The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-06-23
Revelations
of q Wife
BY ADELE GARRISON.
CHAPTER Lxyll.

CHAPTER LkvH.
Why Madss Made Dicky Change to the
Car Ahead.
This way-Jamaica express. Way
stations to Babylon"
we could still hear the man at the
train gate directing passengers as we
went leisurely down the steps and over
the platform to the waiting train. ]
was glad that we had plenty of time.
4 do SO hate to be hurried when take
a train. or, indeed, at any other time.
How can an express stop at way
stations?"
asked the question idly. / knew ii
was inane, but Dicky was looking for
the girl in the cerise hat. and / did not
wish him to know observed his in
terest. So ! tried to make CONVERSE
ton on any topic.
We change at jamaica" Dicky ex-
planned patiently. his eyes rowing over
the people on the platform. This
train is an express to Jamaica. Then
it goes on to Long Beach. by way of
Lynbrook. At Jamaica we get a red
upholstered horror Of coach in which
we ride to Marvin. 1t ambles on after
that to lot of other stations on the
south side of the island. I've never
been out that way, although I've heard
it's mighty interesting trip. Wen
take it some time this summer"
He guided me into coach with
the clean leather seats, but I gave a
little exclamation of dismay as I saw
the coaches were like those of the ele-
waited roads four cross seats. accom-
modating only is people in the middle
of the car. and the rest of the seats
long benches on the side.
OF course there was a man in each
of the corners of the four seats fac
ing toward the only seats in which
am really comfortable. Men always
do that on the elevated trains. make
a mad rush to pre-empt those COM
Portable seats. and saw that the rule
held good on this suburban coach.
what did you say?" asked Dicky, as
ne motioned me to a seat on one of the
side benches.
Nothing of any Importance" I re-
Joined lightly, sitting down. detest
the kind of woman who is always try
ing to change seats. or to alter arr
made for her in travelling.
would rather suffer any Inconvenience
than to be so fussy,
At any other time Dicky would have
pressed me for an answer to his ques-
ton, would have insisted upon my
telling him what had said, But just
then the girl in the cerise hat, whom
we had seen in the railway station,
came through the door with the same
air of legal Inconsistencies of her
that she had shown while
running the gauntlet of the admiring
and critical eyes in the waiting room.
She carried in her hand small
bag. which while not new had
good care and it was not at
all shabby. She spent no time in
selecting a seat, but with an air of
taking the first one available. sat down
directly opposite Dicky and me. de-
posting her bag close to her feet.
As she sat down calmly crosser her
knees. something which hate to see
q woman do in public place.
Gee, she has the hands and the
feet all right"
Dicky has trick of mumbling be-
meath his breath. so that no one can
detect that he is talking save the per-
son whose ear is nearest to him. 1t
Is convenient sometimes, but at other
times it is most embarrassing, es-
pecially when he is making comments
Upon people near US.
Il don't blame her for elevating one
loot above the other" Dicky ratified
Pm. Not one woman in a thousand
IAN wear those white spats. She must
nave mighty small, well-shaped toot-
sizes under Them
-, II efro icrhf NJ
IF her. The crossing of her knees re-
sealed swirl of silken petticoat, and
more than a glimpse Of .filmy silk
stockings.
Her shoes were patent leather
pumps, utterly unsuitable for trip to
he country. Over them she wore
'pats of the kind affected by so many ,
girls.
/ had a sudden remembrance of
lines in my own life when new pair
If shoes was as impossible to attain as
whole wardrobe. / had sudden in
uition that the unsuitable pumps were
ike the rest Of her clothes, left over
rom some former affluence. She had
,ravely made the best of them by COW
,ring them with spats, which ] knew
The could obtain quite cheaply as some
bargain sale.
A Very TastIess Speech
Looks like ready money, doesn't
Ihe?" mumbled Dicky in my ear.
nodded assent. Dicky's open adj
niration Of this girl was beginning to
ret on my nerves. ,. was our first
lays outing together since our mar
iage, and Dicky's whole attention since
We came into the railroad station had
,een centered upon the girl opposites
True. I shared his opinion that she !
vas the most beautiful and stunning
reature I had ever seen. The air OF
complete inconsistencies of her sur !.
which she had, although she
must have known that almost every |
We in the coach was watching her, |
made her a most interesting study.
But woman-like. while ] enjoyed Z
her myself had a distinct .
ceiling of resentment that Dicl1y should
ind her so absorbing. I had never /