Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-25
ANY MARRIAGE
Adele Garrison's
New Phase Off,
REVELATIONS
OLA WIFE
WHAT TROUBLED MADGE a
SHE WATCHED CLAIRE
AND DlCkY

She WA - IEHtHG
AND DlCKY
long before we had finished Mrs.
Rarkers delicious supper ] had sat
isfied myself upon two points of the
problem which the escapade Of Dlcky
and Claire Foster had presented to me.
Claire Foster was not in love with my
husband. and there had been no tender
passages between them
was sure, also, that the girl. head
strong, self -centenred. careless of otn-
or ~people's rights as she was. yet had
not deliberately attracted Dicky's at
~tention as had Bess Dean, for IN
stance. Dirky had taken the initiative
had sought her company and had urged
the air excursion upon her. L would
have staked Il great deal upon the
truth of my convictions.
Bnt there was another question that
was vital to me. which puzzled me
greatly. and set my pulses throbbing
with an emotion holding both fear and
anger in IT,.
What was Dicky's feeling for Claire
Foster?
Whether because of my own vanity
or from my years of experience with
nv Peter Pan, it had not occurred to
me 10 doubt my husbands essential
loyalty of spirit. / had been bitterly
angry with him for subjecting me to
such a performance as this winch l
had just been compelled to experience,
but + had felt no fear of losing his
love such as had come to me twice
before. once in the first year of my
marriage when Grace Draper had
caused me so much mental anguish by
Dicky's apparent infatuation for her.
and later when / had felt that Edlth
,Fairfax's deep and apparently hope
less love for him was at last meeting
a response.
Madge Is Perturbed
But there was something in the way
Dicky's eyes kept going back TO the
girls face. as though the act were
Something outside his v~olition, which
troubled me. I knew that her type Of
beauty was one that he greatly adj
mired-we had both remarked her re-
semblance to Grace Draper, and as
long as life is left TO me l shall re-
member that once he called Grace
Diapers beauty practically fault
less"
Of course. | knew that never more
would Grace Draper have power TO
stir his pulses with anything save aver
sion and horror-her attempt to spirit
away our boy had settled that, but
here was a girl of the same type ne
type he admired so much, and VINO
possessed in addition youth-glorious
youth-and qualities of heart and
brsin which Grace Draper never had
known. Had association with her led
him?
II Shall Stay With Miss Foster"
7 cut myself short right there, and
forced myself to stop watching my nus
hand. even in the unobtruslve q
in which I had yelled my surveillance;
Either he cared for her or he didn't, i
said to myself with a frantic attempt
Ito set my common sense III the saddle:
If he did, l must face the music. Ii
he did not, there was no reason lor
me to be perturbed.
Glad. indeed, was I to see Miss Car
gill appear at the dining-room door.
Action of any kind was a relief from
the torturing thoughts which possessed
me.
rs this the audience we're to stand
On our hind legs for?" Dicky demanded
in a whisper as he caught sighH of her.
j had explained to him that Miss
afargill would come to us for a minute
or two by agreements with me.
Il nodded assent, and despite my
anger at him and the secret tremors
which his ~glances at Claire Foster had
given me, the laugh ] gave at his ex-
taggerated gesture Of PREPARATION for
an interview was no pretended one.
He sprang to his feet rs Miss Cargin
reached our table, murmured a courtiy
acknowledgment to the introduction;
and seated her at a chair next himself
with great impressment-
How about that, Madge?" he de
Ennanded of me with mischief written
all over his face. did I do that right
according to the chapter on intro
auctions in that etiquette book We have
AT home? And what do I do next,
tfoffer the lady some cold chicken or
bean her with a cup? You see, Miss
,SCargill," he turned to her smiling,
.".the book, comprehensive as it is. gives
me absolutely no hint as to what is
Expected Of one when interviewed"
tEsi I'm not going to stay long enough
TO make it worth your while to re-
smember," Miss Cargill said brightly.
sENAnd I need not ask whether or not
Miss Foster has recovered" She
:amiled at the girl. But may | ask
when you leave here?'
Tomorrow | struck in promptly.
TT shall stay here with Miss Foster
tonight, and tomorrow we shall JOIN
sNr. Graham in Caldwin in time for the
first train to New York"
/ was watching Jicky furtively as
shis plan, fo1sly glad Of the
hNqued stoni6r111 which for an in
astant flashed l(ksyeR