Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-04
My HEART and
MY HUSBAND
Adele Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations
of a Wife
What Mother Graham Said When
She Surprised Madge.


Katie was looking with inqusitive
interest at the lettering across the
big box which had just arrived ad-
dressed to Master Richard Graham,
jr."
II tink you better 60 get someting
pretty on, feex your hair" she re.
marked with loving impertinence.
"Dot Meestef Graham, he be along
here pretty qveeck now. ! tink, per-
perhaps next train. l 60 feex heem
dose leetle cakes he likes so mooch."
That will be very nice, Katie" !
said, carefully skirting the question
of Dicky's probable arrival and my
own attire. "I will arrange the
flowers now. Let me know at once
when Mother Graham comes back
with baby if ! don't see her"
Keen Anticipation.
'sYou feex heem all oop, too. l
know" Katie said slyly to my re-
treating back. But ! pretended not
to hear her, although she had vocal
lied my own sudden determination.
If Dicky came home he should
find a radiant wife in as becoming
a costume as she could manage, and
an adorable year-old lad in his very
best frillies. This was my promise
to myself as l arranged my roses in
vases and bowls in every place /
could put a receptacle for them.
Upstairs and downstairs and in
my lady's chamber" I hummed as
| arranged an especially exquisite
cluster in a slender vase on the
guest room dressing table, with
loving thought for the lady who, |
hoped, would occupy the room that
night.
MAY l ask the reason for all this
festivity?" Mother Graham's icily
courteous voice sounded from the
doorway.
Either Katie had not seen her. or
more probably my mother-in-law
had given the girl some unexpected
little task which had prevented her
from announcing the older woman's
arrival to me as I had asked her to
do.
Ny first impulse was to evade her
question, let her think that | had
simply been overstocked with roses,
and had been compelled to put them
in all of the rooms. But second,
wiser thought, made me face her
squarely.
eff Dicky comes home early
enough today I would like to tele--
phone Lillian to bring Marion for
the weekend in celebration of Jun
ior's birthday" said quietly. /
She snorted angrily.
"Why you will persist, Margaret,
in calling that blessed child by so
silly a name as Junior, ] cannot
fathom," she said with dignity, and
l saw with relief that while she was
in too captious a mood openly to
indorse my projected invitation, yet
she would not actively oppose It, and
had taken refuge in her always
standing controversy concerning
her srandchild's cognomen.
Richard Second is so dignifed,
so stable" she went on. But then,
what can one expect when you will
call his father Dicky. By the way
what makes you think he is coming
home today"
There's an Immense Box
The question shot out abruptly.
| knew she meant it to appear most
usual, but I have known her long
enough to detect the very real anx-
iety behind the words. The knowl-
edge that made me suppress the i'm
pulse, born of her exasperating little
verbal pin pricks, to keep he in the
dark concerning Dicky's move
ments, made me say in CHEEKY tones,
as if she had been showering COM
plinents upon me:
"Why there's an immense box
downstairs addressed to Master
Richard Graham, jr., and marked
Not to be opened until the arrival
of the sender The name of the
sender is not given, but, OF course,
it can be no other than-Richard."
I hesitated over the unaccustomed
name, but l was determined not to
offend my mother-in-law on this day
of all others. She looked up quickly,
saturnine twinkle in her eyes.