New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-04-11
MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS
Adele Phase
REVELATIONS OF A WIFE


, ging, drove to the farmhouse, found
Dicky raging up and down you
needn't send me high signs. Dicky-
bird, know all about your row with
Madgc. II only had the gentling OF
you, my lad
LilIian's Story
Can IT !" sputtered Dicky, but as
gently as he always retorts to any
heard Jerry, and she let out a wall
that shook the roof. She thought
you dead. tell YOU, Madge, 1t shook
me TO the marrow, but"
Yes Katie gave me your note"
Lillian interposed "But without tele-
phoning Mrs. Durkce. ] knew you
could never have arrived there. Then
Harry telephone, and---you know the
rest"
katherine" ! said through lips
which for the first time realized
We're swollen.
Safe !" Lillian exclaimed. 80 is
everyone you love" And then swift
ly she sketched, as only Lillian can
compress, the incidents which had oc-
Cured after l swooned.
You may be sure that when your
father was lured here by a false mes
sage supposed to come from you, he
and Allen Drake we'll knew what was
doing. Harry was looking after you,
and they would have raided this gang
one minute after you entered the
mr. fatt ~
been summoned. and II Aliens men
inside here hadn't tipped them off to
wait, hoping to catch the money head
Of the movement, but he got away.
He's an enormously rich man, recent
ly arrived from overseas, who has
quadrupled his wealth by grace of the
opportunities everyone may have in
our too hospitable country. He is
monomaniac, and his obsession is to
overthrow the government for his
own.
But that can well wait" Lillian in
terrupted herself. "The man you
knew as Smith, the ex-royal person.
age who so charmingly tried to stab
you in your own home with that
poisoned poignard-yes. Tom Chester
is still at the farmhouse at Dicky's
special nvitation-well, my dear.
your friend. Smith. will trouble you no
more. Brave when everything went
his way. he was a coward at heart,
for he passed out while his men were
dying for him. by the poison from
a defeat. The last man to try to es-
cape was captured in this hall before
Dicky and I entered this room.
"Can You Forgive"
MY dear" I thought her eyese
were tender with some strange pity,
Il must tell you something I learned
but moment ago.
THE yashmak-veiled woman who
held you as the lights went out was
killed, but she--was not Grace Ora
per-"
l could hardly believe my ears,
which buzzed with shock and the |
weakness that l strove to overcome
so l might speak. With understand
ing, Lillian put her arms closer around
me as she said:
Grace Draper led you downstairs.
woman must have changed places
with her. Can YOU remember? Just
nod your head, yes or no. Was there
change of women
Through my mind swan the mem
DRY of that one free instant when
Smith had shot the man. Joe, and /
nodded in the affirmative.
Il thought so - Lillian exclaimed.
II must tell Allen to start the pur-
suit at once" Then she tenderly kissed
me and released me into Dicky's arms,
his voice whispering in my ear:
"Oh, my darling, my darling"
though his lips were near his voice
seemed from afar. when ! feared !
should never again hold you in my
arms, never again have the chance to
beg your pardon for the miserable
words with which / drove you SO
wild that you fed from your home
in that instant | vowed never again
to make my sons mother, my own
adorable and adored sweetheart, jeal-
Gus. For then l knew the pangs OF
jealousy. But sometimes you have,
my own, been unjustly jealous of me-"
The touch Of his hands upon my
hair. his lips upon my cheek, reused
me to turn my head so that his eyes
gazed into mine. The reproach which
still must have Swallowed my tense
look caused Dicky's eyes to soften
with agonized pleading as he MUIR
Hard as it may be for you to be-
lieve, ! never had thought but for
you. Yes, l know you're thinking of
Bcss Dean, but then / deliberately
not think that | didn't see through
Claire Fosters ruse. At first when
Claire Foster and / met in the noun
tains before that unfortunate airplane
accident caused such notoriety and
brought you SO much unhappiness-
how proud ! was of you when you
put aside your own Feelings and
rushed to our aid IL will admit that
Claire Foster interested me. But she
me only as model for
those new illustrations. But then 7
tried even harder than she to prove
to you the truth that We never had
any real thought of each other Can
you forgive"
What Dicky saw in my eyes must
have swept from his mind and heart
all doubt, for his lips met mine in a
pledge ] pray may know no breaking.
British boys will be sent from Eng
land to Australia at the rate Of 500
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