Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-13
MEY
AVE- PROBLEMS
Adele Garrison'S
New Phase off,.
OF WIFE
WHAT LILLIAN SAID THAT COM
PEELED SMITH TO YIELD

At Smiths shrek of fright, Lillian
drew back the ~stiletto and nodded at
me.
II thought So" shes aid. ITS poi
soned, all right, and he knows exactly
the death he'd die if he got a thrust
with it. Oh. this is 500 easy!"
She turned back to Smith, who
bound, yet struggling-was glaring at
her as a cornered animal might have
done.
you've just one chance to escape
his thing" she said, "and that is to
tell me at once the antidote for the
poison which is on this knife"
Into Smiths eyes flashed a CLEAN of
! cunning.
"Wifi you let me go free if 1 tell
your
Lillian laughed grimly.
Listen to him, Madge," she said.
Isn't he the clever little bargain hun
ter, though? No, my gifted friend"
she turned on him fiercely, Il will not
let you go free. The only gift / will
| promise you is that you will not feel
the kiss of this if you give me'the cor
rect antidote. So spill it quick. Madge,
you'll have to remember it. have no
i pencil here"
Its easy to remember Smith
said. Plenty of milk and eggs, that's
ALL"
'Ohw I started from the seat to
| which Lillian had motioned me. Don't
you think I'd better take some up
right away"
NV voice trailed into silence as /
saw Lillian's grim face and the express
| sion of her eyes as she fixed them on
Smith.
LiIlian's Ultimatum
''You aren't a very clever liar" she
| said contemptuously. And I'm vast
ing precious time listening to you
She took a handkerchief from her
dress. looked at it and laughed as
lightly as if she meant o play a
game with it.
Only worth a quarter" she SAID.
81 can afford to throw it away
She bent down and laid the handker-
chief upon Smiths cheek.
DO you know what they've lone to
young Chester" she demanded.
They've cleansed his wounds with a
red-hot poker and a sharp knife. AND
never fear if you should accidentally
happen to be wounded in the same
wav. we should use every means in our
power to save you, and those would be
two Of the means upon which j should
insist. And | should imagine that the
face would be a more painful propo-
sition than the arm, besides leaving a
bad scar. Now, sir" she suddenly
pressed the stiletto against the hand
kerchief and gave her ultimatum:
"yyill you give me the name of the
antidote, the correct n this time
And may Providence help you If you
give me the wrong dope. Quick now
or I'll"
7 saw the point of the ~stiletto start
and turned away my eyes, for kne"
that Lillian would go through with tne
task she had set herself, If the man dio
not yield. l think Smith realized II
also, for he shrieked:
"If You've Told the Truth"
at will fell YOU the real one!'
~ thought you'd see the light" she
replied grimfy, lifting the s%tiletto, and
the lines around her mouth were
etched more deeply than I had seer
them. What it is?"
He pronounced what to me was ar
unpronounceable name, and Lillian anc
I looked at each other blankly.
spell it," Lillian commanded. X
member it. Madge."
Smith, with one eye upon the dagger
in Lillinn's hand, spelled the wore
painstakingly, and / put it away In M!
memory. ;,
Make him spell it three times IL
succession" ! said, and Lillian noddet
to Smith. "You hear" she said CURLY
and the man obeyed my suggestion:
mentally checked the three speling'
with care, found they agreed. and thei
locked the word away in my memory
sure that whenever l wished 1t agar
/ could take it out.
"You have it, Madge" Lilliai
asked. and as I nodded, she moved
toward the mantel and again laid tn
~stiIetto upon it.
"If you've told the truth about THU
thing" she informed Smith, you're
safe from this" -, .,
"You scratched me already with it,
he muttered.
"Oh, no, l didn't" she retorted, "ol
you'd be throwing seven varieties o
fits" She bent over, looked at BIZ
cheek closely. Nary a scratch" sh'
announced. I'm sorry there isn't
tiny one at that"
"Oh. Madge!' she turned to me
"Will you take out your car right ava,
and get yourself into a warm cloak
You'll have to get this drug if it's t
be had"
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