The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-12-11
REVELATIONS
OF A WIFE
sY ADELE cARRIsoH.
Was Mrs. Allis' Promise Not to Forget
Madse's Kindness a Yelled Threat?

Was Mrs. Allis' Promise Not to Forget
Madse's Kindness a Yelled Threat?
Fate appeared to favor Katherine
sonnot's plan to conceal the presence
of Mrs. Allis in my room until she
could be removed to private sanitar-
ium for drug addicts. At breakfast
Dicky exhibited only perfunetory sym
pathy when / explained Katherines
absence, as she had told me to do by
sying she had a headache, and | had
put her in my own room for better
quiet. He was evidently absorbed in
| some problem of his own, and an
nouneed before leaving that on account
Of an engagement with an art edi-
tor he wouldn't be home for dinner,
would not come home, in fact. until
late train.
If my brain and heart had not been
SO busted with the problem of dealing
with Mrs. Allis, who, maddened by
drugs had broken into my room the
evening before and had been thwarted
in her attempt to throw acid in my
face only by Katherine's quickness, T
should have bestowed much worried
thought upon this excuse of Diclzy's for
staying in the city so much
It was beginning to be somewhat
stereotyped, this engagement with an
art editor" He had spoken the words
so often that they We're getting on my
nerves. Try as / might to avoid the
thought the image of Edith Fairfax,
the Virginia art student over whose
friendship with Dicky I had worried,
would rise before me every time I
forced myself to smile acquiesence to
Dtcky's excuse. did not say to myself
in so many words that DiclSy was de-
ceiving me, that many times art edi-
tor might be translated Edith Fair
fax" but a gnawing little doubt was
coiled like an ugly worm at my heart.
| had no time for introspection, how
ever. Dicky's plan to stay down town
made it possible for me to accompany
Katherine on her projected motor trip
to the sanitarium with Mrs. Allis, and
to return before he came back in the
evening. saw that Katherine secretly
was glad was to be with her, al
though she had declared herself per-
fectly able and willing to take care
Of the woman without assistance.
The banishing of Katie end Jim from
the house also wa lseasy. / knew that
Jim liked to take Katie to the home Of
his mother, and when ! told them
Dfcky would not be back for dinner
and'that Miss Sonnet and were going
to the city for the day they were only
to odeiighted to accept my suggestion
that they take the rest of the day for
themselves.
No sooner were we left alone than
Katherine went to the telephone.
could not help but admire the dipIom-
acy with which she carried en- the
varied conversations with her rich
friend, and the sanitarium of some of
whose rooms the wealthy woman had
the disposal. II the long distance opera
tor had been listening she must have
gained the impression that the patient
of whom Katherin was speaking AS
in New York, and that Katherine her
self Intended to go back TO the city
before making the trip to the sani-
tarium.
Then couple Of hours later she had
me call up the Crest Haven Taxicab
company. and TO order a car by the
hour, saying that might want to go
TO town which was miles away from
the road by which we were to travel to
the sanitarium.
Its a special dispensation Of PROV
dence, Katie inc said a little later.
that these high hedges surround your
grounds, and that there ars no houses
opposite the carriage drive. II you have
the taxi come to the dining room en-
trance no one but the driver viii ever
know that three women instead Of two
entered l."
I arranged it as she wished, and later
Mrs. Aliis, yelled TO conceal the redness /
Of her eyes. and the general appear
anec Of her drug ravaged face. was as
sisted into the taxi BY Katherine. with
me following, there was nothing un