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Show MY HEART AUD MY HUSBAND Mela Garrison's New . ; Pb0 of .' . '. Revelations cf a Wife WHY MUST ALICE HOLCOMBK SEC MADOS AT ONCSt "Marvin 71T" . ' . ' Alice Hoieoanbe's voice, weary wtta -the lone strain of wattle throaa-h which ' she had passed while trying- to reach me on the telephone, rmme ta mr ears over the wire from Falchosue. . ."Tea. Alice?" . "Oh-h!" The eidametioa little more than a whisper, betrayed the tension to which her nervca wera wrought. "Is it really ou? I've baa sj:h a time to get you." -Rraiiy and truly 1 hold the Una lust t mom.nt." 1 put the receiver down, walked to the doors leading Into the oiher rooms and cloewd them quietly th.a returned to the telephone stand again. I 'knew that neither Katje nor any one of the group In the living room would open those doors once 1 bad closed them, and i wished privacy for tula couversatloa with Alice Holcombe. "Now 1 am ready," T aald reassuringly. reassuring-ly. "What can I do for you?" "There's a train leaving here In fir teen nilnutee. reaches Marvin Just two hours from now. Can you meet me there or let me come to the house aa soon as I get In? 1 must see you at once. I have Just learned something which you ought to know Immediately.' I repressed the Impulse to tell her that T slso had a message of moment for her. Hhe waa overwrought aa It waa. There wee no reason for adding one Iota, to "lt me think a moment, I satdT' 1 cannot verv well have you some here, because 1 have the house full of guests. Junior la 1 year old today "Oh!" she Interrupted with oulck contrition. con-trition. "I ought not to trouble o u day. And yet 1 MCH "LAN. "Don't be etllr. I Interrupted decisively. de-cisively. "Of course I'm going to see . you. I have It: Homeone nas to go to (Teathaven after the loes for ths dinner; thev will not deliver them. What time dors your train reach Cresthevenr Walt a minute until I find out." She left the telephone, reluming wita Uio Information: "Two o'clock. M . ... Good. I will get Mr. Graham to drfvo me to CTesthaven In the oar about that tlms. You get off at the station there, and we can taut while he goes after the Ices. Then we will drive you back to Marvin to the etalion here. There Is a, train leaves here for Bayvlew about i ii. Of course, If we're late you ci lake the train directly from Cresthsvsnt but If not. the lido will bo preferable 10) ''''-Tns't's awftillr good of you." aha aald. Ct-fullv. "But your husband does no .w will he obleot?" . "Don't worry ahout that part of It, I advised a bit curtly. "Just get off the) train at Cre.thaven. Ill do the rest. "I'll be there," aha promised earneet- r turned trom the telephone with minified min-ified Irritation and uneasiness, I did noC , quite see how I was to irsnsce thiatriii tn cruhvtn wi'hir" jjrwrrtm,r wutt the smoothness of mv u inner arrange menta. 1 hud planned to send Alfred Iurkes and lella In the car for the Ices, hnowmr not only that they would enjoy the chance for the tittle trio a deux, but that I would have time for the last touches to mv own costume, to Juniors appearance, and to mv table that as) hostess were almost Imperative. WHAT MADQI RESERVED. , But there was no aitsmeths and with fast that were eann 1 went In sear It of Dicky. 1 dreaded his comment, for I had suessed shrewdlv that he did not psrticuUtrlv cars for AlUe Holcombe, and I knew that a summons from b would not appeal to him aa woutd one from IJHinn. tor Instance. His words of the nirht before, however, " came to me rft.sijrln;lv, "I don't thins: I've ever failed rou when you anoeaifd to me, have IV With a resolute en upon mv count are I resolved to lay the case before him frankly, inatead of try In to diefftitse mv real reason for Injt, as I had been tempted to do. I hunted for htm discreetlv. for t did not wtsh to make anv mvnterv out of our so in it and was lucky cnoujrh to find him alone In his room- "Well, old deerl What's on your mind?" he bsn flippantly: then at somethlnr he saw In my face, he spranf j up and came over to me. "Anv trouble, sweetheart? Any thine; I can dor he asked. f told him of A -- irteasare, and also. 1 fhntiirh with a little vaeuely worried feellnjr aa t thmiaht of his toldtime fault of thourhtlsa jrerrullty, of the mvsterloua man ahout whom I wtHhed ta ak Allee. He listened attentively, but there was a a-llnt of mockery in his eye when I had finished. , "Of course we'll are." he aald. "be-rause "be-rause you've asked me. But I thin the man Is probably a real assistant of Htofkhridae's attorneys, and as for11s Holoombe, I'll bet her excitement will turn out to be a mare's neat. And If vnu'tl nardon the aurseetloo, Fd turn over those school papers the mss "think I shall;- I said, for I could not reveal even to Picky the secret concerning con-cerning Alice Holcombe, which Kennels! aUockbrtdsre had placed la my hands. |