Adele Garrison
“My Husband’s Love”
'
How I.illlan Cleared Up the Fur Mys
tery, Made Mollie Fawcett Happy,
and Dicky and Madge Faced Death
Together.
It lacked but five minutes of 3
o'clock, the hour Lillian had named,
when I reached the apartment house.
If I possessed any conscientious
scruples as to the trick I had played
upon Bess Dean, they had been com
pletely obliterated by Leila’s grati
tude, pathetic in its revelation of
how much she had suffered. I was
anxious to tell Lillian of the incident,
hut my first glance at her showed
me she was too absorbed in the af
fair of the furs to have a second for
anything but them.
She welcdmed me warmly but ab
st ractly.
"Put your things in the bedroom,"
she said. "Don't leave anything in
here. And you’d better stow your
things out of sight as much as you
can. We're going to use that room
for a 'conference' after a while."
Her lips twisted Into a smile as
she made this astounding statement,
and she moved toward the door say
ing:
“I'll be back presently.”
She swirled out, and it was well
after 4 o’clock when she returned,
accompanied by a brisk, gray-haired
little man whom she introduced as
00 Mr. Lowell, and who, was extremely
excited, but trying to hide It.
The sight of the furs in the trunk
had made me believe that nothing
could surprise me, but Dicky’s ap
pearance with a wild-eyed young
chap, who looked like my early con
ceptions of a Greek god, accomplish
ed that feat with dispatch.
I managed to return my husband’s
perfunctory nod with composure
equal to his, however, and to ac
knowledge the Introduction to the
wild-eyed youth, who answered, it ap
peared, to the name of Pangborn. But
he never finished his greeting of me,
because, even as Dicky spoke my
name, he caught sight of the elderly
man, rushed toward him and stopped
midway, hesitating, abashed.
"Oh! Cousin Tom!” he quavered.
The brisk little man came forward
quickly, and, reaching up, patted the
tall youth's shoulder.
"It’s all right, Hal, lad,” he said,
his voice tremulous.
Lillian threw open the door leading
to the bedroom.
“Sorry to interrupt," she said
crisply, "but the reunion stuff will
have to wait awhile. Please come
in here, and after you hear us go
out, do not speak until we come back.
Please open and shut that door lead
ing into the hall, Dicky. Is it prop
erly oiled?”
“Absolutely noiseless,” Dicky an
swered, demonstrating his words.
"So far, so good,” Lillian com
mented. “Now, Madge-”
As fast as our feet could carry
us, Lillian and I sped out of the
apartment into the street and back
again into the apartment house, up
the rear stairs and then cautiously
to the floor on which is our apart
ment. There holding the door ajar,
stood Mrs. Marks patently waiting
for us.
"I’ll Do Anthlng.”
"It’s all righ4, dearie,” Mrs. Marks
said in a hoarse whisper. "The man
you’re after is in the front room al
ready with the door closed on him
and Mollie.
"Hurry,” Lillian whispered peremp
torily, leading the way into the
hall, and if I had had room for a
scintilla of surprise I should have felt
it at the sight of "Petey,” pallid and
perceptibly terrified following with
Mrs. Marks.
We stole softly to the door lead
ing into the bedroom, which opened
noiselessly to Lillian's touch, and
then we filed into the room where
there was only space for us to stand.
I noticed that Dicky and the two
strangers were straining their ears
toward the front room, and that
Dicky had his hand restrainingly on
the arm of the Pangborn youth.
From the front room came Mollie
Fawcett’s voice, pleading with poign
ant anguish:
"Oh, Sam, I can’t help but ask you
once more! Won’t you have pity? You
know I don’t love you, and you don’t
want an unloved wife. I’ll promise
never to see Hal again if you only
won’t make-”
I saw Dicky clap a hand over young
Pangborn’s mouth and push him
back from the door.
"That isn’t the question,” the sav
age voice from the other aide of the
door went on. “What you’re going
to decide before another five minutee
rla whether your precioua Hal la go
ing to get out of the country Boot
n free, or whether he's going to do a
nice long stretch In prison. I told
you before. Marry me today and
hand over those furs you've hidden
away from me ao long, or take the
consequences. I know where to find
him, and he’ll have the handcuffs on
him before 24 hours, unless he does
the sensible thing and puts a bullet
•nto his brain. How about it? What's
your answer now? Quick now.”
The girl gave a stifled little moan,
then her voire rose despairingly.
"Oh! I’ll do It, everything, any
thing, but—what a beaat you are!
You know Hal never stole those furs.
He bought them from you, every one
of them!”
"Of course, he did!” The man’s
voice was mockingly triumphant, and
I saw the elderly man start, and look
meaningly at Lillian.
"Shall I tell you how I turned the
trick? No, not till the sky pilot has
said the ‘I pronounce you’ thing. A
wife can’t testify against her husband,
you know. Come here, you pretty
thing, and give papa a kiss. I’ll teach
you how to forget that booby,
Hal-"
I saw Lillian nod at Dicky, and as
a despairing little scream broke from
Molle’a lips, h* slid back the door,
and sprang through the opening,
elosely followed by Lillian and young
Pangborn, with the rest of ua crowd
ing after. Then a* Ham whirled to
face us, I heard Dicky shout;
"Look out! Madge!”
I saw Dicky bend and rush toward
the man named Ham »a he had done
In hla football days.
But I had seen something else the
, moment before, something that, lent
the swiftness of desperation tn my
feel and enabled mo to leap between
Dicky and lha other man, ami face
I
polntblank the vicious-looking pistol
which he had whipped from his belt
and leveled at my husband.
"You Double-Crosser!"
I fully expected death, and then
miraculously the revolver snapped
harmlessly in my face, and the next
instant Dicky, sweeping me aside,
hurled himself upon the man and bore
him to the ground, while young Pang
born and his elderly cousin literally
fell upon them.
I fell against the couch, half stun
ned for the second. Then from the
struggling heap on ’{he floor I heard
Dicky’s voice, with an agonized in
flection in it which made my heart
leap with a feeling I had not thought
to experience again:
"Madge! Madge! Are you all right?"
"Yes! Yes!’’ T called, reassuringly,
and then from out the heaving bodies
on the rug there was hoisted Into a
chair the disheveled figure of the man
named Sani, and Mr. Lowell was
gazing at him with a saddened face.
"Sam! Sam!’’ he said. ’’And I
trusted you!”
LlUian put her hand on his arid.
"He isn’t worth a sigh, Mrs. Low
ell.’’ she said. “You have heard him
admit the plot he concocted against
these two young people as well as
you. There only remains the Identi
fication of the fur?, which we have
safe in the next room.
“But,” Lillian continued, “it will in
terest you, Mr. Lowell, to know that
Mollie, attired in boy's clothing, shad
owed the gang, trying to get evidence
against them. On one of these occa
sions she almost fell into their hands.
One of the gang had just caught her,
thinking she was a boy, and Mr. Gra
ham here, who happened to be pass
ing, rescued her just in time to pre
vent a murder, I fancy, receiving a
nasty wound as a result.
‘‘Mr. Graham, naturally Interested
himself in the girl, and then I hap
pened to be drawn into the matter
and discovered that you, Mr. Lowell,
were an old acquaintance of mine.
“Mr. Graham and I have been
working on this case of yours ever
since, determined to coil the fellow
up in his own rope, despite his ges
tures with private detectives"—she
permitted herself a sardonic, remi
niscent little grin.
“But,” she went on with a compas
sionate little glance at the pallid J
Petey Marks, who .shorn of his usual
bombast, was eyeing Mr. Lowell fear
fully, "we never should have been
able to complete the case without the
aid of Mr. Marks here. I am afraid
he has taken toll of your stock in a
small way occasionally, enough to
give your foreman a hold on him, hut
I finally persuaded him to see the
light, and—”
"Y’ou—double-crosser!" Sam bellow
ed, furiously struggling against the
grasp of Dicky and young Pangborn.
“I Misjudged Y’ou So!”
Lillian stepped ta the door, opened
it and admitted a policeman who evi
dently had been waiting in the hall.
"Here's your man, officer!” she said
quietly, and after a dreadful half
minute of struggle Sam, handcuffed
and cursing horribly, was dragged
from the room and out of the lives of
Mollie Fawcett and her young lover,
who was holding her in his arms as if
he meant never to let her go again.
Mrs. Marks' high-pitched voice
broke in ludicrously, yet with a note
of tear In Its tones.
"Say, folks! What you goin’ to do
to my little Petey here? The little
rat'. I’ve been afraid he was up to
somethin' shady, but he had me buf
faloed. Nothin' doin’ with mamma
any more, though. If you'll only let
hint off I'll see that he walks the
chalk line if I have to wear out a
rolling pin a day.”
Mr. Lowell smiled a trifle grimly.
"Go with your wife, Marks,” he
said. “I’ll not prosecute you as long
as you obey her. Report for work as
usual.”
"You're one white old guy!" the
irrepressible Mrs. Marks declaimed
fervently. "Come along, Petey."
She sailed out of the room, with
Petey in her wake, no longer the
dominant male, hut henceforth a hen
pecked husband.
The instant Lillian shepherded the
others out of the room to identify the
furs Dicky seized my arm in a fierce
grip.
"Will you tel! me,” he said, tense
ly, "why under tlie canopy you jump
ed in between me and that beast?
Do you know you escaped death only
by a miracle?”
His voice was rough, uneven, and,
with his hands gripping my shoul
ders, his eyes searched my face. And
then, like the sudden giving way of
an ice jam in a mountain stream, he
swept me up close to him and was
showering hot kisses upon my face
while I—with poise utterly gone—
was clinging to him and sobbing con
vulsively.
“Oh! Dicky!" I murmured contrite
ly, "I misjudged you so! All the time
1 thought it was Mollie Fawcett, you
were helping Lillian unravel—"
"You generally do think things
about me that are odd,” he said
whimsically, "and I’ve been a crop
eared pup to you in more ways than
one. But—those things are less than
nothing. I died a thousand deaths
five minutes ago when you, my dar
ling, faced that pistol! And I guess
you, fearing for me, weren't far be
hind me in suffering, judging by your
face. What does anything in the.
world matter except that' we're alive
and together!"
My heart echoed his words as his
lips met mine.
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Beginning Tomorrow:
i A WIFE’S CONFESSIONAL
Adele Garrison’s
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October 13. Miss Loomis' marriage -
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