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Adele Garrison My Marriage Problems The Thing to Which Madge Awoke From Unconsciousness and the Part Harry Underwood Flayed. Out of the mists which had closed In on me when the shot that rang close to my ear had crumpled the yashmak-veiled woman who had held me, and other hands had drawn me backward—my head striking metal so hard I was rendered unconscious—I came to with my first thought, strangely enough, a distinct sense of relief. It was as if all trouble had been brushed away, though I could not in that instant conceive of the reason for this wave of inexpressible relief and rest. And then—I knew. Weakly I struggled to sit upright, but even as I raised myslf upon one hand there came from back of me the hand of a man, and I was gently, but nevertheless forcefully pulled back upon what I now realized was a chaise longue. Startled, I turned my head and gazed Into the eyes of Harry Underwood. Still In his bizarre costume, looking every inch the Spanish grandee, vyitn his curious but Immaculate clothes and his exqulsitely-cared-for beard. Harry Underwood stared at me with Inscrutable eyes. Had I not known that he was indeed renegade to his country, even to hts race, Itself, as well as recreant to his wife, Lillian, I should have understood his crytlc si lence. For there were still sounds In the hall beyond the closed door of this silken and perfumed boudoir, which ^ plainly told me that the fight which ' had raged in the big music room when the lights had been switched off as my father stood in jeopardy of his life, had been carried up the broad stairs and was even now dying out down the upper hall. A succession of rapid knocks—obviously a code— sounded on the door. Harry Underwood leaped to his feet, slid back the heavy bolts which secured this sinister door, opened it wide enough to permit one person to slip in—who it was I could not see because of my position on, the chaise longue—and then, after a whispered colloquy, admitted one other man— my father. He strode across the room and swept me into his arms, which trem bled in a convulsive clasp. “Praise be that you are safe, my dear,” he crooned. “I feared that all our care had failed and you had been wounded or worse. If it hadn't been for—” • He turned to clasp the hand of Harry Underwood, who was talking with the other person he had so care fully admitted a short man of power ful strength and keen roving eyes, which proclaimed the fact that he was one of the service men who had rushed the great house at the psychological instant. It was becom ing clearer each moment that the service men had waited until the lasts possible second to make sure of catching every person Involved In the conspiracy. "Underwood, Well Done." And with this reallzatloln came the flashing comprehension—patent the instant my father had entered the room—that not only had I misjudged Harry Underwood’s loyalty to his country and Its cause, but I had— there was now no time for thought, however, no second even to put my hand into Harry Underwood’s hand In thanks for what he had done for me and mine. For the service man had again opehed the door, and In walked Allen Drake, Dicky and Lillian Underwood. "Hello, Harry,” Lillian spoke with the nonchalance that had been hers In the years before he had fled with Grace Draper, before he had done the things against Dicky and to save Dicky which made even seeing him again so perplexing a problem to every one of us. "Congratulations, You turned that nicely.’’ “Underwood, well done.” Allen Drake was eyeing him with the Im perturbable twinkle which even the terrifying events of the last half hour could not chasten. "As you, yourself, would say—‘you done noble.’ But," his womanish lashes for an Instant [ veiled hls eyes, and then disclosed them keen and cold, “that was too close a margin. If you continue in this game for the government, old man—’’ The rest of Allen Drake's words were lost to me in the embrace with which Lillian was assuring herself I had not been seriously Injured. “You need not talk," she said with her wonderfully helpful understand ing. "Although the doctor when he arrives undoubtedly will demand that you rest without even the strain of listening. I know that you could nev er rest without knowing—’’ “To paraphrase.” Dicky’s voice came with forced jocularity from the other side of the chaise longue—and now I leaned back In his arms, which until that instant I had thought were those of my father, who, seemingly, had stepped aside to give place to Dicky, "you were in the hands of the enemy until we came, we saw, we conquered." "Where d'you get that ‘we,’ Dicky bird?” Lillian’s cool voice Interrupted. "You will admit,” Dicky was pat ently nettled, "that it was T who brought you the news that Madge’s wrecked car had been discovered in the Ticer gravel—” "Madge,” Lillian spoke as imper turbably as though Dicky had not been there, "Jerry Ticer went to the pit for gravel, found your car reposing in his favorite spot for digging, drove to the farmhouse, found Ulcky raging up and down—you needn't send me high signs, Dicky-bird, T know all about your row with Madge. If I only had the gentling of yon, my lad—” Lillian's Story. “Can it!” spluttered Dicky, but as gently as he always retorts to any thing Lillian may say. "Katie over heard Jerry, and she let out a wail that shook the roof. She thought you dead. I tell you, Madge, it shook me to the marrow, but—” "Yes, Katie gave me your note,” Lillian interposed. "But without tele phoning Mrs. Durkee. I knew you could never have arrived there. Then Harry telephoned, and—and you know the rest-” "Katherine—” I said through lips which for the first time I realized were swollen. "Safe!” Lillian exclaimed. "So Is everyone you love.” And then swiftly she sketched, as only Lillian can com press, the incidents which had oc curred after I swooned. "You may be sure that when your father was lured here by a false mes sage supposed to come from you, he and Allen Drake well knew what was doing. Harry was looking after you, and they would have raided this gang one minute after you entered the house or before had your father not been summoned, and if Allen’s men In side here hadn't tipped them off to wait, hoping to catch the money head of the movement, hut he got away. He's an enormously rich man, re cently arrived from overseas, who has quadrupled his wealth by grace of the opportunities everyone may have in our too hospitable country. He is a mono maniac, and his obsession is to overthrow the government for his own.” "But that can well wait.” Lillian In terrupted herself. "The man you knew as Smith, the ex-royal personage who so charmingly tried to stab you In your own home with that poisoned poinard—yes, Tom Chester Is still at the farmhouse at Dicky's special In vitation—well, my dear, your friend. Smith, will trouble you no more. Brave when everything went his way, he was a coward at heart, for he passed out while his men were dying for him, by the poison from the ring he wore for use In just such a defeat. The last man to try to escape was capture* In this hall before Dicky and I entered this room. “Can You Forgive.” "My dear,” I thought her eyes were tender with some strange pity. "I must tell you something that I learn ed a moment ago. "The yasmak-velled woman who held you as the lights went out was killed, but she—was not Grace Dra per.” I could hardly bellevo my ears, which buzzed with shock and the weakness that I strove to overcome so I might speak. With understand ing, Lillian put her arms closer around me as she said: “Grace Draper led you downstairs Harry is sure of that, but this oth er woman must have changed places with her. Can you remember? Just nod your head, yes or no. Was there a change of women?” Through my mind swam the mem ory of that one free Instant when Smith had shot the man, Joe, and I nodded In the affirmative. "I thought so,” Lillian exclaimed. “I must tell Allen to start the pur suit at once.” Then she tenderly kiss ed me and released me Into Dicky's arms, which closed about me convul sively, his voice whispering in my ear: “Oh, my darling, my darling,” though his lips were near his voice seemed from afar. “When I feared I should never again hold you In my arms, never again have the chance to beg your pardon for the miserable words with which I drove you so wild that you fled from your Jiome— In that instant I vowed never again to make my son's mother, my own adorable and adored sweetheart Jeal ous. For then I knew the pangs of Jealousy. But sometimes you have, my own, been unjustly Jealous of me.” The touch of his hands upon my hair, his lips upon my cheek, roused me to turn my head so that his eyes gazed Into mine. The reproach which skill must have shadowed my tense look caused Dicky's eyes to soften with agonized pleading as he mur mu d. "Hard an It may be for you to be lieve, 1 never had a thought hut for you. Yes, I know you're thinking of Bess Deane, but then T deliberately tried to make you Jealous. And do not Dunk that I didn't see through Claire Foster's ruse. At first whervj Claire and 1 met in the mountains be • that unfortunate airplane acci dent caused such notoriety and : o ight you so much unhappiness— how proud I was of you when you put aside your own feelings and rushed to out" aid!—I will admit that Claire Foster interested tup only ns a model for those new illustrations. But then I tried even harder than .-he to prove to you the truth that we never had any real thought of each other. Can you forgive—” What Dicky saw In my own eyes must have swept from his tnind and heart all doubt, for ids lips met mine in a pledge I pray may know no breaking. -- Don’t Miss 111 Begin It Tomorrow! MY HUSBAND S LOVE Adelc Harrison's New Phase of i Revelations of a Wife Which will carry on the lives and the fortunes of Madge and Dicky, , Lillian and Harry Underwood, and Robert Savarin, Father Spencer, Mother Grdham and Allen Drake —all your old favorites and many j fascinating new friends. The first Instalment presents—and later In stalments solve THE MOST VITAL PROBLEM IN MARRIAGE TODAY Babies’ Bibs Dainty and New. Bibs for the infant of sheer linen or soft silk are more beautiful than ever. The bibs tie at the back of [ the baby’s neck with a piece of rib-1 bon that is run through a button hole at the neck ends. A piece of em broidery or the linen button hole stitched at proper intervals forms the 1 bottom of the bib and runs well back under the arms. Ribbon run through ties in the back holding the bib in place. One pound of cheese equals two pounds of meat in food value. Beatrice Fairfax Problems That Perplex Ambitions and Ideals. Dear Miss Fairfax: What sre the ambitions and ideals of the average girl of 20? And ia a girl of 20 too young to be married? LEOLA. Life isn't a matter of hard and fast rules. You don't lay down certain regulations for yourself and say: ''This must l>e iny ambition. I ought to want certain things. i must share established aims and ideals.’’ "Know then thyself' is something more than a popular quotation. It Is the guide post io real living. The proper study of humanity is Indeed humanity. And the thing for the in dividual to do is to find out what kind of an Individual he Is. At 20. however, you can but begin to glimpse yourself. At 34 possibilities begin to manifest themselves clearly. And by the time you are 40 you should have done a great deal to develop your gifts. Honesty, earrnestness, joy In mere living, a faith in the power of work and true love of your fellows will give any girt of 20 a working basis for life. To do your work in the place you are called, to try to work toward a better place, to express the best in yourself with faith thaat the ''best” will grow as you exercise it—this is a worthy Ideal for any one—man or woman—20 or 40. Ideals are mental pictures of the best of which you can conceive. Am bitions are aspirations to make these dreams realities. Each of us must have his own dreams and the courage and force to make them come true. They arc not handed to us ready made. We must find our ambitions and work them out according to our best ideals of what Is line and true. To do some good—to make the world a better place because you are In it —to do the right as you see it and to try to see clearly and kindly—this is a worthy ideal. Yours Truly: I wouldn't bother about the photograph at this late date. It isn't the photograph you are con cerned about, but the young man’s affections, my dear. I think he showed you very plainly that the friendship was at-an end, so you had better put him out of your thoughts. Troubled: Of course the child Is too young to think of marriage. Ac cept her friendship and let things go on until she has finished school. You are both young and two years will goon pass. • BARNEY G OOG LE-— Barney Shortens the Distance by a Long Sleep. Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Billy De Beck f'WLES To C^O AND Y ( ncst a trim dime y , ) Foft RAILROAD FflRH S WHATS CONNA BECQMt; OF US - —'— V.SRARKY _ r Vf i,ht. 1923. by Kiat V~rmn* 5yodic«tg \mc. . HO HUM *V»E MlQHTl As well catch sotoe ; Steep ANO "Tol'AORWO*/. BRIGHT ANO EARLY, WE LL push opr Wow. XfA Txokd'J _ = "=JoF ME StEe-PlMCi WITH \ "This sk*n st/mwn^ \ ME. ih The: Face. 3 m X+++m_ 1 BRINGING UP FATHER—S5«S?S»i£»,3ff!JS«,SS D„wn for The Onj»h. b« by McM.n„. 1 '■ ■' I " ' IW I ' 1 f ■■■ ■ ■ > , — — ■ ■■■ . 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