Show My Heart and My Husband Adele Adela Garrisons Garrison's New NOW I Phase of oft t Rev Revelations lations of a Wife I WHAT WJ MR STOCKBRIDGE ASKED AND MADGE DID I I As I listened to Kenneth Stockbridge's Stockbridge's Stock- Stock bridges bridge's voice outlining g to me the di directions dl- dl secret drawe dra for finding the in his desk the part of my brain not busy in retaining the directions direction was repeating over and over over again He doesn't know that his wife has al already already already al- al ready opened it How shall I tell him 1 But in another moment I found that I was reasoning from a mistaken premise for or the principal after atter finishing finIshing fin finishing fin fin- his directions add added hesitatIngly hesitatingly hesitatingly I have reason to believe belleve that the receptacle has alre already dy been open opened d dand and papers extracted from it But I 1 wish to be certain that it and the rest of the desk have been swept or df f every personal paper as as' soon a as It can be accomplished As it happens it will take me about one minute to do what you ask I answered answered answered an- an an an- promptly When you sent nt the request to get the school reports from that desk desk desk- DID MISS HOLCOMBE HOLCOMBE- I IDID Ah I had f forgotten he interI interrupted interrupted inter inter- I nervously dismay in his voice You see I had not learned at that time that the desk had been tampered with Did Miss did did Miss Holcombe search for the papers No I did I returned and I fo found nd it Jt in such confusion that I. I had I-had I had to sort the papers and put everything in in order before being sure of the reports So all aU your personal belongings are fastened fastened fastened fast fast- ened together in one package I have only to open the secret drawer take takeout takeout takeout out its contents if any wrap them with the package and lock your desk agaIn TOO CLEVERLY HIDDEN Thank heaven aven The involuntary ejaculation was fervent impassioned Please get them at then go goto goto goto to your home as quickly as possible And under no circumstances tell any anyone anyone anyone one especially Miss Holcombe that you have them until you hear bear from me I cannot explain now but I will and relieve you of ot the papers at the earliest possible date Thank you and and dont don't dont worry wom over anything that may have been said to you I have attended to that Good Good-b Good e The received clicked on the hook be before before before be- be fore I had a a. chance to vice the protest protest protest pro pro- test on my lips Ups All my instincts re revoked re- re yoked at keeping Mr Stockbridge's papers in my possession even though I realized that his motive in asking meto me meto meto to do so was to make sure that nothing in the desk should fall into the menacIng menacing ing lug hands of ot his wife There was nothing else to be done however I had promised the man to look for them them them-he he evidently thought that implied keeping them them them-so so I hurriedly hurriedly hurriedly hur hur- locked the desk and tried to find the secret dra drawer But I failed utterly to find any trace of or it Either I had misunderstood the directions or Mr in agitation had not given them to the ine correctly I worked for fully ten min mm- utes b before fore I 1 forced myself toTa that I 1 was utterly at seaMy sea sea- tola m My Common sense whispered tc that if it I could not pot find the Is s Sf drawer with Mr Stockbridge's d no one else could find it wit wit them I reasoned that Milly Sj St bridge must have discovered it thi her husbands husband's carelessness ReIn Herr Hen have closed the little and his wife's fr fi have come accidentally upon I she had been enabled to open the because in his hurry to get t tomi toh li f I friend he had bad forgotten thi I II I It would be easy to guard against contingency I took out the p pac of papers which I had wrapped J additional covering locked th the and put keys and package In m But this time I was shaking ng w wi nervous chill I could not rid i m th of oC the impression that something acing had come to Milly i as she was shrieking insanely 5 t tover over the telephone I spoken to Mr Stockbridge abou but he had rushed through so hurriedly that I r had Md no chance And I did not know v to call him even if I had dare t ts s so jm I tried to comfort myself wim assurance that as the principal w m w town I had no need to worry n nover over the matter that he doubt be at home in a few minus s my walk to the station seemed t tto to be under lowering skies of jg v terror l To be continued m |