South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22
Adele GarrisonS Neu0
Revelations of a Wife
"Iheir Second Honeymoon"
WHO IL THE Prison MHO
WISHES To WORRY MNEGE?

when Cousin agatha handed me the
Srlmy envelof--tn second Of its
kind-that had come, 20 me-with
he snecrins remark that I really
ought 10 ,eii my correspondents TO
wash their hands.
Cousin A|Eatha's words, hateful as
tney were. ha4 nothing to 10 with
Ay discomfort. But the sight OF the
envelope she handed me from the
morning u5u. evidently written
10y the same pe-son VINO had Sent
me . similar one the day before. dis
mayed me.
lOnged 70 get away TO my room
10 examine it, but knew better than
TO do so too quickly. Cousin Aga
tha's feline eyes were watching me
closely behind their discreetly low
cred lips, and l knew hat her
curiosity was quivering in its eager-
ness 20 inc out what the mysteri-
Gus envelopes contained.
/ was horribly afraid she would
say something about the disrepu-
table looking letters TO my mother
in-law. who fortunately for my
peace Of mind hadn't been down
stairs when the mail arrived either
day before or this morning. But /
heard nothing from Mother era
ham about the letters, proving con-
clusively that Cousin Agatha had
held her tongue. for my m~other-in-
law, if she had once discovered the
existence OF the letters. would have
given me no rest until / not only
told her all about them. but had put
forth all my efforts to md out the
sender OF them.
What IL Contained.
The second letter-wheu at last
found an opportunity TO examine il
in the solitude of my own room-
was almost a duplicate in appear
ance OF the first. II had the same
Uniformed Struggling handwriting.
the address. Mrs. Richard Ora
ham, chase av., Marvin, l.. l." was
written i'm exactly the same form,
and the envelope l was sure was
from the same bundle. Before I
opened it l took the first letter. the
one 1 had started TO destroy the day
before, and compared the two en-
velopes infinitely. There was but
one point Of difference. The one ]
had first received was postmarked
I.Hoboken. while this bore the post
mark Of "A station in Staten Island.
And when at last l opened il the
half-sheet of note paper. blank OF
any writing. enclosing another news
paper clipping. met my eyes, as il
had done in the first instance.
This clipping had nothing TO do
with spies, the subject OF III first.
1t was an account Of q black hand
murder in Chicago. and gave in
chastity detail the name in Vhich
the body of the victim had been
mutilated. The headline had the
same red ink line drawn under it
/ had seen under the heading Of
the first. and around the whole clip
ping was drawn another wavy line
Of red ink in the same manner as
the first.
When / had read the sickening ac-
count through I dropped it into my
lap, panic-stricken
only Two Persons.
For my first theory, that Alfred
Durkee had sent me the first clip
ping as a jest following a discus
sion of spies we once had. was ut
terly shattered Alfred Durkee is q
gentleman in every sense Of the
word. He would never have sent
J mo chic ur-regnnan fhSru urhf@h uI
most chilled my blood as 1 read it.
But if not he. then who was send
ing these incomprehensible things
10 me2 That their urpo was to
brighten me 1 could not help rea-
soning. Ny brain set itself to work
TO recall the persons who bore me
enough malice. petty or deadly, to
do SO cruel "A thing.
There were but we in all the
world. l decided. after a long men
tai survey OF my life-Mrs. Allis
and Grace Draper. Cousin Agatha
had enough petty malice in her soul
to do IL, but she also had a very
lively sense OF the benefits she de-
rived from my mother-in-law. and
4 knew ludl nef years OF experience
had taught her how inevitable
would be Snal discovery of such a
trick were she to play IL. Besides.
those letters had been pOstmarked
within two days. and Cousin Agatha
had not been away from the village
for over a week. No. she was de-
cidedly out OF IL.
Grace Draper was. ~ FAR as I
knew. i n South America. although
on al least two distinct occasions !
had had ore OF my premonitions
that she was bringing me evil Of
some kind. But II seemed a most
improbable thinE that she could
have returned from so great a dis
lance in so short a time.
Il must De Mrs. Allis. I decided
And vet. how could sine have found
the chance 10 do such a thing. shut
up as I supposed her in a sanitar-
ium for drug addicts?