The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-05
REVELATIONS
OF A WIFE
eY ADELE oARRIson.
what Lillian Told Madge About Her
Presence at the Hospital.

I
Presence at the Hospital.
Lillian's voice stopped abruptly. She
seemed to be living over again the ex.
citing scene which she had just de-
scribed to me.
| was sure she had told me all she
knew concerning the young officer
For the story of what had happened
at the inn l must wait until my wound
ed rescuer in another room of the hos
pital was recovered sufficiently tc
| talk.
! But there was another side Of the
story upon which Lillian had not
touched, one about which I was con-
sumed with curiosity. resolved, pet
tishly, that I would wait no longer
upon Lillian's modesty.
Don't fancy I'm going to let you
stop talking" I said childish1y. 81
want to know how you happened to
be out here so opportunely."
Lillian frowned. 1t is trick of hers
know well, one she always employs
| when she is asked to relate anything
about her own doings. It is only when
Lillian completely forgets herself in a
narration, as she had done in describ-
ing the wounded officers dramatic ar
rival at the hospital, that she inadver-
tently allows one to catch a glimpse of
the initiative and the resourcefulness
which is always hers in any emery
ency.
There's nothing much to tell" she
said.
Madge Is Surprised.
I caught her hand and drew her
down to me.
Surely you aren't going toemake me
i'll again with baffled curiosity?"
pleaded whimsically.
She kissed me, her face clearing.
There's no resisting you, you per-
sistent child she said, relenting. But
there truly isn't much to tell. You re-
member told you that we were keep
ing strict watch over that German
who tried to enter my library, whose
hand you SCARED with the carbolic
acid"
Butt stammered-"I thought he
had been captured and shut up upon
that night he followed Allen Drake and
me to Jamaica. I saw the officer Sc
cure him.
Captured, yes, but shut up only for
a few hours" Lillian returned. He is
too useful to our plans to remain shut
up. When he gets too obstreperous we
thwart him and put him out of the way
until that particular plan of his has
been spoiled. Then we let him go
again, but always guarded, although he
doesn't know it. And among his most
pals are trusted fellows
of ours own, one of them, about the
cleverest chap we have. The man with
the SCARED hand doesn't send or re-
ceive a message or perform the simp- |
lest act without this man knowing it," |
The Search Begun.
"Ah!" The exclamation broke from
me- recalled again Ernest's declara-
ton that he had sent word of my pres
ence at the inn to a man who was lex
ceedingly anxious to see me-" who
had a score to settle with me-
Did you see him at all?" Lillian de-
handed anxiously. WAS he the man
for that shot? I haven't !
heard any report as yet from our man
who was shadowing him, so I don't !
know whether he has managed to
elude US or not"
'I don't think he was at the inn at
LII, at least I didn't see him." Treplied.
And the shot which put me out of
Dicky would say
vas fired by the man who was killed"
about whom you are going to tell |
ne when I have satisfied your insatia-
lie curiosity" Lillian retorted, smiling.
"Our system works very smoothly"
she went on, 80 that it couldn't have
oeen but a few minutes after the man
With the SCARED hand received a mes
sage from the inn that had a copy OF
t, as I receive copies of all his letters,
wires and phones.
"'Have Gagged the pigeon you lost
t ran. She just flew in
1.-THE thing came by messenger, evil
lently having been telephoned to some
me else first for safety. There was
10 clue to the place from which 1t had
been sent, but the man Immediately
vent to the Long Island station.
"Of course, as soon as I received the
,opy of the message dashed down TO
he station myself, but he had already
rome. So there was nothing else to do i
nut to go to your house and to find
tut where you had gone. I was GER
ain the message meant you, and you
an imagine how desperate l was when
found out that you had started away 4
n a walking tour.
TT seemed a hopeless proposition to
race you, but something seemed to
ell me to try the hospitals first-I
oppose because there was nothing
lse to try. Your mother in-law-who
, a, brick, bless her!-had Katie pack
o some things of yours in a fifty, and
got that Marvin taxi man, Doran, by
ne sheerest luck. That chap can make
taxi stand on its hind legs and do
vervthing but speak. We went on