Show I My Heart and My Husband Adele Garrisons Garrison's N Nsw Nw w Phase of Revelations of a Wife W e WHAT HAPPENED WHEN ALICE HOLCOMBE WAS CALLED AS A WITNESS Alice Holcombe burst nto Into the office al almost almost almost al- al most as soon as Mr Prentiss w was was s out of ot earshot I guessed that she had been watching for his departure from s some me safe vantage point Will you ou tell me one wh why you OU stopped me when I was about to throw my job in old Prentiss' Prentiss false she demanded tempestuously J 1 had hoped hoped this with witha a note of ot bitterness In her that voce voice that you would join me In saying you would resign If the school board asked Kenneth to do so Im I'm sure most of oC the other girls would and when you gave me that signal I could believe belle hardly my eyes I have always found you to have reasons reasons rea rca sons for your actions so I 1 obeyed you But I can tell you that youve you've got to put up a mighty good argument to justify yourself O That old puffed e porpoise i If f l lo I could o only get t the girls to o walk out In Ina ina a body and let him and the rest of or t the e board o a t their old school n I I MADGE SPEAKS I stepped to the door turned the key an and looked at my wrist watch a i st utes I Weve got exactly two minutes to settIe settle set set- tie tle this thing Then weve we've got to see to dismissing the pupils What did you ou tell I the teachers Told em to hold the pupils and put them to work In their seats until you or 01 orI I came around and formally dismissed e em she 1 said shortly hf dw Good Now lets let's lOOk look facts In the face race In the first place there is not a a. woman here who would even consider Joining you In resigning Youre You're overwrought overwrought overwrought over over- wrought and you think the others look at things through your spectacles You see under the peculiar conditions surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding this thing a woman ranging herself herselt on the side of Mr r. Stockbridge n risks not only n her l job but her e reputation tion which tion-which which c means e her future positions SWI They simply cannot afford to do It She Se dropped dejectedly into a chair all the truculEnce gone from her I suppose you OU are right she sho said her voice flat and lifeless I can see your standpoint and I 1 cant can't blame you ou But with But with a tall flash of ot her former fire fire fire- It is different with me Im I'm not going to let either job or reputation get In the therl I way rl of r my ife s standing by y yO Kenneth dSt Stockbridge Stock Stock- bridge g He lie shall have 1 O one friend And d I If It the they fire him they thoy fire me too And so add to the Intolerable burden he ho Is already bearing I said throwing as much irony as I could Into my voice olce What do you mean she sho countered startled Did he not ask nay command you OU to keep away from him not to attempt to speak to hIm or send him any m message mes message mes- mes sage until he ha S' S gave e you ou leave I 1 asked earnestly Depend upon it he he has hns s-I s some good reason for his request You promised to do as he naked asked and here you are planning something which would break the spirit of or that promise Irre irro- WH WHAT j SHE PROMISED She stared at mo me wild eyed I aw saw conviction that I was right mirrored In her face race Then she pulled her figure erect rose from her chair All right you OU win for th the present she he he saId ton tonelessly Come Coma along let lets get this raft raIt started for home I As if Ir she had buckled on an armor she he went through the trying hours of dismissal dis missal of the pupils and settling up of the affairs lr frh of f Pf the school 1 for Ift Its three r days days' closing with white inscrutable face and stiff haughty manner which r repelled FJ nil all advances di from h her col col- col leagues Even tn the summon to the coroners coroner's Inquest which she ahe had expected expected ex ex- ex did not appear to to affect her She carne canoe up to the room where I was wu working and laid it before m me i e eI q I shall have to go 0 In two hours hour sho she said Mid tonelessly I suppose you OU will have to stay until the regular time for tor ing school Chool I Something in her voice Olce made me put tny my arms around her unyielding stilt fl figure J rhall I i shall hall tiny stay here until you come come back If it It be midnight I assured her You I know you'll t he a wreck after afler It no matter matter mat mat- ter how things thin go and the last place you'll want 1 to RO so wll Will to be home where you'll have hae to put on a a. brave front treat and mask your real feelings f lings I II I know krow all aU that than you OU do she retorted 1 All AH the more reason why by you should bould come to mil tsa I 1 r l Now prom prom- A f w q ise me that the minute the thing is over you'll come straight to me She walled waited a long minute before an an- I guessed that she rhe was still mill harboring barbering resentment against me unjust though she he he her herself lf realized It was wan for tor my attitude t toward her proposal S1 to r resign her position lt But at afro last her r face faca cleared Im a beast and n your youre a dear she he raid paid Of rb course Ill I'll Ifo conic coma ab back rh here here- here and Ill I'll have good news too she aha added defiantly To b be continued d. d |