| Show I 1 I I l I IS S I I IMY MY HEART AND MY HUSBAND A dele Adele Garrisons Garrison's New Phase of oE I Revelations Revelations- of a Wife VH T LILLIAN HEAD D BETWEEN TIlE LINES OK OF Well Im I'm ready for tor you ou to unfold untold tho the deadly tale of ot the missing papers and the secret drawer Lillian stretched herself hersel luxuriously upon the chaise lounge In my room having first waited wafted for my positive re refusal refusal re- re to take it ft I had been in bed ro FO o long however howe that the very thought ht of reclining unless I was aslee asleep made me almost ill I flushed consciously at her cal words Unwittingly her burlesqued third act melodrama had hit the mark maik in the cen center ter Oddly enough that's the very story I have to tell you I said demurely She looked at me shrewdly I 1 thought it was about ti time e that desk entered red Into the calculations said Between you and me Ive I've got gota a hunch that theres there's a a. surprise package package package pack pack- age for somebody somewhere in that desk But But proceed She spread her hands grandiloquently in a a. gesture that made me roe laugh out out- right better etter she said approvingly You take fake this whole bu business so I blamed seriously Madge that youre you're getting thin and worn over it As far faras faras faras as youre you're concerned its it's a Joke joka amidas and amid andas I as for the man maTi while sImile or of course its it's I ver very commendable to help him yet ret theres there's s no use putting yourself in a straitjacket over him From all youve you've told me that Holcombe woman Is near neam enough h doing that without you OU at attempting attempting at- at tempting it It wont won't be such a Joke jolce for me I retorted a bit resentfully and Ignoring her reference to Alice if f his friends g get t the idea that Im I'm lettl letting Kenneth e lie IIA In pail pall when I could clear him if I t told ld what I knew MADGE Sh She Sho sat erect suddenly as If it she lio had been a puppet jerked up lp by a string then bent toward me her hands clasped l. tightly m in her lap h S Tell me e what you ou mean com corn I First who has bias that idea Mr Walters I am sure I returned antI and then I told her of ot the adjuration I the attorney friend of or Kenneth Stockbridge's Stock- Stock bridges es had made me and of his evi evl- dently unshaken belief that I knew that which would clear the imprisoned princIpal principal principal prin prin- cipal if It I 1 would only reveal The anointed Idiot Lillian commented commented com com- crisp crisply And Amid here the tIme only things you know are those that would probably hang him hi higher her than Ilaman n if you only revea revealed ll them I shivered for the knowl knowledge dg I had hac of Kenneth Stockbridge's bridges bridge's suspicious ac actions c- c tiona and words upon the tho or of his wife's death were horribly fr fresh sh in my memory and the fact that I was ns them perhaps to the baffling baffling fling of Justice had much troubled m my conscience I I l Lillian I r ventured I 1 wonder if it I ought to tell what I know r I 1 X J KNEW IT 11 She sprang up came over to me took me by the shoulders and shook me slightly S You and that Puritan conscience o of yours will be the death of ot me mc yet she said amused exasperation In her Hr voice and smile What do you l know now of the tIme thereal thereal real meaning of all you ou heard that day ol You nor I nor anybody else has the tIme slightest idea whether it m means that tha the man is guilty or innocent The mere fact tact that it looks damning is apt to be an argument on the other side to time the mind of any aty one who h Ms has ls had experience in these e messes In Intact fact tact fact She sank into a chair chal cupped her chin in her hands an and i with her el elbows elbows el- el bows on her nees was of off in one of those Journeys into the realms of logical logi bogi- cal deduction which I new from ex experience experience ex- ex were apt to mean n so much In results I I put m my head back against my chair chatrand and tried to restore m sel to tranqui tran- tran qui lit But nut the bringing tip up of the tragedy had been too much lauch for me lo to bear calmly I T found m myself watching Lillian with strained ey eyes s. s and heart beating beating- with nervous rapid rapidity It wondering wondering wonder wonder- In ing what her deduction would be When she raised her head I saw b by her eyes ees that whatever deals decision Ion she had reached would not be divulged In Inthis inthis inthis this hour of ot confidence That she sho had come to a decision concerning the tho guilt or the tIme Innocence of or Kenneth Stockbridge Stockbridge Stock- Stock bridge rid e and that it was docketed and I HIS ius sport suit model employs T THIS coi cor Oi trusting color for the materials materials materials mate mate- rials of cf skirt and jacket For Forthe th the latter with its Its' broad sash cardinal red broadcloth was used The skirt which Is shirred at the normal waistline and scalloped at the bottom bottom bot bot- tom torn is white whito serge S S I I I rT t. t ic i- i I c I II II S I I c 5 I filed carefully a away way in tl the tho r recesses e of ot her wonderful brain I was sur sure I Now ow tell me about the desk she said hastily I handed her letter from I Kenneth Stockbridge which Mr Walters Watters had brought me She read it t through carefully care care- fully and at one point started per per- I was sure she had reached the disquieting reference to the tea tra when after atter reading the letter through the second time she looked up with v shining excited eyes S I knew it she said triumphantly I knew that the trail of this thing led through that poor crazed womans woman's lea lea- pot But Dut dont don't worry worn Madge about r these You'll not be he im implicated un- un in any way I promise it J |
