Show My Heart and I My Husband Adele Garrisons Garrison's New Phase Phao of Revelations of a Wife 3 t 1 I I I j I F I I I I ITIlE It TIlE THE WAY WY Y SOILS MRS RUSHED TO THE IlI RESCUE I saw a look of ot gratified malice flash into Rita Browns Brown's eyes at Leila Fairfax's Fair Fair- fax's tax's offer otter to go back with her he to the cit city Why that's awful good of you OU dear dearl she said eald There wasn't even the perfunctory reluctance to accept the offer which the most elementary tary rules I of or breeding would have suggested 1 I thought with a little shiver of disgust that the phrase dog of ot the manger was most apt in describing Rita IUta Brown She She had seen clearly by Alfred AIred Durkee's Durkee's Durkee's Dur- Dur kees kee's behavior of the afternoon that no slightest chance of ot subjugating him re- re I suspected strongly that upon finally becoming convinced of that I fact she had arranged for tor the very i summons summons she had just received But nut the Inherent meanness of or the girl could not endure that another woman should have even a chance to win what she had coveted and lost Thus her prompt acceptance of ot Leilas Leila's offer ALFRED'S ALFREDS EYES S D. Alfred Durkee's voice confident pleasant peasant with a note of determination sounding in it cut into the tIe conversa conversa- tion Nothing doing doln- on that score he ho hei i announced smiling down at Leila Were ere awfully sorry you have to leave I us Rita lUta but youre you're not exactly a timId timid tim Um- id boarding school miss you know and andI I you certainly dont don't need Leila Lella and Edith to chaperone you to New York Yore And as for any little errands you want done the bird Dicky-bird and I stand ready to escort you to tc New ew York or all aU over the world if necessary But the girls sta stay here I saw him throw his mother mather a look laok Which held entreaty and comand as well But nut the little woman needed neither She struck into the conversation conversation conversa conversa- tion alarmed hospitality in her voice Well V I should say you girls will HI HIsta sta stay here she announced Its bad enough to have Rita nita go I go I could not nat help smiling to myself at the little womans woman's I social a for I knew only too g well her e Yec sentiments c concernIng concern concern- n ren ing Rita Brown but Brown but to have you all three rush a away wa like this I just wont won't stand it that's all so that's settled I dont don't want to hear another word about it she adde with pretty ness Well all turn to and help Rita pack Alt Alf you see about her train right away Im I'm sure there is one in n about an hour which get her in the city in good goad time In THE FINAL THRUST With the tho keenness which the childlike child child- like little woman surprisIngly surprisIngly displays she had effectively disposed disposed dis dis- posed of the possibility of her sons son's bein compelled to drive the girl she disliked so heartily to tc the city There would be no na long moonlight motor ride for tor Rita Brown if little Mrs Durkee could help It It I surmised that never would a a. young womans woman's pack packing In be bo so sc expedited as would that of Miss Brown in the next hour We all went with her to te the train she herself apparently the gayest of ot our party But the expression of her eyes whenever they rested upon Alfred Durkee of Leila Fairfax was distinctly malicious I Iwas was sure that It If by any chance she could make male s trouble tro for far either of ot them she would ca eagerly erly seize the opportunity One little stiletto thrust she allowed herself lf t just as her train came into inta the s station get get TOO proficient in making straw strawberry erry jam LelIa Leila she cooed as she fhe kissed the the- girl good It might not be Wise Through her tone ranged a whole of unpleasant meanings s from deliberate machination on an Leila's Leilas part to petty jealousy on that of at Mrs Dur Dur- kee I heard Leilas Leila's shocked whispered whis whis- protest Oh TIlts Rita how haw could you your caught a a. muttered angry exclamation ex ex- under Alfreds Alfred's breath then listened with malicious glee to te little Mrs Durkee's contribution to the con con- That where I differ with Rita Rite she said paid gayly g No o girl you can be too toe proficient In making strawberry jam But nut Leilas Leila's a wonder and I dont don't mind you that sites she's the only ony girl I ever saw that Id I'd like to keep on making It with Her diction may have ha been faulty but her meaning was clear And I for tor one was glad that the malicious waving to us from the train platform girl had ha this unwelcome theu thought ht for mental digestion on her home To be continued tomorrow |