The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-10-19
REVELATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY ADELE GARRISON

Why Madee Smiled at Mother Graharn's
Eagerness.
Ny mother-in-laws proposal to have
me go away from home, leaving her to
cope with the menace of the men next
door touched deeply. II was not
| the first proof I'd had of the indornit-
able spirit that is hers-I have learned
to revere her dauntless soul--but the
thing she spoke of doing was so hard
task that her cool assumption of It left
me a bit aghast.-
But. mother!' 1 faltered Il cannot
| leave you alone to face this danger"
Danger. fiddlesticks!" she inter
rupted. There isn't any danger to any,
body or anything except yourself and
that paper you're guarding One or the
other is what they're after, and the
sooner both away from the house
! the better. I'll have more bars put on
all the windows and doors, and with
William and that cur, of his inside the
house at night and growing around
outside in the daytime / think Agatha
and 1 will be able to match any set of
fool conspirators going.
"katie's callope voice is something
of an asset too" she added with a
grim smile. '.Just get her to shriekine
good and hard and I think the most
hardened criminal would take to his
heels.'
I couldn't help smiling at her >charac-
teriEation Of Katie, for, whom I knew
she had a sincere liking despite the
half good hun1ored. aIf-irritated con-
tempt with which She generally regard
ed her flamboyant ways. But one ref
erence Of hers disturbed me.
1T surely won't be necessary for
Cousin Agatha to 1 began, but I
never finished the sentence.
But One Consideration.
What on earth do you take me for,
Margaret?'' she demanded irritably
THE only thing Agatha will know is
that there is a burglar scare in the viii
lage, together with d hint that the men
next door are under suspicion That is
all that will be necessary. She'll be or
the job night and day until she be
lieves the danger is over. ft'n be
good thing for her. too. She'll have
something real to Snoop around about
now
! saw that she had forgotten or had
put beneath her the petty humiliation
to which her cousin had subjected her
only a few moments ago, NY mother
in laws mind is essentially Of the one
track variety. There was but one con-
sideration before her now. the battling
relief that instead Of the unexpected
task being a burden to her 1t was
zestful treat. She looks 10 years young
or than when, hurt by her cousins
petty meanness, she had come into my
room.
could not help one inquiry, how
ever. although I knew that risked
aro1Ising my mother-in-IaW irasc!0il-
ity by making it
A Perplexne Problem.
But how will you manage 10 keep my
absence secret from the men next
door il they are watching the house so
closely without arOusing Cousin Aga
tha's suspicions?" I asked.
Ny fears were justified My mother
in law fairly giowered at me before she
answered.
"Of course, wisdom win die with you,
Margaret,- and I'm only a back number
she said at last. but l fancy l can
figure out a thing or two yet If I'm
nearly ready for the Home for the
Feeble Minded
had hard work to keep from laugh
ing aloud, her Indignation was so in
tense Fortunately she was SO inter-
ested explaining her own plan that she
didn't notice my face.
you will explain that You have been
called suddenly UP to the city, she
said. Il think Agatha has her own
weird notions about your trips to the
city-thinks You are secretly studying 10
he an actress or something like that.
Then shall call a consultation OF the
whole household and caution all Of
them to pretend that you are still here,
so that the burglars will think there