Show I I I MY HEART AND MY HUSBAND Adele Garrisons Garrison's New S Phase of Revelations of a Wife rU THE THAT rIl CAME IE TO I MADGE ADGE A A. V LO Marion Marlon was wa ailing and fretful for I two days the usual duration of her digestive attacks Although in no 1 danger she took up her mothers mother's en entire entire en- en tire attention leaving my father and I en-I me to our own devices I 1 was careful however to convey the lie impression to tomy tomy my father that I was extremely busy I with affairs of my own for he was like a boy in his enjoyment of the I fishing in the bay and I wished to give h him every opportunity his beThe belated be- be vacation a afforded The two boats which had so excited our curiosity by their persistent hovering hovering hov hov- ering around our camp disappeared the day after our bottle fishing excursion excursion sion with Mrs Ticer and her lieI so son I Jerry Jerzy The familiar adage Out of 1 sight out of ot mind was never more clearly elearly exemplified than it was in my myown own behavior where they were con con- 1 I forgot altogether my vague apprehensions apprehensions apprehensions concerning the strangers who had occupied them so persistently dismissed dismissed dis dig missed as a vagary of imagination the f theory identity rt I of had a the h concocted o big l c man n ci concerning in cf the i second fc the a boat and flinging all care to the winds revelled in the solitary little excursions excursions through the surrounding country which my ownership of a car and my newly acquired ability to drive it enabled enabled en en- abed me to So takeOff take the Oft Off again Lillian Queried upon afternoon of the second day following my unexpected with Dr Pet- Pet tit for anything thing I Do you need me an quickly countered while I hastily searched my conscience for a possible remissness in my share of the simple household duties of the camp Not ot that Lillian would have reminded me by even a hint if it I had shirked my en entire entire entire en- en tire half of the work but her query had startled me Into the remembrance that I had spent an unusual amount of time traveling around in the machine machine machine ma ma- chine during the days just preceding No 0 Indeed Lillian said heartily heartH It does oes m my heart good to see 1 you ou so 50 enthusiastic over anything again You were getting fearfully blase and quiet my dear back in Marvin In fact you veer headed h h for as nice a little case little little- case of nervous breakdown as one would not wish with to tt see So you ou can imagine how glad I am to see you turn into a rampant ram ram- pant roaring motor fiend Oh I protested laughing surely surel Im I'm not so bad as that Pretty close to it she retorted Which may are you headed now Anyway AnWay you happen to want me to togo togo go I said promptly for I guessed she had an errand she would like performed per per- formed but with her usual consideration tion I knew she would not broach it if it did not fit in with my plans No Xo Jell tell elI me she said stubbornly for it really Isn't important I thought of driving to Southampton ton I admitted THROUGH TIll THE WOODS I t thought ought so she sai said I know youve you've been dying to try that wood road again Well Veil you couldn't have a a. lovelier day and there are not many cars on the road so you wont won't be bothered dodging much And if you jou ou really are arc going there do get me some bristol board Theres' Theres a clever little shop there where you vou can get the kind kindI I want and its it's the only one anywhere anywhere any any- where around Im I'm not entirely out but I shall be soon and if it youre you're go going going going go- go ing today it will save a special trip later ater I 1 shall be charmed Im I'm sure I said laughingly and with a direction direction tion lion or two as to the quality she wished and a commission from Marlon Marion for some out cut dolls I departed well pleased that Lillian had uttered no objection to the route I was taking For the wood road to Southampton while the pretties most spot I had seen in many a day was yet vet rather a lonely thoroughfare windIng windIng winding wind wind- ing up and down steep hills with continuous continuous continuous con con- woods along it but there were enough cars traveling it to give s-Ive one a feeling that if anything happened one would not be entirely alone for very long MADGE'S MADGES SKILL TESTED It had appealed to my sense of the romantic ever since I had first seen it and it was w with th a feeling of embarkation em em- bt r o upon n nw a distinct adventure nr that I turned the nose of my car down the shaded woodland road I For or a good hour half-hour I sped along perfectly content thrilled with the joy of motion the exquisite beauty flying past me Then with th a loud report that almost made me take my hands from the steering wheel one of the tires ex exploded ex- ex and 1 I brought the machine to a astop astop astop stop with the grim reflection that now I would have the tho opportunity to test the result of the instruction I had re received received received re- re in the garage as aa to the changing chang chang- ing lag of a tire I carefully went over in my mind the instructions I had been given and found that I remembered them per per- But my untrained hands made madea madeI a sad Ead mess mesa of the task and arid I was ruefully ruefully ruefully rue rue- fully regarding the slit I had made Ina in ina ina a perfectly good inner tube when from the road behind me another machine slackened speed then stopped abI ab ab- ab- ab I Well ell Lady Fair burlesqued a voice I knew and at which I involuntarily I shivered Is it thus we meet again I I turned it was Harry Underwood To be c continued I |