Show i 1 Confessions I Of a Bride Miss Mies Miller Is Bound for the Cave Where She Rosalie Think Bob nab If It you are detected you'll roun be shot for tor a IP spy I I I- walled almost forgetting to speak as low as prudence required Bob Dob bit his lip Up asif as asIf asIf If to warn me that we must not be betray betray betray be- be tray his real condition to a living Ing soul Trust me me-I me I am not going to be shot for tor a spy epy my love love and and leave lea you OU to Of t course I couldn't turn the trick weve we've stacked the cards for for tor- could could- s 11 t pretend to revert to m my former state cf d mental Irresponsibility if Cere teis 1 l-i l 1 Int studied my case ao so carefully carefully care are fully months a ago 10 Now Im I'm gambling on tb th the 5 chance that hell he'll take it for tor granted that my old symptoms ha e returned owing to that blow on my my hea head 1 dont don't believe hell he'll ever guess g Im I'm shamming Go to sleep Bob Dob Or rather re relapse relapse relapse re- re lapse Into your stupor Weve We've talked an hour Its It's about time for tor C Cartels to come in to give you your medicine Bob Dob raised my hands to his lips before before be be- fore tore he spoke When I 1 come out of this stupor I I will not kv v you you you-as as my wife You understand 1 r rI H HI I wept for tor an answer Bob Doh went on I No matter what may happen prom 1101 promIse I I Ise e me that you will wUl not have more I fits tits of jealousy dear heart hear I promised Soon Bob Dob vent vent off oft to sleep I sat by his side Bide and reviewed V d dour our strange situation He lIe and 1 I were swallowed up in the strangest of ot all possible places So far as the Lorimer family was concerned we had vanished vanIshed vanished van van- from the face of ot the earth Morrison Morrison Mor Mor- rison would never guess what had become become become be be- come of us Nobody would ever find out unless we escaped sometime escaped sometime to tell the tale ourselves According to his own schedule Bob Dob came cune out of ot his stupor the next mornIng morn- morn Ing He didn't know me I sent for tor Dr and and I wept softly while Bob DOb regarded me with indifference For I or a moment a a. flash of ot triumph glowed ved in Hamilton blue eyes ey i Bob caught it as I did and his shamming shamming shamming sham sham- ming was put to a great test lIe He did not by the contraction of ot a muscle nor the dropping of ot an eyelid betra betray his recognition Q of the greedy glance glane which swept accept over me Bob Doh merely passed his cigarette case to My husband was in his new condition condition condition condi condi- tion much more seriously ill than he had ever been told me Bob was liable to go 10 insane at any moment said said much much more apt to go so Insane in insane insane In- In sane than to recover let me nurse him stay him stay with him wait him wait on him indoors him indoors and outdoors outdoors outdoors out out- doors I pleaded So Ho it happened that T i went where where- ever Bob Dob went Day after day we watched and Don Manuel go their separate ways in the powerful cars cus which were forever coming to the hacienda hacienda and and going away most mysteriously mys toys at at all hours of ot the day and night That ThIt trouble trouble trouble-on on the border border Is Is be beIng being being be- be ing brewed under our very noses whispered Bob Dob as we sat by the fountain foun toun- fountain tain in the patio one warm noon And that sleek Don Manuel Is doing his half halt too But theres there's there's theres more than one way of disposing of ot Don Manuel Manuel Manuel-In In Incase case he proves an enemy of our countr coun coun- tr try Rosalie I ventured ventured and and then I added Bob Dob do you remember how unwillingly Katherine Miller left the cave She wanted to watt walt there there- there alone until alone until Don Manuel should come for her Remember I should say UY I do with do-with with s sCant disgust Cant you see that Katherine It is goIng going going go go- ing to get back to that cave some someday someday someday day soon In spite of ot Morrison If It she sho docs does shell shell meet the gentle Ro Rosalie saIl e And then I shuddered shuddered and and let Bob Dob answer his own question Id I'd rather not think what might happen next Miss Miller Is as stubborn as a know how to mule said I. I But Dut I savo save her from Don Manuels Manuel's sixth wife Then I told Bob Dob about the ba bag of ot money which I 1 had hal left lett so singularly and ando 1 o so 0 safely hidden in the tho cockpit of the airplane airplane-a a treasure hung between between between be be- tween the heavens havens and the earth She could bribe bribo Rosalie Bob Dob asked Im not sure surf Perhaps Rosalie will I prefer her revenge to any sum of money To be continued |