| Show I I II I I My Heart and I My Husband Adele GalT Garrisons Garrison's sons son's New Phase of Revelations of a Wife WHY MADGE WAS FRIGHTENED AT ATTHE ATTHE ATTHE THE SITUATION Kenneth Kenneth Stockbridge's Stockbridge s tired face race I brightened with a smile as he caught I sight flight of or our oui party part But beyond the smile and a cow bOW ne made no effort to speak to us even though the table to which the wai ei er had escorted bis his party was very near our own Of or course we at once the rea- rea I son ion on for tor his constraint It Il was evident in his wife's attitude She included us all allin allin allin in a curt unsmiling nod then dropped frowningly into a seat eat paying paving no at attention attention at- at whatever to the rest of ot her part party but staring moodily at her plate She was in one of her worst moods One could see it not only J in her manner man man- ncr ner r but In sf the e tightened n lips iJ and J E deepened deep deep- ened cued pallor of or her husband and the worried looks of the elderly man and woman who together with two younger women mae nea Milly Mihly Stockbridge's own age made up the group at their table Little LittIe Sweeties Sweetie s paper and mama and fond sisters are with us tonight Bess Dean murmured audaciously but after my mv first start of ot dismay I realized that the people at the other table could not possibly have heard her She has the trick of speaking in an almost inaudible I tone yet managing to mak ethers elf comprehended corn com I pr by the person she JS Is addressing address address- com I In ing f S BESS DEAN OBSERVES I was relieved however when In another another an an- I other minute the orchestra struck up a i highly syncopated selection which made I It possible for ones one's next neighbor to shout the most dangerous secrets without without with with- 1 out the slightest chance of having them ov me overhead S You know knew I J think theres there's s going to be fireworks Bess Dean went on guilelessly guilelessly guilelessly guile guile- lessly pretending to be absorbed in buttering buttering buttering but but- a role roJe There was wa the tue naive en enjoyment enjoyment enjoyment en- en of ot a child at at a circus in her voice and manner and I realized that i iI while she might have generous sensible I I moments in which she would give an any I aid In her power to her harassed principal prin prin- i cipal yet et et her general attitude toward the domestic tragedy of Kenneth ana ane I Mill Milly Stockbridge was that of a spectator tor who did not much care whether she were amused or shocked so 10 long as the j drama remained Interesting I was not riot certain how much she sho knew I or guessed concerning Milly J t Stockbridge's Stockbridge's Stockbridge's Stock- Stock bridges bridge's Insane and absurd Jealousy jealous of ot me which had so nearly proved a a. tragedy upon the night of the reception to Dick at the principals principal's home Nor or did I care particularly except for my mv fear that through some lOOK box or gesture Diely Dieky might suspect the tIle truth lIe He had bent toward Miss Dean as she spoke and J I I saw a look of surprise sur sur- prim prise e flash into his faceA face A CRUEL COMPLAINT Fireworks he he repeated wondering wondering- I lj h Pipe the thundercloud at your our right Miss Dean went on en mischievously Kenny Ken ny nys ny's s been doing something he hadn't orter Perhaps he didn't give the poodle the proper amount of or calories or whatever whatever whatever what what- ever you ou call em ens in fn his evening meal I At any am rate rat the missus miscue is on the warpath warpath warpath war war- path and if things things' don dont don't t go so Just her wa way just j Just j ou got ready to clode the sliver silver Shell She'll start stait heaving em em at Kenny Ken Ken- Ken Ken-I ny fly but she has i n. woman womans woman's s aim and youre you're about the right distance for an innocent bystander She was dimpling adorably as sh she talked and Dicky laughed heartily at what ho he evidently accepted as audacious nonsense But I took advantage of his absorption to murmur A n. worried question question ques ques- tion lion in the car ear of or Alice Allee I on the theother theother theother other side of meDo meDo meDo me Do YOU jou ou think we ought to get out of ot othere here We Ve cant can't she he responded promptly I without attracting both attention froSts from Milly and the public which wo we dont don't want You see sec wc e already dt ordered J h end and the waiter will be here in a minute min mm- ute or t. t two o with our food No theres there's nothing to do but to sit tight Theres There's one con her l people cople arc all with her With them all around her the thc they her lus If IC she ahe be ond can repress goes gOC beyond hound bounds Just listen to her That's an anold anold anold old trick of hers to worry orry the tho life lire out of oC her husband and her hr relative NJ until they take her to some place of this kind she she loves gayety ety of ot an any an sort sort and and then proceed to IK Pt loose all the meanness that's in her her From rom tho the other came th the confirmation confirma confirma- tion lion of her words Milly e was waR raised shrilly For or heavens heaven's sake J Ken en dont don't slouch I like that U In your jour our chair I should hould think you ou could manage to sit It up straight even en If ou you cant can't stand that way Vo You must do It on purpose to annoy me I To be continued |
