South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-09
Adele Garrison, NeaO
Revelations of a Wife
Iheir Second Honeymoon"

acute her naturally quick perception.
20 electrify as IL were. her whole be
ing Instead OF being panic-strick-
IN at the discovery that some one
had ransacked the secret wall safe
in her library. evidently in search
OF something special. she appeared
tar more composed than either
Katherine sonnet or l who had just
returned with her 10 her library
through the secret passage from the
adjoining house
Only the whiteness. rather the al
most asben grayness Of her face, be-
trayed the mental strain under which
she was laboring. Her voice was as
composed as | had ever heard IT,
when. after she had turned from the
wall safe. she said quietly:
Il mus look up the other places
now and l want you to observe them
carefully. Anything might happen
70 me at any time. and you ought TO
know how TO find my papers. And
/ might as well tell yo" now that II
that emergency shoU ever arise
you are to get everything from here
and take 1t directly TO --'
The seventh square.
She put her lips first to Kathe-
rine's ear and then TO mine. whisper
ing name mighty enough TO make
us both start in astonishment and
look at each other with a new sense
of the importance of the work to
which we had committed ourselves
Then there were revealed 10 our
eyes still more amazing things Lii
lian went swiftly around the room.
making dOubly sure that every win
dow was locked and shrouded in
heavy curtains, and that the sound
defying velvet curtains over the
doors were in place. Not until she
had satisfied herself that there was
no possible peep hole through which
"A watcher could see did she proceed
TO the work Of searching the hiding
places OF the important papers Of
which she was the custodian.
And such hiding places! kathe-
rine and l held our respective
breaths at the cunningly devised
She rolled her beautiful Persian
rugs. revealing the polished inlaid
mosaic of the flooring beneath. II
was laid i'm squares, and Lillian, be-
ginning at one corner, stepped dag
onally across the room. from one
square 10 another. evidently count
ing each as she stepped.
When she had reached the 18th
she took a direction at right angles
to the one she had traversed. and
proceeded for seven squares At the
seventh she stopped and signalled
for us TO come TO her side.
Watch carefully" she whispered.
At the Door.
She kuelt down beside the seventh
square and pressed hard with her
hand upon IT, As she did so it turned
VI on itself and slid back into some
hidden groove. disclosing another
block exactly similar to itself beneath
it. Reasoning now that somewhere
around this opening were concealed
the documents Lillian guarded so
carefully. i naturally expected to see
her press another spring in this sec
ond square. But instead she thrust
her hand and arm into an aperture
beneath the adjoining blocks which
the turning of the first had revealed.
FUN bled for "A momooA and the next
instant a small section of the floor
ing fully 10 feet from US. opened.
wide.
Lillian rose. and with katherine
and me following her. went 10 the
opening. and with a tiny key which
she took from her dress. unlocked
the strong box within. She went rap
idly through the papers in it. and
looked up with a sigh OF relief when
she had finished
Nothing disturbed here. she
whispered. Now are you sure you
remember how 10 do this Thirteen
squares diagonally from that corner.
then seven squares in this direction.
press on the seventh square. and
tumble In that opening until you find
"a tiny push button. which YOU press.
There's no use showing YOU how 10
press those springs l. myself. had
20 tumble around until / hit upon it.
Ingenious isn't it,
katherine's shining eyes were her
only answer. As for me. 1 could
only repeat the word. Ingenious"
in an awe-stricEen whisper
She disclosed other hiding places.
two other wall safes similar in con-
structiOn 10 the one behind the built
in bookcase and then she mounted
a chair and pressing upon one Of the
tiles around the fireplace. disclosed
aonther cavity in which a strong box
rested
Lillian drew a long breath when
she had finished herHnspection. and
restored things 10 their usua, order
This she did with infinite care. poll
shing the flooring and the tile so
that no trace Of fingerprints showed
upon them.
1t must have been Betty med
ding IN thac safe 10 which she acct
deutl.y disco cred the secret" she
said. Elm so sorry. for it means Civ
.ac me- a. but that's nothing now
tha- v- know everything else is"
A low kuorS NJ the door cut short
her sequence.
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