New Britain herald., 1922-04-15
The Warning Mother Graham
 Gave Madge

waved my hand eayly to Dick!
 as l drove away from the station, hn there was no heart in the gesture ol the smile that accompanied it l droy'
 home feeling that all the little imp! of gloom resident in that end o Long Island had come 10 make then abode with me as well as some of then relatives from other -~ints of the compass.
 For l could not kcep from my eNet the vision of Edith Fairfax, returned from a long absence, rested, restored to the exquisite dainty prettineSs which IS hers and which just escape being absolute beauty Beside the old appeal Of friendly comradeship which she always has for my husband, shr would have the charm of comparative novelty to him. and l tortured myself with the idea Of the joyous welcome which volatile, beauty loving pioky. slightly bored with domesticity, would give her.
 Lillian's Suggestion.
 So absorbed was l that I did not realize until car had whirled past
  that the waving Handkerchief in the hand Of the woman beside the driver must have been good by signal from Katherine. and that under Dr. Pettits escort she was already on her way to the hospital 10 begin her delicate and important work of espionage over the man who had so persecuted and terri fled Katie.
 The little encounter was salutary for me. Ii jolted me out of the absurd Jealousy which was obsessing me, and turned my thoughts to the terrific problem which Lillian was facing es- pecially to that particular fragment of the tangled skein, the threads to which lay in katie's fingers. l won dered if there were not some way of getting around katie's old-world fear of the awful swear" which the man who had so strangely dominated her. had compelled her to take. l re- solved to talk to my little maid con corning her oath as soon as 1 found an opportunity.
 I made another resolution. also, as I found myself nearing the old tarm-
 
 put all sentimental worry concerning my husband out of my mind. He was not worrying about me-not percepti- bly,, anyway--I said to myself with 3 little feeling of pique which I tried conscientiously to smother, but which think persisted in my sub-conscious- ness long after I had banished if from my conscious thoughts, and I meant to take a. leaf from his book.
 Lillian met me at the door, her eyes worried but mirthfu, neverthe- less.
 Better go to your mother-in law in the dining room," she said She's on the rampage, and I don't know how long Katie is going to stand the strain without snapping in two"
 I hurried to the dining-room to find Mother Graham extending a piece of bacon upon the end of a fork, and glaring from it to Katie condemningly.
 'katie's Out Sorts"
 DO you call this bacon properly cooked % she was demanding. Its positively raw"
 T can't tell vot you want returned | hdll6 4SulleHly' Du ady you llO llht l 1t all crispy, like oders. und now ven | l feex eet dees vay you no like eet."
 If you had any brains in that head l of yours. you'd know that there's q | between burned bacon and | greasy raw stuff like this Take if ! away, I don't want any Of it-and see if you can make me a piece of decent toast
 My mother-in-law was seated SO that she could not see the door in which I was standing, l looked ans- iously at katie's sulen face, for I knew upon what hair trigger her temper always was hung. But to my surprise she answered no impertinent word, but meekly picked up the of- lending plate of bacon and vanished with it into the kitchen. I advanced into the room to find my mother-in- law looking wonderingly al the l5itch- en door.
 Something the matter with that girl" she said. Usually she has string of excuses as long as the moral law. I hope she isn't sick nirS for something. You don't supp9ao she brought back anything contagious from that hole she was in, do you9" She stared at me in sudden fright, cyi-