Show HOLDING A HUSBAND i Adele Garrisons Garrison's New Phase of II REVELATIONS OF A WIFE I THE WAY MADGES MADGE'S FATHER R RELIEVED RELIEVED RE THE SITUATION I have spent few more uncomfortable moments than the one in which I faced Major Grantland after my stammering refusal of the railroad car drawing room the ticket for which he I. I had brought me Ills darkly flushed face and the hurt look In his eyes made mo realize how low deeply I 1 had bad him him made me hotly resentful of myown my ray myown own cowardice and of Dicky's unreasoning unreasoning unreasoning Jealousy the thO cause o of m mj my puerile conduct For it was nothing nothing- more than cowardIce cowardice cowardice cow cow- ardice I told myself unsparingly that had prompted me to the I had given the yo young ng officer to to whoa whon I lowed owed so much There was r all no reason save my fear of rousing Dicky's anger why I should not accept accept accept ac ac- the Innocent favor so thoughtfully obtained so royally offered And I had given him no reason for my my reI re- re I but had simply requested him himI I I to pass the gift on to Mrs Durkee as If Jf it were a negligible thing irmy lr it my eyes With one of the t sudden impulses Impulse that sometimes sweep over me at the realization realization realization real real- of injustice deal by me to someone else elS and which appears to rot rok me inc of all poise and common sense I I stepped toward him Please I said huskily do not let letI let let- I 1 must have held my hands out appealInglY appealingly ap- ap though I 1 have no recollection recollection recollection tion of having done so But I found them suddenly caught In Hugh Grantland's Grantland's Grantland's Grant Grant- lands land's strong ones crushed tightly convulsively for a flashing instant felt myself drawn almost imperceptibly toward him while his eyes held mine with ith that In their blazing depths which made me catch my breath Then he released me almost roughly while the fire in Ia his eyes changed to agonized Forgive me he said remorsefully I should not not not-I-I I I did not mean mean mean-I I hope you wont won't wont won't- He lie was stammering like an awkward awkward awkward awk awk- ward schoolboy his very embarrass embarrassment embarrassment ment showing how unused he was to anything savoring of ot the emotional J I I could not help even eyen in the stress of I my own feeling a whimsical comparison compari compari- I son of the guIlelessness of Hugh HughI I Grantland to the sophisticated ease with which Allen Drake Harry Unde Underwood Under I wood or almost any other man I know not excepting my own husband would have handled a similar situation I think I 1 ought to tell I you ou why why why- I 1 began But at the words the boyish look fled from his face and was re replaced replaced placed by the calm sternness with which I had seen him confront vital I Issues You must tell me nothing he said quietly I can I I can guess what you ou would say and forgive and forgive me me but but I would rather not hear it It s sIf If he had been an any other type of f man this sudden masterful ultimatum would have gravely offended me But there was something so boyishly direct SQ primitive abo about t him that it was was possible pos pos- sible to feel teel nothing except pIt pity and something very akin to admiration i Please do not misunderstood me he went on hurriedly I 1 never should have presumed to Interfere in this mat matter matter ter If Mrs Durkee had come to me before the arrangements for the change to your drawing room had been made I 1 should simply have secured a drawIng drawing drawing draw- draw Ing room for her and I fan fancy y there would have been no reason why she could not accept it 1 A whimsical smile touched his lips Just long enough for me to realize anew that a S sense nse of humor was not one of the qualities either embryonic or atrophied in Hugh Grantland I 1 had a photographic flash of the naive delight with which little Mrs Durkee would hall hail a drawing room all to herself herself her self and I 1 answered the young oUI officers officer's officers officer's cers smile with another before I said earnestly J I Then if as pu say you under understand stand what I wished to tell ten you the proffer of this to Mrs Mrs Mrs- 3 O OC Of course I shall give it to Mrs Durkee he interrupted abr abruptly a aj at most rudel rudely But you what you what wi will ViP you you do 1 J Go back to the original arrange arrangement meat ment I 1 said cheerily and share a la drawing room with my mother-in-law mother and Junior j You and your our baby ought to have I one by yourself he lie said stubbornly stubborn but of of course there is nothing I II IMy My fathers father's appearance at the door I of the living room cut his words sho shot I had caught a glimpse of my fath father r rI hurrying up the driveway a few se I before heard heat the side door op open ji and shut and wondered Idly at his js haste I 1 j I have a surprise for you daughter daugh daugn ter tel he said with a quick glance at Major Grantland and there was an ah h expression in his eyes I could not fathom I have secured a drawing room for you so that you do donot not ot need to be crowded in with with- witha a 1 lot It t of other women 1 I JV How dear of you you I I exclaimed alme a quick instinctive feeling that 1 m must not betray to my father the f fact ct that I 1 had already eady refused a tar aim ar offer from horn the man standing glumly silent beside me And Major l Gr Grantland Gr has secured one for Mrs Dur ee so we will wm all travel in princely princel el state jM Did I 1 fanc fancy it or was was was' there ere a flash of relief in the lace face h he turned courteously toward the y ng army officer oM ot- f y If To be continued jl |