Omaha daily bee., 1919-06-10
My Heart and My Husband
Adele Garrison's New Phase of ~ y
-, Revelations of q Wife
Why Madge Strove tot Cheer Mrs.
Durkee

Why Madge Strove tot Cheer Mrs.
Rita Brown"
repeated the name in anazement,
all the laughter at little Mrs.
Durkee's absurdities stricken from
r1e. ~.
My friend nodded her head
emf hatically.
81 thought that would make you
sit up and take notice." she said
eieefully. But" she added with a
touch of malice which for all her
good nature some times cfeeps into
her conversation, you ought to be
glad she's got her claws sharpened
for Alfred"
l ignored the allusion to the
uneaAiness which Dlckey's accept
ance of Rita Browns studio had
caused me, an uneasiness | knew my
little friend had suspected, although
she didn't know of Lillian's arraign-
ment of the girl to me, or >>of her
anxiety that Dickye should not work
in Miss Browns studio.
A Great Relief.
Lillian had made good her prom
Use to offer Dicky her own studio.
an offer which Dicky had promptly
and gratefully accepted. though with
wide-eyed amazement, for Lillian
had always /held her studio as
involate as an English college man
does his study hour. But, indeed,
she has not used 1t at all in the last
weeks, having put aside all work but
the most pressing in order to watch
beside Robert Savarin's sick bed.
The work she was Compelled to do
she wrought at in her own library.
| knew Lillian would share the
distinct feeling of relief ! exper-
fenced hearing Mrs. Durkee's
ann. ,uncement that her son, Alfred,
and Rita Brown were interested in
each other. My little neighbor was
right. I was glad to know that girl,
VIII. I had seen but once; but whom
I instinctively disliked chad her
claws sharpened' for-anybody but
Dicky.
l did not care, however, to have
Mrs. Durkee suspect my relief.
Let me see," l said, counting on
my fingers with no hint that had
understood her allusion to my un-
easiness concerning Rita Brown
this. is the first, second, third, fourth,
lifth-it's no use, | can't count Of
remember the girls whose names
you have brought to me with the
firm conviction that they were to be
daughters!-in-law of yours. What a
harem poor ALI would have had if
all your doleful predictions had come
true. He would either be in Turkey
Or IN states prison for bigamy."
Alfred Durkee's Request.
Il know" she admitted, though her
tone was obstinate, "but it would
come some day. And when I think
Of this Rita Brown getting her
clutches on my boy | wish he'd
married any one of the others l
used to dread"
81 NC you don'tw | said comfort
ingly, although in reality l admitted
the truth of her words. | could
imagine few women more unsuited
TO Alfred Durkee than Rita Brown.
| may misjudge the girl, but l
believe the words wifehood, mother
hood, meaan nothing real or sacred
to her. and Alfred Durkee, though
apparently of as volatile tempera-
ment as Dicky, yet is wholesome
lad, whose ideal of wife would be
the idolized mother of his children.
tried to visualize Rita Brown as
lhcther, but gave it up with little
shiver at the probable unhappiness
of any child who should ever call
her by Mat sacred name, and turned
to Mrs. )Durkee.
"You haven't told ME yet what
has led you to fear Rita Brown" l
said She isn't a new acquaint-
ancc Of Alf's, is she? They must
have known each other for long
time"
They have, casually" Alfred's
nc thef returned, but it's only since
Alf's return that they have been
thrown together much. 1t seems
ALT cast some work in ner way
she's terribly clever, you know-and
then she was taken i'll, couldn't fin
ish it. and he had to 60 see her about
it. You know what a tender hearted
softly ALI is about anybody sick or in
trouble. imagine he's been buy
ing out the flower and fruit stores
ever since and now he wanats me
to invite that girl and the two Fair
faxes, her chums, down here for a
week or two; says the country air
will be SO good for Rita.
IF you can beat that I'd like to
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