Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-19
My HEART and
My HUSBAND
Adele Garrison's New Phase Of
Revelations
of a w 1fe
The Note Dicky Left for Madge


window. She ran down the steps
as the taxi drew UP before them,
whispered tempestuously to me be-
fore | was fairly out of the ma
chine:
"Oh, Missis Graham, dot old
vomans she mad like some splitting
leetle cat! She raise vun lettle hell
all day. She say she want see you
joost so qveeck as you COON in. So
plees go oop by her. | watch me
two-tree hours so | tell you first"
Thank you, Katie / said CRATE
fully, for | was indeed thankful to
my faithful little maid for warning
me of my mother -in-law's dis
pleasure. My nerves were too raw
from the strain of the days events
to enable me to withstand any un-
expected irritation with equanimi.y.
"Oh, dots all rightp' Kaie return
ed grandiloquently. you look out
she no eat you opp" she murmured
with a little chuckle as / passed her
on my way to my motherin-law's
room, and the volatile humorous
val ming cheered my spirits out OF
al proportion to its value as |
mounted the stairs.
Is that you. Margaret" my
n.other-in-law demanded surer:1u-
ors'y as l neared her door, which
was partly ajar.
Yes, mother" | answered duti-
fully, pushing the door farther open,
but remaining strategically in the
doorway. Did you want me?"
you know very we'll I want you,"
she returned tartly. Haven't l
seen that ape of a girl hanging
around the windows all the after
noon when she ought to have been
at her work, waiting her chance to
tell you that had ruffled her deli
cate feelings? l can tell you Pm
not going to put up with that Chin
panzee's impertinence another day."
had heard this declaration many
times before. knew that Mother
Graham, in reality, would no more
discharge Katie than myself
would. I would have paid no at
tention to her threat except that it
had been preceded by a statement
which my mother-in-law evidently
believed, and which it behooved me
to disprove.
"You are mistaken about one
thing, not her." l said firmly. Katie
did not say anything at all about
your hurting her feelings
Madge Temporizes.
"She'd better not if she knows
what's good for her" she retorted,
suddenly abandoning that line of at
tack and opening another one. "But
| didn't call you UP here to waste
time talking about an idiot like
Katie. want to get at the bottom
of something else What has made
Richard fly off at the tangent he
has?"
/ waited a full half-minute before
answering her. | wished to be sure
that my nerves were under steady
control, for the controversy | saw
in front of me, controversy made
more difficult for me by the fact
that I was completely in the dark
as to what Dicky had done.
II am not aware that Richard has
flown off at any tangent" I said
quietly. II left so early this morn
ing that we had no chance for any
conversation"
l didn't think it necessary to add
that Dicky had passed me on the
stairs without speaking, that earlier
in the morning before he had said
that he would not speak to me again
until | explained my emotion over
the newspaper. But my mother-in-
law evidently took no stock in what
l did say.
"Tommyrot!" she exclaimed. "You
can't pull any wool over my eyes
like that. You've had some sort
of row, and it's over that red
headed teacher who came here last
night. Good heavens! Margaret,
! know you have some mighty silly
ideas in your head, but | never
thought you'd be idiot enough to get
jealous of that old maid and raise
such a row as to drive your hus-
band out of his own house"
think my jaw must have dropped
in sheer anazement at her words,
for before | could frame an indig-
nant protest against her ridiculous
theory she had advanced to the at
tack again. -a-'-z. .........
Don't stand there with your
mouth open like a ninny, as if you
didn't know what I was talking
about" she commanded acidly.
Dicky's Message.
clicked my teeth together with
little snap, resolved to keep silent
until l could untwine this amazing
tangle in which my mother-in laws
thoughts seemed to be meshed. Was
this only her own theory, or had
Dicky given her reason for her
absurdity in a childish attempt to
mask the real reason for our dis
agreement
Richard just the same as adj