South Bend News-Times, Volume 37, Number 137, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 16 May 1920 — Page 22

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Revelations of a Wife My Heart and My Husband BY ADELE GARRISON

WHAT A LICK IIUI'OMP.T: 1)1 MAXIi:i) or .MAIXil- "? Unicornis cor:sillol Y.'T . r;.U "WKtch. th-n push-l l.-r rh.iir J uk from th table on which cur luncheon was Hpre.ut. "Sorry to 1? a ppoll port," fv fcald. "'hut I niuvt UM you that th flrf. hell will rlrT In 10 mlmit.'S." Th:r was a nor il 8 uro'!" r-is:y rkklr.ff up of -ll.!."s üi1 I'.'tcklr.K away cf foo'i. for an uav.ritten ri'e corn fx-1 led us to lY-avü our teachers" rst room in u?h orderly condition that no trarc of our lunchrs would to Ir. f-vidt-nc. "Will you come with rn Mil.'ic. and waiCh the Riyviow youth.-: and maldor.w fitting at th tri f I.imaltl plural In th pernors f Mrs. Graham and m?" Miss Holcomho drawled tho question with apparent c.'ireh -sru si hut with y-s eharper.'d by worry I noticed that she was watching our principal's wife intently, listening with anxiety for her answer. Mr?. Ktockbrldgo waited so perceptibly before answering that we all Involuntarily turned toward her. The mo.t unobf-ervinj? won;'tn a men? i:s could havo teen thit sho was revolving some scheme of action In her mind. 'Thank you, but I nrust pet alone: homo.", aha raid at last. "Iv'o had rt perfectly wonderful tlmo. You must all come to luncheon with me pome ('.ay. And I must tell you, Mrs. Graham, how much I enjoyed that tea. Thank you bo murh for rdvins me those packets. I'm polni to experiment when I get home. How hali I fix itr Sil.'- Holrombo's ronr. I marvelled at her stupidity, for rhe had seen mo make tho tea but a" few minutes before. "It's tho simplest thlncr pos?;b!e," I said. "Put a packet in your tea-pc-i. and Pur itf-out four cupful.- of belling water over it. In about one minute, or at most two, you will have a delicious cup of tea." Sho knit her brows for a second

i a !f fhe wero endeavoring to fix i ;. i i r-'c ti'-'r.a in her mind. "I'll rememb' T," .-he s'ild abrupt- ! ly. "Gool-by, everyboily."

hh3 was at t:i :oor bcrore wo h-id tlru'' to ansv.tr, and vanished down the stairway as we were choruir.:; our udi"u after her. Alice 1 lolcombe's eyt-s c.tiifht and elg-raik-d mine. A minute later we were at the farther end of the room.

ostensibly enKat,'-d in putting away" the cooking utensils. "She's tone straight down to Mr. Stockbrioe'K oillcc," Miss Holcombe murmured, keeping her face turned auay from the observation of the other teachf rs. "She knows there'll be no one there until after the first bell rlntrn. and she's bound to get at that dj.sk of Ills If she can. "Vou'u! iot To! Her face and voice, low murmured

f though it was, expressed such con

sternation that I could not forbear

van amazed question.

"What harm will it do if she docs?" I asked, careful, however, to make my own voice an answer-

Ling murmur.

"That's just what I don't know." Miss Holcomte returned, evidently relieved, as I was, at seeing the ether teachers depart for their several classrooms. "Uut there's no doubt in the world that Mr. Stockhrldge has private papers, letters. P'-rKips photographs in that deck of which his wife knows nothing. Not tlvtt I think there's anything there of which he should be ashamed" her had lifted proudly in defense of the man for whom she cared so Fincerely, so hopelessly "but you can imagine how Milly would conEtrne tho most innocent souvenir of his past. I simply must know what sheYi doing, and I have an appointment wiih those derelicts I'm coaching between bells. Do you know that closet off the library where they keM the text hooks that are temporarily not In use?" "Yes, I replied laconically, a hit dned by the abruptness of the question. "Then you've seen the transom

over the door which lads from that I

ol'.s.'t Into the principal's orTlce," M:h Holcombe hurried on. "The user's 1 eked, tut the transom's open r'or air. I saw it this morning. l"e.ise go down there at once go through the library, there'll he nobody there at this hour set up on a chair you'll f.nd in there and watch what goes on in the orXcu." "Oli. my dear!" I exclaimed aghast. "I can't" "You've got to!" fhe retorted Inexorably. "I can't leave here, and it's absolutely neces?ary that Mr. Stockbridge know what she does or dk-covers while ehe's alone in the cfilce."

WHAT MADGi: SAW IN MIL sTocKiimiGi:s omen. For a long moment Alice Hol

combe and I faced each other tensely, she In.siftent on the course she had outlined, I equally determined apainst it. I was willing to go to many lengths for Alice Holcombe, but this propositon to spy upon my prncpal's

wife through a transom was somethng I could not do. I was big enough, however, to see the Justice of her standpoint. It was her duty, her privilege to protect tho man the loved from the crazed manoeuvres of his wife. Hut while I was perfectly willing to help her even to a point Involving personal danger, I felt that I must refuse this thing she had asked, nay commanded me to do. "Please don't be angry," I asked, "but I cannot watch Mrs. Stockbrige when she doesn't know I am near her. I will, however, go down to the office at once and stay there until some one comes to relievo me." "Oh. will you1?" Alice Holcombe's faco registered relief and astonishment. "I didn't think I ought to ask you that for fear of the unpleasantness Millie might cause you if ehe became angered at your coming down. She's not strong enough to hurt you, but she might say some very horrid things. Oh. dear!" her face fell. "I had forgotten that the teachers and children will he coming in. Wo mustn't risk a scene." "We probably are risking a scene anyway," I said practically. "I3ut you must decide quickly. I will go down to tho ollice on some plausible pretext, or I will stay here." "Oh. go down by all means and at once," she said, and I saw that sho was having difficulty in controlling her emotions. Why Mad so Hesitated. I was not particularly calm my

self, but fortunately my "single track mir.d," as Dicky terms it. enables mo generally to put asife from my thoughts everything save the particular task which is cngr.:-sing m So without au.v m re wor:s I turned and went swiftly down the sfaireas to thM door of th prineipai'.s o"i e, whb'h was closed. Contrary to the usual custom of the

sc hool. I debated for a moment whether or not I should knock on that clos-d door. Then my common sen.-e asserted itself, and told me that Mrs. Stockbridge was the real intruder, and that either Miss Holcombe or I. as the principal's assistants, had the right to enter the- o"iee in his ab

sence at win. iiut my ringers weiej trembling as I turned the knob and j -swung tack the door. i Mllly Stockbridge did r.ot see or ( i hear me. and my trained eye had j time to observe tho setting in which j

her absorbed figure was framed. She was sitting at her husband's rrlvate desk, and the drawers which

he had always kept locked were wioe open. A key, ono of a bunch on a key ring, was Inserted in the lock of the top one, while the principal's oflico coat, lying carelessly tumbled on the floor, was mute evidence of the manner in which Mrs. Stockbridge had secured the keys. Her husband, upon receiving the summons to the neghboring village,

must have forgotten to change

keys with his coat.

wheeled in the chair, then sprang to h r feet, her hands crushing together the envelope and its contents, among which I noticed some I ndak pictures, the backs of which, however, wer turned toward me. "Oh. it's you, is it. you spy!" she streamed. "I thought you'd he along. Well, now that you're here I'll give you something to think over and report." Sho sat down at the desk again, snatched a pen. dipped it in ink. and began to write f-nerlshiy acrusthe envelope. I had seen.

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date which had kept her from that office for so long. In her hands she held a large envelope on which was printed a caption in large letters. "Not to bo op ath." Milly Stockbridge's hands screened the other letters, but I completed the sentence in my mind, "Not to bo opened until my death." knew that her vandal fingers were tearing out from tho insensate paper the heart secrets of the man whos- life she had made one living hell. "I'll Give Yon

It took all tho courage I possessed j

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