Show I I I Lorimer soldier Son of a millionaire manufacturer manufacture leaves his bride Jane to go to France and after the war returns return t to America with his brain so affected by that he forgets his marriage marrage During his absence his bride Jane Lorimer piqued by by Je jealousy lo sy of hr her husband huband and pursued by a former suitor Dr Hamilton is IS Involved tn in strange adventures During one of f th these se she loses her own identity and is rs confused with a i woman who is killed in an a railway way accident 50 o 0 that for a time her er husbands husband's family believe her dead She Sha i is abducted by Dr and kept a prisoner prisoner pris- pris oner but unharmed in m his house for several days during which she di discovers cevers that is a German his spy and propagandist using friendship with the senior Lorimer to further his plots By Ely her courage and wits Jane Lorimer escapes her captor in possession I of his secrets The secrets include knowledge of a sunken U-boat U contain I ing ng state papers and a hoard of German crown jewels which is schemIng scheming schem schem- ing to recover and sell I I Unable to swerve Janes Jane's loyalty to her husband plots to wed I Lorimer so that her wealth and name protect him He desires the I teis' teis sunken gems for her Wedding gift Jane Lorimer determines to foil CerI I him plan what to she get has the jewels She reve reveals ls her identity to Daddy Lorimer tells t trail ail discovered of and sets government agents on his attempts to rescue the jewels but a terrific submarine sion slon destroys destroys the boat and Ce Cartels supposedly kills the spy arch es Jane Lorimer at home hom husbands husband's again but wearing a disguise tries to rewan her hen love by the efforts without revealing that she is already his wife She is thwarted of returned soldier Katherine Miller who is bending every effort to marry the A sudden lightning shock in m a thunderstorm miraculously relieves the I his pressure p is pressure wife on Bob Lorimers Lorimer's brain and he is restored to normal and recognizes I Only the day previous Katherine him I Miller had inveigled into an en As soon 5 as she discovers alive plots his wife is the jealous woman I revenge and determines to break their marriage To further her plans she plots the of Babs Dabs the adopted baby I daughter of the Lorimers Illegitimate child of a younger brother of Bob and I secretly her own daughter Babs is The secret of Katherine Millers Miller's motherhood to I is known only to Jane and her husband Now New proceed with the story Bob Keeps Silence While My Anger Terrifies Me and Insults My Husband A sound from Daddys Daddy's door made madeus madeU U us look 1001 that wa way Evidently Daddy and Morrison had heard my hysterical cal giggle Bob hurried to Join them and closed the door between us I heard the tho clock chime again before their conversation ended Nobody spoke when Bob came out at last He didn't pay the slightest attention to me but dear old Daddy Daddys s saved ved the situation He kissed me and tuss fussed d over my cloak and put me Into Bobs Bob's car It struck me that he was terribly distressed I couldn't think it was al altogether altogether at- at together about Babs since in the early evening Daddy had declared that w we would have her back next day I wondered if Bob Dob had dared to speak to him about our dreadful quarrel My husband refrained retrained at I least from discussing it with me I Iwas Iwas Iwas was sorry I wanted to kiss and make makeup up up-to up to swing once more mole upon the I marital merry round merry round go-round of 1 alternating I love lo and hate quarrels and kisses kisses' But Bob never gave me an opening I He lie never said a single word all the I I E way home Nothing happened to stop the mad words which went vent r rae rac c- c I I E ing through my brain I had a dread dread- I E ful time I keeping them from spilling I OVE over r my lips Mad words indeed I they were words were words from Kathe Katherine lne Millers Miller's detestable letter to Bob She can have your name name name-as as long as she can keep It Ill keep your name nam as long as I want it was the hard sentence I longed to throw at my husban husbands husband's s 's head preliminary head preliminary to kissing and making Up But Bob was adamant I was forced to tn keen still When th the car stopped stop I sprang out without his help and was half way up the stairs by bv the time he had fastened fas faa the vestibule doors I r was angry because he refused to tomake tomake tomake make up He ought to have known that I r was half halt crazy with the worry about B Babs bs I r told myself He lie ought to have pass passed d over my shocking Jibe I Exactly lII like m many ny other wives I expected my man to pass over mo most t of the tile unpleasant tangles I manufactured manufactured for us both I caught myself sm smiling a most unhappy smile as I went wet into my own room and turned the key lwy in my door Hob Bob never entered my room without a dear little timid tap It was all form only form only a custom custom custom-a a habit habit and and yet we both liked It And I knew when I r turned the key In my door with a click that It was wa an Insult And I realized how hard Bob would take tale It It too And Anti then having ac accomplished accomplished ac- ac d the worst I I. I threw myself onto the bed bed and and was Sorry I had a great deal to bo be sorry about I discovered upon reflection For upon this very cry night this rainy eV evening evening eve eve- ning with its cozy COty shut-In shut feeling I r had planned to tell Bob th the true story of the thousand bad hours I had lived through while he had been gone with the A. A E. E F FIto F- F Ho Ito ought to have been heen told before He Tie ought to know that I had lived In house th that t I had made Mary Thomas an Intimate friend how It happened that my mv Identity had been I confused with that of ot EloIse why I had lad worn that awful wig and how I I had load nursed the U-boat U crew I had so much to explain He j I could find so much to distrust And I had promised to get through with the whole story this very night My 1 plan had been spoIled That was one byproduct of ot Babs' Babs abduction At last I could st stand stAid nd being alone with myself no longer I r took off oft my pride with my street dress dres 1 I hadn't been fair to my man I had snatched at the chance to condemn him I knew about his moods his hie long silences his stubbornness and y yet t I j had dar dared d to fling that horrid quotation quotatiOn quota quota- tion from the Bible at him And with it t I had clos closed d his lips I slipped Into my soft sort pink kimono and crept to his door eTo To be continued II |