Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-09-26
TOLDINCA
HUSBAND
Adele 0oG1ison,3
New Phase off,.
REVELATIONS
OLA WIFE
Tho Message Madge's Father Received
From Hugh GrantIand.

From Hugh Grantland.
Tim Chester vaulted the old rail
fence beside which / had drawn my
car and disappeared in the tangle OF
bushes that lay behind it.
Obeying his Injunction, bent over
my Wheel waited patiently, and was
soon rewarded by seeing drive past
me the bent figure Of the woman across
the road whom had taken to the hos
pital, after beating at her husbands
hands.
looked at her from beneath my low
cred eyelids, q trick Of mine, cultivat-
ed in my teaching days, and caught a
furtive glance from her which held in
it fear, knowledge and something as
akin to remorse and pity as the poor
clod was capable Of feeling.
That any appeal to her would be
useless, even though / had aided her
in her extremity, even though she
wished to help me, I well knew. She
had but one crede-implicft obedience
to the brute who owned her. And she
had no conception that she was living
in land where the law would protect
her from him. Theirs was a medieval
household set down in America, and
the wife would have done murder at
her husbands bidding.
It was but two or three minutes,
which seemed an age, before Tom Ches-
ter reappeared.
"She went this way?" he said.
YES
Follow her slowly, as far behind as
you can keep and see which road she
turns down. Then I'll trail her on
foot / can keep up with that horse,
and will you go back and tell the men
Jerry TIGER will have there which
road to take?"
What DIcky Knew.
I nodded my head, for l could not
speak because Of the awful certainty /
felt that the woman who had passed
me knew something of my baby's fate.
Driving my car cautiously along. oc
casional]y catching glimpse Of the old
wagon, we at last saw it turn into a
road which I knew ran for miles
through the woods without a cross
road, and upon which stood the house
of a countryman Of the woman in the
wagon.
/ told Mr.. Chester so in choked.
tense fashion. With a request that |
stop the car, he jumped from it before
it was fairly stopped, and stood look
ing up at me for q second with his
boyish face and honest eyes filled with
troubled pity.
IT believe you will hear from Maj
Grantland very soon" he blurted out
II think he's on the right track
l nodded again hopelessly, for what
avail to me was the right track or the
truth if my baby had been killed by
the brutal man who had him IN
his power. / turned my car around
and drove back to the farm with no
consciousness of driying-my one
thought the longing to creep into the
shelter Of my fathers arms.
Curiously enough I never thought of
going to Dicky. There was no feel
ing of wrath against him--indeed. no
feeling of any kind I had longed so
intensely for his support on the day
my baby disappeared, that when he
finally appeared after long hours
spent with Edith Fairfax had
learned that they had been taking a
long motor trip that day by them
selves-it was as if a door had shut
between him and me.
AS I entered the living room, |
saw Robert Savarin, my father and
Dicky in close consultation. They
started as they saw me. and l sensed
that had been the subject of their
conversation. But | went straight into
my fathers arms, shaking with the
grief and terror / had suppressed, and
told him with choking sobs of the little