Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-02

course, though the Persian rugs anl the pictures are fine. and the staircas
 is peculiarly charming. It looks :; staircase made for sitting out dances
 with men you like, and evidently i
 knows it's value as flirting plac, and lives up to it, for there are fat bright colored silk and satin cushion. resting invitingly against the wall or each one of the shallow steps. Mos of the rooms are enormous and consis half of quaint leaded windows witt seats underneath But better thar anything else is the veranda, whicf runs all round the house and is moi only as wide as a good sized room but is fitted up like succession o1 rooms. The delicate bead curtains that 2 glitter like a rain of green and white and rose colored jewels give you g feeling of privacy, for you can see i. through them without being seen. The Batiny gray floor is half covered with exquisite rugs, and everywhere there Are oriental tables and chairs and eushiony sofas and green hammocks with frilly pink pillows and screens and bowers of palms and bright aga leas should like to live on that ve. randa swinging slowly in hammock and looking through the cascade of giittering beads at the sea and sky. spoke this thought out aloud, but Potter said I would soon learn that there wasn't much time in Newport for looking at the sea and sky.
 Why, isn't that partly what you come to Newport for?" asked.
 They all laughed. You just wait and find out," answered Potter And we'll work you pretty hard doing it.''
 Mrs. Ess Kay and Sally took me up to show me my room and theirs, and Potter said that he would go around and look in at the Casino, but he would come back and have tea with us as soon as he had seen what there was doing"
 Each bedroom is done in a color, and mine is the white room" It was almost too heavy sweet with some powerful flower fragrance when we went in. For an instant could not think what 1t was. But in another moment had seen on tables and cab inets and window shelves great bowls of water lilies, rising out of their dark leaves like moons out of cloud banks.
 From Potter" said Mrs. Ess Kay. He telegraphed for them to be here and sent word to the servants just how he wanted them arranged. l must say he does think of rather pret- ty things when he cares to please And he does care to please you, Betty. But you know that without my telling you, don't you, my Lady Witch?" -.
 It was hard hearted of me. but all my pleasure in the gleaming white beauties went out like a bursting bub- ble. It gets on my nerves to be grate- ful to Potter three or four times day.
 Nevertheless when he came back (which he did after we had dressed and were having tea behind the rain of glittering glass; had to thank him prettily. He was pleased, but was evidently thinking about something else.
 T didn't get to the Casino after all" said he. 'I met Mrs. Pitchley going out to make call (she was on her way home it seems when we met her), and she offered to turn back if I'd go with her, so did"
 "Now, see here, Potter Parker" broke in Mrs. Ess Kay. II don't wish you to set up as another of Cora Pitchley's champions. It's all very well for Margaret Taylour to be for ever quoting her, and she is fun, but she goes around being original in the wrong way, that nobody admires- that is, she does what she wants and not what other people want her to do. Margaret spends her summers at Blue Bay, and I spend mine at Newport, and I'm not going to have Mrs. Van der Windt down on me or on my brother either if I can help it"
 Thanks for your good advice" re- piled Potter airily But may be, when you hear what Mrs. Pitchley had to Bay to me you'll change your tune"
 Mrs. Ess Kay raised her eyebrows, but her eyes would look curious. What could Cora Pitchley say that would have any particular effect on me?' she asked.
 She knows for Il fact that she isn't fn ho acEa al tn hn ;pl- hoI 23d and that Mrs. Van der Windt her. self scratched your name off the list before she sailed for Europe"
 Mrs. Ess Rays face went a dull, ugly red. and she laughed loud laugh which sounded as if it would be the same color. As for Cora, 1 can quite understand, but I don't believe the woman would have dared to try to ex- rlude me-" she said in a quivery voice. Why shouldn't she have dared, when you come to think Of it." Well, anyhow-she don't dare now"
 No, naturally. she won't dare now. You're as smart as they make 'em, Kath." Then, for some reason, they both | turned and gaZed at me with thank ! goodness here e's-a-hoating- spar" sort of f look, while Sally examined the grounds in her teacup with that funny little three cornered smile of hers.
 Was that the thing you thought would change me toward Cora Pitch ley:" asked Mrs. Ess Kay.
 Yes, thought it would give you . rnrf Of faiInvK- faaTfn1.