New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1925, Page 10

A Wife’s Confessional Adele Garrison's New Phase ot REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Ydlllan Takes up Defense In Behalf of Lee Chow At my suggestion that the driver of the government car be sent to Mrs. Ticer's with instructions to wait for Lee Chow, Lillian hrought her hands together in an approv- ing little clap, an action which brought a quick, disapproving ejaculation from Katherine, +*“Do you want me to tie your hands?’ she demanded tartly. *“Isn't it enough to let you tax your heart by talking or even thinking, without your Indulging In quick gestures like that? “Honest to Agnes, Katrina Lillian said contritely, “I won't move my little finger again, But it was 80 good to hear a real idea from Madge,” — she wrinkled her nose at me teasingly — “that T eouldn't forego the applause, Madge, it you'll go down and bring that sleuth up here, I'll lay out the dope for you, so that I'm sure he won't scent a single mouse, and | 4¢ he does he won't he in a posi- tion to volce his suspicions.” I hurried away, for T had a vi- slon of Mr. Eldridge mentally fuming downstairs, and indeed, when I entered the library T found him pacing the floor. But be stopped abruptly at my entrance, and turned a composed face to me. “Mrs. Underwood has had a heart attack,” — 1 recited my les- son glibly, — “so she will have to recelve you in her room. She has Been ‘seriously ill, you know, she really should not have come down stairs. But she hates being eonfined to her room, so she over- persuaded her nurse, and is now back in bed as a result, Will you eome with me to see her, please.” Katherine Takes Charge He made no conventional pro- Rest. Evidently Lillian's personal ailments or affairs were nothing to him. He was at the 'farmhouse simply to carry erders she should him. But I could not down a cer- tain nervous expectatioh that he would pass on to Lillian the same doubts ot Lee Chow and to me. < When he followed me into Lll-‘ Hlan's room, however, he sald nothing beyond a conventional “Sorry you're sick, Mrs. wood,” and slid awkwardly into a chair I placed by the side of the invalid’s bed.” Lilllan closed” her eyes as he did so and Katherine bent over her watchfuly for an in- stant, then turned to Mr. Eldridge with .a most impressive “bedside Manner.” Letter from Leslie Prescott to the Little Marquise, c-o the Sceret Drawer—Continued 1 expect, Little Marquise, that 1 really have not given you very much. of an idea of what kind of a man Melville Suartoris is. In fact, 1 do not know very much about him. I only know that just at present, although he is thousands of miles away from me, he is cer- tainly taking up too much of my time. I do not think there s an hoyr of the day I do not think about him, wonder where he is and what he Is doing and if he is thinking of me. He told me in this Byd was alsoyin love with me, which you can see was the most subtle kind of a compliment, as 8ydney Carlton has never said anything or looked anything that eould In any way construed as lovemaking. It was he who rescued Jack, leaving Melville Sartoris to bring me to the top of the water Poor old Syd! It bad that after all he has done us, he should be accused of falling in love with his best friend's wife. 1 wouldn't tell it to one in the world but you, Little Marquise — it would gake me scem so con ceited—but sometimes 1 have f that it Syd had not cared so mucl for Jack, he migh a good deal for me gopd friend. 1 wisl toris had not told suspicions. Y'm ‘very much upsct and #f I get enough, I'm going to t thing to Jack I haven't write you any more far away from ms Marquise. 1 wish my letter that be seems to have He is can Now, ! and | out + whatever | choose to giye | that he al- | ready had expressed to Mrs. Ticer | Under- | | “Mrs, very slow |a few words at answer Underwood must speg she said, “and only a time, or I will not the consequen dear,” she turned bac to Lilllan with tiny glass filled with an aromatic potion. Her pa- tient opened her eyes and obeyed the command. Then &he kept them open and addressed Mr. Eld- ridge in measured speech and feeblsc tones which I knew were accentuated for his benefit, although there was warrant enough for them in her condition, “1 Will Vouch for His Honesty" “Mrs. Graham tells me our man has gone, you think for for Drink this, K a slow, that 00d," good e Mr. certainly Eldridge you want until we Chinese “He'll other man car,” Lilllan looks that way," replied. “What do to do, stick around whether or not the comes back?" come back has killed returned. “Why, that's the theory has!" Mr. Eldridge exclaimed a quick glance at me. “Yes, so. M Graham said,” Lillian replied coolly, “and I think it a very plausible one, Yet, some- way, 1 have a great deal of confl- dence in Lee Chow's shrewdness. 1 believe he would be able to take care of himself even against a | eriminal like this man, Dackett.” “You know the Chink, then?" Mr. Eldridge asked, excitement tingling his speech, illian closed her eyes. cuse me for a minute, please,” she said faintly and we waited solemnly until she opened them again. “What did you ask me?" she faltered. “Oh! yes, about knowing Lee Chow. Indeed I do know him. He used to be the servant of an old friend of mine,” she nodded toward Eldridge significantly. “He is now ill — in a sanitarium, I be- lieve, and his servant came down here to stay with a relative, the lo- cal laundryman. I was surprised to see him one day upon the street, and ever since he has done odd er- rands for us. But I will vouch for his honesty absolutely.” “You're sure he might not have been double-crossing your friend while he was working for him Mr. Eldridge as] . “My friend,” Lillian's voice was |icy, "was one of the shrewdest and | most, prominent men in the serv- ice. 1t he gave his cenfidence to this Chinese, — and I personally "knnw he did — 1t is not for any- one else to doubt him."” Copyright, 1925, by Feature Service, me see unless the him for his Bill with Newspaper Inc. here. 1 think 1 could get up | of mind enough to tell is, 1 am going in and Jack and Brother. 1 will find some rest s emotions —Leslie. strength { her. As it talk to littlc | Perhaps there for my reetle Night Letter from Leslie Prescott to Melville Sartoriy care SS At- lantis, Los Angeles Harbor, Los Angeles, Cal. Dear Mr. Sartoris: You got away 10 s0on for me to thank you ade- quately for the beautiful party you gave me on board your yacht, and lalso for saving my life. You see 1 put the party before my life be- | cause the party was ons of the at events of my life — one 1 remember as long as 1 live. I saw in the paper this morning your arrival in and am sending night* letter to tell you you will have a time with Miss though 1 have not scen her often, I consider one of best friends. I know you are to be very nice to her. Perhaps you will du- plicate that party which you gave for It you do, I am sure it would make even Hollywosd sit up ind tuke notice I had rather notice of you this I am sure delightful who, al- geles, most Perrier, my going me. been expecting a from you. You will write me won't you, and tell me how you like Miss Perrier? But whether write me or please always that sincerest note am and ful friend, Hamilton Prescott. 5. 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HORIZONTAL 1 A surety 7 Incloses with bark 13 To lift up 14 Din 15 Morindin dye 17 Plan 18 Was submerged 19 To depart 20 Scarlet 22 Employing a single hand 24 Noah's vessel 25 Sailors 27 Antelope 28 Black haw 29 Occurrence ! 31 Strong caustic alkaline solution | 32 Free from indistinctiveness Recompense | Forelgners | Naturalistic | Ascended | | | Corrects as literary work Cripples Combustible fluid To burst asunder Mimicked The waist measure To auction 2,000 pounds One who breeds and sells ani- mals Bench in a church Half an em Valve in a water cock To liberate Paint of compass Tndian corn Tong rope used to lead horses To shield Inhumes VERTICAL Race official Either's pal Woolly surface of cloth Pit for green fodder Soluble compound yielding su- gar To count again Mad COLOR CUT-OUTE Little Miss Muffet | | | | | | A FRIENDLY SPIDER This is the last chapter of the story of “Little Miss Muffett." A ney story will start next week. | Watch the Color Cut-Outs for it. Miss Muffet thanked her mother and took her bowl of eurds | "mrl whey She ran out into the gar ‘l den with it and looked around for a nice shady place to sit and eat it. | '®he had no sooner sat down and | taken a big bite of the delicious | curds and whey than along came the largest spider Miss Muffet had | ever seen in her whole life. | | Now \iss Muffet atraid of | little tiny so with a am she jumped up and ran away just as fast as ever she could, The poor splder wondered what he had ever done to have such a cold recep- tion. | But even in her fright Miss Muf- fet held on tightly to her bowl of | curds and whey, and you will be {glad to know that she never spilled a single drop. your own make this picture tractive as you possibly Little was even spiders, (Use choice of colors just as at- can.) 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It kills the gorms ‘horse | MAY SEYNOUR f THI STORY SO FAR: | | proposes, [10 pay her fare to California where | \and {and asks her to marry | on Main | consisted | earned $14 a week. On the May Seymour, whose husband ed himself of her love ffalr with another man,‘returns to home town after a ab- ense She sells her property, and with her whole tiny fortune in cash, ets out to find and marry a man with money At Atlantie City Her- bert Waterbury through a divorcee. Mrs. Carlotta Frolking. When he May accepts him, believ- ing him a millionaire. &he turns over to him all her money for in- vestment, and he disappears with it. Penniless, Mav sells her jewelry ki because year's she meets Carlotta has a bungalow On her way west, she stops off in her home town to visit Mer old friends, Dick Gloria Gregory. There she meets a widower, Ulysses I7organ, who falls sincerely in love with her him. But May refuses, explaining that she likes him to well to marry him without love, and goes on to Cali- fernia Carlotta doesn't warmly when she finds that she can't pay her bhoard, and May leaves. £he finds a position selling real but gives it up when her employer makes to her. Finding herself again without funds, M wires to 'lysses for fare home. She returns to the Greg and there Ulysses comes fo see her. He tells her she ought not to live with the none-too-rich Gregorys. | but ought to go out into the world to make her own living. May takes | his advice, gets a job, and sets her- | self in housekeeping rooms. Then she loses her job, and Ulysses offers | her one in his own office. But May | refuses it, op the grounds that her stenography is so poor that she wouldn't earn her galary, oo a M welcome estate, love rys, (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) | May's next position was in the ad- vertising department of a large store “All my life . . . I've been she said in a whisper. et. Her work there mainly of addressing en- stre velopes. | Sometimes she addressed as many as five hundred a day. But this was not enough. A thousand a day .was the number required, and at the end of the second week May gave up | her job. | Sh rented a typewriter, ‘took it | { home, and for three days practiced | on it. But neither her speed por | accuracy jncreased. | betieve that only | had | could turn out herd It was hard to ten years amgo she firet-rate typist who a hundred letters a been a day! Every night she read the Herald | “Help Wanted” ads -carefully, but failed to amything promising She had very little money. and she lived on soda cracketrs and coffee for several davs Finally she made up her mind to | take anything in the way of a job. “Anything” proved to be filing and errand running in the New Britain office of the railroad She worked nine hours a day, and first Sat- tore open her envelope she had urday. May and looked at the money slaved for all week lomg . There had been a time when | she had spent that much and more, | every on lunches downtown | and for gasoline for her car. | Now it her rent clothes she week and supply her with what needed. | So far, she had had to buy | few clothes. The she had bought in Atlantic City. | months ago, were still smart and fresh looking. | As a matter of fact they were much too smart to be worn by an | ce girl in a railroad office. | May caught the other girls in the | place fooking askance at her once | or twice. They seemed to be won- | dering why a girl who wore hand. ver dresses | §he 1ooked up and smiled TLOOSE DEATRICE BURION &, made dresses and custom-made shoes should be working for $14 a wéek, . Any pair of shoes she had cost more than $14 . .. that was plain to be seen! And the other girls told each other 8o in the washroom where they gathered fo gossip. May knew that they gossiped about her; and so she madt no ef- fort to be friendly with them, al- though she nesded friends. She et alone in the darkest cor- ner of the room, walled of from the others by the‘filing cases, and | worked like.a machlne day in and day out, for two months. hree or four times Gloria Greg- ory telephoned to ask May out for sunday night supper. But May re- fused. She knew that she couldn't afford to return their hospitality, for one thing. But there was another rea- son for her repcated refusals. | The very sight of Gloria's happiness in her home had suddenly become unhearable to May. 8he didn't know why. either , . . .. The men In.the office began to pay attention to her. Two or three of them asked her to have lunch with them, at intervals, In the slang phrase of the office, she ‘turned them down cold.” Aftractive young chaps they were, too, but not to May. She had fallen into the fatal habit of contrasting all men with Ulysses Forgan. This one was not so tall or 80 good-l0oking. That one walked with a elouch. while Ulysses was as straight as an arrow, and walked with the grace of a trained soldier. One afternoon a group of four men walked into the office to confer with Mr. Boulanger, the office man- ager .All four of them were the sleek, well-fed, well-dressed type of successful business men. May found herself them with Ulysses . .. greatly as he, comparing to trying to find my way to you,” Ulysses' advantage, as usual. The truth suddenly flashed upon her . .. she was in love with Ulys . She was in love with him!, ., . That was why all othér men look- ed gray and uninteresting to her! The friendly feeling she had al- ways had for him . .. the.feeling of loneliness that lay like lead at the botom of her heart was love and she had guessed it . .. She sat there. staring at the blank wall in front of her, so wrap- ped in her own thoughts that she was unaware that gomeone was standing beside’ her desk, until a never large roll of paper was laid before | | her “Day dreaming. Mrs. Seymour?” asked the booming bass voice of Mr. Boulanger, the office manager. “TI—T think T was.”" May faltered. at Boulanger. longing to slap his fat face. He had a way of looking at May, of standing too close to her when he talked to her, that was insulting. | | May felt very sorry for Mrs. Boul- anger, a white-faced little woman who brought her husband to the office every morning and called for him every night—as if she didn't eto trust him out of her sight “Well, if you're day-dreaming must buy her food. pay |about me, I don't mind, your doing ! it.;" burbled Mr. Boulanger. “About these papers—" He pointed to the roll on May's desk with a fat fore- finger. “About these take them to Mr. Mutual building. gan.” . Ulysses X. Forgan! When Mr. Boulanger had gone. May sat nerfectly still looking down at the roll of papers. bound togeth- er by a thick elastic band. It was the most ordinary voll of paper papers—~you're too Forgan Ulysses X. For- . that Mr. | in the! imaginable, and yet to May that April afternoon it* looked llke the Magig Carpet of Bagdad, For It was the means of taking her to the man she loved! Outslde there was sunshine and a hvh wind that . tossed scaps of paper over the city streets _like white buterfiies over a meadow. The very smell of springtime was in the alr ... as if the fragrance of all the daffodils and burgeoning buds out in the country lanes had found its way Into the gray town, And without warning' something very like springtime blossomed in May's breast. It was as if all the | coldness and the loneliness went out | of it, as miraculously as winter | leaves the earth, . . . For the first time in months and | months she was happy ... won- derfully happy. In-all her life, she could not remember such happiness as this, . . . She was going to the man she loved . . . the one man in | all the world she would ever love! . . The one man in il the world sat | his desk, frowning | He was trying to decide which | would bore him least , . . to go out and play golf. or to go home and | putter in-the garden, | Neither prospect lured him much When he went out to play golf, he spent most of -the time comparing | the women on the links with May | Seymour . . . wondering how she | would look in a scarlet golf sweater | and leather skirt. And if he went home to dig in | the garden, he would picture her there standing on the graveled path between the rows of budding plants, with the sun in her eyes . . . He got up suddenly and put on | his hat. .. . He'd get out and walk | off his mood! No use to stay here land brood about a woman who didn't care a snap of her white finger abont him, at SAMMY JAY TELLS WHERE TO LOOK By Thornton W. Burgess A tattletale most folks despise Regardless it he runs or flies, —O0ld Mother Nature. Now, though Buster Bear pretend- ed thay he wasn't at all interested in niushrooms, he didn’t fool Chatterer the Red Squirrel at all. Chatterer knew that Buster was watching him. He knew that Buster was spying. Knowing this, Chatterer had no end of'fun. ~ He would climb a tree and pretend to be very busy up there. Then he would hide and watch. After a bit he wuold see Buster Bear come stealing along, and presently he would step and looi that tree all over—all the time pretending that he was doing something else. Then Chatterer would snicker to himself under his breath. So little by little he led Buster quite a distance from the tree in which he had stored his mushrooms, When finally Chatterer considered that he had led Buster far enough away from those mushrooms, he scampered away through the tree tops-as only Chatterer can. One in- stant Buster saw him, and the.next instant he had disappeared. Buster didn’t even know which way he had gone.. He began to realize how thor- oughly Chatterer had fooled him, It was just then that ajong came that other scamp of the Green ITorest, Sammy Jay. He saw at once that Buster was upset. It rather tickled Sammy, for I know of no one who takes greater delight in seeing peo- ple upset than does Sammy Jay. “You look out, of sorts, Buster Bear,” said he. “It must be you have had no breakfast this morning, or else your breakfast does not set well.” Just then, before Buster could re- ply, both heard Chatterer the Red Squirrel far away snickering. Buster Bear's black face grew blacker still ag he listened. Sammy Jay guessed at once that for some reason or other Buster Bear was provoked by Chatterer. Now Chatterer and Sam- my are nok the best of friends. Each steals from the other whenever he gets a chance. FEach likes to make trouble for the other. You see, both are naturally mischievous. Yes, sir, they are naturally ' mischievous. They are never happler ghan when they are engaged in some kind of mischief. “Listen to that red robber,” eried Sammy. “He seems to think some- thing i8 a great joke.” Sammy looked sharply at Buster as he sald this. “There's no one'” he con- tinued, “whom T had rather play a trick than Chatterer the Red Squir- rel.” * Buster Bear cocked a shrewd little eve up at Sammy Jay. “If that's the case” sald he, “you might let me know if sometime you run across some mushrooms hung up to dry in a free.” Sammy stared down very hard. -Buster winked. Sammy | winked “You follow m #aid he. “Your mentioning mushrooms re- minds me that early; this morning ¥ discovered a lot in a certain tree. It may be the tres you are looking for. So away flew Sammy and ‘nfl'r him shuffled great big Buster Bear. And so at last they eame to. {a eertain tree. “There,” sald Sammy, “are mushrooms.” Buster looked up. at Buster d your Rure enough. BUSTER ! grinned. there were the mushrooms. Buster MOTHERS IT DOES Absolutely safe. the city. At that instant the door opened and the woman, herself, walked intc | his oMce, “A package tor you frem Mr. Boulunger.” she sald, demurely, and laid & large, rubber-strapped bundle on his desk. Ulysses “Y—you asked “Yes," May answered., She threw back her head with a deflant move- , ment “I'm Dis office girl," she Then she turned to go She had reached the door, and her hand was on the knob when he stopped her. “Walit,"” he said, stared working and for stuttered, him?" he sald, and she turned | and faced him quietly The length of the tween Them. May measured it with her She had once thought she g would like to be footloose . .. to travel all the high-roads of the world.. but now she knew that the only road for her was the few feet of space betwen her and Ulysses For- gan. She never knew whether he called her to come to him She never knew how she crossed the floor of that office of his. All she knew ., . all she wanted to know . .. was that she was in his arms, close held against his breast. “All my life . . . it scems to me I've been trying to find my way here . .. to you she said in office was be. eye or not |a whisper 8o low that Ulysses eculd hardly hear what she said, But he did hear, and he held her even more closely . . . held her as if he would never let her go, And as May looked up at him, she knew beyond all doubt that life held no better thing for her ... or for any other woman .., than this: to be in the arms of the man she loved. THE There was no doubt in his mind that this was the tree to whicl Chatterer had removed those mush-' rooms. “Well,” said Sammy, “how about itz “It is Buster. the very tre replied “I am much obliged to you, Buster cocked a shrewd little cye up at Sammy Jay Sammy Jay. When I can do you a good turn let me know. I certainly am obliged to you.” Buster turned and walked away. “'Aren’t you going to do anything about them?” demanded Sammy. “Not now, Sammy, not now,” re- plied Buster, and that was all' he would say. (Copyright, 1925, by T. W. Burgess) . The next story: “Why Didn't Get the Mushrooms.” Buster Gossip’s Corner Fullness All Around There is a hint from Paris that fullness will be introduced in the back of the skirt as well as in the front in the fall models. Velvet and Ostrich The summer wrap that is creating ‘much attention is of velvet brocaded georgefte crepe or chiffon trimmed with ostrich. 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