Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-09
My HEART and
My HUSBAND
Adele Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations
of Il Wife
The Way Madge Settled"
Miss Wines.

For the quintessence of venom
commend me to a certain type Of
dull, narrow-minded woman, who
fancies herself sighted. As | heard
the malevolent, insinuating words
from Miss Wines lips and saw the
crafty gleam in her pale eyes, |
recalled the gossip which Bess Dean
had once retailed to me.
Look out for Winesy, alias Old
Grouchy,'" she had advised care
lessly. She'll knife you in any way
she can. You see, she's had her
eye on that job you're holding down
for the last 10 years. and the sight
of anybody that gets it is poison to
her. The fact never has penetrated
her skull that Kenny wouldn't give
it to her if she were the last school
ma'am left on the globe, because he
knows she's utterly untitled for it.
"She reasons in her artless little
way that Kenny chooses the incum-
bents of that position for their pull
chritude-good word that. III bet
you don't know many as long-be-
cause it's just happened that every
woman who has held it has been a
winner for looks-oh! you don't
need to thank me. III give you
that! But just remember. Winesy
will do you dirt any time she can,
not because she has anything
against you personally, but simply
because you've got the job she's set
her heart upon"
Madge Is Worried.
At the time l had thought the
warning was simply a part of the
nonsense which Miss Dean loves to
rattle off for the entertainment of
anybody who will listen to her. But
| had experienced number Of petty
annoyances at the hands of Miss
Wines, little things so sly that it
was almost impossible to point them
out but which had made me resolve
earlier in the year to leave her alone
as far as it was compatible with our
respective positions for me to do so.
Her look and dry manner of the
day before had irritated me, vaguely
worried me. But | had no notion
that she would dare go so far as she
had in the atrocious speech she had
just made
l heard quickly drawn breaths of
astonishment from the other teach
ers, which had the effect of one, SO
simultaneous in time were they.
Alice Holcombe sprang to her feet,
her eyes flashing in anger. knew
that she would verbally fay Miss
Wines if she began to talk to her,
aad resolved to fight my own bat
tie.
Divided Camps.
You must have keen eyesight,
Miss Wines" | said in honeyed ac-
cents, ito be able to see through the
closed door of the office | remem-
Der hearing the outer door slam, and
went to the window to see who had
entered or left, and saw you and
Miss Pratt going down the walk
l am afraid my forlorn look is
wholly in your own imagination. and
i'll order to satisfy your curiosity l
will tell you now that | did not see
Mr.. Stockbridge yesterday after
noon. He didn't return to the
school, and when it was nearly f
o'clock l went home. SO you see,
l have no especial information con-
cerning Mrs, Stockbridge's sanity,
from her husband.
May l add that I consider the
insinuation you have made a most
insolent and insulting one, which
could emanate only from the Pc
culiar type of mind which you ap-
pear to possess. If you repeat it
you will, of course, be prepared to
take the consequences"
| heard little involuntary mur-
mur of aDp1ause from the other