Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-23
My HEART and
My HUSBAND
Adele Garrison's New Phase OF
Revelations
of a Wife
How Madge Held Steadfastly to
Faith and Hope.


If I had not known little Mrs.
Durkee so thoroughly, l perhaps
should not have been so composed
at the thrust she had given me con-
corning Dicky's visits to the Fairfax
apartment. But / have become very
we'll acquainted with my small
friends propensity for exaggeratlon,
so at her remark | simply smiled at
her teasingly. and held up an adj
monishing forehnger.
Now Tess upP I said sternly.
"On your honor nowl Did Alfred
say specifically that he had seen a
lot of Dicky over at the Fairfaxes?
She squirmed in her chair as an
uneasy kitten might have done. -.
He said he'd seen lot of Dicky,"
she declared dehantly. "And if that
doesn't mean over at the Fairfaxes,
| don't know what does, for from
the things Alfred lets drop | know
Alf's there more than half his time"
l laughed and blew her kiss.
"You little fraud" l said good
naturally. IF the boys could hear
you they would declare your mag
nation is working overtime again"
She pouted resentfully, even as
her pretty laugh dubbed from her
lips. 1t is a tense and tragic mo-
ment indeed for little Mrs. Durkee
when she cannot greet everything
with laugh.
II don't understand you at all
Madge," she asserted. IF Dicky
were my husband and staying down
town for a month or two, and gal
livanting around with a pretty girl,
ibid santch him bald-headed|
mo, you wouldn't" | returned,
composedly, shipping a thread from
pair of pink "creepers" | was MAX
ing for my small son, who, in a
walking chair"-a cleverly con-
structed framework on wheels which
allows baby to stretch his limbs ane
go through the movements of walk
ing without bearing his whole
weight upon his immature muscles
was ambling all over the screened
veranda. You'd be sensible lady.
as | am, and realize that when there
is an unusual stress of work on
hand a man has to stay i'll the city,
and you wouldn't object to his call
ing on his friends or even taking
them out to dinner or the theater.'
1t cost me an effort to say this
calmly and pleasantly. First, be-
cause, dear friend as little Mrs.
Durkee lis, l inwardly resented her
structures upon my affairs. And
second, because | was by no means
as complacent over the news she
had brought me as I outwardly ap-
peared.
Not that I ever again could be
really jealous of Edith Fairfax:
That she still hopelessly loved
Dicky | was sure, although her war
work had given her other interests,
and had broadened her horizon so
that she would never again be as
unhappy over him as she had been.
But during the time following
Dicky's airplane accident, vision had
been given me to see many things,
and among them was the glorious
truth that despite all his volatile
unstab leness my husbands heart
was Supremacy mine.
| was not idiotic enough to be-
lieye that | never would face the
danger of losing him, but l knew
that his fancy would never be en-
meshed by girl of Edith Fair
fax's gentle, rather colorless nature.
The rare beauty, the imperious
ways, the touch of diablerie of the
Grace Draper type of girl would
always spell danger, at least tenn
porarily for me. But our marital
love had weathered one such test,
and l resolutely shut my eyes to
the possibility of another. And as
for idle, graceful attentions from
Dicky to his studio friends, | had
long since made up my mind that
l would waste neither time nor
emotion in needless thought over
them.
But it is one thing to resolve, an
other to carry out that resolve, not
only in the letter, but in the spirit.
So, while l was able to keep my face
composed, my hands from trem-
bling, yet any wife will understand
that my brain did not exactly enjoy
the pictures which little Mrs. Dur
KEGS words had flashed upon it. In
consistently, selhshly also, | must