Show HOLD HOLDING A HUSBAND Adele Garrisons Garrison's Ne New Phase of a OF WIFE A REVELATIONS I of What Madge Forgot in the Shock Dicky's Dicky Suggestion Dicky rushed into my room for the whereabouts whereabouts whereabouts where where- demanding the eleventh time mislaid article of his of ot some apparel of ot which I really was supposed to know nothing as he has a a. room all closet loset and end to himself with plenty of bureau room But he has even more than the the ordinary mans man's helplessness concerning ning his clothing and In a pronounced pronounced pronounced pro pro- degree the masculine tendency to blame the woman most nearly as assOciated associated asso assO- crated with him for tor whatever goes wrong For the eleventh time I schooled my y voice to pleasantness though my nerves were Jumping I had grimly l resolved re resolved re- re solved upon the morning of oft this last Journey South that i day before our matter matter mat mat- atter at- at would not lose my self control no ter what happened and I had prepared But myself for almost any eventuality sometimes It is the long hacking w wis which is more effectual in breaking a stick than a sharp blow When I had gone to Dicky's room after his last demand demand and had found the cuff links he had lost 1 was in no seraphic mood to listen listen lis lis- lis ten to the abrupt words he flung at me meas meas meas as I turned to leave the room this I hear heal a about out Dad gettins gettin gettins get get- tin tins you a stateroom room all to yourself Of course the words were perfectly natural and Inoffensive But the tone made me subtly feel that Dicky considered considered con con- my fathers father's action as a slight to the rest of the part party However I tried to make m my voice sound matter of fact as I replied d Your hearing Is perfectly correct Father did get me one That leaves your our mother one and Major Grantland secured one for Mrs oIls Durkee Dicky looked at me queerly Ye es so Ive I've understood he said dryly and andI I wondered with a terrified little qualm whether he too suspected that the young oung officer had obtained the drawing room for tor me me and that he h had d passed it on to Mrs Durkee only upon I my refusal of it My y father and my my mother-in-law mother both surmised the truth and the tact fact that they had done so 80 had troubled me with its hint that Major Grantland's feeling toward me had not escaped their notice It was bad enough to be troubled and remorseful myself over the young officers officer's att attitude atti- atti I tude without its being a matter oi ot comment to others WHILE ED ITH ED-ITH- ITH r 1 To Dicky's Jealousy unreasoning be because bel be cause cau of ot my own awn conduct and that of or Major Grantland himself I had long 1 been used and I prepared myself for some cutting little speech concerning the young military man But to my surprise it was something far tal differ different ent eat which was the theme of ot Dicky's DIcky next speech j Of course youre you're going to Invite IUta ruta Brown to share It j The Implication which his words i carrIed car carried car car- ried tied that there was no other course I possible nettled he me so I 1 forgot for the instant that the thing he had proposed was the very course upon which i 1 had I myself decided m Of course I will do no such thing i I retorted d The devil you wont won't Dicky's eyes eye flashed lashed wrathfully Do you mean to tc II tell me that youre you're going to travel In lu Instate Instate state while Kd Ith Ed-Ith and Leila art art are crowded in with Rita 1 DICKY MADGE MIMICS I M He had paused perceptibly betwee between the syllables of Edith's name and had it hurriedly because I 1 finished was wai i sure he was afraid that changing th the thE order of his mention of ot the two sisters might attract my attention It was u j i ithe the most unimportant trifle and might well have haye been an accident but I had noticed similar trifles before beCore and woman like I at once jumped to the I most maddening solution of his request requestor 1 or rather demand jj j i He was far more solicitous of Edit S I Fairfax's comfort than of ot mine He could not bear that she should be InI in In- In Far rather would be b I condemn me to the society of a girl gin whom he knew I 1 detested vj I felt rising in me a primitive Bersek impulse to vent my rage upon things generally beginning with the sn sneering erin handsome countenance of my husban husband t I controlled this impulse though j H I might have been better for both Dick Dick I and me if I had given vent to the wild anger that shook m me Instead of confining Ing the torrent under the ice with which I was able to coat It It- t. t 1 I You will please pardon me I said sai saJdI I in my most frigid manner I 1 had not realized how very much the comfort of ofEd Ed ith Ed-ith ith and Leila LeUa counted with you YOurI I I Ishall shall of course accede to your wishes wIsh s sand and invite Miss lIss Brown to share my stateroom much as I detest her 3 I had purposely mimicked his hesitation hesitation tion over Edith's name and knew by Dicky's s exclamation and his sudden movement nt toward me that I had scored savagely But I went out of the th room room ignoring the fact tact that his exclamatory utterance of my name namo had protest of misunderstood motives not t of anger il |