New Britain herald., 1919-09-19
MY HEART and MY HUSBAND ADELE GARRISON'S NEW PHASE OF
 Revelations 0f q Wife


 the tap in the hall, returned to the room. and just as my friend caught her breath for another burst Of laughter I took careful aim and dashed the contents ol the vase full in her face
 She choked, gasped, sprang to her feet. her hands groping over her face. dashing aside the water which was running down her face and gown She was raging now, thoroughly angry, and I saw with a sigh of re- lief that the other danger, that Of uncontrollable hystcri was past.
 "What! What do you mean?" she stormed Then, as sanity returned to her, she sank down again in the chair and covered her dripping face with her hands.
 bent over her. drew the hands back firmly, and gently wiped her face and the waist Cf her gown.
 "It was the only way, dear,' said. "Fol9give me, but had to do it,
 q know," she murmured. Tt is who should ask your forgiveness for being such a fool But I'm all right now"
 q am sure you are" I returned heartily, and I want you to prove 1t by coming up with me to the teach CTS room, where I'll make you a cup of strong tea in a jiffy. That will straighten you out more quickly than anything else. Are you able to walk"
 The Packet of Tea.
 "Yes," she replied laconically, and made good her assertion a few min utes later when we made our way to the teachers room on the floor above us. I sighed with relief as we entered it and closed the door behind us We had not encountered the janitor anywhere, and we were now safe not only from his intrusion but his gossip also, for brewing tea be- fore going home after a late session was quite a fad of some of the teach CTS. It would cause no question in his mind.
 I made Alice lie down upon the comfortable couch while 1 brewed the tea. As put the little packet one of those I had contributed to the common stock-into the pot there came an indescribable sensa- ton over me. Milly Stockbridge' S eager, restless hands stretched out in curious examination of similar pack cts in this very room so few days ago came so vividly to my memory that it seemed almost as if they were before me in reality, again clutch ! ing at me.
 I glanced furtively at Alice Hol- con,be. was relieved to find that she | had closed her eyes, and in all prob ability had not seen the packets. For 1 myself, I felt suddenly that draught i of the tea would choke me. did not shake off the impress : sion of those ghostly hands until l after Alice Holcombe, strengthened and refreshed, had returned home in | Bennys cab.
 1 I had accompanied her to the door, : and had seen that she was ready to l take up with me the next day the ] difficult and delicate task of com pleting the work of the school year | in the Bayview school with the prin- 1 cipal incarcerated in jail. ] Then as Benny had turned his 1 taxi toward Marvin-fOr 1 felt en- ! tirelv too upset to risk encounterins | the stares of chance travellers upon l the railroad train-au thought Ot I the deal woman, her unhappy hus- band, even of my suffering friend went out of my mind, crowded out 1 by the sudden speculation as to what arrangements Dicky had made 1 in order to enable him to carry out | the threat of the night before-not to speak to me until I had explained certain things to him.