New Britain herald., 1917-03-21

REVELATIONS OF A WIFE
By ADELE GARRISON

' Flow are the Holsters 9 Dr. Petit asked.
 "Very good, sorr," said the man with just a touch of delicious Milesian brogue.
 Madgc's Little Ruse.
 ''Why, he's Irish!" I exclaimed, after we had given our order and the waiter had left us.
 They all are," returned pr. Petit. "Its one of the few places in the city that still have Irish walters. The type is fast disappearing. I'll bet every one of these men have been here twenty years or more.''
 "How very interesting!" said: You know I love everything that is 0ld-fashioned so much that think sometimes really was meant to have lived in mid-Victorian days"
 Thank heaven you didn't!" re- turned pr. Petit, meaningly, and the expression of his eyes which accom- panied the words made me drop mine and wish for a moment that had not accepted his prescription of a square meal'' before starting on my homeward journey to Marvin.
 had no desire to see Dr. Petit in . sentimental mood. I had had one slight experience with him, when his feelings for me had overcome his usual poise, and I did not care to have another. There was vague disturbed feeling in my mind also that this dinner with Dr. Petit alone was very like the proverbial playing with fire. I hastened to change the subject.
 Everything looks very clean here," I said banally enough.
 "Yes, doesn't it." Dr. Petit re- turned in kind, but there was an amused expression in his eyes which told me that he had recognized my little ruse.
 At the Gate.
 His next remark startled me afresh.
 Do you know whether one of the taxi drivers in Crest, Haven would make a trip to New York tonight ?'' he asked.
 T don't know-why?" faltered
 Because" he answered, quietly, 1T must get back to New York to- night. There will be no train back from Marvin after we reach there"
 You surely are not going to Mar win tonight!.' exclaimed. aghast.1 '.There is no possible need for it. If you will simply see me on the train at Pennsylvania station shall be most grateful
 II did not think you were capable of making so silly a remark" the young physician rejoined. "Of course, you know. really, that I would cut ofr my right hand rather than leave you to make your way home at mid- night to a lonely suburb like Marvin
 ''Who is making supremely silly remark nows?" retorted, and, in- deed. I was intensely annoyed at pr. Pettit's words. They were theatri- cal enough to have come from the was 8 grim earnestness about them that disliked even more than I did MT. Underwood's damboyant banter.
 "You have not yet answered my question about the Crest Haven tau. drivers Dr. Petit reminded me. and there was something in his tones that compelled me to, give him the he asked.
 "I am sure any of the taxi com- panies could furnish you a driver back.'' said,
 Thank you. And will you tell me the best company?"s
 "The Crest Haven Taxi company"
 Thank you again. If you will OK cuse me for a few moments will telephone out there, tell them to meet us. and then take me back to the city"
 He rose and went to the telephone, leaving me in the words of the old style novelists a ''prey to mingled 
 Gratitude to Dr. Petit for his soli- citous care of me was tempered by at the thought of what the Crest Haven and Marvin gossips would say when they should know of my arrival at midnight in the com pany of a stranger.
 And what Dicky's mother would say when arrived home without any husband! could but faintly imagine her rage! But there seemed no prospect of my seeing Dicky. Where he had gone when he had flung himself away from the balcony in Madison Square Garden when he saw Dr. Petit seated beside me I had no idea.
 It was therefore with the greatest surprise, not unmixed with appre- hension, that when our very excellent meal had been concluded, and we