Show l. l Confessions Of a Bride ri e Our OUI Beautiful l Chrys ChrysIs Is a Woman Without a Soul Youre working yourself Into hysterics hys hys' hysterics my dear dear said sallI Bob rather hYS sternly Rosalie was killed by accident accident accident acci acci- dent not Intention Remember that theres there's a difference She was was living Jiving right om out noses all lI the time was my mf my com com- ment q S She ought to have got away hours ago ngo said Bob I 1 wonder won er why she nuns hun hung around here She intended to toV kill Manuel Don I expect Does he still sUll study Chrys' Chrys I strange strange- state Bob threw a quick glance my way He meant It t to tell telI me nothing but ut It excited my curiosity to the limit Chr Chrys s 's Tell how Tell how is she I stammered stam stam- The explosion was enough t to wake the dead Did Dd it waken Chrys ChrysT J 1 I suppose youve you've got to know dear 1 I suppose your mind wilt will never be quiet t until you you ha have all the truth I Well Yell then let me have it If I r co could ld survive survive that dreadful news newS' about I Rosalie Rosalie- v I 1 stopped short half hair paralyzed by a sudden dread dr At Att length In a whisper I added Is Chrys dead 1 No Get back under those a covers my dear my dear Bob Boo spoke In I his most masterful wa way Now keep still be a good little girl and listen quietly Chrys Chrys' nurse nurs ran to the win win- l' l naturally cv naturally when she heard the ex ex- ex The old place shook she shook she thought it was an earthquake They t are frequent ent in this locality I 1 under under- stand When she hurried back to h her r patient Chrys was sitting up in bed 1 Sh She was trying to speak I think from what the nurse says but somehow her tongue wouldn't obey her brain Awful I couldn't stand it to tb see soo her so o o. o Bob J JIt It Kvas was as so awful that the nurse ran screaming from the room Her Her screams didn't amount t to much much in the excitement excitement excite excite- ment of the time I suppose Fortunately Fortunately For For- Dad had kept his mind Ind o ohis on his daughter Not even an earthquake could upset Dad I guess He tIe was was was' rushing to tt Chrys' Chrys room before he In Investigated in investigated the hubbub outdoors He grabbed the nurse by one arm and dragged her back with him Chrys was out of bed She was walking erect but staggering a little from rom side to side side-r I Dad seized her supported her supported her spoke her spoke to her I shuddered I remembered what had said would happen if Chrys I were shocked out of 01 her strange ange sleep Already I had Rosalie's death dath on my soul spul Was I responsible for something much worse than death In the case 01 of sister-in-law sister my Is she she on she only only Iy-a Iy a walking doll doU I I whispered In dreadful awe of what Bob would reply Dad didn't get what had happened I at first C Chrys rys knew him she him she knew w a a. good deal it appears appear glue o one e had h had d enough of a bed C for r awhile 3 a while She wouldn't let Dad and aDd the nurse put I her back on her pillows She insisted on sitting up up p In a chair Bob said Youre putting me off Bob Youre You're j not t telling m me the worst I Is Chrys Chrys Chrys-an an anjan n an v imbe imbecile l jan Not exactly She Is keen enough about all aU of ot her old comforts and ries And And And-and and she doesn't care a fig about anything else Then was right I T exclaimed ex ex- ex x claimed Our Chrys our Chrys-our our beautiful intellectual Chr Chrys s 's Is a woman without a soul If you want to put It so so I guess youre you're as near the truth as any of th the thA rest of us Maybe he will seem her herold herold herold I old self mentally when she gets sack Back the use of ot her tongue Her lIer tongue Is still sun paralyzed d 1 1 ga gasped ed t i To To put It briefly Is to put It brutally brutally brutally bru bru- tally tally Bob replied Chrys is dumb t tAnd And Its It's my fault its it's my tal fault lU lUI I walled wailed If It only I r could find a Prince Charming to wake her with a kiss To be continued |