The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-10-17
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REVELATIONS -
OF d. A WIFE
Is Mother Graham's surmise the Cor.
rect EXPLANATION
BY ADELE GARRISON

lis Mother Grahan's Surmise the Cor.
reef Explanation
! Memories, poignant, sad, rushed ,luon
me as I took from it's box the little
, bracelet of oddly engraved sold coins.
| 1 seemed to see myself g tiny girl
clasped this bracelet and its mate It
was one of the flashlight impressions
which child's mind receives-the. only
/ memories have, oddly assorted
photographs here and there.
was only 4 years old when my IA
! Their SO cruelty deserted my mother an
act for which he had atoned by the suf-
fering and, loneliness of nearly q Quarter
Of a century. 1 had no childish recol-
! lections of him. but l did remember
wearing the quaint bracelets. And yet
my mother had told me in after years
| that she. had never put them on my
! arms after nay father left. ..>
| They had been his gift to me upon
my second birthday, and he had de-
| lighted in seeing me wear them. And
when my. mother gathered the threads
of her broken life together she found
that one of the bracelets was missing,
That my father had taken it with him
she was certain. and with hot. passion
ate anger against the man who could
desert the baby girl whom he had loved
so tenderly, she thrust the other brace
| let into trunk out of sight. That she
had not destroyed 1t spoke volumns to
my mind Of her self control and sense
Of justice: e.
They're IdenticaI--"
The little mother who had been so
wronged is sleeping peacefully now,
and because Of her dying request l had
forgiven my father, when an old and
broken man he had found me. ending
the quest. Of years. But 1 had found
him only to lose him again. Whether
he were living or had been killed
through the Vaccinations Of Grace
Draper. by the group Of South Ameri-
can revoiutionists with whom he had
been associated for some secret purpose
OF his own, 1 did not know.
With the bracelet in one hand and
the gold coin in the other taken from
the letter sent me by the mysterious
men next door l went back to my
mother-in law. There was an eerie.
frightened. cutching t my heart that
made me long for companionship when ]
compared the two.
why, Madge!" she exclaimed. all
most snatching the bracelet from my
hand, these coins are like that other.
Here give it to me-
I gladly yielded the single coin to her
eager grasp. Taking up the lorgnette,
without which I would scarcely recog-
ntze my mother-in law, she carefully
scrutinized first one and then the
other.
They're "Reminiscences from the
ga me die" she said at last excitedly.
And cookbook here
With fingers that trembled she
showed me where the single coin had
been wrenched loose from it's fastening.
tearing out the oriface through which
the slender chain holding the bracelet
links together, had passed.
1T has been- part of similar. brace
LET she went on. Nov what does this
mean?"
I told her Of the two bracelets in as
few words as possible. There was
dryness and tightness in my throat
which made it impossible for me to say
much. What to argue from this mes
sage I did not know, dreaded even to
surrnise.
Doubts That Trouble.
She didn't speak for several minutes
after I had finished, evidently ponder
ing what I had said. At last she shot
question at me abruptly:
DO you think these men who sent
this coin represent your father Mar
garrett"
7 reused at the question which put
into words the doubt that was tortur-
ing me.
How can tell?" demanded pas
xi,ra+elv "Of course, the coin comes
from the other bracelet. and equally, Of
course. he must have had. it.. But
whether these men are under his or
ders. or whether they are enemies who
have made away with him and are act
ing upon knowledge which they Were
able to CLEAN before his death, L do not
know"
IT do" my mother law declared