Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-02
MY MARRIAGE
III
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Adele CarTison's
New Phase off,
REVELATIONS
ORA WIFE
THE REPORT KATHERINE MADE
TO LILLIAN AND MADGE

in front of the library, had gone in,
taken out q book apiece, and upon
coming out she had looked sharply up
and down the street to see if by any
possibility the man whom we knew as
Smith was in the vicinity. Satisfied
at length that he vas not near, that,
indeed, in all probability, he was at
his employers home three miles away,
we had walked swiftly to the house
in which the physician has his office
and l~iving-rooms, and had entered UNI
obtrusively to find that he had not yet
arrived.
That's easy" Lillian said in a low
voice when the woman who took care
of the physicians quarters had taken
herself out of the room. Hes bring
ing Katherine himself, cutting it very
fine, so that she shall be away from
the hospital the least possible stretch
of time. Good boy, Herbie, l didn't
think he had it in him."
l guessed that the levity in her voice
and words masked an unusual nervou
tension, and / wondered a bit at her
evident strong feeling in this matter. !
knew that she had handled problems
seemingly of much greater Importance
than this meeting of two men-if they
did meet. For a minute / let my fancy
play with the idea that we were all at
sea, and that Smith and the man i'll the
hospital were nothing to each other.
And then there was the whir of DR..
Pettit's car. a glimpse of the physician
alighting, giving his hand to Katherine
with his stiff formal courtesy. and es-
corting her to the house, and finally
Eathorira horca1f with fl,.shaJ alaalc
and starry. excited eyes, lovingly en-
bracing both of us.
DIR. Petit, with a stilted little bow.
closed the door between himself and
us. and Lillian uttered a tense mono
syllable.
''Well?"
He came to bat all right" Rather
inc answered.
Who? Smith,
"f You Knew"
THE man you described TO me as
Smith. Even if you hadn't told me. l
think / would have known that be was
something other than the farm laborer
he pretended to be He strikes me as
a man who has been accustomed to
dominate every one around him."
He has been practically a car
among his neighbors for years. Lii
liam replied. But please begin at
the beginning and tell us everything
you possibly can. Madge just switch
on your memory. I'll need it and
your closest attention, because | don't
want to keep n written record of
what Katherine tells us. But. oh. girls.
If you knew what work it has saved
me to have the fact proved that Smith
and the man in the hospital are con-
nected in this thing | was afraid I
might have two entirely distinct prob
lens on my hands. Now, Katherine,
for your story"
We'll" she said, hesitating. "if I
begin at the beginning, Ill be like the
child trainer and the grandmother of
the child"
That's what 1 want said Lillian.
go back TO the minute you entered
the hospital
A Simple Compliment
1T involves something-even further
back than that" smiled Katherine.
land that is the treatment his former
nurse was compelled to give him. You
see. when he first became conscious
there were SO many little things in
which she had to a%ntagonize him. He
didn't want to take his medicine, and
lf "dilt'i iothS ht touitM1 udNe utlt,
oh, | don't know what all. At any rate,
he fairly hated her, and as for the
poor girl, she was a wreck. But, you |
see, he was getting better all the time,
so after | came l didn't have to i'm
pose nearly so many restrictions on
him, and the result was that he be-
very tractable."
"Of course, you have given us the |
only reason for his becoming tract
Lillian said dryly, and | smiled
with her at katherine's genuinely pug
zled look at us. She is so modest about
the great skill which is hers in nursing.
and about the potency of her personal
/ somehow think she does not real
ize herself the power that lies in her.
"Of course, if you had nursed him
he first became conscious. he
would have been just as hard to man
| suggested slyly.
Katherine flushed shyly. Her innate ,
honesty kept her from the disclaimer
n less sincere woman would have of
But, you see." she stammered, II
had so much experience with sick men
and boys over there I ought to know
something about handling them"
Over us both swept the realization.
old. yet ever new, of what this slender,
starry-eyed woman had undergone in
those long months of service in the
overseas hospitals. / knew that no one
In the nursing service held a more
creditable record thar Katherine, yet
she rarely referred to those days.
"T'l radio the ships at sea you ought
to know-and do" Lillian said en-
phatically. But let us get on with the
tale. The man is tractable now, eh?"
"Oh, yes, entirely so." Katherine re-
I'm fact, l think he is beginning
to like me. He called me a "lofely
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