Show I I I My Heart and My Husband I Adele Garrisons Garrison's Ne New Ne Phase of Revelations of a Wife i i I I THE WAY THE MOTOR PARTY STARTED OFF S I was watching Alfred AUred Durl Durkee ee closely close close- ly during his exchange of raillery with Rita Brown S SI I 1 saw him look at me girl girt curiously curious curious- ly Jy ly as she made the coquettish tUsh request 0 S to sit with him ii in Ia the rent front seat of the j new touring car and help drive Then as if involuntarily drawn aside I 1 saw his e eyes es travel quickly from her uplifted uplifted uplifted up- up up up- I I lifted face to that of Leila Lelia Fairfax who h un standing with H her hand 1 i I j I who h un standing with H her hand 1 was upon the car gazing at it admira admira- tion Dicky Dichy who had cote come across the lawn at a tearing pace forestalled whatever answer Alfred meant to make by a breathless announcement Ive fixed everything Katie says the Mater left strict orders not to be disturbed when she went to sleep and she's still sleeping I told our blessed blessed blessed bles sed to tell her wed we'd been summoned summoned sum sum- owned away nothing away nothing more Ill I'll break the news of the car when we get back I And now lets let's beat it before fore our news I wakes her I Well if that horn didn't rouse her nothing less than a 0 Big Bertha will Alfred Durkee turned to Dicky with a trifle too obvious carelessness Want to drive old man Nothing doing Dicky declared I drove it out That That's enough h for one day Get right into the front seat but remember to get down touch your cap i and arid throw open opan the door when we stop anywhere I I RITA IS DISPLEASED Ive got a better scheme than that I Alfred Durkee declared and I t noticed S I that he was careful not to look at Rita Brown as he spoke You cant can't suppress suppress sup sup- I I press the Dicky- Dicky bird Dickybird bird successfully unleSs tin un- leSs you ou sit near him It will take tako both un-I un I you and Mrs Madge to put him in his And I need place a tranquil person I r next to sc say se-say say Leila Lelia for instance You I I have earned a a. rich reward Rita IUta says by your devotion to the strawberry jam What more could a girl ask He threw open the door of the car as ashe he spoke put his hand lightly on Leilas Leila's arm and ushered her into the coveted front seat SCat with an Irresistible air of ot self r tul and ad conceit which set I I i I I us all laughing But two women held nein heldI beneath their merriment something something- deeper Leila Lella Fairfax's fair sensitive face was flushed with embarrassment which however I shrewdly guessed was strongly imbued with pleasure and her eyes were starry as sue sIte took her seat There was no flush on Rita Browns Brown's face With wonderful self control her lau laugh h rang out merrily and her eyes held surface gaiety But nut her natural pallor deepened and I I. I watching her closely saw the fingers of the hand hanging loosely against her skirt clench swiftly fiercely Into the palmI palm I 1 hope you'll be properly appreciative 0 tive Leila she said lightly then I mounted quickly to the scorning scorn scorn- ing mw Dicky's assisting hand scorn I DICKY WINKS I I only hope well we'll all get back alive This cheering remark was was her her next contribution to the conversation after Edith Fairfax Dicky and I had joined I IEdith her in the I didn't know you boys had ever driven Tell Ten the truth truth truth- how hov many times have you had this thing out before now She had addressed her remark to I both m men mn n turning her head toward Alfred Al Alfred Al- Al fred Durkee a trifle as she spoke But Dut he either didn't hear her or pretended I not to keeping on with a long winded dissertation upon the cars car's merits addressed addressed ad ad- dressed to Leila Fairfax Dicky however however how how- however j ad-j ever promptly took up the gage Weve c been trotting this thing around for two weeks steady he de de- de- de I dared And weve we've put It through hoops made it play dead an and all the theother theother theother other tricks It east out of both our 1 hands now All An we have to do is to snap our fingers and it stands up on its I I hind legs makes a bow and turns tarns a somersault I dont don't doubt your ability to make it do that last little trick Rita retorted retort retort- ed disagreeably Oh by the wa way Alf AU i She turned to him with as brilliant a smile as if he lie hadn't so greatly affronted af at- I fronted her but a few minutes before Yes At your service but he did not take his eyes from the road in frontI front I have to telephone to New York in the next half hour or so I meant to do it at the house sc hut but this unexpected I trip it out of or put m my mind Will Viii you ou lend Jend me mr a quarter and stop at the next drug drug- drugstore store I I Surest thing thing- you Imo know Alfred AUred re returned re- re I turned cheerily and Rita turned back I I to us again but not until I T had seen i I Dicky's left eyelid descend upon his hisA i A i I I I I check cheek In Jn another long significant to me mc wink Evidently Dicky read something Rita's Ritas decision to telephone Something into had not yet fathomed which I S J |