Omaha daily bee., 1922-01-30
My Marriage
Problems
Aasis osrrisea'. Me- rsa. %
Revelations of a Wife"
How Katie Led Madge and Lillian
Down the Lonely Lane.

| her but a ieM minutes before, AR "
She never had known trmnr.
/ Either the pungenl restorative ia.
Ian had brought her or my dras.
iie threat 10 lock her up-pruhahly
the combination had quieiCl her
hysteria. and had given her new
| poisc.
were ms cloak" she asked
plleFe." Lillian took d ifam a
chair and handed each ul ~ . heavy
dark veil. the next minute begin.
ming 90 tie one on her own head.
Wrap your heads iH these" she
said, "and keep yuur faces covered
as much As you can We want 10
get rs near you, Katie as We eau,
and We don't want 20 be- seem"
You bet Katie declared cm-
phatically, IL Is her tayOritr rNprrs.
sion Of acquiescencc, and ,h uses
Il IN season and ont oi season. much
as Jerry Ticer docs his in,lble
"Yes, ma'am,' no matter wl.I the
sex OF the person 10 whom he Is
speaking. "Nou bet no van no.
body TO see you. ! get yoi M.nstcr
Dieky say. merry he'll eef d.. ma
-eei anybody see you.'
"Vot You Meanp"
With her ostrich propensity she
was still keepin, up the fiction hat
we did not know the sex OF The per-
son who had SO terrified her
Nobody will Lillian said con-
fidentiy. then, as Katie turned
toward the kitchen, instead oi the
front door, she asked quickly:
(which way are you goinp:"
Katie stopped and looked at rs
uncertainty.
"You say dot Jccm no stop me
tonight She asked.
mo. Katie he will not trouble
you tonight" returned, and she
must have caught something uncon-
sciously ominous in my tone, ior
she turned on me quickly. demand
ing: "Vot you mean by dot?"
Nothing at ALL | returned, maxi
ing my tone plrposely impatient.
I'VE told you before that Jim had
promised Mrs. Underwood not 10
interfere with you tonight. Now tell
us in what direction we are going.
how far and where"
I'VE are going down on dot old
wood road to Sag Harbor, just be-
yond dot beeg rock we're dot au-
tomobie got turned over. Dere a
leetle road turn off from beeg road.
und we go down dot a few feet out
OF sight"
| shivered irrepressibly, for |
knew the SPOT, and lonelier, more
dangerous place for night encoun-
ter with a probably desperate man
could not be imagined. The road is
winding, tortuous one, dream
OF sylvan beauty in the daylight,
but dangerous thoroughfare by
night, and there was not q dozen
cars night traversing it.
But that is mile around the
road, ! said. I'VE never can make
it in time"
Hoosh-Listen."
We are not going by road" Ka-
tie retorted "Eet only lcetle ofer.
half-mile across pasture and through
dot wood path to beeg road, und |
can feex you oop fine in place to
hide we're you can hecr cferyting."
All right, Katie, go ahead" 1
said. impatiently, and in another
minute we were outside the house
with Mother Graham latching the
door behind us. That her old fin
gers were tremulous with terror for
us, well knew, and l mentally paid
tribute to her gallant spirit in keep
ing down any expression of her feel
ing as she saw us forth.
Shade those flashlights, and keep
their light on the ground" was the
only advice she had given us as
she let US out the door, and we ac-
cepted and acted upon the sugpes-
ton as soon as the intense dark
ness made 1t necessary for us to
use them.
| shall not soon forget that toll
some, nerve racking journey
through the pasture land and woods
70 the old wood road, Katie lead
ing because she knew the trail.
'talked ahead, using the flashlight
n the more difficult places, letting
is follow her almost indistinct OUT
me in the easier places. The only
words uttered were whisper of
nine TO Lillian when we had gone
out few rods on our way.
Suppose he discovers us and
urns ugly?'
Lillian did not speak in reply, but
he reached out her left hand, took
nine and guided it to the thing
which the fingers of her right and
we're firmly grasping. ! had no need
or words as touched the cold
teel. | recognized the little slencer
lstol which Lillian only carries in
moments OF unusual danger. | need
d nothing more to- tell NE what
stimatc she placed upon the en-
ounter before us.
And then we had come out upon
he wood road and in another min
tie had glided into the other path
nd were being hidden by Katie i'll
little thicket OF bushes, from
thich we could distinctly hear
oices either on the main road or
/ the little lane Katie, herself,
tayed with US, whispering tensery:
wen | hear vistle, one. two, three,
en- | go out fHoosl,-Iisten."
Down the road came the expect
signal, and the girl stepped out
ito the little lane. The whistle
ame nearer, SO quickly and with
ich absence of other noise that it
d not take Sherlock Holmes to
educe that the man was riding
cycle. We were so intent upon the
neer whistle that we heard only
ibconsciously the noise of an ap-
reaching motor Car in the oppo-
te direction.
And then-the sight haunts my
yes yet-the Car rounding the
lrve, caught the cyclist who had
; lamps and hurled him almost to