New Britain herald., 1921-10-26
MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS
 NewP Phaseof REVELATIONS OF A WIFE

her tone whether she approved or disapproved my caution. "But it doesn't natter she added. T have my badge with me. and as long as you're still on the rolls in good stand
 ing, I can lend it you. I want you to wear 1t when you go on that fool fishing trip tonight"
 I suppose my face looked the startled-fawn expresfsiont" she said. "I don't know, myself, whether I'm getting feeble minded, or unusually sagacious. But I've got one of my lunches, or at least fraction of one, that you'd be better off If you had that badge with you in case of an emergency. And yet I haven't anything to go on--except-" She paused, as if Sweighsa,y and sitting the ingredients of her hunch while I mentally sat up and took no- tice. Many years of close association with Lillian Underwood have taught me to regard her lunches with awed respect, to consider them al- most clairvoyant.
 +I won't be betraying any con- fidence," she said. If tell you that the powers that be are getting all het up-and between you and me their temperature ought to have risen long ago-over certain slimy under currents in the seas which the ship of state is sailing, undercurrents which have been unknown and un- charted all too long. They are be- ginning to chart them, and I should imagne-though I don't happen to, know-that they wouldn't encourage night visits to a big drinking-wat ] supply like the dam Of course, the natives like Tom Cosgrove, could fish there at night hundred years with out any damage. and the patrols know it, and no doubt close their eyes ninety-nine times out of a hun dred. But every so often there's spasm of virtuous investigation in all systems, and when it starts every ones caught in the same net. I'm positive that fishing at night is for bdden there-did you see and hear Tom when he was asked that ques- l tion?"
 Lillian's Request I nodded with vivid rem eni brance of the big mans humorous embar- rassed evasion of the query
 "So on the whole I think it's as we'll you should have my badge" she concluded. "You may have to go some to explain the fishing cnd of it, but claim Tom as your uncle or something like that and say yc> wanted to see the dam by night-in other words, take all the blame your self. But" she shrugged her shoul- ders with deprecatory motion probably I'm just the 5eth variety of idiot, and you'll have the most peaceful kind of evening. Let's talk of something else. flows everything | at homer"
 It was an idle question. but it set he to thinking of something I had put out of my mind. something which I had not told Lillian because we so far had kept everything dis | agreeable from her knowledge. But | a sudden impulse made me tell her of katie's queer behavior and of
 Mother Graham's demand that come
 home and straighten her out. T would have gone for a day or
 two, at least" finished, but Dicky would not hear of it. He" I
 stopped, flushing with sudden re-
 membrance of the reason. why Dicky
 objected to my going.
 T don't blame him." Lillian said
 ignoring the flush. "If I were in his
 place l wouldn't be left unguarded
 eo the tender mercies of that would
 be man-eater that's proving through Ethis compound"
 She glanced at my face, laughed softly.
 Don't look so conscience-str
 Hhild, she said. You haven't giver
 anything away. A child could sec
 the dead set -Bess Dean is making tor the Dicky-bird, and the way he i.
 1uttering away from her. But thi'
 Naue matter is something else again or course you can't leave here til l oess Dean goes, but as soon as sh, ; toes Ia vamoose down there for day or two And if you don't mind ' I'd like to go with you"