The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-01
REVELATIONS OF A WIFE
what Does cousin Agatha Know That
Madna poesn't7
ADELE GARRISON

madQe DceSnIs
/ stared after Dicky IN CONSERVATION
az he left the yeranda where ne had
eaten our dinner. The meal begun So
auzpiciousIy. had ended with my hus-
band IN a mood didn't understand al
all. and thought I'd become used 70
al varieties during my life with him
His words. I'm not quite the blind
bat you think me-" echoed in my ears,
but il wasn't SO much the words as the
glance that accompanied them. which
, puzzled and terrified me.
For if ever / saw suspicion. ugly and
cold, 1 saw it In my husbands eyes as
he pushed back his chair and rose from
the table.
FIerceIy Jealous.
had seen Dscky fiercely jealous and
wildly angry before. 1 knew the abso-.
| lutte unreason Of him when ne was in
rage but there was new element IN
/ the feeling / read, or fancied l read IN
his eyes, a sinister coldness which ]
never before had experienced.
| / cast about swiftly in my mind for
| the reason. His discovery OF my lunch
ing "a deux' with Harry Underwood al
the Fleur de Lis tea room. would ordi-
narily have been explanation enough of
his present anger as well as Of his mo-
rousness and GOODNESS since that memor-
able day. But contrary 70 his usual ex-
p.osive habit Of threshing out any ques-
ton that displeases him, ne hadn't re-
ferred to that meeting by word nor look
Lsince.
| / had explained his silence 10 myself
by. two suppositions-first, that Harr~
Underwood's adroit manner OF carrying
1 hod
that our rendezvous was an Academia
one: second, by the fact that his OWL
presence at the tea room, accompanied
bv Edith Fairfax, had left him with no
excuse for anger against me.
| "Aren't You AfraId7"
No. T decided, there must be some
other reason for Dicky's suspicious an
ger than the tea room contretemps. A
little cold shiyer ran down my spine as
I contemplated the possibility of his hav-
| ing learned of the midnight expedition
| to Long Island had taken for the secret
service. I couldn't explain 10 Dicky why
I had gone-ny promise to Lillian for
babe rne-but II he had learned that my
| companion was Allen Drake, / didn' I
| wonder at his attitude.
| I leaned my head upon my hands IN
sudden despair for there was but one
way In which Dicky could have found
out anything about that trip. The
image OF Grace Draper, mocki- g. deviIsh'
4 rose before me- knew that her maig-
/ nant enn1lty to me never slumbered. II
she could have managed to convey .Sef
knowledge to Dicky, she would most -,
guredIy have done so.
/ The Cat Woman.
Katie came out softly, ostensibly TO
clear the table: AS she bent over the
dishes. she muttered in low voice:
.sIook out vunce, Missis Graham, Dot
old cat vomans, she COON &C. n stairs.
You not want her see you like dot.
Il blessed Katie's shrewd Thoughtful
4 ness as 1 raised my head. I couldn't
/ hear Cousin Agatha's footsteps-she
i Green's around the house as noiselessly
es a cat-but the almost psychic an
4ipathy I bear her told me, she was
| the threshold of the yeranda before she
spoke.
aren't you afraid you will take col !
Margaret?" she purred, and the unus ~
honeyed accents of her tones warned
that there was some purpose n heI
seeking me.
ooh. no indeedr' I returned. making
my own voice carelessly cheerful. tits
altogether too warm an evening to take
cold.''
"Rfchard evidently doesn't think So
she said.
"The Wiseet People"
.Dicky has gone up to see his moth
err" T returned. LAS you know, that's
a visit he never omits making"
eyes. I know" she returned in her
flat nonotonous tones. Richard Is Q
very attentive son. His nother viii miss
him sorely."
4 T sttffened with amazement, but luck
av made no sound expressing aetonish-
rnent. 1 was glad that the darkness hid
nv face. But knew that the malicious
old woman was waiting like q ghoul fol
some answer from me.
eyes, indeed" l answered with en-
phasis.
/ heard her give little gasp.
'tThen you know?" she said.
Malicious Surprise.
! ct know many things I returned
automatically What seems to be espe-
cialIy on your'mInd, Cousin Agatha? Car
help you in any way7"
mo. thank your She bit off tbs
words as though she were viciousl.
swapping a thread. But I would advise
YOU to come In out Of that damp air
you're a very wise woman, Margaret
Of course, but don't think. wisdom vii
die with you. And the wisest people
slip up sometimes
She flounced away. and an involuntari,
smile crossed my lips, as I recalled tina
J had effectually thwarted the malicious
: little surprise which she had purposet
to spring upon me. Then the smile wal
J wiped from my lips as l digested the rea
meaning of her words.
i She must have been eavesdroping-
, Dicky never would have taken her int
his conference.-the the purport OF he
words terrified me.