Show f My Heart and My Husband Adele Garrisons Garrison's N Nw w Phase of I 1 Revelations of a Wife WHY MADGE LISTENED FEARFULLY FEARFULLY FEARFULLY FEAR FEAR- FULLY TO DICKY'S NEWS Id I'd like to be Ritas Rita's fashioned old dad for tor about fifteen minutes Dicky growled as we hurried over to our own home t to get wraps for the visit to The Sand Pile upon which Miss l Brown had insisted Why I asked ingenuously although al although although al- al though woman-like woman my pulses were leaping aping at my husbands husband's evidently genuine genuine gen gen- genuine irritation at the girl whom I so disliked So that I could stand at one endot end of ot a a. good hickory switch with her at atthe atthe the other and give her the tanning she II needs Of all the fool stunts this is the limit I I thought you liked an occasional I eV evening in a cabaret I said demurely deliberately feeding his ill humor I 1 r knew I was being cattish but I felt that I 1 could listen to many more strictures upon Rita Brown without satiety WHAT DICKY DECLARED So I do Dicky retorted but theres there's theresa t a time for all aU things as Ive I've heard somewhere Shakespeare or Scripture S anyway Its It's true Heres Here's one of the t most perfect spring days you could t tt find ind with a a. moonlight evening coming on Ill on-I'll Ill I'll bet It will be plenty warm I enough to sit on that veranda and I watch the moon over the lake through I the apple blossoms and nothing will do dc t that blasted cat but a trip tp to the cafe S of ot all aU places Any cafe wo would ld be bad L enough on a night like this but The S Sand Pile He paused as if he could think of no nc I words strong enough to express his disgust I slipped in another query quer Is it so bad then 1 He turned on me rue angri angrily y j I What are you jou OU trying to do do Kid me me meI S I Im I'm m not worrying about the wickedness of the thing thing Indeed indeed if it were cleverand clever clevet cleverand r and wicked there thero t be some sense in going there if it were in the wintertime wintertime winter wintertime time or if it we were stranded In m an apartment or a hotel and had no place like this to get to But of all stupid uninteresting places on the face of ot the inhabited globe that cafe is the worst Two hat boys from one of the most aggravating restaurants as to price and service in all New York York and and that's going get get so much money planted plant plant- ed oil in that they didn't know what to do with it so they started this thing out here It has all the bad things the New York places have without one of ot the redeeming features the city proprietors proprIetors proprietors pro pro- do slip in occasionally when I they're asleep The food tood Is IB bad the I drinks are worse the cabaret features I vulgar and sensational without a a. streak I of cleverness and the prices outdo New NewYork York YOU DONT DON'T M MEAN MEAN- EAN- EAN Oh Oh its it's a fine fine- stunt little Rita has steered us up against believe me me Im I'm surprised Alf falls taIls for it And yet of ot course course with with hasty he he I I cant can't do anything else else else- as long as she's his guest But if it this stunt of hers I doesn't open the eyes of that anointed idiot who IdIot who between you and me is just about on the point of ot taking a a. jump over the broomstick with the lady- lady why hes he's a a. gonner that's all Dick y I seized his arm ann impetuously impetuously impetuously inadvertently joggling a a. scarf pin which he was adjusting o out t of his hand handas as I 1 did so you dont don't mean that Alfs Alfs Alf's Dippy over the dame he countered stooping for the pin with an approved grunt Why hasn't your jour wonderful I Sherlock Ian brain deduced that yet Youre You're getting rusty old dear Better apply appl the oil can He settled the pin gave his hair a slow stroke or two with his military military mili mili- tary brushes selected some handkerchiefs handkerchiefs chiefs with deliberation while I mentally mentally men men- tally danced n with ith impatience lence to hear I his next words rd I What Rita wants of ot a husband no noone noone one Knows knows for for goodness sake get a I move on they'll be waiting for us us' us ho interrupted himself irritably I Im practically ready I retorted but I wont won't stir a step until you ou finish I telling me about this Oh you wont won't eh he teased tucking tuck- tuck tucking ing ng ing me firmly under one arm catching I up my cloak with the other and rushing me down the stairs Ill tell you nothIng noth- noth In ng Ing except that for tor some unknown reason rca rea rea-I rea son Rita evidently thinks shed she'd like to try matrimony for a change with Alt Alf Alfas as the goat And she's pretty nearly I got the poor chap lassoed lassoed lassoed-he's he's hes been abroad so long that his perspectives perspective's off oft focus But Dut Ill I'll bet that coat I 1 I cant can't get into that she queers queens the game tonight some way |