The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-09-08
Revelations
Of a Wife
Being the Confessions OF an Aver
ago Married Woman.
by Adele Garrison.
SCI tell YOU, Dlcky bird it won't do.

| sat at my motthcr-in-laws BEDSIDE,
for | had neither heard Mrs. Under
wood come in nor Dicky's greeting 20
her
NV iir,t thoucht was OF the sick
woman over whom was walcmnS
Both DR. Petit and the nurse, MIS-
sonnet had warned US that excite
mcnt might be fatal to their patient
And the one thing in the world that
might be counted on TO excite my
mother in-law was the presence OF the
woman whose voice | heard in con-
yersa,ion with my husband.
The elder Mrs. Graham knew or
suspected OF fancied--l really did not
know whch-that there was something
I'M the past association ot her son anI L
Mrs Underwood which made the pres
cult OF the woman IN our home an m
suit To me She bad become so cN-
cited over the subject but an hour or
two before that she had had slight
heart attack, something from which We .
were all dong our best TO guard her
Turning my eyes toward the SICK /
woman was thankGl 10 see that the .
voices had not awakened her | rose /
uolSclcs,y IRON my chair. and went
into the living room closing the door
after me Then with my tuScr liicd
T vdrnlngh ior silence forced ml'
Mt gfc"mG To my lp, As lInan
Underwood saw mr. and came swiftly
toward me
"D,ck,'s mother i, asleep | said ~
d low tone 81 am afraid ! must ask
YOU to come into the kitchen, for she
awakens so easily
Lillian nodded comprehendngly but
Dicky flushed guilty
Katie is in the kitchen" he said
heSllanttngly
81 will attend TO Katie" returned
.horty
His disregard oi m, caution, cor.
cernlng hS mother made me iurlously
angry | wondered wcthcr It were m'
natural hccdlcsSnesS or whether IN very
truth the presence OF this old TREND o'
his made !, impossible for HIM to think
! Of anything save her.
As We entered the kitchen Katie
looked up, mildly astonlShed. from the
vegetables She was preparing for din,
Ucr
Katie" said quietly, will YOU go
and slt Just outside Mr., Graham
4 door Tor a few minutes Ii YOU hear
Y her speak or II you think She needs
n anything, call US"
j. Katie nodded, and in another moment
a, had dried her hands, exchanged he'
d kitchen apron for a white one, and de-
o parted proudly upon her errand
you've done wonders with tina
r girl" commented Mrs Undcrwoo,
t. approyneN as Dicky placed kltche'
h chairs Tor Us.
It Katie i, very satisfactory ! re
u turned VI, manner ] am afraid va.
y a rr,ilc suii, bu' u angercd me TO have
:. her utter so trivial a comment whcr
u such a real issue lay between Us.
Mrs Underwood shot me kceI
glance. then she turned rcSolutely Il
\ my husband
v, You see" she demanded. T wa
! right"
Il D,cky shook his head stubbornly hl
II Lillian turned 10 me.
| "You Shall Not"
Il Mrs. Graham" she said re,olutch
II Harry Jus, told me this afternoon q
j hs encounter with you and OF u
Z idiouc warning 20 YOU not to try
lind out the reason OF your morhcr-lr
laws aye.sIon 10 me | did not wa
y, a minute, but came straight here to $
~ things right II ! could. II is abomll
able tor YOU to have heard Surmis,
and not to know the truth | shou
~, have told you long ago but foolish
thought l' long as YOU were IN con
l,y plc,c ignorance you might as well =
nl main SO. But Hsrry's news chang,
,'5 all that Where can We talk wtho
n, danger OF being overhead
She wa. smashingy direct, as a
ways Even with the old resentme
rot asains, her, which had been revived
my surmi,es concerning the secret b
yle tween her and my husband could n
but admire the singlenes OF purpo'
me the evident honesty OF the woman b
tsyc me
,o, biclys voice interrupted her
aid hardly recognized 1t, hoarse, chok
with feeling as II was.
rm. Lillian" he said, you shall not
this. There i. no need Tor YOU to brl
my all those old, horrible memories ba
You have buried them and have h
d. a little peace II Madge is the WON
oyS take her for she will be generc
g. enough not to ask IT, especially whel
,lly give her my word OF honor that tn
ave is nothing in my past or yours VIII
could concern her
b "Nou have the usual masculine D,
OF what might concern woma
WV Lillian retortcd tauk
,,lo An Engagement Made
ri,. But answered the appeal !
heard IN my husbands voice even m
uglr than IN his words.
I II You do not need to tell me a
thing Mrs Underwood DSald gen
and al the words Dicky moved tow
Let me quickly and put his arm aro'
me
4 H. | flinched at his touch could
lee hclp it II was ono thing 70 SUNNI
courage to- refuse the confidence
aa which every tortured nerve was call