Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-21
MY MARRIAGE
Adele Garrison's
New Phase off,.
REVELATIONS
OF WIFE
The Way Katie Took the News of
Allen brakes Demands

! RttCu OTONe O0MdUUS
"Iu not take your wager" l told
Lillian. smiling. for l have no desire
to bet against a certainty. Father
just told me Mr.. Drake was having
some difficulty with the codes"
His trifling variation" Lillian COM
mented with a trace of mocking malice.
I'm only q novice in Allen brakes end
of this game, but I have a fancy that
this time he has u%nderrated the task
set him. 1t wouldn't do him any harm
to bump his nose a bit, especially as
hes sure to come out on top finally
he always does"
There was in her voice, despite her
Feline little wish a fistinct tribute to
Allen brakes unusual powers and I
knew that the ~magnanimous soul of her
was perfectly sincere in her belittling
of her own knowledge of codes and
her exalting Of Mr.. brakes ability.
Lillian can be a trifle malicious oc-
petty.
DO you mean that he will finally
solve it," ! asked.
Hell get enough of it so that we'll
know where things stand, and he won't
take final leave of the thing until every
tiniest part is clear to him. Even if
it takes months and consultation with
foreign experts, and the ~dove-tailing
of their various records. he'll finally
get all of it. He's like a bulldog, only
more tenacious. But it will be a solar
plexus blow to his vanity not to get it
all easily-especially after that spiel
he made to me.
A Laughing Promise
There's one thing certain. We won't
know he's fallen down unless your
father spills the beans. There's just one
person in the world to- whom Allen
Drake yields Difference and obedience,
and that is your father. and it is the
Chief, alone. who will know what he
accomplishes-Or doesn't"
A thrill ran through my pulses. To
Lillian Underwood and Allen Drake my
the triumph which was almost in his
craps. were matters of professional
joy. of loyal but a bit impersonal pride
in a brilliant chief. To me there was
a tensely poignant happiness in know
ing that the father whom / adored was
coming into his own again. Allen
brakes success or failure was a mat
ter of Indifference to me when com
pared with the wonderful news which
father so u~nobtrusively had given
us. Yet | felt a sudden inexplicable
Discrimination to discuss Mr.. brakes
prospects with Lillian.
Well | rose. throwing ont my
hands with a little gesture of mock
despair. This isn't breaking the dread
news to Katie. If you hear wild
shrieks-"
III stand BY in ambush with hand
1rnro1aSr 7 i11,on nrnp,;eoI fIi,n,r+l-
and I left the room with the feeling
that ! was indeed going into battle.
"Dis Too Mooch!"
The feeling was intensified a little
later when after Katie had listened
silently and unsmilingly to my list Of
the things which Mr.. Drake would re-
auire during his self imposed seclusion
in his room, she put her arms akimbo
and faced me belligerently.
You mean she said. and with I'M
easiness I heard the termolo which al
ways precedes hysterical anger in her
,oice-'you mean. I got TO feex all
sorts of nice tings all hours of day and
night for dot boonch of soup green's
vot all times stand und look at me like
| vun peeg or foony animal from circus
vot he nefer see before und want TO find
out vot I do? IND me nit all kinds Of
extra work on hand. und shoost look
at beeg family in dis house. work
enough for two. tree girls. und | nefer
keeck. ind always try do shoost efery-
ting you ask me. und take sooch care
of dot babee. und stand all day dot
old romans no matter vot she say
Oh. Oh, Dis too mooch' | no can
do dot. Dot beeg sheep head he can
cook heemself. eef he wants sumting.
Me. I do noting for heem,.'
The flow nf words. so fast. so vehe-
ment that I felt as if n cloud had burst
above my head, suddenly changed to
the hysterical sobbing which | some
times suspect Katie has on tap. ready
to turn on at will. | had watched her
closely. and had listened attentively
planning my course the while. Now |
stood perfectly silent and ~motionless
while she wept and SMILED. waiting
until her Unsuitable curiosity got the
Of her. When ] saw her eyes
furtively ~peering at me from behind the
hands which she had flung before her
face. | said. with careful indifference:
Every well. Katie. ] am sorry you
feel that you cannot do this for me.
But it is something which must be
done. nevertheless. my father has
asked for it. So if o will please
leave the cooking things where | can