Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-04

guish, and then she was up in her own
| room.
"Oh," she noaned, "what shall do?
No one wants me. Papa is going to
marry again, and even he thinks do
not care for Dick. ! must have acted
| terribly fer papa to think that. And
why didn't he tell me that he wanted
to marry? I'd have been glad of it,
| for then l could have married Dick and
would not have needed to worry about
papa at all. oh, it is cruel! And now
| it is too late No wonder Dick stopped
caring if. acted like that-like they
seem to think l have" She sobbed
miserably.
Il like Marian Howard. l have al
ways wished l could have her with me.
I'd like to live with them, but they
don't want me either. Papa has said
time and again that such combinations
are always unhappy. and so l must go
away somewhere"
+ She sobbed herself to sleep that night
after hours of wretched reflection and
almost desperate thinking. She did not
go down to breakfast, but when she
heard her father leave the house she
went downtown and drew all of the
money which she had in the bank.
Then she bought ticket for New
York.
At noon her father, seeing how
wretched she looked at dinner, felt like
Tp Snnilincr
the whole thing. But she slipped away
+ too quickly to give him time to COM
! NIT himself, and when he was sure she
! was in her room he called Dick eau
tiously up over the phone.
Il guess you'd better come over.
I've made a beasuy mess of the
thing" he said. Then he called up to
Mary that he had to go back to the
office and told her not to sit up for
him and cleared out, feeling like a
coward.
7 This was the chance for which Mary
was waiting. Hurriedly she finished
packing her suit case, wrote an ago.
nized note to her father, and, after
dressing herself in the long coat and
dark veil which fleeing heroines al
ways wore in the plays she had seen,
she let herself quietly out at the front
door and reached the car. A young
man jumped off the outgoing car, look
| ed at her sharply and then swung up
the steps of the ingoing car after her,
but she did not notice.
"Nyas this what her father had meant
in his telephone message" thought the
+ young man. Well, he had made mess
of it,
1t was raining by this time-a dreary
little driZzle-and when Mary alighted
! at the union station she would have
/ fallen on the slippery steps had not
! some one seized the suit case and
/ caught her arm firmly. When she had
regained her balance the man did not
let go, but slid bis grasp down to the
! cold, wet hand.
Let me go! What do you mean?"
she gasped, and then she knew. She
began to cry.
MARY, Mary, so contrary, come on
| uOLuc SelLN ItINh SChlly. We
didn't mean to go so far as this, dear,
in our little plot
'We-our plot! What do you mean?
( Did you and father fix all this up for
/ 4 trick? And-and"- To Dicks great
'urprise and relief she began to laugh.
.Ie had expected teSrs, anger, even
lge. And then he began to feel fool
| h.
Il guess l got just what l deserve
/ was blind as bat" she said. when
/ % you want me to marry you, Dick
/ # you can forgive me enough TO want
| me at all? Dick. you didn't think that
had really stopped caring, did you?"
Mary's father was in the drawing
room when they got home and came
+ out into the hall 10 meet them. We've
been out walking" said Dick blandly.
Yes, | see" said Mr.. Arnold. lgnor-
! ing the suit case and Mary's unusual
apparel "t'"o r.'"h' isn't it,"