould worry If they dock me" ' I ahall file no report unlesa one is asked for.' 1 replied a bit stiffly, "and far aa I am concerned the entire ataff may sleep the whole two days away." ' "Don't fool yourselr. rav after to-m.or.lLw to-m.or.lLw V" hav to be ' evidence "tJt!!?1 ,,unrMl fry eyelashes and blark bands on our sleeves. Thai a one reason why 1 m going to get a good sleep tomorrow, m need It. if there's one thing more than another that I can t aland II I a funeral, and especially one like thla will be." ' I opened my Hps to say that under jo circumstances would I attend the funeral of MDIv Htock bridge, and to express my opinion upon the bad taste of making it other than a etriutly private pri-vate affair, but an instant a second thought closed them again. Not to Flesn Dean could I utter any confidence i might aa well paste it upon the poat-olfu-e bulletin board. Hfttl, LADY, FI.C.AlkW "Oh. you can keep It to yourself." Mtsa eaa tossed hvr head otfendrdly. ' vvhm "' i asked unguardmlly. ''Whatever you oied your mouth to aay Just now. Uut never mind that Let me tell you something that you can't dny. Alice has gone to the coroner cor-oner b inquest aa a witness, and 1 know it." "If you know It. why question ma?" I aked with a noncommittal air. "Just for the iun of seeing yott nuitm." she retorted with a tnaLklous little laugh ' I always did- enjUy seeing see-ing little goats meandering around the lawn, and your am ail Nannv has certainly cer-tainly slipped Its tether about now. Ta-ta. Keep your secrets, dearie, but don t think vou fool little Bessie, for you don t Vou II have to get up earlier in the morning than you ever did to pull the wool over Ola chile's eyes. Hhe sitpprd from the desk with careless care-less grace, aweot me a mocking bow that, after all. had no 111 nature in it. and danced out of the room. 1 heard her humming a llttie tune aa she went I down the corridor, heard It again aa she rams back from her room and left the building. I stood Idly at the window win-dow andiwatched her lithe figure tripping trip-ping down the path, as If she were the spirit of careless, happy youth itself, and felt suddenly old and careworn as I watched her. 1 stood at the aame window a number of times hi the next hour, for an uncontrollable un-controllable restlessness bad seixed me. I felt -es If I could not atand the interval in-terval of waiting until Alice Uolcombe j ahould return. l'pon my etsth or seventh trip I saw a taxicab being driven rapidly up the curving. privt road leading to the school. As It drew up In front of the dovr I recognized In the driver a boy of whom Alice Ho loom be had spoken ss a former favorite pupil of hers. The lad got dowa Irom his seat, threw open the door, and then 1 saw him give a distinct start and thrust his head into the taalcab. The next instant be had withdrawn It and east a f ran tie look toward the school b idding. I leaned from the window, whu-n waeonly on the second story, sad railed down softly: soft-ly: "Whs la the matter "Oh. lady, please come ' down here nuUkV he Implored, kins Hntuooibea dead or fainted or noma thing." i (To be continued.) |