Adele Garrison
“My Husband's Love"
Is There Something Really Serious
Troubling Leila?
As Alfred Durkee and I entered the
living room where Her Fluffiness and
Leila were sitting over the fast-dying
fire, the eyes of the elder woman flit
^»ted from my faee to her son’s. Mlr
^*ffired in them was a question:
"Did you tell him?”
I answered the anxious unspoken
query by crossing swiftly to her and
bending over her with a kiss.
“He knows all about It.” I whisper
ed, “and I’m going to take Leila up
stairs so you two can have a good
talk.”
A grateful, tremulous smile was her
only answer. I saw that speech for
the moment was beyond her, and
turned to Leila with a pretended
yawn.
’Tlease forgive me. dear,” I plead
ed speciously, “but 1 am terribly tir
ed. May I go to bed?”
“Of course." She rose as promptly
as her tender ankle would permit and
slipped her arm through mine. "I’ll go
right upstairs with you and see that
you're settled. Good-night, mother
dear. Don't forget to lock up Alf.”
She smiled tenderly at her mother
in-law, and little Mrs. Durkee called
an affectlonatae good-night after her
as we left the room. Taking care not
to turn the ankle which had given us
all so much trouble, Leila led the way
to the room which Mrs. Durkee had
given me, and when she reached there
looked at me wistfully.
Leila Has a “Good Cry."
"You are tired, aren't you?" she
said, and the words with the expres
sion of her eyes were an unconscious
confession of the disappointment
which was hers at not having an op
portunity to talk to me.
"That’s where you're mistaken," I
said with purposely assumed gaiety.
"I must confess to having prevaricat
ed grossly to our dear ones down
stairs. The truth is that I wanted a
good quiet pow-wow with you, and
managed accordingly.”
“You dear!” she breathed, her eyes
widening, and then, without further
warning, her slender hands went up
to her face and she burst into a storm
of aobs and tears.
I quickly crossed to the door behind
us and turned the key. Then I went
back to her, and swept the slender,
shaking figure into my arms, press
ing one of my handkerchiefs into her
hands
"What you need,” I announced with
decision, and a direct plagiarism of
Lillian's words to me upon two or
three occasions, “is a good cry. So
take It while you have the chance,
and then we'll talk.”
“Tell Me All About It.”
There was no answer save the sobs
that shook her, but she clung to me
so convulsively that I knew my near
ness and sympathy were the best
things she could have, and I said
nothing more, only held her close
and stroked her hair until the parox
ysm was passed. But when she final
ly raised her tear-stained face to
mine. I was startled and alarmed at
Its deadly pallor.
“You are ill, dear," I said. "Let me
get you something.”
"No! No!” she clutched at me in
alarm. "I—T don't need anything ex
cept to lie down. If you went after
something, Alfred might hear you,
and I wouldn't have him guess—for
anything!”
My heart was hot with anger
against Alfred, but I knew that her
terror of his knowledge was so real
that I would have to humor her for
the moment at least. So I drew her
to the bed, tossed my things upon it
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into the nearest chair and stripped off
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"Lie down here,” I said, "and I'll
take your shoes off.”
She obeyed me meekly, and 1 took
off her shoes and covered her warmly
with the soft comforter I found rolled
at the foot of the bed.
"Now,” I said decidedly, "I'm going
to lock the door hehind me and get
you something from the medicine
closet. Not a word, for 1 happen to
know that Alfred won't be upstairs
for the next quarter of an hour, at
least. I'll tell you how I know when
I get back. Lie still like a good girl."
I left the room before she could
protest further, locking the door be
hind me as I had promised. Inside
of two minutes I was back again,
thanks to the housewifely orderliness
of little Mrs. Durkee's medicine closet,
with a .pungent restorative and a
glass of cold water, both of which
L,eila swallowed obediently. Then,
with her hands tightly clasped in
mine, I waited.
"I'm all right now," she quavered
Rt length, the rotor stealing back to
her cheeks.
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(Copyright, 1923.)
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