Show I Confessions I Of a Bride The Tho Closet of Cartels Cartels' Room boom Reveals Strange Strange- Skeletons Skeleton As the door swung open It switched on tho the light In tho the closet and I sawan saw sawan sawan an ungainly form torm dangling from th the ceiling I 1 recoiled In amazement amazement- but not In horror horror for for It was not a human hu human human hu- hu man However It was BO so strangely strange strange- G- G ly Iy suggestive e of or the hulk lk of a man that I shuddered In spite of oe my will to be cairn calm Certainly that was the queerest skeleton over ever concealed In Ina Ina a 0 well-ordered well home It Il was IHl hugo 1 and uncouth j the ball- ball shaped helmet was of or metal tho the feet teet werl soled poled with weights like flatirons flat flat- flatiron irons iron a 0 small Email tank was wn attached to the shoulders of ot the garment It Il was a divers diver's suit But why was It behind Joc lock and key koy In closet clo clo- do- do set I 1 reasoned out a satisfactory answer r to m my question Cartels ls was an ho bo ho and Daddy Dadd LorImer L were promoting a u submarine submarino sub Sul- marine marino detector when tho the war ended Cert ls had Improved a gas gaa mask Daddy said A A respirator he ho called It lt And this extraordinary garment hanging hangIng hang hang- In Ing In his closet was a n divers diver's suit with a R respirator attached Probably a man wearing wear It would walk on tho the ocean bottom absolutely unconnected with the surface atmosphere That was wai m my Gu guess In It a a. diver could explore explore explore ex ex- a wreck unhampered by ropes and anti tubes A Ho could enter a R. sunken boat U boat U-boat and search for a tI treasure treasur of Jewels If jewels If he happened to kno know where tho the sub was berthed It was easy to understand why h had perfected the suit but but why had he hidden It next his own bed I would never have guessed that answer an answer an- an I nver had I 1 not known about the BolI Bolshevik Bol Bol- stuff In hi his desk He Ho couldn't I trust hl his servants He had told me so It Il wasn't possible that he ho wanted d to have tho divers diver's dress s handy In order to use It himself I couldn't Imagine tho the elegant Cert ls transformed Into a a. clumsy dums explorer of ot the tho ocean bot bot- tom Probably he lie hire a man to toot got ot the gems when ems when he knew where where- they were Funny Funn skeleton Mm Bluebeard but nothing to get excited about about was W my comment as I picked up tho the ba bag I had come como to seek It was a heavy Y bag and I couldn't decide whether this thle was because It was packed full or whether like all of tho the I best foreign baggage It Il was made of ot extra heavy leather on a n steel frame I opened It to see sea If It It were empty put In m my hand and draw draw drow-a a wavy Y wig I 1 didn't like the tho feel of or the tho thing I dropped It with an exclamation of ot dis dis- gust t Perhaps haps m my shudder was caused by a 1 feeling deeper than disgust Was something uncanny concealed In that bag bas It was as ns If It at last I had come upon the real bones of or the tho skeleton In closet I drew rew out the articles one by one a n. shabby suit of mismatched garments shapelessly muddy shoes a makeup box such as aB actors use a n slouch hat and a bandana b Bobs Bob's sarcastic speech made mado long Jong tl ago O the tho night his Jealousy of ot was first t aroused took form In some somo recess of ot my mind Consider hi his name Tony name Tony Cort Corl Corf sound like liko a n banana peddler Oh Oh h h h h I walled under m my breath as a mother might moan over a n. dying child Verily something was lying dying m my faith In a man I had tru trusted trusted trust trust- ted t- t ed was way slipping was away a away was gone bono I 1 felt as If IC I could never endure the certainty which v was as being forced upon m mo me e 1 I didn't want to add Hamilton to my Jong Jon list of ot disappointments To be continued |