San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-23

The Making Of
!. a Husband
Ann Lisle's N eW
Phase ofsJina and
= Anme's Marital
Adventure
By ANN Isle
BY ANN Isle
Chapter 90.

Copyright. 1925. King Feature Syn. Inc.
Hes still your husband" I said.
"Has Pat taken much pains to re-
member that I'm-still his wife?" she
asked.
"Jeanie!, I gasped in protest
against a certain indecent levity in
her voice.
Don't jeanne mel" she fairly
snarled. Lets be done with all this
pretense."
But what are we pretending?" l
asked. "Fm not making the slightest
effort to hide anything. I'm honest"
But were you always?" she asked !;
and, oddly enough, found myself
watching with a certain absorbed and
fascinated interest the odd way in
which Jeanie's long. slim fingers were
plucking at the bedclothes.
Honest about what?" / asked fin
ally.
"Lucie Tremaine told me-" jeanne
said at last.
Told you WHAT" I asked.
"She divorced Johnny" said Jeanne
with seeming inconsecuticeness
which / was sure would carry us to
some very definite revelation. you
knew that she divorced Johnny think
ing Bert rockingham would marry
her-didn't you?"
"We're so far from everywhere out
here" 1 said. "We don't hear much
stage gossip, you know. I'd sort Of
forgotten the Hawley- buckingham Re
vue and Lucie Tremaine's being the
star of it."
II see Lucie occasionally" jeanne
said. "They come to the country
club for lunch Sundays. Lucie had
the bad taste to parade herself there
with rockingham all during the pc
riod when her decree was pending. L
cut her one day. She was too blatant.
She took it as best she could then.
There was nothing to do. suppose.
But now she is married again"
ITO whom?" / asked.
ITO Matt Hawley." Jeanie said
quietly, with an odd. hesitant en-
phasis on every syllable.
ave are neishbors," Jeanie said,
and the note Uf suppressed emotion
became stronger and stronger in her
voice. "Lucie demanded an inter-
view. She came to Dreamwold."
II know how he hid behind JIM"
Jeanie said coldly. Il know of his
uffair with Brooke de Courcey."
Il thought that was it," l man
aged at last.
II wonder IL he would have let Jim
20 to the chair!" jeanne asked pen
sively. But ] noticed how the fin
gers with VIII: h she was pleating the
bed covers stumbled and fell inert
and then twitched as she moved rest
lcssly about. showing me the haggard-
ness of her face.
There was never any hint of that"
j protested vigorously. 1T was just
after that poor girl-was done away
with. that they discovered that Basil
Diyersey or Barry de Courcey or
whoever the man who pretended to be
her brother-really was-had commit
ted the-crime.
'He strangled her with Jim's hand
kerchief, which he stole from Park
Manor while you were living there"
Jeanne said reminiscently. THAT was
likely. to mean clear circumstantial
evidence against Jim Why
did Jim let himself in for that?"
"To protect you," L explained.
"Your little son had just died. You
weren't yourself. Jeanne. Brooke pur-
sued Pat. He didn't mean to get in
volved, but she tangled him up some
hoW-as an adventures can. jim
knew it would break your heart to
know the truth. He made Pat hide
behind him. But it's all over now.
Why rake it up? why spoil the sac
rifice Jim made for love of his sister
and why judge Pat for trying to save
- n IL