Show My Heart and My Husband I V Adele dele Garrisons Garrison's New Phase of V iF I Revelations of a Wife WHAT KENNETH STOCKBRIDGE DID 1 TO CONTROL HIS WIFE Milly 8 eyes were glittering gUttering with a light that betrayed the frailty of the ead upon which her hangs while her slender sender was fairly shakIng shaking shaking shak shak- ing with the tho violence of the emotion consuming her hop There was no mistaking the passion of jealousy that was way way- ling ing her It was In every ery line of ot the malevolent face she turned toward QUI pur table I I 1 mean you she called raucously iou Tou over there with your our baby face face face- I Kenneth sinewy hand land darted out seized his wife's arm In a al aI l grip that m must st have hurt her at the same time saying something to her in ina ina a lo loy 10 controlled olce We Ve couldn't II catch the words but there was something something something some some- thing about the passionless measured tones that made mo ma shiver It was as asIf asif if J I had seen the gentlest kindest of house dogs suddenly turn with bared bated fangs upon a tormentor Her father bent forward f anxiously scanning his son-in-law's son face I heard him say something of which the only word I could distinguish was check I uttered tittered with a questioning inflection inflection- and andI I conjectured that the elder man wished to leave the cafe with his family at once But Kenneth Tenneth V Stockbridge shook his head his eye grim compelling upon his wife's face Another minute and she had lifted a cowed face to his while her stiff white lips lips' muttered something that was evidently a promise to control herself As she die did so he released his grip gnp upon her arm and sank back Into his former forme attitude of weary despondency despond despond- ency By Jove Dicky exclaimed und under r his breath the prettiest little exI exhIbition exhibition ex ex- ex- ex I of animal taming I e ever er saw Bet a fiver he punishes the everlasting day daylights lights out of her when he gets home An Any takers takers' He glanced around our table with a amerry amerry V merry smile and I realized with a throb of oC relief that he had not grasped the thereal real significance of MIlly Stockbridge's outburst u bust I didn't see how bOw he could have helped doing so 80 for her eyes had been l fixed directly upon me In fact I had I been compe compelled led to exert all the self- self control I J possessed to keep from visibly at the in the glance my principals principal's wife had shot ahot at me inc BESS DEAN EXPLAINS EXPLAINS' You Tou are mistaken Mr 1011 Graham Alice Holcombe spoke hurriedly eagerly Mr Stockbridge b is gentleness I itself to his wife W It is only ll when she e outrageously tei g ou f I I offends that he ever exerts his authority V I You V see I f speak as one having knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge edg she added with a deprecating little smile for tor I have been a friend to 1 both bothof of them since childhood V I They are ara lucky Dicky Picky returned d gal gal- but I noticed that his eyes ees had a I speculative gleam as cs they rested on my I I friend an and l knew th that his his brain was as busy with conjectures concerning her and her relation to the The next moment he turned to Bess Dean DeanI ra fair I neighbors neighbor's Infer that r little are the g cause he of bf said our smiling and aM a thrill of surprise ran through m me Dicky had seen nothing of th the real reil situation had jumped to the thet t I conclusion that Miss 1 Dean was the object object object ob ob- ob- ob of Mrs lira Stockbridge's jealousy Why I wondered 1 I had no ro opportunity just then to an answer an- an nsw n- n sw r my ray own own question for Dicky was still till speaking g. g V V VV V Arent you ashamed of yourself V to cause such ructions ructions' he demanded V I J held breath for Miss Deans Dean's my an answer an- an It came promptly as I might have expected with laughing flippancy My fatal beauty beauly she said lowering her har e eyelids foi for a moment moment-I I strongly suspected that she slie V knew now how effective were her eyelashes eyelashes I I cant can't help hell it V MADGE IS lS PIQUED V Her answer her he read ready accept acceptance of I Dicky's theory gave me much food for thought during the rest of of our our V sta stay stay at atthe atthe atthe the cafe which held no other incident out of of the ordinary for Milly I bridge who with her party parl left shortly before we did preserved the same frozen I i quietude Into whIch her hu husbands husband's bands band's words I I had plunged her But nut I X pondered deeply t I lover over Bess Dean wondering whether the she he really believed herself to b th Ut of V Stockbridge's Jealousy or was try- try V I ing IG to shield me from Dicky's suspicions I And I think any woman will under under- i I I tind nd that I experienced a distinct feeling feel feel- i ing of pique that Dicky should V have thou thought ht Be Bess Dean the only woman at attractive at- at tra enough to arouse Milly Stockbridge Stock- Stock Stockbridge's I bridges bridge a jealousy jealous To be continued f 1 |