Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-16

you like with.
 I wasn't allowed to help Mrs. Trow-
 bridge and the girls with their work.
 Mir. Brett went off directly after
 breakfast with Mir Trowbridge and the two mysterious young men to get in hay or do something useful and farmy, so l sat in the maple grove with Vi vace (whO is a great fuvorite ill the householu) and wrote down all my ex perienceS since Chicago. We had an enormous dinner at F, which made me feel very odd, as I'm not used to it.
 But when we were called to tea" 1 knew better than l did yesterday what to expect.
 I've written home, of course. wrote the day after l arrived. At
 first I felt l ought to cable, but if did they might send at once. and on second thoughts l decided it wasn't necessary to go to the expense. So just wrote to mother to say l couldn't stand 1t with Mrs Ess Kay on ac count of her brother and I'd left sud denly to join Sally WoouDurn in the country, where l was boarding quite close to her. l wrote to Mrs. Ess Kay, too and said the same thing. asking her to kindly send on my boxes.
 She sent the boxes by what they call express" but didn't answer my let ter, which rather astonished me. as l had thought she would scold and had dreaded it. But when told Sally she wasn't as much surprised as l was. She knew already everything that hap pened after I ran away from the Moorings and told me all about it, which interested me great deal0Mrs Ess Kay had written her some things, and Mrs. Pitchley (whose maid is an intimate friend of Mrs. Ess kay's Louise) had supplied all the missing details.
 It seems that the day after the pink ball Mrs. Ess Kay had one of her headacheS-and no wonder Feeling very Ill. she didn't take much interest
 
 Louise said I wasn't out of my room that I wanted to sleep till luncheon.
 Potter had been so furious that he thought to punish me for my sins by Mrs, Ess Kay did not appear at luncheon, and Potter went out But when I didn't show myself or even ring. the servants be- gan to think 1t odd and spoke to Louise. She knocked at my door, and when after rapping several times there was no answer she opened 1t to find the room empty, the bed smooth. my boxes packed and all Mrs. Ess Kay's presents 10 me spread out on a sofa.
 By that time 1t was after ?, and, if only they had known, l was leaving the Waldorf Astoria to take the train for Chicago with Mir. Brett.
 Mrs. Ess Kay was so nervous with her headache and the reaction after all her work in getting up the great af- fair that when she was told I was mo- where to be found she had mysteries dlu S!dppeu lOuISe.
 Potter was sent for to the Casino and came home in q rage They talked things over and made up their minds that 1 had either caught a ship sailing for home or else had gone to Chicago to join Sally. If it hadn't been that they were afraid of scandal coming out in some horrid society paper they would have applied to the police for help, but as it was they didn't dare. and Potter said he could manage every thing himself.
 A ship really had sailed that day. so, as well as telegraphing to Sally, Pot ter went to the offices. then to the locks, and made all sorts of inquiries. From what he heard about some peo- pie who had engaged berths at the last minute he couldn't bc quite sure wasn't one of them, having gone un- Ter an assumed nsme. To add to the trouble. no answer came from Sally. Mrs. Hale, according to instructions, had opened the telegram and, knowing of the story from Sally, wasn't anHious 10 relieve Mrs. Ess Rays mind about me in too much of a lurry. Instead of having the message wired again she incloscd it in an ell TelOpe and sent 1t on to Sally by post, 30 there was another delay. and they lncw nothing for certain until a letter from Sally and one from me arrived II about the same time.
 Sally's opinion was and is that Mrs. Ess Kay has something up her sleeve; hat she won't write 10 me because she wants to show how hurt and scan- ialized she Is by my ungracious con 1uct, but that she has some idea for ! getting even with me sooner or later. If she hadn't that to keep her up Sally ! thinks she couldn't have resisted an 'wering my letter with q tlradp For she can't claw me away from . he Trowbridges and make me marry 'otter-even if he would have me now liter all my badness-otherwise she would perhaps have tried to act at 'nce. And she can't have me put in Drison on bread and water and solitary confinement, as no doubt she would ike 10 do Still, I don't feel quite .asy in my mind about her silence, lest sally may be right about some diss- .reeable plan she's hatching.
 I've found out everything about all he members of the family at Valley arm now. and Ire got acquainted vith most of the neighbsrs. They call hem neighbors if they live anywhere within twelve or fifteen miles