New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1925, Page 4

e's C Adele Garrison's nfessional New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Madge Registers Success In De ciphering Code | At Lilllan's request, I walked to her bed and from the mattress fook the card belong Steve” which we had hidden there. She held out her hand for it, and I placed it in her grasp, watching her face as she again studied ntently, 1 don't know why I should v time looking at it." she said at last, | banding it to me. moron when it comes to anything like this You'll have to be the doctor this| time. 1 know this much, however. | Tt's going to be 1o baby cross-word puzzle. Decoding figures into letters | 1s one thing but translating letters | into figures i& something else again, | Of course mv hunch may be wrong. ! There may no figures in the| whole thing, but—" ‘ £he looked at me, and I finished the sentence for her. But I'm sure there are” T sald adding dublously, "If only I can get Beld of them.” "It you can't, nobody | Lee Chow would say | turned. “I haven't forgotten that stunt you did with that .\‘u"\sl‘lnn‘ eharacter thing.” ‘ “But don't vou see I H"l"h’\].‘ using an argument with which I | eften had disciplined my own vanity | over the triumph of which she ju had | aste be do, as Lillian re- can spoken—that the & an | thing was the veriest freak of luck. |so as fo disturb no one, I tiptoed | 1f I hadn't studied that period with | that old antiquarian and if 1 hadn't | possessed his books, T never would | have stumbled upon the key to the thing. Dr. Drake could have decoded it in one-third the time, if he only | had possessed the key upon which I stumbled by accident.” “You Did a Bang-Up Stunt” | "1 should hope he could have done | it in one-sixth,” Lilllan said a bit | caustically, “considering that he is one of the greatest code experts in the world. But you are too modest, old thing. You did a hang-up stunt that time, one that Allen Drake would have glven a good deal to have pulled off. However, I'm afrald you'll find this a tougher proposi- tion.” Hours later, near midnizht in fact, 1 echoed her prediction as T sat by Dicky's drawing table in his room, and pushed aside a pile of narr.-,«.} once blank, but now covered with my attempts to solve the mystery of | the card. 1 had invoked algebrale formulas .geometrical theorems, pro- gressions, calling heavily upon my | solved the {card was a slight variation from t iatsssianasieadiireasss i 1 things and with the result—utier With impotent wrath at my 1 picked up th card and scan- ned it closely, trying to look at it as suddenly 1 gave a suppressed whoop a pencil and fresh sheets ot paper fell furiously to worl an hour later, 1 gazed down at a ghect of paper upon which set rows of figures ar- addition, figures vhatever thetr Alwa futility. fail- 0 of unus ure wnd seizing Less than were down ranged which I v m which I felt ere the things camoutfls much did the received for the asking a photograph of a prominent woman figuring in the news 8f the day, after all other methods of without her nt 'mula with which T had problem presented by tt 18 repor- who axhaustir obtaining it con For the one which every primary child pla tre hunting engages for his message B equals two, and o on “I Believe You'se Got Tt" With the feeling of pleasurable ex- haustion which accompantes a ta 1 rammed the discarded papers into Dicky's capaclous waste- basket, and wrapped the completed and correct one around card. Then opening the door softly ing code one, completed, down the hall to the room where T knew Lillian was lylng awake, k ing the vigil which she and T shared with Katherine, T had no compunction at disturb- ing her, for T knew that her regular time for going to sleep was yet a halt hour away. T knew also that the knowledge of the solvinz of the card’s jargon would be the best sedative she could have. T guessed that she had worried more than she let me know over Allen Drake's inexplicable silence. Her volee came challengingly be- fore T had traversed half the tance to her door “Who's there?" she called softly, and In equally low tones T respond- ed, “It's 1, Madge!" “Whatever—" she began as T hurried into the room ed on the electrie switeh, my face cl and exclaimed biliantly— “Bless my soul! got 1t!" (Copyright, 1925, Teature dis- and then she turn- seanned ju- T helieve you've hy Sorvic spaper Letter from Leslic Prescott to Ruth Burke — Continued 1 must confess, Ruth, I could not eat much, 1 hing seemed strange. 1 kept wondering what tl heavy coats were for, and expectir something new in the way of enter- tainment. At last I turned Mr. gartoris and remarked “And now ar you As 1 50 to gol graphy id this there were shricks of laughter, and Mr. Sartoris han ed a thirty-one hundre dollars to Jack with a bow. It & this was the amount they had wagered on my Bending low host sald: “T think me dear Mrs which you are fhe sense of enriosity of geography Ja with the r money 1 promi friends to acc this affair gotten eity. D did ust lack of curiosity Jand my will hope impolite my you not y in 1y Prescot! lacking, a or a knowledge Here ST invita r to me is 1 you got on Jadn't think knew when Eome surprise Tt nothing Jack vour plans toris might man, W mither prep 15k you in | w AT my de the <hoW am Aald mean fit, ar Lady Snows, T did mean it, and you that 1 do still mean it, I to take o moment the going you over at this pro where Mis s ly riding forgive me fo and will vou dine i gallant ship “Will you e Tittle steard of lunch on my really going to tuake Mr, us over aernplane, Sartevisy”’ il Mrs. Dalves “Of course, by passenger swered as it that kind of fravel were a 15 vou are acro- planes,” he calmly as usual motoring. “If A drive out off take Tack," from the ot or man about u ar n compliment won yon vds" 1 Interrug that love York there. 1 still on me the m will | \e het T don't that, not even 1 probahly re Tne TOMORROW Letter from Le Preseoft to Rnth Burke Cherry ablesp . 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T'm a fine one to he passing out |he's erazy THE STORY SO PAR: May Seyniour, whose husband, Dr. {John Seymour, killed himself Le- [cause of her love affair with |atier &’ year's absenc e comes late or home of her lawyer, and Gloria, his wife, night to the Dick Gregory, She tells them { followed her everywhere, 8he turns over the sale hou to Ulysses X, lorgan, a wealthy widower And she begs }l'l'k to gell her stecks and bonds at for | A1l ghe wante, she says is enough !money to dress the part of a r |widow o that ehe can land a hus- {band with money. A week later with handbag, May goes to A for a rest before sailing. of rtic City There ehe {meets a divorese, Carlotta Frolking, [you ramping him just as Spruce and could the other ¢ Dan | Herbert Waterbury land her triends Dressed for the part of a wistful (not Water- |vou were doing.”’ | widow, May lavs siege to bury’s heart. He gives two or three jparties in her honor, and shows her | “My dear woman pletures of his honses i the millionaire-husband she s looking for, May leads him to believe that she has much more moncy than Ihe $12,000 Forgan says he can get !for her house, One day Waterbury {] a tete-a-tete luncheon Sure that he May to have him ssionately, | marry him, (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) | May was sick with angry disap- pointment €he gaid goodbye to | Herbert 14 Ther room. |she gave |serutiny. | 1t affered 1o her eves, the picture {of a woman of apparent wealth—a | voung and heautitul woman dressed but doesn’t ack her 1o as Taking off the mirror her wrap a long, clos sive jewelry. Why then had Herby failed to ask i i Jim | Carewe, returns to her home town presentlv, how the ugly story of her past has| And 50 |began to cry. e has made up her mind to go to | irope where no one will know her. |Lee>" May asked her | for whatever they will bring. |little woman on one of her plump, | | $8,000 in her| with | wire! He tells her that he loves her [an vour clothes and go for a walk terbury and went up fo|fifteen minutes in expensive clotles, wearing expen- [out so much agthe flicker as an eye- her to marry him when he had told [believe her * he loved her The woman in the wonld make a desir able any man, mirror wife for even a mil- 2vice {o Carlotta abont landing a lusband, when I can't seem to do it myself told herself bitterly. Here T am with fwice her looks Per ps Carlotta had already told Herby John! In that case, Herby Ihad probably decided not to take a I ohance of unhappiness by marryink ‘\h of a ide! Yes, that must be it A sndden wave May. lupon the bed, and [silently for herself | At drted and [r‘v‘wrr 1 up on one elbow, looked out at the gray rain. A tap came at the | a0 e dragged herself acroes the | room to open it | “You're the very person I wanted May told her, as she shut “Have you, by any chance |told Herby Waterbury about my hus [hanb killing B e ey | have, please honest and tell me A sudden thought strick her about Dr of hopelessness threw herself long and {submerged She pt last she her eyes tn gee!” | the door. himse be But read \igorously not!" blonde have a clgaret enameled case that “ swear it, on shook her “Indeed 1 choosing Carlotta she said, blue cwnng at her wrist 1 stack of eeven Bibles!” She struck a mateh to her cigaret, and leaned back in her chair staring the ceiling with eyves that wer rod and swollen | “Can vou tell T've heen crying?” '#he asked May suddenly | May nodded. “You can vourself that 1 have!™ ghe answered {"T suppose we've both been bawlins about the game thing, too . . men | “On Carlotta answered {with her carelsse slang. “Tell vour troubles first, and then TNl tell vou mine.” But May slowly shook her head from the see for sure,"” me “Mine aren’t the kind that can be | now,” she said. “Ro go . 4idn’t Dan Is that told right |ahead with vours . Propese to you last night? what's wrong?" Carlotta walked ever the the win- “You'll pay for this some day, young woman!" | the room, (@] NEA ack in with her absorbed dow, and stood May, apparently {view of the ocean “N—not exactly,” answered | 3ut he told me he's in | {love with another woman. Now, can | | you tmagine his having the nerve to say a thing like that to me, after all these year! She turned suddenly to May, and | to | her che “Who's the noman ... Francie | “No. 1It's you," sobbed | into her handkerchief } May gasped with astonishment She got up and patted the unhappy | Carlotta shaking shoulders “Oh, he's just teasing you. You jdon’t believe such tommy-rot, do {you?" she asked | Carlotta shook May's hand off, nv.‘i stantly “Relieve it! Of course T be- Neve i1 “Didn't T wateh | | ard as when yon wer . Oh, Tm T saw what ehe eried | |swimming togethe blind, you know! | Mayv laughed with exasperation. | che bhegan, “I! don't want your Dan. Nice as he | is, T wonldn't have him as a gift—"| The tinkle of the wall-telephone hroke in wpen her spiritual renun- | ciation of Dan &prague. “Hello, Merry W 1t was his ve that came gayly over the! “How would yvou like to put Tow!" in the rain, with me?" May hesitated. She wanted to falk Dan, but she certainly did want Carlotta to know about it. “Can yon eall me again in about ' she asked guard- | to not edly [ “Who was that? sugpiciously when she from the telephone. wasn't 47" “Certainly not.” Carlotta asked turned away It was Dan, May fibhed with- s the clork sure that ¢ last, “Tt wa She wa downstairs." rletta did not “Toar little thing!" she With compassion. “Think of caring far a man the way she does -for Dan, and then fo have him tell you another you been in love thought about woman'! “How long haye nith Dan?" she asked. Twelve years," Afsmally 41 tta answered | down in Mexico with my husband—My husband's a bridge builder, you know. And I was there with some ofl people.” only twenty.-four, at the fime,” ghe went on, stealing a glance into the mirror ahove May's drezsing The minute T saw Dan T was in with him—not in the Jukewarm way I'd cared for husband—but forever and ever! The kind of fool affection a woman has for just one person in her whole life. **Well, seemed to care ahont me just that way—at first; T couldn't stand lving with my husband T dashed back to the states, and di- vorced him. Of course, T had no| reason in the world to do it But T aia.” “And you thonght Dan would ma ry as soon as you were free May finiched the story for her. * he never has! Isn't that it?" | Carlotta rolking nodded, and stared at May with her red-rimmed round “And he never will,”| she added. T know if. And vet T keep against hope that he will—Tf he comes east, T follow him. | And dos pay any mere af tention te me than he would to his| f he had one. Not as much!” smoked in slence for a few | minutes, lost in her ewn gloomy | { | | nas "1 was he you, Fyes hopt he 't sister, s In the silence of the rosm. the tinkle of the telephone sounded loud and portentous | Dan Sprague’s voice again— “TT meet Roardwalk shortly, on the May told hung up the re outeide ten minutes,’ rim, and celver “Making dates with the clerk?" Carlotta’s high voice shrill with scorn, “What's the {of lying to me, Mrs Seymour® T [knew you're going out to meet Dan ‘ T just know it!" £he stéod up and whirled across hotel | was use che I Forest staring up at the broken home of | {of a broken limb. surprised than he wa | carrying it as a cat carries a kitten | with a funny, moyement, With her hand on the door knob 10 turned and faced May, “You'll pay for this some day, young wom- {an!" she sald fn the tones of a trag- edy queen “Don’e be silly!” May said sharply “At @ matter of fact, 1 am golng out to meet your precious Dan. But not because T'm in love with him, ns he probably thinks 1 am He dcesn't know it, but he's fust dus for the razzing of his life from me “Abont he an B latin the way isked, sighing “Atout vou, of course” May told From now en T am going to a sort of combinatlon guardian angel - and - matrimontal-bureau for Rut Carlotta’s weak month draoped. “*You think so, now.” ehe said, T can see that you really in- tend to he a good friend of Pt has with women— He'll get around vou somehow.’ “Not with me. May an- ewered firmly, “T'm in just the right mood fo go out and tell some man or other exactly what T think of his entire gex. Thev're dead-beats and cheats when it comes to love-—" She was in apparently high spirits when she greeted Dan Sprague a few minutes later, A hloom of color was in her cheeks—she radiant treate m little a wav cveetie,” was How could Dan knew that this ra- | diance had ite inepiration in her anger foward Herbert Waterbury-—— He tucked her hand in hi nd they set out with their heads down azainst the high wind that rolled great in from fhe sea, and svept the spray into their faces “You'rs my kind of girl, to a T heard Dan's volee exnlting, ahove connd of the =urf, “An adven waves the Mrs. Timmy Moves Her Family, By Thornton W. Burgess, A mother will no effort spare To give her babies loving c Old Mother N Peter Rabhit, with his head the Green tilted back sat in Mrs. Timmy the Iying Squirrel 'way up near the top of a tall tree. He saw Mrs. Timmy climb that tree and disappear in the end of the stub In a minute she came out, Peter stared harder than ever, Mrs. Timmy looks funny,” said he. | “Yes, sir, she certainly looks funny. do Dbelieve she has one of se babies in her mouth. Yes, sir, Peter was right. Mrs, Timmy did have a baby Squirrel. 8ho was carry- ing it in her teeth. But if Peter could have seen clearly from down there the way in which she was carrying that baby he would he more She wasn't or a dog carries a puppy. No, sir, she wasn't earrying it that way at all. That little Squirrel seemed to be rolled up in a little ball and was clinging fast to his mother's neck while she held him in her teeth tightly by the loose skin. She was carrying him in such a way that he didn’t interfers with her move- ments. &he could climb and she could run and she could jump with him, which ghe couldn't have done had she heen carrying him as a cat carries a Kkitfen. Peter was watching for her to come down the tree with the baby and hoped &he wonld glve him a chance to see just what that little baby looked like. So perhaps you can guess how surprised Peter was when suddenly Mrs. Timmy jumped from way up where she was and went salling ont and down, down, down, across the Laughing Rrook, fust as she had sailed when she had iumped without a bahy. Peter was &0 surprised that he stared after her with his mouth open. He saw her glide down, down, and then allght zently on the foot of a certain tree. | hegan to climb that still carrying that baby, who had had its first experience in fly he wings. She didn’t run up that tree as fast as she had run but still she went up at a prefty lively rate, From where he Peter conld see that lttle baby Flving Squirrel, like a little fur ball, at his mother's throat When Mrs. Timmy reached a cer tain hole high up in the tree she disappeared inside. A moment later was but this time sh wasn't carrving the baby. The baby was in his new home, Back came Mrs sliding down the air the old stump near At once she without up hefore she ont, Timmy, to alight on Peter. “There's one of them over there,” 'FLAPPER FANNY says- Many & tackle s tackled. rolling mine. | . aren’t you n adventuress, you mean. ' May answered, enjoying her’ own joke, “Yew, I'm an adventuress.” ‘ ‘You're a darling!" he sald, then almost shouting to make himgelt [neard. Wijth a sudden niovement he drow May close to his side, turned |his face and kissed her cheek just |below her ear, 8he heard him laugh, ‘U-mmplmnv': “Don't do that again & dangerous charpness volce Ihere was in Mays | Vor answer, Dan her to- | ward nim. held her elose i his arms, 1 laughed down at her, showing strong white teeth in a grin You know yeu want to kiss * he said, "'You kuow rou do Wou know, if 1 asked you to, you'd drive over to Philadelphia with me, tos and be married, wouldn't May was speechless with anger “H-how do you get that way”" she Why, 1 wouldnt |marry vou if you were the last man on earth!—Even If you didn’t belong [to Carlotta, 1 wouldn't have you for a gift. 1 iust finished telling her so!" She felt his arms relax, and she [tore herself away from him. “If yon feel that way ahout me.” he asked sarcastically, “Why have yon been making love to me, for t last three days the way yeu have May could sce that he really was puzzled-—that he really thought ehe had Leen asking him to make lote to her, CWhy—why asked “Have T been doing that didn’t know it!" Wag she so anxious to find a hus band that she unconscinuely tried 1n lure all men, ehe wondared (TO BRE CONTINUED) snung vou gasped at lust she faintl - Truly, 1 vald she, | T don't L1t exelaimed Peter, Little Mrs, Timmy looked She was a little pu : it you don’t see how T d | she asked. | g don'i see haw you:dared malke sueh a dreadful jump when you a carrying a baby in your nouth’” sald he. “Just supposing you had dropped 1t | “Huh!" exclaimed Mrs. Timmy, don't you worry about me drop- ping one of my babies. That is | something that just couldn't happen I Tt even if it conld and did happen | that T 1et go, that bahy wouldn't be | see how you dared do puzzicd hat red do | | | [ “1 dow't see how you dared [11." exclaimed Peter. | | dropped. da You have no idea how | tightly those bables cling to mv neck. He certainly would cling until T conld get hold of him again. Well |T've got to get four more of them over there, so 1 mustn't waste any more time. With this she once more climbed I'the old home tree and a few min- (utes later went sailing across the | Taughing Brook with another baby | Peter stayed right there until the | 1ast one was safely in the new home. Then Peter hurried away as fast as {his legs could take him that he | might tell every one he met of the | wonderful thing he had seen (Copyright, 1825, by T. W. Burgess) | The next story: Timmy Is Much Upset, | Novel Sash G, | | | . o 1*" Ry l.[(._ L2 8 lfi‘l‘w Here is a novel zash that would be quite enough for any frock in the way of ornamentation. It is made of velvet ribbon and attached in a lattice work arrangement which makes it very flat and distinctive Gossip’s Corner Dark Ghades Fashionahle The wine shades and the desp | midnight biues are strong in fath- n's favor, particularly for the ma- e woman. Fringed Wraps. Fringe is being used very interest. ingly on coats and wraps and is fre. | quently applied to give a diagonal rather than a straight line.