New Britain herald., 1920-10-26
DLDING A HUSBAND
 Adele Garrison's New Phase of Revelations Of q Wfe

. founded. So 1t was that when Maj. Grantland turned to me. after shaking hands with my father and Dicky's mother. I felt that the hand I put in | hts was both trembling and icy. He looked keenly at me. and the | clasp of his hand over mine was so warm and protecting that felt | breath of reinsurance blow over my | fear. As he released my hand. he, by | seeming accident, dropped a handker- | chief. stopped quickly to recover 1t, and as he rose. murmured so that no ono elso could hear him:
 Remember. I'm attending to him" There was TO adjuration not to be frightened. realized that he had given mo the assurance he wihed me 10 have in the fewest words possible. and I felt the color come back to my checks. the courage to my heart at tho thought that so jndomitable and faithful a friend was watching the man whom I suddenly feared. as I did any ono connected in any manner with tho beautiful. evil girl who had brought so much worry and misery in- to my life.
 saw in the next moment, however. that if Dicky had not heard the words Maj. Grantland had uttered, he had seen through the subterfuge of the dropped handkerchief. and knew that tho army officer had said something intended for my ear alone. I saw his chin lift itself. a trick of his when angry. and saw his wrathful eyes fast cned upon my face, which felt. to my horror. was flushing crimson. But knew that he would say nothing con- corning tho incident when others were present. although I would be fairly certain to hear of 1t the first time we were alone.
 A Stately Lady.
 So I gathered courage to slip into place beside my father as Dicky es- corted his mother up the steps to where a portly and pompous old colored butler. whom I instinctively knew as the owner of the voice heard over the telephone, was lowing as tremendously and obsequiously as his palpably rheumatic joints would allow.
 With an adroitnoss born of long custom he separated my mother-in- law and me from my father and Dicky. waved us i.to the care of another uniformed man, who, in his turn, bowed us up a staircase leading out of the center of tho blow away" to an upper hall of the house, where a trim little maid, her dusky face one broad smile. took our wraps and hovered abound Mother Graham and me until she had satisfied herself that every detail Of our costumes was in place.
 I had no time to finger C~er tho room, which gave me a .ficcting inn pression of old mahogany and rose wood that I knew must be practically pricolors: and of chintzes. faded with age, yet of rare texture and pattern. But as I followed my mother-in-law out of the room I resolved to seek the earliest opportunity of following Leila through this house, so redolent of the times that have fled forever. save for the few remnants cIutchcd in such determined yet fastslipping old hands as those of Miss Dora Paige.
 There was anything but imperma- hence, however, about the dear old lady's appearance as, when the old butler had announced us sonorously at the door of a great drawing room, she advanced to meet us, resplendent in a gray and lavender gown, trimmed with lace which would make any woman who knew faces grind her teeth with impotent envy. a few rare old jewels at her cars and throat, and glittering in her white hair.
 "Wclcome 10 HOLY Louge! she saiu with such impressive graciousness that 1 felt almot like court'syinZ to her as ono would to queen. Ind~1, I was sure that despite her short stature. nothing more royal had ever graced a throne, Ono could almost fancy in shadow behind her the lines of ances- tors who had made her that finest product of all time, the old-time southern gentlewoman.