The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-12-10
REVELATIONS
OF A WIFE
nv AREs @AHHa.1.
What Katherine Did TO Get Rid or Mrs.
AIlis.
81 ADELE oARRIsoFi.

Mrs. Allis' voice was defiant. but her
eyes, I saw, held traces of suIlen fear
as Katherine Sonnet and I came back
into the room where she lay. stepped
/ qutcSly TO the other side of the room,
mindful Of my promise to Katherine
/ not to interfere with her MANAGEMENT
| of the drug maddened woman, who had
tried to throw acid into my face and
then, after being overpowered by Kath-
crime, had threatened TO send my father
to his death by revealing knowledge
she pretended to have.
Mrs. Graham has left me to deal
with you, Katherine told her firmly.
That's one blessing at any rate"
Mrs. Allis INTERCEPTED. 1.-THE very sight
Of her makes me ILL.,"
The venom in her voice told me how
little I could hope from the woman's
forbearance il she really did possess
knowledge dangerous to my fathers
safety, and made me glad that RATHER
inc, not !, was dealing with her.
"And I've nothing to add to what
I told you before" Katherine went. on.
Mrs. Allis looked at her fixedly. Even
from my position across the room I
could see the defiance fade from Mrs.
Allis' eyes, and terror creep into them.
"Ohh-h!" she moaned. "CIot to
Bellevue! Someone will be sure to
recognize me there. They'll get me sure
there!"
Into Katherine's eyes there Ieaped
a light of understanding. Across her
face swept look Of relief as If she
suddenly saw her way out of the diff
Guilty. She bent over the moaning wo-
man on the bed and took her hand
with the tender sympathy which is so
characteristic of her work as a nurse.
MY poor woman" she said, Il don't
wish to be unduly severe with you, but
must see that you are put under re-
straint until you get the effects Of
those drugs out of your system. But
fortunately I have an alternative to
Bellevue I can offer you, If on your
part you win agree to keep silent as
to the things you know and imagine
you know"
Name st." Mrs. AIlis said laconi-
cally.
"A rich woman whom once nursed,"
returned Katherine, and who. has al
ways chosen to believe that sased
her life. has the disposal Of several
rooms in one of the best private san
itariums for drink and drug addicts in
the country. 1t isn't many miles from
here. I can arrange for your entrance
we can motor there in three or four
hours"
your treatment will cost you moth
ing, but I warn you that you viii be
practically prisoner until give the
word for you to be released. You must
also tell those in charge Of the sanitar-
ium that YOU are entering the place
willingly. You'd better think IT over
for a few minutes, but remember that
these are the only terms I'll make with
you. Either that, or arrest and deten-
ton in Bellevue or JAIL"
She stepped away from the bed, but
Mrs. Allis answered her at once.
81 know when I'm up against it as
quick as anybody" she said. "You hold
all the cards, and I'll lay down nay
hand-for the present" she added, sig
nificantly. Bring on your private SAN
itariun. I'd have tried one two years
ago If I'd had the coin. This seems a
pretty B0ou CpdHIc 10 Etl AOL ttpAu4llE
what I've planned many a time to pay
good money for"
Let me advise you to keep your
part Of the bargain, and to forget
what you think you know" Katherine
said, although it really doesn't matter
much what you say. They're used to
all sorts Of impossible rawlings up
there"
'Tl remember" Mrs. Allis returned,
and then she closed her eyes as IL to
dismiss the subject.
Katherine beckoned me out of the
room, and we crossed the hall into the
one where she had slept or had tried TO
sleep earlier in the night.
'Now comes the problem Of getting
her out Of the house in the quietest
way possible" she said practically.
Tell me. how much do you want your
husband to know Of this AFFAIR.""
Il wish he didn't need TO know any
thing" I said miserabIy. you see, he
hasn't SUSPICION that there may be
something questionable about my
fathers business. or even that my
father is in any danger. DiclSy has the
best Intentions in the world, but he IS
naturally impulsiye and garrulous, I
fear if he knew OF Mrs. Allis' attempt
on me he would insist on taking things