Show I J I MY HEART and MY 5 1 By Adele Garrison r Wit iT T MOThER U STARTED ST TO DO TO FO M A A ghost of oC the past I The words haunted my waking moments moments mo mo- I ments and said themselves over and andover andover andover over In my dreams during the days I following my outing with m my father the day which had ended so unpleasantly antly I 1 think they were all the more forcibly ly Iy impressed upon my brain because of the fact that from the moment my father had uttered them lie he nad nati never again referred to the woman oman whose I I insolent recognition o of him had so I upset him uj upon on the evening of ot oui ow celebration dinner together C course I had never even een remotely jf if the subject with him v Pf aph ap- ap tried to avoid even the appears appears' watching h over r him But 1 ice ci of help seeing that he was dist t worried r d Jait LIt p pal pal- l- l It was the second day af 1 perle nee that my mother tel ter our ex- ex always takes a Inlaw n who being first tt tO receive i t thy thUi A pleasure in being first tt tO receive i t thy thUi A pleasure in tribute it it Indeed d she e t ti n mall mail and dis- dis postman when She shea she's a t watches for the room for fully a able ble to leave her time for him to a ag hour before it Is WI with ha a much In r ln called r Ive ive called me aside whatever i h ht expression ther 1 e r 8 gotten into your fa fa- fa- fa Filled Killed as Ip o she sae demanded crossly the nas s with the memory of ofa ofa ofa a qualm of t incident at the cafe 1 felt at ather her qU qu something very ery like terror wi Wit stion m mer d what do YOU jou mean mean I stam slam Vel ci sh she iL r what's the matter with you ou ou qu s fixing me with an Iny in- in bly y Ive lve eye Youre Yourt all pale and g 8 I think the whole e family family's I s g got to the theal thearo al ar aro Vh h h s strikes t Y Your oer lathers lather's going starting at every ring of the thea a f S or the telephone as If It were to 2 r to the scaffold ro He runs 19 1 19 J. J the t telephone p as if he were to 10 VAnd end expected his best girl to talk ma and he watches for the post- post m e b like a hawk Is out at the gate to toa a at B et t him and no one gets even a. a glance o the man mall until he has looked It alt all er s And he told Katie today that as she sheI J I vad iad so 80 much to do and he was only I b doorbell loafing he would answer the v c when he was In the house br bc course Katies Katie's s delighted and I can cnn I just imagine the time I ill i'll U have getting her broken In n to answering s I It again when he gets nt t tired ed of this il ilI freak e af That ape always takes an ell elI when you jou give her an Inch I know that Mother Graham didn't t means her apparent harsh stricture against Katie but that her irritation against my father had to vent itself somewhere to summon what whal I shreds of poise were left me roe in order to give m my m- mother law a plausible exX ex ex- X I of my f fat father I Why I think the I actions simple I said at Is very Is very much bett bett ast slowly Father I as YOU ou know ler er than he was and severed hl his con cor conte ie te never has entirely service a r with the secret I has done ough u for 0 a long ng time he I Ihas nek you jou think think- Wy W little tI work r But J don dont don't t has som it I IA entirely probable that he heA heA A STR d big thing on hand I IJ J I ha hat a GC GE QUESTION a ol struck c the right chord n with my ot an Vier law in law in-law I mentally blessed as the thought of ot her child child- r dh h romantic enthusiasm for Cor anything anything- that hat savored of oC mystery which had flashed into my mind and sponsored the theory theor I had Just voiced Why hy of course course she exclaimed de de- de How flow stupid of me ine not to have thought thou of it before 1 Ill I'll 11 be mighty careful after this thia to keep out of ot his way myself and to see that that ape of ot a girl doesn't doesn t bother him by snooping around Her Tier curiosity will be the w death VI of u her ome Ud dav w VI u ome Ud S She he pondered for tor a long along moment then looked at IJ me wistfully st st. rd It wouldn't do would It It Margaret for me to hint to him that I would like to hem heln him if I could in an anything an thing hes he's doing I t m afraid not I Y hesitated but I Ican Ican Ican can promise you this If It he says anything anything any any- thing to me concerning it I will tell him of your our willingness and ability to help i But Brut unless he says something himself I wouldn't dare question him The best wap w we- we can help him is to keep out of I him way as you suggest Of Of course she acquiesced promptly I r Cud and the so bargain r well lJ dt did that aih she y fulfill father ne her v e was part r ec left of I absolutely without espionage on the I part of any anyone one What summons or message he re received received re- re whether by phone or letter T r don dont don't t know But that he had bad been h n some unpleasant shock I x knew from I his manner his hurt humiliated face tace when a a week later h he hesitatingly put puta putI ero eroh a startling query to me e Daughter have YOU jou cashed that check cheek I J gave you I To be continued I |