New Britain herald., 1926-09-08
Quicksands of Love
 Adele Garrison's New Phase of
 -Repeldfions Of q Wife -
Mary Is Initiated into Making
 Dicky'S Nightcap.

DtthN NiShtsap.
 At Dicky's bidding, I hurried Mary Harrison downstairs, leaving him to attend to the locking up of her room. as he had suggested. She was still shivering as with cold, though the room was warm, when we had hurried down the private staircase between the second and third floor rooms. s soon as we reached the lower floor rooms I put my heaviest bathrobe around her.
 Hop into my bed. quickly" l said while I heat some milk"
 But she shook her head obstinate ly.
 I'm all right" she said, and in- deed l observed that her teeth had stopped chattering and that the color was returning to her face. "Tll be fine when I get the hot milk. and I'd rather stay with you while you fix it. But tell me first, please, be- fore Uncle Dicl;y comes down, who was trying to get into my room? l know you don't believe it's all imag- nation. the way he does, and I had a crazy sort of idea that you knew who was pulling the stunt
 What gave you that crazy sort of idea, Nary" l asked quietly.
 "Oh. l don't know exactly" she returned. There was queer sort of look went over your face when Uncle Dicky said he thought he heard noise on the fourth floor as he went into the hall from my room."
 l caught my breath as the realiza- tion came to me that while Mary still was a child in many ways, she was a precocious one, and that she combined the uncanny perceptions of childhood with q critical reason- ing power far in advance of her years. l must be strictly on guard when with her if there were things transpiring of which I wished her to remain in ignorance.
 It was useless, however, to bubble with her upon this particular occa- sion, and when l had poured some milk into a saucepan and set it over tiC lldlIit dllSWtltu Ter Jtruthfully and hurriedly. for I heard Dicky's step upon the stairs.
 T don't know who made the noise," I said, but I can guess. I'll tell you about 1t after your uncle goes to bed"
 May I see you do it?"
 She nodded comprehendingly as Dicky came in, then turned to him with quick aplomb.
 Don't you wish you had nerves, too?' she demanded saucily, "so that Auntie dge would fix you hot milk also?"
 Hot milk, ugh!" he shuddered is one of his pet aversions. "No, T. haven't any wish on that score, but when your Auntie Madge gets through attending to you I'm going to ask her 10 finish the beverage she was fixing for me. An. there's a concoction for you,"
 "Oh! what is il? May I see you do it, Auntie Madge?" she queried with the enthusiasm of a child over anything new.
 I pushed a chair near to the kitchen table. poured the steaming milk into . glass and set it before her with plate of tiny crackers.
 Dicky Resorts to Sarcasm.
 "Sip that slowly" l directed. and I'll show you how to prepare this drink Dicky's raving about. The recipe and proportions are very simple. I put some cracked ice into q pitcher squeeze in the juice of two oranges and one lemon, sweet en to taste and add split of ginger ale In the summer, when l can get it, I press some mint through CO., lander into it and put sprig of mint in each glass.
 Sounds scrumptious,' Mary com mented. watching me closely as ] resumed the preparation of the bev- craze at the point where her terrified entrance had interrupted it."
 Its all of that and then some, her uncle assured her. You'd bet ter watch the process closely. Mary for I may have to ask you to fix it for me. l have it every night of my life in tn summer, and I have q hunch that my wife is going to be too busy this year to bother with such trifles.'