Show Confessions Of a Bride You Yankees Gi Give e Yourselves Away Says Dr pushed back the wrecked I door of the office and we surveyed the tho debris together Ills desk with Its mysterious letters and the files tiles I holding a mass mas of Bolshevik literature and the list of Hun sympathizers i had been heen blown Iown to dust b by the explosion explosion ex ex- cx- cx plo ion of the bomb and the tho dust waRnow was waR I now mixed to a a. thick black paste pasto with water watH from the fire lire ho hose hoe The I floor of or the laboratory had fallen and the roof of the h hospital had caved in I r realized that although I had Imd on en ene ni e l C game came the best of or the evidence proving proving- his activity in G Rosso n propaganda had been I totally destroyed I IT I T watched the tho man closely as os ho I surveyed ur the premises and tested the 1 lock cl of or the tho safe None of or his his losses seemed to distress him a a. bit I 1 Vo 0 o have ha kept a guard here I eX eXI cx- cx because we couldn't find I your OUr insurance policy so 80 we didn't know whom to phone to seal up tho the place We e thought your our agent agent- whoever he may be ou be-ou ought be-ought ought ht to como come out and attend to It of oC his own ac ac- ac cord I have ha no agent remarked cart carelessly Nothing is Insured Chance must have ruled that hour for Cor I was careless too when I replied replied- No No or of course you course you ou wouldn't want anybody with anybody with brains to brains to find out what was in m your our desk and lies flies And immediately I was furious with myself I had hall expressed my subconscious thought Why do women so often oCten say the thing the they do not nol want vant to say that say that they never n intend to say say say-Ir if the man they are arc talking to happens to be Interesting Assuredly I did lid not wish to 1 let t know that I suspected tho truth about his Bolshevik activities activities- and yet yet yet-I I had thrown awa away my best trump Dr Tr turned awa away from the lock of ot the sa safe safo fe as he caught my meaning IIo Ho look looked at the ruin around us liS he glanced over the tho heap of or wet plaster and broken glass then up liP at the blue blu II sky between the black rafters Cont Contra ai 3 IT to his usual custom custom cus cus- tom he was taking taking- a n. very long Ions time timeto to think before he ho spoke Finally he shrugged d his shoulders shoulders- and the tho smile that he turned on me was cynical The chan change c in the tho man mado maclo m my heart stand still So he said with a peculiar In In- In cllon You women never make good diplomats You Youre are re bound boun to reveal re your jour most important secrets secrets- on an impulse How do you Yankees sa say It It you you give Sh yourselves es away The The- Theman's mans man's sudden insolence paralyzed paralyzed paralyzed para para- m my tongue It was tho the first time that Hamilton had ever er looked at mo me except with admiration or spoken to me with a shade of or criticism In his voice I had known him so long I had known him so well I hadn't quite hated him oven when I 1 discovered him to bo be a n. crook crool I couldn't im immediately im- im mediately adjust myself to the strange new whose voice accused me As w we e faced each cach other othel w we e might have ha he been n figures I ures In a symbolic statue called Woman Against Man the Man the female of or the species always so anxious anxious ious to c forgive any meanness an anthe and the male always so quick to be hard and and cruel Tony I cried how could I help understanding My Iy gesture included In Included In- In the wet black mass which had been heen his desk and files Remember Remember Re Tte member you ou asked me to lo catalog the tho stuff properly Yes but not so 80 damn cleverly I little one one I thought you regarded the papers as ns government secret service service service ser ser- vice material m my darling Ills His voice and manner even en more Impudent than his words He HeC C came close to me and put his arms around me as familiarly as ns If IC at nt last I were entirely his own property To be continued I |