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' I Adele Garrison * My Marriage Problems . How the Night Passed and What the Day Brought to Madge. Katherine and I clung tightly to gether for a few voiceless seconds, as might two child playmates who had found each other after being lost.* Then I put my lips to her ear: “Is your charge asleep?” I asked. “Tes.” she returned as cautiously. “Then get your purse and your wraps," I whispered. “We'll have to leave everything else. And we must try to get out now or it will be too late.” She looked at me with an inscruta ble expression. “How do you expect to get out?" she askld. "By taking off the lock of either your door or mine, with these." I held out the small but sturdy tools Lillian had given me so long ago. She shook her head with a pitying smile. "Don’t you know, child, Jh.it those outer doors are locked on the hall side with heavy chain bolls? I saw them when I went down to the kitchen. T ring this bell,*’ she indicated a push button, and then whispered, "when I wish to go to the kitchen for my charge, and a guard comes up, un locks the door, takes me down and brings me back again." I looked at her vacantly for a sec ond or two. Then I covered my face with my hands. “Is it so bad then, Madge?" Kath erine asked in a low. tense voice. “It’s as bad as it can be,” I whis pered hopelessly. "I’ve just overheard a conversation which destroyed my last hope. The man who brought gou here, the seemingly old man, was Harry TJunderwood, and until 10 min utes ago I thought him working against these people. But, instead, he is one of their most powerful figures, and as soon as he decoys my father here they are ready for their big play. Grace Draper knows who you are. and you know what that nteans. No. Katherine, all there is left for us now is to meet bravely whatever may come.” "She’s Invited to a Reunion.” I beard her murmur one word. “Jack.” and I saw that her face was i white and set, but that her eyes were | glowing. ‘‘Don't you dare give up hope until the breath is out of your body,” she whispered tensely, then achieved a ! smile, how I could not guess. "Is that ] Hibernian enough for you?” she j Queried whimsically. "I’ll back your ^ father and Lillian Underwood and ; Allen Drake against a dozen Graoe Drapers and Harry Underwoods.” “Lady! Lofely lady!” The hoarse voice of Joe sounded weariedly in the room back of Kath- I erine. “Yes. I’ll be there right away,” i she called, then caught me in a warm \ embrace. "Keep up your courage," she whis pered. "And I’d put hack that lock. No use of making them unnecessarily angry.” I kissed her with the feeling that 1 might never see her in the flesh again, : and when she had gone I obeyed her injunction as to the lock. Then I went back to the couch anil began the torturing vigil whose horrors I shall remember while life is in me. Katherine's optimism, whether real or assumed, I could not share. I be lieved I was spending my last night on earth, and the agony of longing for my little son, the knowledge that it was my own egrgious folly which had brought me to this puss, almost maddened me. I had left behind no trace of my self. It might he hours or days before Katie gave up the address of Mrs. Durkee which I had confided to her. And there would be no sign of the car upon the road or of my transfer ence to the gray limousine. For a little while thought of Junior occupied me wholly. Then, like a blinding flash I realized that my hus band and I had parted in the bitterest Quarrel we had ever known, had flung searing, blistering words at each other. And I would not have the op portunity to ask or receive forgive ; ness. I think 1 know how the condemned feel upon the night before their ex ecution. Hour after hour passed, j with no sound save Linda's heavy breathing. No one came near us even j to bring us food. The heat died ! away, and I dragged my motor coat j over tlie Indian blanket for extra warmth. Finally. near morning, chilled, exhausted, l fell uMp an un easy doze from which I was awak ened by Linda shaking pie vigorously. "You’re a good kid,” she said, “to let me have your lied. I’ve had a. splendid sleep—never woke up till 1 this minute. Gee!' I'm glad Grade l didn't come around here last night. I was dead to the world. There she is now." I A knock and the sound of a bolt be ing drawn and of a turning key had | come from the door. But on Linda's opening it, only Grace Draper's voice entered. She kept herself invisible. “Here," she said peremptorily. “Take this quick, and feed her face and yours. Ted her she’s invited to attend a little reunion in half an hour. And yoi^ get yourself out here in 10 .minutes. Til wait for you outside." Linda came back bearing a break | fast tray, and I realized that Harry j Underwood must have given the key j back to her. The message she had left was not an aid to a breakfast ap- ] pelite. but I forced myself to drink , the excellent hot coffee, and eat a roll. Linda hurried through her own j breakfast, and with a preoccupied' "So Long." went out of the room and I heard the key turned in the lock. \ii Odd Circumstance. "A half hour." Grace Draper had said. Looking at my wrist watch 1 found that I had 20 minutes. 1 made i a hurried toilet and put my packed bag and suitcase near the door, though I had little hope of over need ing them again, and put on my hat and coat. i The opening of the door punctuated my preparations, and in the hall out side I saw a number of people. Grace Draper's yashmak-veiled figure was | in the foreground, while behind her. with Harry Underwood's powerful hand upon his arm, was ray father. ; Still further in the rear were the big man who had been in the limosine, 1 and two other men of equally power ful appearance. Linda was nowhere i to be seen. I sprang forward with a little cry of "Father!” and he stepped a pace., toward me. But Harry Underwood, still affecting the costume and ton sorial embellishments of Don Ramon Almirez, jerked him back. "Stow that!" lie advised roughly. Ills voice and maimer in bizane eon trast to ills dignified appearance. "This isn't a family reunion, you know. Grace, keep a tight grip on her, but no pinching or couging on the way dow n. Bill, you take Henry - and Jake with you and get that fel low in the next room with the nurse. Vou'll have to bring him down on the stretcher, he's pretty weak, and who ever takes the nurse, look out for her. She's a slick one.” For the fraction of a second, before the commands were obeyed, 1 had a glimpse of my father's ey?s. They were fixed on me as if they were trying to convey some message to me. Then Grace Draper's hand pulled me .away, and it was not until several minutes later that my numbed brain registered the odd circumstance that my father's face held pity for me, but no stark despair such as I know my own cbuntenance mirrored. You Will Find an Important Announcement Here Tomorrow. Uncle Sam Says Roaches and Bedbugs. A vigorous campaign is before any housewife who is called upon to dis pute the occupancy of her home with these two pests. Their invasion will require constant attention and the ap plication of the best known remedies to exterminate them. The Omaha Bee Information Bu reau has obtained from tile' United States Bureau of Kntomology an ef fective means of destroying these pests. Readers of The Omaha Bee may obtain a copy of this information by addressing The Omaha Bee informa tion Bureau. 1035 New Hampshire avenue, Washington, D. C., enclosing on addressed envelope and four 1-oent stamps asking for roach and bedbug remedies. I niversity of Nebraska. Kighteen m^n ftom various part of the statu attended th» short course for oper ators offered recently by the department of electrical engineering. Demonstrations w»>re given by several manufacturer." of apparatus After the course, several elec trical concerns donated to th*» collegi of engineering the meters used at the demon strations. The Nebraska T..wa >1 'Hate, April 12. will be used ns a •clinic” for member* of the course in argumentative rornpoHition and th< * ours** t!Y debate. They will submit reports on thr Yvork of the < ontestante, analysis, use of evidence, fallacies, refuta iion, itid rh^oriial presentation Ueor^e M Rommel, cl.tor of th* Field Illustrated, has . hosu*n the Nebraska col leg#. of agriculture a.* one of *-ight such institutions in the United States to re erive extensive treatment in that maga z,im*. The article describing the college and it*« at complishmejit * v ’ll b* illue trat*d with from 10 to SO photographs. Harold Holtz, secretary of the Univer sity of Nebraska Alumni s- orjatlon. I.ob gone to rievcland, O, to attend the na tional convention of alumni-association secretaries. Burgess Bedtime Stories s Johnny Chuck Refuses to Come Down. The truih of this T pr»y yon heed— Worse things are there than being treed. —Johnny Churl*. Johnny Chuck was ui> in a tree. Ves, sir, Johnny Chuck was up in a tree. Ho hail climbed that tree him self. Ho had climbed it because! that was the only way ho could get away front Bowser the Hound. He hadn't made such very hard work of it, either. That was because Johnny Chuck has Squirrel blood in him. He belongs to the Squirrel family. It is a question who was the most surprised. Bowser the Hound or Johnny Shuck himself. Bowser had had no idea that Johnny could climb. dKS. TH Y,’ \ rii' t "tome down! Comp down!” barked Bowser. If Johnny had had any such idea he hadn't actually known that he fould. because he hadn't tried It. Now as I he sat in a crotch of that tree he couldn't help grinning as he looked down at Bowser. For a moment or two Bowser was too astonished to make a sound. He simply stood staring foolishly up at Johnny Chuck himself. Bowser had i tongue, he used it. My, my. I should say so! How Bowser did bark! He barked and barked and barked just the way he had mote than once j harked when he had chased Bobby < 'oon up a tree. Every one w ho heard that bark knew that Bowser had cor nered some one. “Come down! Come down! Come down!’’ barked Bowser. "Y ou haven't any right to climb a tree. Come down and fight as a Chur It should fight and give me a chance to shake you to death! Woodchucks can't climb trees. Come down on the ground where you belong." Johnny Chuck didn't acept that in vitation to come down. No, sir, he didn t accept that invitation. He re fused it. He refused to even think of coming down. He was satisfied to he where he was, and he said so. lie even made fun of Bowser because Bowser couldn't climb a tree. He acted quite as if he had been in the habit of climbing trees all his life. The more excited Bowser grew the more Johnny Chuck grinned. It was a most provoking grin. Now, Bowser's voice can he heard a long distance, and, as I said before, every one who heard it knew that he had chased some one Into a place from which they could not get away while he was there, and yet where he could not get at them. They knew that he was barking partly from ex citement and partly in the hope that his master would hear him and come. Sammy Jay and Blacky th# Crow were two who heard Bowser's voice and right away they became curious Sammy happened to be over in the Old Orchard, while Blacky was over in the Green Forest. Both started at once to see what was going on. "He must have cornered some one in that old stone wall," said Sammy Jay to himself. "I wonder if it can be Peter Rabbit.” Sammy flew a lit tle faster. And he headed for a tree from which he could look down and see all that was going on. His cousin. Blacky the Crow, was headed for that same tree, and they arrived there al . most together. Both looked down eagerly at the old stone wall to see if they could discover any one hiding between the stones of it. Then Blacky noticed that Bowser the Hound was looking up in a tree which grew beside that old stone wall. Of course, lie instantly looked up in that tree. Then he became quite as excited as was Bowser. Sammy Jay looked up and at once became equally excited. They saw what they never had expected to see—Johnny Chuck up in a tree. (Copyright. 1*25. by T. W barges# ) The next story: "Reddy Fox Hears About Johnny Chuck.” Out of every 100,000 girts and boys in England and Wales 6.S13 art named Mary, and 6.590 William. BARNEY GOOGLE_ ' SPARKY REFUSES TO BE A DERRICK. Drawn for The Omaha fee by Billy De Beck _ -- —i ■ 1 WLJ ■-■■■- ■■ ■■■ VOU Y4c*m gooo rrm-c: Nv V^T ' STUCK "The mo& - t. \ Rt CHOH VCuR \ Hass u*x v Wtvr 1© ~fc*j j r t -. SPARVOf ! You Bl$ COME 8AC* M6RE - V v "Tue mam **ss \ 5V OrtlV K1XK*H<*f M ^- -- ■ . > nrv t'KT/''' i"X.T/r'' im U A TUCD R.gi.t*r»d stF- J,(iOS AND MAGGlf: ,N FU,-|- Drawn for The Omaha Bee by McManus BRINGING UP rA I HER-u.s page of colors in the SUNDAY be* % Cc^.ht is:s> f THERESTHE ><o0 Re: 7°° J 000« C>ELL AK*»OOt> • l LL. 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J have so far managed to conceal my feelings and 1 am quite sure he suspects nothing I know jealousy is foolishness and have attempted to accept situations in the intended spirit —but I cannot overcome this de structive emotion. JESSIE. AVhere there is real love there is no room for hate. No one can hate and love at the same time any more than she can say "yes'' and "no" in the same breath and mean them both. Negative and positive cannot exist together and be put into eff^pt at once. Dove is a real, positive and beauti ful force. Hate js its opposite and jealousy is a petty and ignoble form or haired working itself out through selfishness. No one who truly loves wants to be selfish. No one who loves would want to stop the beloved from eating or drinking or sleeping or performing any of the normal life supporting functions of every day Then whs try to denj- a loved one the stimulat ing conversation, the exchange of Ideas, the amusement which are also breath of life—even :f they feed the mind instead of the body? Look jealousy squarely between the eyes if you want to kill it. Jeal ousy is a figment of the imagina tion—an image you erect on the altar where unselfish devotion ought, to be —a lie you make up to torture youi self. Jealousy isn't a reality. It isn't a positive emotion strong enough fo he called a vital force in your iifr It is negative. Toecure jealousy analyze it. Prove its nothingness. And then deny it. Are yon fond of Broiled I Liver and Bacon ? I A diflti voel ran alwav* fall I bark And von know' I that tker all like it To he enve I of it^mre it with a bottle «rf I LEA&PERRBffl SAUCE . THE 0HKWU1. 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