New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1925, Page 4

A Wife’s Confessional | Adele Garrison's New Phase REVELATIONS OF A WIFE of Lillian and Madge Become Excited About “Steve’ shortly. - 1 lost no time in dast selephone, but Katis and when she turned confirmed Lilllan's prediction the m from Allen “It's do fice again,” with curios! was b Drake Allen Drake's Te the busin wax $0 Imp T'he and 1t took me 80 be sure that I ha very letter of as the telegraph operator was dic- tating ® s me. When I Lad 4 checking It with him, I falrly s upstairs to Lilllan’s room. “It's from Mr, Drak sald breathlessly, Toas it over she sald crisply, this time she did no ance, but trensiated herselt. 1 wondered, were becauss she feared Drake might say something pleasant concerning t 1 had done, and was much reifes when she tossed me the decoded message with a triumphant Iittle smile, “There! she crowed. what?" The message was short and crisp “Please rush Mrs. Graham’s transe 1ation. Cannot. waste any time, Hold man. Wil wire again “What Does He Mean?” To my annoyance my face erim- soned wl'h pleasure. The meseage | len Drake had fait oding of the card, and that he was waiting to use my work. |n ersonally, 1 sometimes have sc lking for the fascinating but ego- tistical secret agent, but profeseion- ally T sit at his feet in revercuce. Tt has been a dream of mine years—one scarcely even to my own thoughts—to #Ble gomatims to work seriously at the eods deciphering which P fascinating to me, This tacit ap-|tws proval of one of ths greatest cods experts in the world, seemed Bring my absurd dream a | nearer. To6 hide my upt Query ‘What d6 you supposa ha means By ‘hold man?" " I asked Lilllan drew her brows together involuntarily and I regretted question, knowing h e of any sort ‘What he says" uinal sentence for him, but would right," 4 finished It won't be L} and I notlced tha ask my assist- the me perhaps, this " 1 asked, Too much chance of a slip etter out might throw out In your p I'd taks it to the telegraph office direct and check with them meticulously.” “As I am In your place T shall do that, [that at once” I told her, and with translation carefully the pre put away , 1 sped out to were ce. What 414 T tell “Pretty nifty you?' | word with Lee C sentine T pald a mental poise and efticiency opsrator, 33 he chacked over diculous farrago v mesage appears vy must have been he the to the nth degres bLut no slightest 5 sign for v other an the most acknowledged S be mereial order, a model of efficie ad seve errands in the vil- that T reached ho I had given it was less ward th nd 1 flattered, d, received 1 of dy and afte message, tes him the than but se- c ans- ated t namite from contuston, 1 put an ull Your hunch she returned Letier from Teslie Preccott to Ruth Burke — Continned didat Me hefors we left » he asked to be p to their o Ir hi cams oard hi rdoned for & went insisted, all hut them devices and He however, that sta o all as of them coron —— CUT-0UTS David Copperfield W Latter trom Ts Ruth Burke ALD CLASSIEIEL v/}hrw.” s on. (/MI Salary ehould also b black) (Copyright, 19285, Associated Editors, | Inc.) time | Lield out | 1 1| Graham A large akes this it out Horizontal One who Glimmers. number of short words| an | Sae how long To ecorrode. . Very high mou Possessive pronc To befall Remorse, interesting puzzle! it takes you to work makes men's clothas, aft of a feather osite of late Printer's measnre Pleces Upon Point. of o res To place Let it To make Woolly T Finish hild’s toy Wants Wasted . Anger. Ofters. 1 Yo To Ie Myself Peels To 4 (a and ek Dormant Examinad Like Frozen water La To unfold ¥ Tards centri of cloth (pl) stand at . Married Morindirn Ha compars Sum total Breakwaters . Opposits of awea Negative. H ther. i e T (as a ball) in line An T’J«"S mr busin account lacs irface delicate colors. of elath (pl s time) s Yertical bodies flre. rrisp ! emelet, bran begins. pared meat or exrve 1 ba cook linner tin eparation & quite nak in lorax ‘x will | rub- Helps the 1lavor Pleated leeves L\iriqhi’_ 8 Chips off the Old Block W JUNIORS—Little NRs One-! d the regular d Made of same in nts, then candy For children and adults. SOLD BY YOUR DRUGGIST! | poses 1 | DEATRICE BURION &, THE FTORY 50 FAR: ‘.., Crazy about you' he mut- Inr-q thickly. “C'ms heére an' kiss kr)x»ulv H!n:uy:lu“k:e'cn:n:“:{ :eur'bl‘e?:”"‘ i affair with another man, returns| , S1AY rolled her eves up to the in- home after a year's absence. She dlfl'rer:, C"';;P: n H";. :‘k‘ she disposes of her fnherited property, | Eroantd: e SR 2 leaves the sale of her house in the |** Mk laughed. “Oh capable hands of Ulysses Z. Forgan, | , JAcK laust S and with $8,000 in her handbag, | ATUnK:” he said airil sets out to find and marry a man | Of fact there's very little drinking e e, Y |in the navy! — Look hers, ses what i |1 brought you!" t tlant. h 't a- by A ANt aRCUYINTeRTaE S e (i v et Im it e R rem cned vorces, Carlotta Frolking, and her | friends, Horbert Waterbury and|?® 1278e silver flask from one pocket ’ of his dinner coat, unscrewed the Dan B . Both men pay sult t &Y | top =nd, held it to his nostrils May, to the great distress ot Car-| '°P " i lotta, who has been in love with Thought you and I'd have this all by our lonelies,” explained. Dan for many years. When he pro- L refuses him, having | But since you'rs going to gum up this party with a lot of other peo- an much more “'s a matter | | meatate possession. He ratsed the s high in the alr drink,"” he sald elowly and with great dignity, “to the lady who has Carmen and Cleopatra and all the other vamps of history lashed | ' the mast — I drink to May! ! ! vittly he drained the gla eat it down Then, with the air of a man wvho | has equitted himself and nobly, he eollapsed on to the daven- port “Dinner is served the rolemn waiter. “Do you think to sit up and eat of a spoon and a hib, J tarbury acked i\ 1ad up from his seat my boy!"” His voice was gha “Don't ‘boy’ m Jack answered [ sulkily as he eat down. He picked up hit soup spoon and began to eat. “I'm just as much of a man as you are any day In the week, And | when it to knowing the repes { — I think I have the edgs on you, it anything—" and well Madam,” sald yon can manage without the aid king ng Ha “Come a afraid that ght tak at an it into Waterbury hew her or that he her, , to moment the ho his head to s much he loved might suddenly ay made up her mind that Waterbury | ! 13 the millionaire husband she has | P!* May's well use it for a whiskey | | cocktall. Give ‘em a I1'l thrill, en?" | “All right, T'Il send for some gin- been looking for. Carlotta May to spend t gerale” May agreed, moving toward | the telap winter with her in her bungalow in Californda. May accepts on condi As she stood there giving her order to the Kkitchen the hotel, | the summed Jack up with troubled tion t Carlotta let her pay her| share of the household expenses As time goes on, May despalrs of Waterbury, Then | ®¥°f | Danrley, a young collegiats | e represented that new type of appears on the scene, falls fn love | YOUNE American — the “collegiate with May, and rouses the jealousy |CAke-eater type. With his. flask of Waterbury who immediatuly | Pressed tight to his breast, and a proposes. May accspts him, and|Cigaret tangling from lax fin- they plan to be married within a|E8rS of hand, he was a portralt week. She plans to announce thejr 0f adolescant engagen a dinner in her| rooms at the hotel. Jack Darnley is the first guest fo arrive. He is very drunk, and while fe making maudlin love to Mav, ghe hears the | door behind them slowly open | i NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY May of the said as May this party at g eetie-peaches,” turned away from the “Le's you and me ditch — le's run up to N'Tork and get married A3 May said nothing, he went on fu a warmer tone: "Come on, le |1 knew the minute you kissed ma| struggled to free herself | the other night, you were the only trom Jack Darnley’s locked arms, | girl In the world for me! Sonn—lhln but they held her fast; and she|told me so! could feel his hot. alcoholic breath| “Well, wasn't that lovely!" May upon her cheek answered with fins sarcasm, “No, “Let me go, you fool!” Her whis- | than Jack, not tonight. Tomor- per sounded like a shriek In her|ro yhe—" own ears. &he felt sure that if Wa-| Her tone was soothing. She knew terbury were ing at the door.| he wab in no mood to be crossed. he couldn't help but hear it. “Oh, T hops he won't talk about “Just my rotten luck to have|kissing me, In front of Herbert!” Herbie find me here, with this kid' she prayed nervously, “Here, where he he m “May and I are going to he married—a week from today,” Helhell Waterbury said. she thought ‘ then all thought her brain, walted through at last the eal making love to me—" pairiugly. And 1ed to stop in re you going—?" For Jack had risen and was mov- ing toward the table, 'rom a carafe that the waiter had left there he r{poured himself a glass of water. | Tuto it he solemnly measured a liberal amount of whiskey trom his elahorate flask. “Oh ) etern ned wide 1o res thank goodn« 0ad back of a W table W hat here ound until a = — but iter bringing in lease don’'t drink May gged and glass, but the boy Irained it at a gulp. T looking at her with blood-shot eyes, wagging a r reprovingly . min’ . and poured a any reached took 1t en he solemn forefin- do vou mean by coming | mor for the and stood y of Darnley's embra ed and blinked hook his bullet- But 1 did knock.” he 1t appealing har ger at he her own busi econd the third ment that the found him hen ¢4 three minutes later. Je grected them with a brilliant they came in, and wed so low that he all but fell, downward, upon the floor. y's eyes questioned May. you been doi they seeme of these they ar- when ta Jar cigarets are ere's a in magazine to say in undertone, “You didn’t tell me how really bad he is — He : here a half ago, and 1 to make love to me At that moment the waiter ar- rived with the gingerale and fic I'll make these highballs satd firmly, snatching the flask from young Darnley. She opened | the bottles of gingerale. and mixed four highballs doesn’t care for any — he's she explained quietly a him an an hour her the I an 5 ight May table their in trom the Bimself & ason it enport, put his ands cad and smiled | boy made no answer, but up at unshadowed plea- | swiftly removed one of the high- sure. | balls trom the table to his own im- eep ¢ May with ;n other | told | York and marty run off to New | him But as tha tima dragged e eald nothing. but ate in { #ilance. ghe breathed more Under the warming infl e of the ball, sha becams talkative, even cheerful When the coifee had heen served and the cigarets passed, and the walter had 16ft them to themselscs, she leaned fornard and opened her lips to epeak, She tr a a little, A her face was v ite under the flickering candle-light. Herbert and 1 want to tell you, said, and pansed, For Jack Darnley was leaning forward He ssemed to be hanging uy words. Suddenly he put | hand and grasped one of hers it 14y upon the tabla, May énatched o6 if & flame had touched on, and 100dy too. n her N out lis her niistake This was not tha fime ana the pl announce her engagement Waterbury! Not while t half-drunken, | Loy there! — Heaven knew wha he wonld say, “Well,” Dan Eprague drawled and there was a devil of mischief in | ME” brown eyes, “What do you and Herble want us? Go- ing to get instantly, sick alone or do! to epring on married, T suppose!” A Young Woolpicker Fight. Ry Thornton W. Rurgess I hope you hate my —0M4 Mother Nature | Haz a Rad| meaning elear. little nt in the Forest, and Flying Squirrel apartment, fricd gleep) they prefer to eleep dur- ight and out at | But both of them kept think- | eech Owl in | ' Tt being Whitetoot the oht Mre the t in lower apartme apartmer in the Green Timmy the upper You kno ing the d dusk. ing about another apariment in th So whan they did sleep bad dream in the to ik little Mrs, | i | Spooky the S very tree they had Woodps awake In fact, the four voung ont of their -]nrvmmwt in th It dav Woodpecker Th family of Drummer ker at same tree for the great family e Great a voung Woo clung to the trea and tried to ng all at once. Their Ai1 her bost 1o get them to n But it takes a lot World q place to thes they see everyt Apeckers a3 | mother Canv It Was The Face of Spookey The | sereech Owl, time. S for long young Wondpeckers to cling closely move little to using their feet, it happénad that one of them was a little livelier than the oth and this one kept climbing, an inch two at a time, and at the same |time he worked around to the other As he looked up he hole jnst above him He de {cided th he wonld ltke to see wh wag in that He was full He wondered if it cou "1‘ Woodpecker hole. | little hitched il he was to the very edge'of | e. It was a big hole. It was| much bigger hole than the wnas t entrance to H‘(‘} voung Wondpecker's own home. For a couple of minutes he clung aH [the edge of the entrance. trying to | got courage enough to put his| head inside Just as he was about It do this a Araadful thing happen- At least, it way dreadfu! to the |young Woodpecker. A round face |with a snapping hooked bill and | {round fierce vellow eyes, filled that |doorway. Tt was the face of Spooks {the Screech Owl, who had heard the eound of the claws of the Whoodpecker and who had come to his doorway to see what was going| on of cou ) try ta fly for th time catisfied tree, T and used firet a these the a E Now o |side of the tree t hole of | another ittle 1 up u Bt Rty |note wh he his way up ed |ed fort | for |haa lother {young s had hurried te see what the trouble lsizht |stopped ana peace In the apartment tree May closed one hand about Bey 8he felt as if & heart were within it — beating inteler- And she found that she could peak. She smiled and nodded. May and 1 are going (o ba married a week from Her- bert Waterbury sald. He turned in his chair and took her in his arms but she drew a from Her wide, {righte eves fixed upon Jack Darnley's fac The boy had risen, and was Ing from her to Waterbury with a hard, glittering gaze “Mr. Watarbu throat beating ably, not ¥ him nere hs sald finally fn a low, even volee, “This s not my highball speaking -~ The lady o has your heart just reduced me 10 cold soherness by her — er, an- nouncement.” He 1 his 1 drink to your he finished, of her ratse watar goblet wedded happi- “And — 1w glass down e May k with a 1at 10 come around by both upon the he <a1q msans that le to har, seized her arme 1 had Kkissed her wildly, *1 at name is walker— And ced out of deathlike alle gues niy a ind Without I cartidor il of e the ng p stretehed s bridge game that ) drooped ke a She kept with done ening Over the an thinking Herbie, for me I'm cold ey meét them with s upon her, and could not her o Dan grim that he Carlotta faced her with a zaze [hat boy,” he d, "He' ssed 3 L fore, hasn't May made no anar shook her, holding his at hands, "Has ally, May r You k e kisped m “Now ywn, caveman, and tell me this: 11T put my money Dan pragus's ol well?” Why, sure!” Harble's whole pression changed, “It'll make e You turn and 'l ¢ il minute and had gone ace his and he shoulders in Nt het «d appeals * ehs said into ex- for you! ith Dan (To Be Continued) frightened seream, and at the sams tirme he it he He it straight imped. He forgot that been afraid to try to fly Aldn’t think anything ahout at all and flew. He flew over to the nest tree and, landing on dodged around to the and there he clung. peep- round the tree th see At that dreadful creature was Qf comse, at ahrlek of that Woodpecker, Mrs, Drummer net the trunk, b side tearfully the was. The Spookey & began making a great fuss. Sha sn't afrald of him in daylight Other feathered floks heard her and in a tew instant ehe eaw minutes there was a great other young been frightened wings. Spookey racket Woodpeckers had into trying their zlared angrily at fhe feathered folk screaming at him. Then their noise, he want domw Almost at once th once maore there Meanwhile t tiring of out of noise was Mean- 1sading ths O14 while Mrs her family Orehard Driummer over towards wae L1925, by T. W. Bungess) The next story. “Spookey Returns 'to tha 014 Orehard.” A grass widow's weeds often grow wild - Bunions Quick relief from pain. Prevent shoe pressure. Ardrugand shoe storescverswhere § DrScholl’s ‘et Put one on—the (i Do it B wITHOUTIT ediately eases snde colicky pains and omach and bowels, nausea and weakenin| diarrhoea. For children an grown-ups use CHAMBERLAIN'S COLIC and DIARRHOEA REMED Take it with you wh m travel. Keep it always in your home That young Woodpecker gave a