Show 1 r I IMy My Heart an and and My H Husband us Adele Garrisons Garrison's New Phase of I Revelations of a Wife WHAT T J DISCOVERED lit ut MR DESK I It was not a pleasant task that faced me when Alice Hol Holcombe hastily left I Mr Stockbridge's of Ice with the declaration dec dec- that she could not open his private desk even to get th the papers he wished because she knew him too well ell Only the fact that I suspected her secret hopeless fondness for her girlhoods girlhood's girlhoods girlhood's girlhoods girlhood's girl girl- hoods hood's friend and had compassion for forIt forit forit it made me willing to take her place and to undertake the search which I knew must be made With the principals principal's keys IteS in my hands 1 sat down before the small I desk Mr r. r Stockbridge had bought for himself some time Ume before although a IJ large roll top one provided for his use by the school board stood in the of of- of fice Through my brain ran the mischievous mis mis- I chievous s comment upon the desk from the frivolous lips of Bess Dess Dean Mark my word girls Kenny's got a a. ase se secret ret thing rJ n tha t. t wh ng ere he I keeps his old love lote letters and the heads of his farmer wives That desk held secrets secrets probably probably most innocent ones ones ones-of of Kenneth Stockbridge's Stockbridge's Stockbridge's Stock- Stock bridges bridge's past I 1 knew from the mad I behavior of the principals principal's wife the day before when she had stolen her ler husbands husband's keys and pried and pried into the se secrets secrets se- se crets he lad had endeavored to kep in in- in violate I earnestly hoped that the missing reports which Mr Stockbridge wished sent to Albany might be the first things upon which my eyes should rest when I opened the desk so that I 1 might be able to conclude immediately immediately immediately im im- im- im I mediately a task most distasteful to me DISHEARTENING CHAOS But as I drew out the right-hand right I drawers of the desk I saw that no such simple solution of my problem awaited me Mr Stockbridge whether by nature nature na na- na ture or by stern training is the most mosto methodical o I of m men The papers in his fo f fers other desk desk to to which the geP head ds teach teachers ers era have access are always neatly arranged arranged ar ar- ar ranged and his letter files are models The papers before me however were scattered the tumbled in disheartening I confusion Hastily I pulled open the other two drawers upon the right side The same I f chaos met e my gaze e d The drawers d de I Isome I looked d as if f they v had been invaded by some mischievous monkey with a touch of malignance in his mischief and I thought grimly that Milly Stockbridge did have something decidedly simian in her mental makeup Hunting for the missing papers in inthe inthe n the ruck before me was a much greater great great- er problem 1 I said grimly to than that of the man who first set setout setout setout out to search a for for oo-for a needle i There was but one thing to be done and that was to go through the mess systematically rearrange and file all the contents of the drawers Thus only could I be sure whether or not the missing Albany reports were among the tumbled papers A FACE RECOGNIZED I worked fast and methodically putting putting putting put put- ting upon one side of each drawer neat little piles of papers pertaining to the school each set docketed and its lo location location to- to cation entered In the pages of a small memorandum book I 1 found It was not until the contents of two drawers had been put in perfect order and I was at work upon the third that I found the missing reports I verIfied verified veri yen fied fled them hasUl hastily laid them on top of the desk and cast a a. doubtful glance at the confused contused mass of papers In the lowest drawer In contrast to the orderly array In the ones I 1 had just finished Should hould I finish the Job I had begun My loathing of disorder triumphed over my reluctance to linger a moment longer than was necessary over the dis tasteful task which had been forced 1 upon me I looked at my wrist watch I found that I had time to finish arrangIng ing the drawer before my first class turned to my sorting with renewed zeal l' l Almost the first thing my fingers found was wall a photograph torn savage ly across Mechanically I 1 fitted the two pieces together preparatory to torU rU putting it In n ti an envelope ti gerac And n then I recognized n e the p pictured face as s that of Alice Holcombe I To be continued tomorrow ow |