New Britain herald., 1921-09-27
HOLDING A HUSBAND Adele Garrison's New Phase of
 ReueLafions Of q Wife
Why Grace Draper Calmly Fncetl Hugh Grantland and Nearly "Took" Edith Fairfax
 with Her.

For long moment I knew noth- inR save that my baby boy was alive and safe in my arms, heard nothing but his crooning little voice saying. Mama. mama" over and over again, as if he never would tire of the word.
 Then, us tho acid smoke cleared n bit with the opening of the win dows and doors by one of Hugh Grantlaud's men. l saw tho old col orcd woman kneeling by the pros tratc figure of the man I knew as Tlm--saw also with mortified eyes 1hat another of Hugh Grantland's mon had torn tho coat and shirt from tho officers shoulder, and was stanching the blood thax welled from an ugly wound in his shoulder
 "He drilled you. major" the man said respectfully. "but don't think"
 "Tie 1t up quickly" Hugh Grant land snapped. and let me get my coat on."
 saw his face change as he looked at tho man on the floor.
 "Send for a doctor" he ordered.
 You-dont-need-no no -- doctor" Tim Easped. "I won't be here by the timo he gifts here. Don't take on 90, Aunt sukey. It's the best thing that kin happen to me. But didn't hurt tho kid-though that she-deNil wanted me to-"
 His voice failed. and his eyes closed.
 Give him some brandy" Hugh Grantland interposed. and one of his men poured q drink from n flask and gave it to the dying man, who drank it dociIeIy lay quietly for a minute, then reused himself and opened his eyes.
 Have you got that she-devil?" he demanded.
 No. but we're going to. if you help us by telling. -all you know" Hugh Grantland answered quietly
 Curse her" Tim replied fervently "Iu spill all know if t'll put her where she belongs. I had to do what sho said. She knew something"
 Hugh Grantland motioned to one of hla men, who crcpt behind Tim with n notebook and pencil.
 ''She always made mo stay some where near her" he said. "She told me she wanted this young one taken and put out of the way for good and" he gasped for breath.
 "she had lt all planned out" he went on. "Thc last few days rtyaed at tho house Of that man
  slip out and we'd go over 10 tfe studio. She had the keys. and l fixed some boards in the closet floor at the side where could come up and down from underneath. and hinged a board in the floor of that wlndow-seat of drawings with hook and eye underneath the floor The day tho baby got in there I was hid under the floor all day--waitin' That devil had drilled the kid so ha'd got in there and hide under tho drawings. And he had a picture he called his Danzie'a drawing at the bottom of the pile"
 gave n strangled exclamation. for saw the diabolcaI way in which Grace Draper had played upon little chaps love for his grandmother to send him to what she meant to be his death.
 Hugh GranIand put his uninjured arm back, and felt his fingers clasp mine firmly with a strength that sustained me.
 '"The baby came running back to tho studio" Tim went on with pauses between the words. "I could hear his little feet. and he climbed Into the box and rooted to the bot tom of it. as she had taught him to . do. slipped tho hook of the board beneath. caught him ns he fell out. and gave him Q whiff of a chloro- form sponge"
 "It Didn't Take Much"
 Only the fact that the man was dying kept my fingers from his throat.
 "It didn't tako much to put him out" he then went on. Then .throwed a toy the baby had out on E.sI told me. When she gave me signal that it was all right took tho kid and carried him-she guid- ing me. But the baby woke up and called it's mother twice before could get my hand over its mouth. nearly lost my nerve then. for heard you, ma'am. come shrieking out. but that rhc-devil pushed mo on and stopped you"
 So. my cars had not deceived me that night My arms went closer round my boy.
 "T got the kid to the house of the man across tho road. and had hard work to keep him from finish ing the boy. He drove me off into the hills where wo mot big auto mobile, and-sincc then I've been passed from ono automobile to an- other Gill got down here. That woman Ia head of--of-a-gang-"
 His voice trailed away. and even less experienced eyes than mine could have told that he was very near his end. And go we loft him in charge of tho old colored woman and the county poliee-to rush to the railroad For both Hugh Grant land and knew that if Mother was to live we must put her idolized grandson Tn her arms without delay.
 Dimly realised my husbands agony also. but the door that had shut between him and me upon that terrible day of Juniors disap-