Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-05
MY MARRIAGE
X1
Adele Garrisun'S
New Phase off,
REVELATIONS
ORA WIFE
THE PLAN THAT KATHERiNE'S
WORK MADE POSSIBLE.

The tenseness, the near-agitation
which was in Lillian's manner as she
took Katherine's hastily scrubbed notes
in her hands told us of the Importance
she attached to these fragments of APP
parent nonsense which our little friend
had jotted down from the conversation
of Anton and Joe.
She walked swiftly to the window
with them, drew a chair to the light
and began to examine them closely,
patiently forgetting time, our presence,
everything, in the curious fascination
the notes had for her. Katherine and
l sat silently watching her, feeling a
rising tide of excitement in our W
veins, so plainly did we see the vital
Importance which Lillian attached to
the scrubbed words and figures.
Through the open window the occa-
sional whir of a motor car, the clatter
of a farm team, the voice of school
children punctured the peace of the
sleepy village. As far as outward
seeming went we were leagues away
from ~ugliness, sordidness, crime, and
yet / knew, without understanding what
it was all about, that Lillian held in her
hands the symbols of a mOnstrOus evil
reptilian something which was slimily
crawling underneath the surface of our
national life, waiting its chance to at
tempt the closing of its coils.
l shivered in~voluntarily, glanced at
katherine, and saw that her face was
pallid, as I guessed was my own. And
then Lillian rose, stuffed the scrubbed
papers into her bag, moved swiftly
lightly on the smaller woman's
shoulder,
You've done something for your
country this day, girl" she said, and
though her voice was so low that it
could not have been heard outside the
room, there was that in its timbre
which rang inspiringly in our ears.
I'm wild to get these into the hands
of the only man who can handle them.
Have you anything else to tell us:'
get Busy, Madge"
Nothing, except that Anton told Joe
to watch for a man with a motor car
who would pretend to be his cousin.
and who would come for him when he
was ready to leave the hospital. He
gave Joe this cousins address, com
manded Joe to write when he was per-
mitted to leave, and also asked if he
thought the hospital authorities would
let him leave more quickly if he tool
MS HURST dioug. lUcTt Is PNiueUtly no
lack of money in the people back of
Joe and Anton
NO. there isn't" Lillian comment
ed dryly. What did Joe answer"
Katherine laughed with a trace of
embarrassment.
Joe declared emphaticaIly that he
wanted me to go along when he left
the hospital. that he wouldn't get well
if | didn't, that all other nurses were
several different varieties of monkeys.
and that l was 'vun peach / told
you / had made a conquest"
That's fine in one way" Lillian an
swered gravely, land bad in another.
However, / think we may guarantee
20 keep a watch on Mr.. Joe after you
leave the hospital with him. It's going
TO be a risky business going into the
house where / think l shall have to
send you, but there1l be at least one
other government operative in the
house, and others outside, so / think
we'll be able to reduce that risk to
a minimum"
Il fancy you know I'm rather used
to risks of various kinds" Rather
inc said quietly.
DO I know it?" Lillian returned
emphaticanys But that's no reason
why we shouldn't safeguard you in