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yh For a few weeks after my return my happines was complete, then, in spite of Mrs. Wright‘s warning that i1 should not question Curtiss about the past but just accept the sweetness of the hour, I found myself, several times each day, thinking of his flirtaâ€" tion with Letitia Evans and wonderâ€" ing if he were entirely over his inâ€" fatuation for the bewitching indisâ€" creet young girl. The jealous pangs I had suffered before I wentâ€"away began to crowd my mind again and even in the most beautiful moments of tenderness between us, with Curâ€" tis assuring me of his unwavering deâ€" votion, the desire to know just what Letitia Evans had meant to him was overwhelming and I realized only too well what the Old Testament writer had endured before he could declare to the world that "jealousy is as cruel as the grave." â€" It had been my intention to go to sleep, but as was often the case after an unusual busy day, when I finally got into bed I was too tired for reâ€" pose. I had spent the afternoon at a bridge party at the Country Club and the incessant chatter of ten taâ€" bles of players, with the additional effort to concentrate on the cards had left me. irritably tense, so ‘rather than lie awake in the dark I decided totnmenthelightu&finkham novel by Christopher "Morley which I had left off at a most entertaining part. P home. Like all men who have no sons of their own my father had grown very fond <of his sonâ€"inâ€"law and he and Curtiss were very close. That they enjoyed their business chats alone I knew perfectly well, so after sitting with them, in the softlyâ€" lighted study a few hours, I asked to The book was in the living room so, slipping into a negligee, I went in search of it. The logs still burned cosily in the grate and as the light mwknfldboqthmuu. I stretched myself comfortably on the divan, with its downy cushions, and intended to read. But the warmth and comfortable room soon soothed me into dreams. had held himself aloof from all the advances she had made. It could not have been long, howâ€" ever, before I was half awake again and heard Curtiss calling my name. I â€"started to answer and then, in my ‘halfâ€"conscious condition, realized That afternoon late when Curtiss eame in I was overjoyed to find my father with him. â€" His health had been completely restored and he had come on his first visit to our little Another insidious thought that had begun to enter my brain with nagâ€" ging persistency and made me disâ€" satisfied with the attitude Curtiss had adopted of never, in any way, referring to the past. (‘This suited n?,uhrunyowndainyen concerned, but the fear that clutched at my heart was the suspicion that Letitia had perhaps tired of Curtiss first and had put him:aside for the new minister. «s It was one thing for Curtiss to give up Letitia and another for her to discard him first \True, Mrs. Wright has assured me that she had come by several times and asked him to go out in her ¢ar and each time he had refused, but, even so, he might have . been piqugd because she was showing marked attention to the othâ€" er man, whom, it delighted me to hear 2 eeemeeenene PAGE TWO 'Aiv}‘"dfieTv'Tw'if"â€"é" Illnstrated by Paul Robinson naprurateniatlom lt uty BP iN n nc c vnian in Aeecnainesmes 1925 by im . Oldy ed to do was to make Sallie jealous by entering into your plan. I loved her so much that it seemed.an unfair thing to do and then, after turning the thing over and over in my mind, I realized that if you, with your treâ€" mendous love for her, could suggest mchnlchcmc,itmenlybecam !onlmdermodbu-pchpombot-j ter than I and had analyzed the situaâ€" "Yes," came father‘s reply, "and I‘m glad of this opportunity to exâ€" plain, you see, in that intimate chat I had with Sallie, I discovered many things about her that I am quite certain you could never know. I saw that she was starting out with the idea that she must continually dam- atize her married life and even then she was on the verge of seeking diâ€" version elsewhere, believing your afâ€" fection for her to be absolutely sure. I <attempted to reason with her," father explained, "but she met all my reprimands with the clever slang of modern wives and I knew, then and there, that it would require much stronger tactics than a scolding from her devoted old Dad to bring home to her the fact that flitting about isi a game two can play. I‘ve seen too much of that sort of thing, Curtiss, and I was déetermined to go any lengths to protect my precious child!" His voice broke, so that for a few moments I could scearcely catch the words, then he went on again," "Beâ€" sides, I knew her real happiness was at stake and I placed everything on that one desperate chance to save her from herself! The suggestion must have seemed most extraordinary, coming from me?" Dad asked. "I must admit it was something of a ‘shock," Curtiss said, "especially when the last thing on earth I wantâ€" I raised myself in a sitting position so that I could call out to them and make my presence known for I had always had a contempt for eavesâ€" dropping, even of the slightest kind, but the temptation of hearing for myself an explanation of the puzzâ€" ling events which had caused me so much heartache, was too strong for me to resist. An overwhelming powâ€" er laid my better instincts in the dust and foreed me to remain perfectly still. na_xMe. His voice came to me, as clearly us if I were in the same room: "I followed your suggestion about Sallie and it â€" worked!". he declared, "but there were times, sir, when I thought I had lost her for good and I wasn‘t so sure then whether I appreciated your kindly advice," Curtiss chuckled to himself. "I can well afford to laugh‘ now, but believe me, sir, that was the longest and most unsatisfacâ€" tory summer I‘ve ever lived and I wouldn‘t want to go thru it again." "©You ‘held out remarkably well," my father replied, "I thought you would weaken and go after her long ago." 1 "I was on the verge of leaving more than a dozen times and I‘m not saying how much longer I e(tld have remained silent if she hadn‘t shown up wnaen she did," Curtiss declared. "You remember when you wrote me that Sallie had told you that I wouldn‘t look at another girl and you advised me to flirt a bit and make her less sure?" that he and my father in the next room were continuing their conversa: tion and that Curtiss had not called me, but had mercly mentioned my stt ce n n en maierescmeasrntnns m tw s Baker According to the New York police no crime was reported in the city on last Saturday night, the first clean record in years. Maybe all the crooks were spending the weekâ€"end in the suburbs. E> I ~scarcely breathed.. 1 remained in my uncomfortable position, unable to do anything but listen, with strainâ€" ed nerves to catch their every word. (Curtiss reveals the reason for his continued affair with Letitia Evans. Read the unexpected development of a stirring situation next week in the Highland Park Press.) "But just a minute, sir!" Curtiss interrupted and his voice was serious and low, " So far so good, but there were some angles of the situation that neither you or I had figured out, for just as I had begun to thank the gods for placing the right girl in my path for the harmless fiirtation you had outlined in your plan, things beâ€" gan to happen over which I had abâ€" solutely no control." * $ "I : agree with you," father exâ€" claimed, "you could not have found a more perfect type!‘ Naughty but nice!" and he laughed. & ation from a perspective that it would have been impossible for me, «as her husband, to obtain. And so," Curtiss . ‘his voice to a lightâ€" ‘er tone, I began looking around for the other‘:git&&!f the stage had been set for it, things, in the beginning ‘could not have played better into my hands.. ‘Sincée you do not know the ‘lady in the case‘ I can tell you the details without hurting her reputaâ€" tion which, I assure you, I have nc desire to do. She was ideal, the thot, for the part, for her name had been discussed : on several occasions with married men prior to this time and I felt that my being seen with her now and then could not get her more talked about than she had been in the past. | Here‘s the way I had her figâ€" ured out: Flirtatious and reckless with ultraâ€"modern views but otherâ€" wige ‘perfectly respectable in every sense of the word." Fine old family and, regardless of her pranks, the girl was| accepted everywhere in town." 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