Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-04
MY MARRIAGE
V1
Adele Garrison'S
New Phase off,
REVELATIONS
ORA WIFE
THE STRANGE CODE RATHER
me STROvE TO INTERRUPT

iNE STROvE To IN iEHhUPT
There was a little ~pardonable Iri
umph in Katherine's eyes as she re
piled to Lillian's discovery that sh'
had known the language of the man il
the hospital.
Yes, l could understand them, al
fright" she said. II thought perhaps
would be able tt when you told M
about them. but / didn't dare tell 70,
for fear of holding out false hopes
There are so many dialects in all thos,
tongues, you know. But-Tve Away
had a sort of knack at languages, ant
in the hospitals owe there l was abb,
to pick up a sort of working knowl
edge of a number of them. So it wal
easy for me to understand these chaps
except when their tones were very
low. You see, I was careful to keeI
a little distance from them with my
back turned part of the time, and pre-,
tend to be busy with several things.
thought you would want me to play
safe on that score, especially if I an
to 60 on with Joe out of the hospital
She paused and looked inquiringIy
at Lillian, who nodded an emphatic as.
sent.
"Of course" she said. That's the
vital thing. to be sure he has no sus.
picion of you. If / can once get you
inside of the home to which I'm very
sure he's to be taken I'll ask nothing
else of fate for at least three-quarters
of an hour. But go on"
"They went through a lot of pre-
liminary stuff, Anton asking all abou,
Joe's accident, and Joe describing il
in detail. They were clever enough te
do most of this in broken English, anG
were even foxy enough to explain
to me that they had to talk in their
own language sometimes, because An
ton couldn't understand very we'll"
That's because Smith wanted to
over-emphasize the fact that he is
alien," Lillian commented.
Il imagined So" Katherine returned
And then they got down to business,
in their W tongue, of course. 1t was
queer to see how their relations chang
ed the minute they stopped speaking
what they called English. Before, they
~ostensibly had been equals, but in their
W tongue it was plainly to be seen
that Anton was in command, Joe, the
very humble subordinate"
"Oid You Get IT."
"And a very arrogant commander,
Anton, or l miss my guess" Lillian in
te%rrupted.
Exactly. In fact, if I hadn't known
what a rascal Joe was l should have
felt sorry for him. Anton gave him a
most thorough raking over for daring
to get hurt. He reminded him that
time was everything, and that this &C.
cident had delayed them a LOT. Then
he asked this questionable you get
it"
Lillian sat tenseiy forward in her
chair, and l knew that this question,
obscure to me. meant much to her.
katherine's lips quirged into a little
smile as she went on.
I've heard some pretty stiff swear
ing in my time" she said, with men
coming out of delirium and all, but l
never heard Anton's effort equaled at
JOe's sullen reply to the effect that the
girl-evidently katie-had the object,
whatever it was. that Anton wished,
and had promised to bring it to him on
the evening be was hurt. Joe added.
with some extra vicious epithets
against Katie, that he knew she still
had the object-they both called the
thing it-because she would be afraid
to give it to anyone but himself.
Katherine Takes Notes
When Anton finished his cursing.
and he uttered it in the lowest, most
silken tones possible-no one who
didn't understand the language would
he vas angry-he demanded
katie's name and address, saying he
would not fail as Joe had. And. hon
girls. he made my blood run cold
at the smiling way he repeated Ora
ham when Joe told him where Katie
worked. He certainly has it in for
your family"
The lines around Lillian's mouth
deeper. but she made no COM
ment except TO say with a faint trace
of impotence:
I'VE must start home as soon as
finished, Katherine"
THE rest of the interview was the
most unintelligible stuff Imaginable"
said slowly. Tn sure il
code mostly. and how / wished |
had Madge there behind a screen. She
could have remembered it, but all /
could do was to interrupt them when
they began it. take Joe's temperature
and respiration and pulse. and then
hart and writing a letter. | was able
get some of it. although l could not
follow it all. being in a different
And it is certainly odd. A lot
# it seems based on the multiplication
able. said wrongly--for instance. at
me place Anton said. three times eight
re twenty-seven.' and Joe came back
With six times sixteen are nine"
Lillian sprang to her feet with as
excitement as / ever had seen in
Ter.
I've heard of that she said tense
Y. Let me see your notes, please