Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-06
My HEART and
NV HUSBAND
Adele Garrison's New Phase Of
Revelations
of a Wife
Why Madge Felt that Mr.. Stock
bridge Had Much to Explain.

Niu hot COuDt INC SldtcLiCht VI MiiAy
Stockbridges family to the effect
that her husband had threatened to
divorce her but an hour before she
was found dead.
But one look at Alice Holcomb's
face stopped the words upon my lips.
it was full of the irony which her
voice had held. To her the story
was false, only concocted by the
dead woman's family in an attempt
to throw suspicion upon the man
whose life she had ruined.
But to me was a confirmation
of theory l had alternately accept
ed and rejected since the terrible
moment when Milly Stockbridge's
telephone threats to me were cut
short in such sinister, mysterious
fashion.
Kenneth Stockbridge had returned
home only that afternoon. He had
not seen his wife since her discovery
of Alice Holcombe's photograph
with its tender inscription in the
secret drawer of his private desk.
Indeed he knew nothing of her
opening his desk or of her desecra-
ton of the secret he had guarded
so long and with such exquisite
honor.
1t was Milly Stockbridge's first
opportunity to tax her husband with
here discovery. I had seen enough
of her to be sure that she had
wasted no time in unloading her
accumulated wrath unon him
could imagine her animal rage, and
the vile epithets she must have
heaped upon both him and the
woman enshrined with such sacred
ness in his heart.
Words That Echo.
If Kenneth Stockbridge had fin
ally turned upon his tormentor,
shrivelled her with his denuncia
tons, and then had gone to her peo-
pie with a demand for a release
from the burden he had so long
carried, it was no more than any
observer familiar
with his story would have deemed
fully justified But of course taken
in connection with her sudden
death only few moments later the
story had most sinister look,
Between five and half-past."
The words echoed in my ears.
Yes, it was about half after five
when Milly Stockbridge in u rage so
towering to make her voice almost
inrecognizable had telephol.ed ne.
[ had wondered at that time what
rad happened to rouse to life her
insane wrath. The story of her
'elatives answered my qestion.
But it threw no light upon-another
question which had been with me
ever since the tragedy. I turned to
Alice Holcombe with an air of
agreement with her theory, and
made an apparently casual sugges-
ion:
Il suppose they claim that was
The 'errand' which Mrs. Stockbridge
save he made at her house. You
-emember you told me he said he
lad gene there
A Memory Picture. II
Eyes" and it is so unfortunate
hat he did 60 over there. 1t gives
color to the story. And I'm so
afraid they are working to make out
l case against him. They kept in
that he is lying in his
account of finding Milly. They
agree with his statemet that he was
only at their house a few moments,
out they say he said at first that he
vent straight home and found her.
That would mean that he waited
1early an hour before telephoning
DR.. Irons.
But they accuse him of chang
ng his story later" she went en-,
saying that when he went into the
house about fve-thirty, on his re-
urn from his father-in-law's, he did
lot see her, and that he went out
lgain upon an errand, and upon his
'eturn after six found her lying near
he telephone. But the last state
nent is the one l believe Kenneth
made. Several persons heard him
ay that, while there is only the FAM
ly's word for the first story they
lain he told"
You say he says he went into
he house at fivethirty and did not
zee herr" The question escaped
ne Involuntary.
Eyes. Why?" Her voice held
tartled infection which warned me
lot to betray the reason for my
Iuery.
Nothing" I returned indignantly
1t was simply an idle question"
But my brain was busy with the
picture my memory was calling up.
At fve-thirty Kenneth Stock
bridge had re-entered his home after
,oing to his ia ther-in-law' Sat five
hirty, Milly Stockbridge, seated at
he telephone, whe.e her husband
ould not possibly help seeing her
IS he passed through the hall, was
lttering vile threats against Alice
and me in a raucous
scream which must have been audi
lie all through the house.
And but a minute or two later
he had cried out in fear, and the
telephone had been suddenly
ilenced.
The sound of the front door being A
Officially opened" by the janitor for \
he arrival of the teachers and the
'oices of the two earliest rivals
tut an abrupt stop to our dialogue.
But I carried away with me like
'uzzing gnat the conviction that
Kenneth Stockbridge had much to
xplain.