Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-12
MY MARRIAGE
Ux PROBLEMS
Adele GarrisOn'S
New Phase off,.
REVELATIONS
OF WIFE
THE CONFESSION KATIE MADE
BEFORE THEM ALL

AT Matte 8 dSSPNtTdtlOuS lldI BIC
would tell the truth, / saw a cynical
little smile quirk the corners of Allen
brakes mouth. and | felt a sudden
primitive impulse TO change that ex-
preston with a well directed slap. But
nv father was speaking again, n 1
turned TO listen. forgetting everything
alse in my pride of him and the revela-
ton he had just made.
That is what we want, Katie" my
father said kindly, yet there was more
than hint of iron beneath the softness
of his manner. You say you didn't
wish to listen but to be sure that we
were not in our rooms. Why did you
wish to be sure of that: Did you wish
70 find out if there was another book
like this somewhere
Katie Is Defiant
With a quick movement he took from
the table the book he had shown us
from which the memorandum had been
taken. opened it, and spread it before
Katie's astonished eyes. She gazed at
it blankly for an instant, then she look
ed at my father with an odd. tense
gaze, which held to it a touch of some
thing which | decided with a sudden
auickening of my pulses was not guilt.
TRANSFORMATIONS" she said slowly,
Yes. we know that you took a
paper from this book" my father re-
turned as measuredly. But we do not
know why you did it. or what you have
done with the paper"
With a dramatic movement Katie
swept the circle of faces in front of
her with searching eyes. Then she
crept closer to my side and covered
my hand timidly with her own.
'Only vun who believes poor Katie,
l. IL zo,rnrf,n~ onl ouoiu axU
the amused little Quirk of Allen
Katie saw it, too. and her quick
temper flared.
You, Meester Drake she sputter-
er, you tink yourself all de stew. but
you nothing but de soup greens. III
bet you nefer can find dot paper eef
] no tell you"
Though I secretly enjoyed katie's
outburst. l conscientiously tried to
stop it. But she finished her defiance
triuInphantly, then at sight of my
fathers stern face she wilted mlser-
ably.
ooh! Oh. / forget! I so ashamed!'
she walled contriteIy.
go On, Katie
Don't distress yourself on my ac-
count, Katie" Allen Drake drawled.
and ] saw that he really had enjoyed
the girls attack and respected her for
it. ITS refreshing to hear the truth
occasionally. And | grant your asser-
ton. | have no idea where your
simian mind has concealed the 'poipers.
But that the climax of the third act
is imminent, | can see without the aid
of spectacles. SO | await your dis
closure with intense interest.
That Katie did not understand his
words, !, of course, knew. and was in
censed at Allen Drake for the sly fun
he was poking at the girl. But his
tone evidently pointed his meaning to
her quick perceptions. for she turned
away from him with a gesture really
superb in its disdainful defiance, and
addressed herself to Lillian.
'Meesis Underwood, you remember
vot / tell you dot man say, all dot
stuff / tell you not TO tell"
YES. Katie"
Il tell you all but Won ting. He fell
me dot l must get paper for heem, say
Get leetle paper nit all kinds funny
marks. He tell me dot | must look in
efery book, afery ting in room. | have
awful times getting chance to look. for
dot old yomans, and Meesis Harrison
dey always shopping around after me,
and ven / get eet, l shoost sit me down
und howl, for l no want TO geev eet to
dot man, und ] not know how to keep
Get away from heem. Eef ] couldn't
find Get. he coon und aunt beemself,
und he keel me. He know eferyting
you tink, dot man." |
She paused as if in reflection at the
diabolical powers Of. the man Anton,
and I wished whimsically that my
mother-in-law could have heard the
girls reference to herself and her
daughter, Elizabeth. / remembered
most distinctly the letter Mother Ora
ham had written to me, saying that
Katie was ''snooping" all over the
house, r~eciting the girls activities in
cleaning my fathers room. and saying
that when Katie had finished, she he'd
sat down and "howled." Mother Ora
ham had attributed the girls emotion
to her failure to find something she
wished to appropriate to her own use,
but my partisanship any my common
sense as well preferred Katie's story
to my mother-in-law's theory.
go on. Katie" Lillian said encour-
~agingly. Did you give the paper to
the man."
Katie swept us with a triumphant
glance.
II give paper. but not dot one" she
said