Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-09
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Adele Garrison's
New Phase off,.
REVELATIONS
OF A WIFE
HOW MADGE CAREFULLY PLAY
Ed HER PART FOR DICKY

ED HER PART FUH DtCNf
There was in Dicky's eyes as he
came up to me under the station light
q distinctly wary look.
1t was a look which, / imagine, every
wire receives at some time or other
from her life partner, when he knows
he has almost exhausted her patience.
But even through the ~tenseness OF the
moment it reminded me irresistibiy OF
the expression I had seen in the eyes
of mischevious schoolboys who, npon
facing the teacher, were not quite sure
Just what fate was to be meted out TO
them.
knew that he was absolutely uncer-
tain as to my mood. His Imagination,
always lively, must have pictured me
reading the morning papers with their
bizarre accounts of his escapade. 1t
was humiliating reading for any wife,
and he must have told himself that my
grievance would be augmented by the
fact that / had had no suspicion of
Claire Fosters proximity of his social
horizon.
He had left home to go to the Adj
irondack camp OF a "best-selllng au-
thor whose work he was to illustrate,
and since then-save for q hurried,
perfunctory note-I had received no
word of him. His beseeching telegram
had brought me to him, but / was sure
that he had counted upon my sense of
~conjugal duty, inherited from my Pur-
itan ancestors, rather than upon my
affection, when he dispatched it.
CHOW Is Ciaire?"
All in all, I told myself a bit grilnly,
my Peter Pan was facing realities and
finding them rather distasteful. II it
had not been for the reporters, who, !
knew, were furtivefy watching me, | am
afraid | should have given him a greet
ing which for chilly hauteur would
have confirmed his worst imaginlngs
of nv attitude. But with the knowl-
edge of that ~furtive, dangerous sur
VIGILANCE behind me, I smiled at him
and lifted my face to be kissed in the
most approved wifely welcoming fash
ion. after saying with what + fancled
was just the right touch of solicitude:
"Lo. Dicky. Are you sure you re
not a bit hurt? And how ia Claire?,
That there was not a more surprised
nor a more grateful man in the sur
rounding county / judged from the
warmth of the kiss and embrace he
gave me. But partly from necessity.
partly from g little malicious desire to
wound him. which only an offended
wife could understand. / punctured his
pleasant reaction with the murmured
words against his coat collar:
Careful. Reporters just behind us.
Play up"
What Madge Demanded
l felt his arms %stiffen, then relax.
and knew that he had comprehended
the stiletto thrust l had hidden behind
the warning. I practically had told
him that my kiss and CHEEKY greeting
were but ~camouflage, and that the
~an1ycnYau fy-nn EG had mot hnaN
cancelled. 1t was only deferred. But
he quickly seized my cue, and answered
me in tones sufficiently loud to be
heard by any surreptitious listeners:
Haven't a scratch, thank you.
Caire's left arm and shoulder are a
bit bruised, she says, and I think she's
suffering a little from nervous shock,
although she won't admit 1t. But now
you're here she'll be all right. | sent
word to her you'd be around to see her
in the morning."
I'm the morning" I echoed. 'Nhy
not tonight? Poor girl, it must be aw-
full for her here away from everybody!
I want to get her home with Us as
soon ms we can. Is she able to go, do
you think?
"Im sure she will be able to travel
by tomorrow" he returned, land as
for seeing her tonight you can, all
fl2nI. 1t ISM I SO terribly late. ana 4
can get a motor to go over to the re
sort. I thought you'd be too tired to
attempt it."
"What nonsense I gibed. Il am
not SO easily fatigued. But I warn
you I'm terribly hungry. VIII they
have anything to eat out there?"
"You'd better come right over with
me to my hotel here" he said with a
solicitude which at any other time
would have delighted me. but which
gave me no slightest thrill of appre-
citation. you mustn't wait for that
twenty-mile drive"
"But, indeed, | SHALL" I returned,
aeterminedly. Twenty miles-that's
an hour at the longest. Telephone
ahead, there's O dear, and ask them
to have something hot ready when we
get there. They'll do it, won't they?'
"Oh, they'll do it." he acknowledged
reluctantly. But are you sure
"Dick Graham" / faced him with
wifely m%ilitance, you're the most pro-
veking man / know! I don't want to
eat here. ] want to get out there first.
Please stop fussing and get a car"
And es he turned away from the lit
tie waiting-room where he had found
me a seat while he talked, I felt that /
had played the role of an unsuspicious,
unoffended wife satisfactorily.
Next-What Made Overheard Whom
the Reporters Talked.
A prominent lecturer asks: "HoE
much shall we tell our daughters? 2