Show My My Heart and My Husband Adele Adelo Garrisons Garrison's New NOW Phase of I Revelations of a Wife S HOW MADGE MANAGED ALICE HOLCOMBE HOLCOMBE HaLCOMBE HOL- HOL COMBE AND MOTHER GRAHAM Alice Holcombe's gasping words crystallized crystallized crys crys- t Into certainty all the va vague e sinIster sin sinister sin sin- i ister ster terror that had been mine since I stifled cry Stockbridge's had heard Milly Ully over the telephone But as often happens hap hap- at the far calmer I found myself pens forebodings than I 1 had ad fulfillment of my been trying to reason ason been when I 1 had f them away as figments of my 1 tion With arm firmly around the trembling trembling trembling trem trem- my into into nto friend I l' drew her bling figure of my the tho darkened living room put her into a big chair and took off her hat moment I shall be right Sit here a and anel sped I said authoritatively back light back to the front door The porch which I had turned on had illuminated i of the vacant face the rather curious had followed Al Alice ce Holcombe Hol Hol- who taxi driver combe partly up the walk I wished to tC get rid of him at once He was of Just intention intention and I had no the type to gossip tion Hon of f permitting my friend to go away again in his machine I 1 demanded de demanded de- de demanded Where have you come from rom shortly lr Bayview How longs long's the lady goin to be She told me tue to wait I I AN ENEMY MADE She has changed her mind she will ill L stay here for awhile You need not wait i Then I want my money with a shade I of truculence that made me lay firm I hands upon my temper lest I lose it ii t against so unworthy an antagonist Very well weIl Wait Vait here and Ill I'll get gel it for you I closed the door upon him went to a a. s si L small box in the dining room side table i where I kept small sums for emergencies I in the housekeeping Luckily I knew the thi I usual tariff from Bayview Bayview to Marvin and returned with the he change exact everto even ever evento i to the war tax The mans man's face darkened as I handed bandet I the coins to him This aint what I usually get h he t muttered with a hearted half sullen sullen- ness It Is the usual price s I returned reu I steadily I 1 will call up your company r if you wish and ask if there has been an ax 1 increase He Ho turned around quickly at that spat L derisively on the steps as he descended Fine Ine bunch of in this town he muttered and as i 1 closed the door a L flash of sudden self enlightening amazement amazement amaze amaze- ment at my own parsimonious folly swept swep t over me I should not have angered the thi theman theman C man made him remember resentfully the incident of Alices Alice's visit to me Instead Instead Instead In In- In- In stead I should have tipped him judicIously Judiciously Judi judi- not enough to arouse any wondering wondering wondering won won- dering speculation on his part but sufficiently sufficiently suf auf to keep him In good humor But there was no use in wasting time in ill self recrimination Bracing myself for forthe forthe forthe the nervous strain I saw before me gathering gathering gathering gath gath- ering strength th for the support of th the wracked trembling woman I had left in inI inthe I the living room I snapped out the porch light and turned toward the living room when a a. slight sound made me look up to see my mother-in-law mother standing on the I upper landing of the staircase the picture plc- plc ture of outraged dignified displeasure I sped noiselessly up the steps grasped i my august mother-in-law mother firmly by the shoulder not particularly caring whether 1 the grasp was a gentle genUe one or not and bent my lips to her ear Dont speak aloud I commanded In Ina Ina ina a sharp whisper Mrs lUrs Stockbridge the principals principal's wife is dead poisoned Miss l Holcombe is here evidently in great fright and trouble When I find out what the truth is I will tell teU you I 1 may have to go to Bayview with her Katie will look after Junior Even as she Jerked herself free fr nn m my hand I knew that I had not counted in vain upon the elderly womans woman's almost ahmo t childish interest in a mystery of any sort Im not liable to mix up things she whispered back bak tartly And as for that baboon of a Katie let her mind her own business I guess Im I'm capable of taking care of Richard Second for a night Will Vili you be gone all night Shall ShaIl I 1 put some sonic things into a bag for you ou Thank you ou so much moth I whispered back relieved be oua measure at her herway herway herway way of taking things I dont don't know y et t what I shall have to do i Til ril Fet get the bag ag ready anyway she saId taid And you'd ou d better get that woman something reviving if she's got news like that You shut the living room door and i Ill I'll fix up something Hg leave heave it Just out outside when J it without her know knowing in an around Youre Youre you're youre you're splendid whispered f a as away and hurried down clown own th to the chair her heri i L had let lef left com combe be P To Ti 1 be continued continue |