Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-06
MY MARRIAGE
Adele GarriSOn'S
New Phase off,
REVELATIONS
ORA WIFE
THE SURPRISING SUSPICION TO
WHICH LILLIAN GAVE VOICE.

Lillian's reference to Katie, in a tone
that had more than hint of savage
wrath, startled me. / waited to reply,
however, until we were out of the viii
lage, and / could take part of my at
tention from the car. / had obeyed
Lillian's injunction to "step on her."
and we were proceeding toward home
at a lively gait.
What do you mean;" l asked, lguz-
4 zled. " Do you think that Katie"
"Is holding out on me-" she retored.
II wish l knew. But that spiel from
Joe that Katherine heard sounds like
it."
May it not be that in her terror of
him Katie told Joe she had found
something. when in reality she had
failed?" 1 asked, the instinct strong
upon me to defend my little maid.
Don't you remember that Mother Ora
ham wrote us about Katie's despair
after she had searched fathers o
And wouldn't her failure explain her
anxiety to have us within call that
night she went to meet Joe? She may
have thought we could shield her from
his anger when he found out she had
nothing"
"You Sound Plausible"
"Your ~well-known memory is miss
ing OIL about three" Lillian retorted
dryly. IF you'll change a spark plug
or two you'll recall that she didn't
want us with her, only just within
earshot-that in her naive way she was
trying to have us overhear the things
she did not dare to tell because of the
oath she had taken"
Yes, 1 Know" I acquiesced, but"
with an assurance that mentally began
to totter, 81 can't believe that Katie
took anything from my fathers room.
She surely would have turned it over
to you if she had"
LET us hope So" Lillian's tone ex-
pressed anything but optimism. But
you must remember that Katie's men
tally in some things is about that of
a 1~2-year-old child, with deep apollo
reason for not giving to me anything
she may have taken from your fathers
room. In the first place, she would
not wish us to know that she had abb
stractetd anything, and in the second,
she told that Joe beast that she hadn't,
and she has a very lively dread of his
finding her some day. 1t would be the
most natural thing in the world for
her to keep something by her with
which she could placate him."
You sound plausible" I sighed.
4HCH L lily diucu, Dut L Cdu L
believe Katie is holding back anything"
go on believing IT," Lillian retorted.
1T won't alter matters, and it's your
own right. But because l have the
responsibility of this thing. / must ask
that Katie be kept under strict sur
VIGILANCE, and that she has no oppor-
tunity to leave the place unaccompanied
by you or me-"
You're going to have a scene with
her when you accuse her of having
taken something from Fathers room
which she has not given to you"
Madge's Wish
what leads you to suppose I'm 60
ing to accuse her." There was an in
| lection in Lillian's tone which told me
that she did not exactly relish my
comment.
WHY thought-pardon me- ]
stammered.
mo harm done" she retorted good
less as that. I'm going to tell her that
Joe said she had something which she
was to give him. and warn her that
Smith is going to try to get it away
from her. Me. myself"-she pointed
her forefinger at her heart in burlesque
I'm going to sympathize with her
and pretend / think she has nothing.
But I'm going to brighten her so with
the thought of Smith that she'll stick
like eight brothers to vou and me, and
also. If she has the thing anywhere,
she'll proceed to hide it if she can get
the chance.
"And tomorrow'-Lillian looked at
me shrewdly-"Id like to have bars
| put on a few windows, not tie ones
toward the road, but the handy ones
for al enterprising gentleman with
porch-climbing proclivities. Until Mr..
Smith takes his departure from these
parts l don't mind telling you that it
behooves us all to be on our guard"
II thought these operatives were
watching him."
They are, but they have to work
alternately. They must sleep and eat,
you know, and Smith is a slippery Gus
toner. ] haven't any fear of their not
being able to keep pretty good track
of him. but it wouldn't be at all i'm
social call on us. He could do a good
deal of damage in half an hour"
Here's the farm" Her words had
put such terror in me that / could
utter nothing but the three words of
relief. And as / turned the car into
the driveway I swiftly scanned the
lighted windows for any sign of dis
turbance. When Lillian feared any
thing or anybody it was time for every
one else to be indeed on guard.
Jerry TIGER came from the kitchen
door with the lantern, and the sight Of
his honest, cheerful face made both my
fears and Lillian's appear like the
sheerest melodrama. But when / had
put the car in the barn I found myself
walking close to his stalwart figure as
he swung his lanter on the way back
to the house, found myself also glanc-
ing %furtively around at the shadows of
the ~shrubbery.
Above everything else, / wished that