| Show I Confessions L I Of a Bride aride I Bob Bobs Interest in the theOther Other Woman Wom In Increases In- In creases creases Ceases as It Decreases in Me Mo He cant can't believe f it Bob cant can't be- be be ba- lieve It it I said to myself as I sat eat a heap of misery li in 10 a corner of the auto I heard the men speak of ot Berghoff Bob directed Morrison to forthe arrange forthe for forthe the burial of the body and to cable the cable the theman's mans man's family in In Berlin Bob sat at atthe atthe atthe the farther end nd of ot the seat Jimmy be between be be- tween us UI and Morrison with the By keeping aloof from me at a a. time when I certainly needed a husbands husband's husbands husband's hus hus- bands band's sympathy Bob a advertised his distrust of me to Jim and Morrison f When by all the rules of chivalry h ha I. I should have refused to doubt his wife Bob humiliated me and nd yet had I ac ac- ac him of ot it It he would have protested pro pro- I tested that he didn't Intend to to that he was only preoccupied Bobs Bob's manners were faultless when he wanted them to bo so but the instinct of the male pre pre- when he was hurt as he had been by what Berghoff implied He lie took his revenge ruthlessly Of Ot course I couldn't explain anything to him before Jim and Morrison 1 I knew very well that I wouldn't explain when we reached the hotel and I was alone with my husband Berghoff was a a. traitor by training I and the fact tact that Bob could tolerate a a. doubt of me based I on the spy's evidence evidence evi evi- dence seal sealed d my lips Never would I condescend to defend myself Whenever in our married life Ute Bob Dob had made any criticism of me even even In n a a. trivial matter I had been stricken dumb More than once I had seemed at fault tault when I was not at fault Many a time it ft would have been better for us both could I have explained ex ex- My in my extreme I trial trial I was dumb from habit It was a habit to warn all proud young brides against and against and young husbands husbands hus hus- bands too Just as long as Bob and I had been able to talk over our differences dif dlf- we h had d found a way back to happiness But when pride made us s sI I silent and stubborn at the same time we drove happiness away As Bob sat in his corner of the auto thinking very hard I knew that he never would have humiliated me be- be be be- fore Jim and Morrison had he not been in Katherine Miller His preoccupation was worry about my rl rival val I could measure his increasing interest Inter inter- est eat in the other woman by his Increasing Increasing ing indifference to me His readiness to doubt my loyalty was proof to me that he wanted to do so H He was anxious ious to find an excuse for tor permitting his mind to dwell upon the charms of the lady of ot the tawny tresses tresses' Reaching into my bag for my handkerchief hand hand- kerchief to dry the tears I couldn't control con con- I touched the notes which Katherine Katherine Kath Kath- erine Miller had written to my husband husband hus hus- band when she had bad supposed him to be upon the train I spent the remainder of ot the ride to the hotel trying to decide whether I should hould show those notes to Bob They were enough to disgust a decent man They were valuable ammunition ammunition am am- with which I could d destroy troy my rivaL If Bob should read them he couldn't possibly undertake the trip with the search party He wouldn't care to come face tace to face with the girl I didn't see how he could ever speak to her again except in the most formal way I put the case to myself over and over Finally I pushed the notes deep into my bag Let him go I said eaid to myself and stand or fall tall by the adventure Not by the raising of a finger a-finger would I warn him of danger It was his duty to me h his s wife to perceive every threat to our happiness and to ward it t off I was not alone aone responsible for our happiness I was not alone the custodian custodian cus cus- of the dignity and honor of ot our marriage Many wives I knew assumed that burden whey They nagged or lured their husbands along the straight and narrow narrow nar nar- row path To hold a a. husband by any process they considered a Wife's vUe's duty Thus th they y supported the double code of morals made by m men menI n. n I would neither nag nor lure my hus hus- band Unless Bob could be loyal oval be- be cause he preferred to be he be-he he needn't be loyal at all am To Tobe Tobe be continued |
