New Britain herald., 1915-11-23
5 Vevs for Theater G0ers and Women Readers
REVELATI0NS0FA AWIFE
Mir. Underwood Manages to Disturb Madge.
By ADELE GARRE,ON

l D1StufD Madge. Katie, I wish you to stop this al once. You must control yourself Katie looked up. startled. I had | never spoken in that manner to hel
 before. But I knew enough of he1 childish temperament to realize tha it was the only way to stop her tears
 Now listen to me-" I went on, firm l ly. You must stop crying, bathe l your eyes and be ready to serve things when I call you."
 l l had decided not to take Lillian l Gales advice and send Katie to bee on the pretext of toothache. Frank and Daisy Lester in all probability would be our guests again. If Katie remained in my employ she would have to see Frank Lester some time l She might as well begin at once. -' Katie was obstinate. however. "Oh, Misses Graham she sobbed, "I told you dot Meester Lestaire he sc. bad man. I 'fraid of him. I do not want to see him.
 walked over to her, took her by the shoulders and looked at her quietly for a moment. The ruse suc- ceeded. She stopped crying and looked at me in amaZement.
  sharply. MT Lester is married. He has a wife and little baby. His wife is with him tonight He probably has forgotten all about you, or that he ever frightened you. He was a bad now. You are here with me, in my care of you.''
 A Very Able Aid.
 Katie often surprises me with her quick changes from sadness to gayety. she wiped her eyes and broke into one of her infectious giggles.
 "O-oh!" she said. ''Meester Lestaire be married. Now he have to behave, his wife she give him good-leecking. I no 'fraid now, I fix tings. I go wash face, put powder on, all joost like Meesis Underwood" she added, with an impish grin.
 Katie. you must never speak in that manner Of any guest of mine,' said sternly; but Katie had vanished into her room, and the reproof was wasted.
 I went into the living room and managed to get word aside with Lillian Gale.
 
 without any trouble Can you warn MT. Lester not to betray by a word or glance that he has ever seen her kefore?"
 Trust Frank" replied Mrs. Under wood shortly 'He could meet his murdered fathers ghost, if he had one, without the quiver of an eyelash. But I'll tell him, anyway, just for the pleasure of letting him know I am next. How did you ever manage Katie?''
 "Oh, she wasn't hard to manage" I returned lightly. I had purely feminine satisfaction in having re- duced Katie to sanity after Lillian Gale had failed. She seeemed so eminently capable in all directions When I came in to speak to her had drawn her away from group composed of herself, Dicky and Mir. Lester. They were discussing some problem of their profession, and Lil- Han Gale, with her forcible words and animated gestures, held the cen tre of the stage, Both men were listening to her with undoubted re- spect for her opinions. They were standing now, and I thought I could detect in both of them an impatience at my interruption of their chat.
 In an armchair in the corner little Mrs Lester sat as if on throne, with Harry Underwood in an attitude of exaggerated homage before her.
 Underwood Begins His Campaign.
 I felt suddenly out of it all lonely. These people were nothing to me, said to myself. They were not my kind. I had a sudden homesickness for quiet monotony of my life before I married Dicky. I thought of few social evenings I had spent in the days before I met Dicky, little din- ners with the principals and teachers I had known, when l had been the centre of things, when my opinions had been deferred to. as Lillian Gales were now.
 "Oh, Mrs. Graham, please come ! over here and help me squelch this awful man.
 Little Mrs. Lester, all smiles and dimples, called to me from. her cor l ner. At her call Mrs. Underwood, 1 with an air of relief, moved back to her discussion with Dicky and MT. Lester, and there was nothing left for me to do but to go to Mrs. Lester's side. As I came toward them Harry Underwood turned toward me and bowed low, his hand upon his heart. Pardon me for this suggestion, o l gracious lady," he said, "but you look ss if you had swallowed the vinegar cruet. Do not be so crooel tuh muh. Why don't you do as this fairy at my left-smile upon me?''
 Mrs Lester giggled again. 'Isn't | he awful?" she queried. He's been making love to me terribly. He quite frightens me. If he doesn't stop it right away I'm going to tell his wife" You don't need to take that trouble," asserted Mr.. Underwood with sublime ;impudence, turning his back upon her. 'I was only amusing