The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-24
Revelations
of Wife
BY ADELE GARRISON.

My cheeks flushed holly at the re-
membrance of the drops of water
which had fallen from the ceiling upon
one side of the pulling, and of how
Katie and / had concealed the acct
dent by cutting away every spot of
the pudding which the water had
touched and piling the cream sauce
over the cut sides.
Dicky glanced keenly at me. Then
the teasing devil which possesses him
at times made its appearance.
"Ahai" he exclaimed, my lady
bushes. There is some mystery here.
He took spoon and carefully scraped
away the whipped cream, disclosing
the cut sides.
Now, DR.. Watson, let US see what
happened" He put his hand to his
head with an exaggerated gesture,
| while I sat in terror lest he discover
the truth, and his mother gazed I'M
smilingly at him.
81 have it," he exclaimed at last
Katie said the bath room over us
overlooked. Some of the water splash
ed the pudding. Pretty clever, my
dear, but you can't deceive old Sher-
| lock Holmes. I'm glad the water did
not ruin it. for this is one of my IA
vorite Dishes"
He was serving the pudding as he
ratified on, but his mother pushed
back her chair with gesture of aver
sion.
do not serve any to me, Dicky," she
sharply commanded. II could not pos
sibly touch it. 1t makes me i'll even
to think of eating it."
I did not know at which of the two
/ was more furious. 1 only knew that
if things kept on at this rate there
would soon be an explosion in the lives
of Dicky and me.
Nothing at All"
1t was a relief to get back to the
living room after the episode of the
pudding. Dick ate his pudding with
gusto, and I choked down some of
mine but Mrs. Graham sat in stony ST.
lence until we had finished.
Tim Dicky, seemingly oblivious of
the part he had played in upsetting
matters. led his mother back to the liv
ing room.
II she had been made i'll by Dicky's
disclosure that water had dropped
from the ceiling on the pudding, she
showed no evidence of the fact. The
food she had eaten had revived her,
and she moved about the apartment
without leaning on Dicky.
"Your apartment is pleasant, IL it is
small and without elevator service,
she observed.
I did not answer her. The remark
had not ben made directly to me, and
left the response to Dicky.
For the incident Of the pudding had
Ice azHxe a
made the insulting little speech concern
ing it, had resolved that henceforth
I would not speak to Dicky's mother
unless she directly addressed me, or
unless / was compelled to ask her
some questions as TO her wants.
I had tried my best 1 told myself,
to treat my husbands mother with all
kindness and respect She had met
my efforts with ill-concealed dislike
and positive rudeness. OF course, II
knew that she was intensely prejudiced
against me. She had wished Dicky to
marry girl of her own choice. and
she had become so incensed by his
marriage to me that she had refused to
come to the wedding. Seeing her evil
dent domination over D.cky. I won
dered how he had ever gotten the
courage to marry me against HIS
mothers wishes. II he had been in the
same city with her. 1 told myself bit
terly, she could have saved her son
from me.
And now I faced the prospect OF be-
coming a nonenity in my own home
Something hot rose in my heart u
would make fight for my individual
ity, / resolved Something told me
that my best weapon would be silence.
and a seemingly icy indifference 70