The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-16
MY SOLDIER
HUSBAND
Adele Carrison's Continuation Of
The REGULATIONS
of a Wife
What Can Mother Graham
Haze Said to Dicky?

TOR long time after Lillian left me
sat motionless before the dying
fire, which 1 was too listless to re-
kindle. looking drearily into the drab
chapter of my future that was unfolding
before me.
The incident of the checkbook had.
wiped out-as effectually as a damp
cloth would clean a blackboard-all the
tender comradeship and love which
Dicky had showered upon ME since his
accident, AS I looked back upon the
long months of anxiety following his
escape from death and preceding the
birth of our little son. I realized that,
despite the terrible suspense which had
been mine, I had never experienced such
happiness in my husbands love as had
been mine then. The contrast between
his manner then and the icy contempt
which had tinged his manner since he
had found me looking through his check
book was almost unbearable. The very
thought of it made me shiver as if with
physica cold.
Eyes That Are Keen.
the only way in which 1 could help my
husband was to shoulder the distasteful
task of pumping DIR. Petit as to my
fathers finances. The real work of I'M
tangling Dicky's monetary affairs, of
making him rest. stop using his eyes,
was to be in Lillian's capable hands. I
am afraid that for a few bitter. I'M
ort had wit
rebellion against Lillian, that it should
be She not I. who was able to deliver
Dicky from the bonds that held him.
The opening and closing of the hall
door heralded the return. of Mother
Graham from her walk with Richard
Second" I sprang up to go down and
get the baby, trying to smooth from my
face the TRACES of the self-communion
which had been mine. But my mother
in-law's eyes are keen.
Hes been a perfect little angel every
minute" she said enthusiastically. "only
just begun to fret minute or two ago.
I think he's hungry. What's the mat
ler?' She spoke abruptly. letting her
hands drop suddenly from the fastenings
Of Richard Seconds" outdoor things.
Nothing. mother, except a rather
naSty hesdache." I evaded. TN take
the DaDy now ana Inauk you DO luuCN
for giving him such a nice outing.
Would you mind asking Katie to come
up and mend the fire? carelessly let it
go out and while the room isn't yet
chilly, think 1t would be better to have
one"
II should think sol" nay mother-in-law
retorted. 1.-The alcove off that room
makes 1t too large to heat sufficiently
| with just the furnace pipes. I'll send
Katie up directly and take the baby in
my room until yours heats up
He Wants YOU"
"Oh, MOI" protested involuntarily for
felt that couldn't bear her scrutiny
| that must be alone with my baby until
could school myself to calm endurance
| of the situation confronting me- Katie
| I could dismiss the moment she had
| fxed4 the fire. but II l went to any
mother-in-law's room with the baby the
| time Of my escape would be indefinite.
She looked at me shrewdly. apprais-
ingly.
| "You can't fool me, Margaret" she
| said incisively. You're as pale as a
| ghost, and your eyes are like burned-out
holes in a blanket. You're worrying
yourself to death over something. Tel
me. is it the money, or the way Richard
Is acting?"
Neither" prevaricated. THAI
check father gave me is ample for every
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