The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-10-03
REVELATIONS
OF A WIFE
~ ADELE oARRIsoN.
The Startling News That Her Fathers
Letter Bore to Madce.

Letter Fore to Madce.
Don't look like that" Lillian com
manded sharply when the door of the
living room closed behind me, shutting
off the rest of the dinner guests.
Your fathers all right, YETI
Her quick Intuition had OWNED the
fact that realized the special delivery.
registered letter she had received dur
Ing her dinner to Robert Savarin was
from my father in South America. 1t
was like her, also, to calm my fears
as quickly as possible, and at the same
time TO tell the truth. sit down, she
said. "and read the letter. There isn't
any use now for you to remain in ig-
norance of your fathers address. Youth
have to be strictly on the job from now
ON.
but remember" she lifted an ad-
monishing finger. you mustn't let
your face betray you when you go back
into the room. There's something out
of the ordinary about this affair of
your fathers; something / don't I'M
derstand at all, and the fewer people
know about it the better.
"Of course, you'll have to show the
letter to Dicky, but let me talk to him
first I think I can frighten him into
keeping his usually garrulous tongue
between his teeth. I wouldn't have
shown you the letter until after the
other guests had gone home. but saw
that you were in an agony Of uneasi-
ness about it.
IT couldn't have waited" answered
simply, and the words came through
lips that were stiff Then took the
letter and read 1t through.
The heading was that Of an unpro-
nounceable Spanish town in coun-
try which I knew from my newspaper
and magazine reading was giving out
own government no little trouble on
account of It's covert enmity. And the
handwriting. unlike the usual beauti-
full firm chirography of my father. was
irregular, as II the hand that penned
1T had trembeld as it wrote.
my darling daughter" the letter be-
gan.
Il have hesitated a long time before
writing this letter, for I did not wish
to alarm you But things have come
to such a pass with me lately that
see I shall have to take precautions or
else I shall become one of the great
army whose fate is marked unknown
ssYou must be brave my dear one,
when I tell you that believe I am i
such grave danger it is most uncertain
whether I shall ever see you again or
not. have worked for many years
down here, and have had many es-
capes. but never before have felt
the sinister menace that seemE to
surround me. It is q new influence.
too. one that believe to be directed
against myself personally, instead Of
against my work. I feel its invisible
meshes slowly closing around me. and
IN the averted faces and altered de-
meanor of the native officials who have
been associated with me SO long ]
read q dfstri1st that can only have its
roots in some underground. personally
conducted campaign against me. In
palmer words, believe these native
associates Of mine are being made to
believe that I am a traitor to them
and If they finally make up their minds
to that fact, my passing viii be inevi
table. I shall simply disappear, and
you win never know what has becoms
OF me.
with this possibility staring me II
the faCey LueEe are Things That mus
have done quickly. One of these i
the disposition OF what small fortune
I possess, and have already sent 70
nv lawyers an absolute deed of gift to
you OF everything / own. Then yos
won't have to wait for absolute proc |
OF my death to use your money.
The other task I have in hand j.
more difficult have never told yor
in exactly what work / am engaged
because It is work that had to b
shrowded in secrecy. am not boass
ing when say that things hang upo