Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-08
My HEART and
NV HUSBAND
Adele Garrison's New Phase Of
Revelations,
of a Wife
, The News Alice Holcombe.
Brought to Madge.

serted mySeil 10 Ieao Win MUCH
more buoyant spirits than had
possessed 4 few minutes earlier.
The little encounter with my
mother-in-law, instead Of depressing
me, the usual results of contests
with her had given a distinct hum
orous flip to my NERVES, and /
looked forward with pleasurable
anticipation to the driving lesson
which Dicky had promised me upon
his return from his enforced outing
with his mother.
A ring at the door bell, however,
few minutes after my husband,
small son and mother-in-law had de-
parted, put to flight my anticipation
Of restful, lazy hour. For it was
followed almost Immediately by
Katie's announcement at my door
that dot redheaded teacher, she is
in the living room, wants to see you. "
please try to remember Miss
Holcombe's name, Katie" I said .
bit GROSSLY, sub-consciously venting
my annoyance at the interruption
upon my little maid, to whose con-
stitutioral inability to remember
names I ought to be used to it by
now.
Managing Katie.
II no can twist tongue round dot
jawbreaker," Katie answered with
superb indifference, grounded, I
half suspected, In the dislike she has
for Alice Holcombe, an aversion
which Is far a. l can see, 10 caused
only by the fact that I am always
unusually depressde after my
friends visit, and Katie's warm
heart resents anything that which
troubles me.
Genuinely fond as l am Of Alice
Holcomeb, yet at her calls, infre-
quent enough, / feel Tightening Of
the nerves all over my body, exactly
as if some one with a powerful
wrench wrere slowly winding them
up. know, Of coursej that this feel
ing is unjust to the girl, who, though
almost vrazed by the awful fate con-
fronting the man she loves and the
fact that she is condemned to mac
ton in his behalf, is yet going
quietly, bravely on her way, and
only ocmes to me when some emer-
gency confronts her about which she
thinks I ought to know.
Indeed, l think it is the very fact
which makes me dread the an
rouncement of her name, something
that Katie has shrewdly discovered.
If she came oftner and on casual
errands, I should not stiffen into
tense apprehensive attention at her
arrival, sure that it heralded some
thing alarming.
tried to disguise my qualms
with a semhance of annoyance at
Katie.
do not keep Miss Holcombe
waiting" I said a bit sharply.
please ask her to run up here at
once. l am so glad she has come"
Katie muttered something under
her breath as she went out the door,
which / pretended not to hear, a
short, succinct doubt of my last
statement couched in two words
one of them profane. But from my
vantage point from the doorof my
room, / heard her deliver my mes
sage with respectful courtsey and
was, therefore, glad to ignore her
| sololoquy.
yanso -,Mslalathey
Dangerous Repression.
welcomed Alice with outstretched
hands at the top of the stairs and
tried to disguise my dismay at the
sight of her thinness and pallor. The
weeks since | had last seen her had
plainly left her mark upon her.
"How glad l am to see you'll
exclaimed. "You have neglected
me shamefluuy. OF course yor
ave come for a long after noon, SC
let me take your hat and I'll ring
for something sool to drink. Katie
makes most delicious iced things.
I had relegated my driving lesson
to the limbo of things inevitably
| postponed, for knew that woman
confronting me had vital need of my
sympathy. But she put up her hand
in protest.
II can't stay" she said decidedly
"Not for more than a half-hour. !
must get the next train back. But ]
will except your offer of something
iced. l am fearfully warm and
tired"
rang for Katie, gave her brief
direction, saw her start happily
away-Katie is never so hpppy a,
when she is preparing something
dainty to cat or drink-then turned
to my friend.
What is it, dear?" I asked. III
you have come for only this short
time, 1t must be because of some
urgent"
at u.s." she said, leaning back In
| her chair and closing her eyes for q
moment as if marshalling he words
in order to put what she had come
to tell me into the shortest scope
possible. I was shocked to see how
very i'll she looked. The blue veins
on her eyelids stood out alarmingly
and her amer was manner was sc
quiet that / guessed that she was
| putting a repression upon herself
which was dangerous to her nervous
system.
When she finally opened her eye:
the W ildanxiety in them startled
me.
"I'll tell you in the shortest way
possible" she said. "A man came
to me this morning, saying that
Kenneth had confessed Milly's muir