Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-12
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Adele Garrison's
New Phase off,.
OF A WIFE
THE FEAR THAT TROUBLED
MADGE UPON THE ROAD.

"Abl Rosalind!' Lillian said lightly,
sweeping me with a critical eye ASH
came into the library, CARRIED in my
k~nickerbocker suit, topped by Dicky's
hat and coat, the costume she had
requested. You're certainly not a
very convincing-looking man, even
though you are, as you prooabiy
know, most fetching in that rig. But
I think you'll pass at the car wheel;
and that's all that's necessary. Did
YOU drink your coffee
II forgot" l said t~ruthfully, for my
hit of unpleasant retrospection in
Dicky's room had put all thought OF
her Injunction out of my mind. III
get it directly.
/ hurried to the door, glad. indeed,
of the chance to escape Tom Chesters
ewes which, filled with disapproval OF
both my costume and my proposed
escort of him, had been fixed upon me
from the second of my entrance.
"See that you do" Lillian called
after me. and in the kitchen | duti-
fully ate and drank as she had hidden
me. although | never had felt less ap-
netite for food or drink. Lillian came
TO the kitchen before / had finished.
"Dr. Petit will go out and relieve
. , Bevins at once" she said. When
Bevins comes in l want you to take
him out to Dicky's car. He'll tinker
it up, and then we'll be all ready tor
whatever develops"
She did Reyins's mechanical ability
but simple Justice. Tactiturn, but as
swift of action as he was slow OF
speech. he went over the car with a
practiced hand, made a mysterious ad-
iustment or two, and delivered a la
comic dictum:
She'll do for 90 miles or so,' he
said. but you'll have 10 drive her
carefully, and you ought to put her
in a garage tomorrow.
A Nervous Wait
| thanked him and went back to the
library, too absorbed in the expedl-
ton which lay before me to inquire as
to the extent of the injury l had done
TO the car. Dimly l foresaw an I'M
pleasant minute or two with Dicky if
: his car should be seriously damaged,
but ] was too tensely strung for the
present emergency to worry about a
possibility so remote.
The tension did not lessen during
the next hour, while Lillian, DIR. Petit,
: Tom Chester and | sat in the library
t waiting for the messenger who should
{ tell of Allen brakes safe arrival al
e the other end of the route where the
I ! strange limousine Ndllcu LVI Az
: Lillian did her best to make the oc-
= casion seem an ordinary one, but DIR
Pettit's stiffness, Tom Chester's weak
: ness and gloom, and my W nervous
. state made her task q hopeless one
, and / think she was more keenly re
!. lieyed thar any of us when the ex,
pected knock came at the door, anc
one of Tom Chester's men came IN
: crossed to his chair, said a few raplc
- a. L.. - ~ r,n1nrfnnn rnnaiUaf
a low-toned instruction in return, anC
: left the room again. Tom Chester
D looked at Lillian.
He reports Mr.. Drake safely il
e the car at the end of the road. witt
9 everything in readiness for starting,
= he said. .,
3 Good" Lillian commented. I'll
Q just step over and get your father
Z Madge, and then you people can start
The two operatives will stand guarC
: over Smith until you are well on your
way and they III take a hand anC
, stage things so he can make his get
away without suspecting he's beln:
permitted to do it,
. On the Road
She was out of the room before sh'
q fairly had finished speaking, and wa'
9 back again with my father in shor
n order. From that minute thlng'
t moved so swiftly that | was guidinl
Dicky's car down the driveway in thu
wake of DR.. Petit, with my fatheI
bringing I'D the rear, before / full.
4 realized that | was fairly embarked
upon the expedition which was to wit
= ness the departure of Smith from on
u~eighborhood. Tom Chester's bicyclt
was in the tonneau of my ear with
robe concealing it from any passing
g curious glance, and Tom Chester
O himself-pallid and visibly trembling
d with physical weakness-sat by m,
o side.
h Before we had gone a mile | begal
a to have grave doubts that the younl
y fellows flesh would be able to answe
the demands which his indomitabl
spirit was putting upon 1t. feare'
- that the journey of almost two mile
through the wood Dad in the wax
of the limousine would be a physica
a impossibility by the time we reaches
the spot. and | began to rack IN,
/ brains for n plan by which l c0ul
keep from failure the piece of worl
y for the completion of which Lillian haI
l. .toiled so long.
We were about half a mile from tn
n entrance TO the wood road, the Ioca
If ton of which / knew perfectly, whel
by Encouragement DR.. Petit began (
e zigzag his car back and forth acros
the road as if he were intoxicated.
I knew that my father. back of us
would blow the horn of the car he wa
driving as soon as the entrance of tn
road came in sight, and | grasped tn
rather wobbly wheel of Dicky's ca
tightly, in readiness for the quick turl
Ie / was scheduled to make a few yard
the other side of the entrance to tn
y wood road.
n Next-The Reason Tom Cheste
IF Had TO Give Up the Task.
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