Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-14
My MARRIAGE
III PROBLEMs
AdeleG arrison's
NeW,P Phase off,.
REVELATIONS
OF WIFE
What Katie Did With the Paper
Father Graham Sought

The nearer l came to my mother
in-law's room upon u bizarre errand,
the more faint-hearted I became.
Katie's monhey-like ceverness in
hiding in my mother-in-law's quar-
I. tiers the paper she had distracted, did
not appear like cleverness, but monu-
mental idiocy, by the time l reached
the door behind which Mother Ora
ham was peacefully sleeping.
Katie put her hand upon my arm
and her lips close to my ear. :,
'Plees, I don't like go in, she keel
me eef she wake oop und find me
shopping round her room"
With an effort ( depressed the IN
clination to inquire fiercely IN return,
what fate she thought awaited me were
my august mother-in-laW to waken, but
pered:
where is it hidden?"
"You know do pretty box init roses
und pictures of old-time ladies una
mems on it,"
You mean her hat box" l gasped
with a mental vision of the PRIDE OF
my mother-in-law's heart a fancy
I and costly millinery box, decorated
with old English scenes and borders
of roses, inside which reposed her very
best hat.
Dots the one" Katie whispered
/ back, and ! could have shaken her for
the n~onchalance in her manner Katie
patiently had cast her burdens upon
me and was worrying no longer.
A Tense Moment
Its on top shelf in closet she
went on. 81 saw eet ven l busted
/; room yesterday. You can hook 1t
shoost as easy! See! I'll hold door
open. You shoost grab eet and run,
! und l close door after you"
whispered, setting my teeth for the
ordeal in front of me. go back down
stairs and wait for me. I'll manage
this. Softly, now. Hush! Not another
word"
She scuttled obediently and-to her
credit-noislessly down the stairs, and
] waited beside the door for a long
two minutes to see if my mother-in-
law had awakened. But the rasping
sounds of what she e%nphoniously terms
heavy breathing. but which Dicky des-
cribes as the "sincerest snoring on
Long Island" went on without inter
ruption.
$50, with tense nerves and quickly
bSdlluS DuiNtS, L - IL hhcD q
infinite caution. pushed the door ajar
and slipped into the room. | had TAX
en- the %precaution to turn out the hall
light. that she might not be awakened
by it's sudden CLEAN, so | left the door
ajar that / might be able to escape
quickly and noiSlessly.
Oh! | Forget
I held my breath as | made my way |
to the clothes closet, deciding that even
the highly-colorcd he of a fiction bur-
glar was not worth while. And while |
was lifting the box down, recognizing it
by touch rather than sight, and making
my painful way pack to the door, | was
listening tensely to the regular shores
and thanking my particular little joss
for their volume.
| reached the door without mishap.
passed into the hall, closed the door
behind me, relighted the lamp and went
swiftly down the stairs. hugging to my
breast the assurance that ! had sue
ceeded in my mission. True. there
getting the bandbox back to its place,
but 1 did not nave to consider that for
another half hour or so, and | was
frankly triumphant as well as consum-
edly curious, when | rejoined Katie in
the hall below.
did you get Get she whispered
excitedly.
Yes. Hush" I returned as ! hurried
her into the library, locked the door
behind me and put the box on the
table. Then / looked around. enjoy
ing in my reaction. the expression of
establishment on the faces of the group
before me.
Now, Katie, show us where you hid
the paper" my father said. and I could
see that even his grave lips were per-
near a broad smile.
Katie, with a funny little air of i'm
portance, undid the fancy cords fasten-
ing the ornate box. lifted the lid and
took out from its tissue paper wrap
pings my mother-in-law's best fall hat.
She had bought it late the previous
season, paying what was really quite
exorbitant price, and l knew she
counted on wearing it through the au-
tumn. My little maid poised it upon
HAND and looked around at us with
a funny little air of dismay.
ooh! l forget" she said. Il have to
nave scissors to get eet out
MY sainted aunt Lillian exclaimed.
'She sewed it into Mother Graham's
best hat"