Connecticut western news., 1906-07-05
The Way of
 Escape
 By JOANNA SINGLE Copyright, 1906, bg F. c. Edstment
Copyright, I9o6, bg F. c. Eastment

Bradford, whose cneerfuI WnlStle seemed to be just behind him. He did not want to be pestered to play cards or golf or be pulled to the country club dance. He wanted solitude and his pipe and a chance to wonder why on earth Elizabeth Treynor should :udden- ly refuse to have anything to do with him after she had golfed and picnick- cd and sang with him all summer and after she had succeeded in getting him thoroughly in love with her.
 He felt i'll treated. He did not fall In love easily and in general he did not care for western girls. being Con- necticut man, Yale trained and Europe finished. before settling to practice medicine in the midwest. Elizabeth was different, and as he reflected on the difference between her and all other girls In the world he heard Brad ford whistling at the Treynor side gate for Jack and then asking if King lon were there.
 Kingdom slipped over the fence in the twilight and clambered up the first conveniently low branched tree. Pant
 
 ford's account of low he had chased Kingdom and lost him somewhere, and that he wanted him to take Nell Som- CTS to the dance they had just got up on the spur of the moment. And where was Jacks sister? Bradford wanted to ask her to go with him.
 Startled by the sound curiously like a suppressed snicker Kingdom decided to climb higher. He reached mp for a braI I above him md seized a small. warm slipper that gave his hand lit tie kick.
 keep still. can't you. and let go my foot?" a whisper admonished him. He looked up and saw Elizabeth sitting high and dry on a horizontal branch, the house. 'S-shr' she warned again, for her brother Jack and Bradford came iato the garden.
 ''Elizabethr' Jack called. Then: "Confound girls anyhow! She was here five minutes ago. and her wraps are in the hall. She must he near" On the strength of Eiizabeth's chuckle Dr.  side her Her gray suit made her ai- most invisible In the growing dark. but he knew by heart the blue of her eyes. the rich brownnesS of her hair and the coldness of her manner to him of late.
 What are you doi:.s here:" She tried to get hauteur Into a whisper and failed. -# ~
 What you are-escaping Bradford evidently. wouldn't go to the dance because yon were to be there"
 Thanks" she replied. Neither woald because you were to be there. That's vt I'm here. One has to ex- p;;in to Richard Bradford. and he al- ways wants to know why"
 I'd Ike to know why myself"
 "Oh. b. still. Why doesn't he gop' whispered the girl, for the eternal Brad ord saunterel under their tree and li@hted his pipe.
 Don't wait for ne. Jack. old man. I'll wait around a bit, and If she doesn't show up I'll come out alone"
 ''The confounded id:otr' Kingdom whispered and put out n protecting hand when she seemed to sway a bit She froze instantly. and he dared not venture excuse or protest
 The darkness had increased. and when the moon came sailing up Brad ford swore at his luck and departed, clicking tae gate behind him.
 NOW. Dr. Kingdom. I think you can make your escape"
 "But I don't want to-now, May I not stay long enough to apologize for intruding on your tree solitude?" -Ie spoke softly with n delicate clipping of the IFS. His fine. dark face bent to- ward her. II have not meant to perse- cute you, but you did not answer my letter. l will ncTe: trouble you again, but will you not bn fair enough to tell me just what have done? You could do an enemy that justicew To his sur prise she grdsped his arm.
 Father and mother!" she murInurei You'll have 10 stay. I couldn't OK plain to them why I am here." King Gon hardly brea.hed, for she forget to loosen the blessed hold on his sleeve.
 Ai-. Treynor walked in po:tly pom
 
 "Eli~aGeth worries me so." she com plain@l, and they seated themselves on Il rustic bench. She's so diRc..lt! can't lay it to college and hcr trip to Europe, for she was lively till just of late. Now she doesn't enjoy society and Is getting interested n the poor. And what do you suppose is her req son for refusing to have anything to do with that nice Dr Kingdom anG''-
 Some fool notion," her father grunted.
 And taking up with that Bradford I hope she won't marry him. I don't care If we have always known him-he doesn't seem quite nice. Well, he told Elizabeth that Dr. Kingdom said at the club that western girls hadn't reserve enough-that he disapproved of co-edu- cation because it made girls too free and easy with men and lot of stuff like thatw
 "She needn't be fool if he did. He never meant It for her.
 No. I'm from New Hampshire, and she has lived there half her time during the last six years. I wonder where sine Is now? Probably at Anne's. She's