The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-27

AG8%SN 1nable, we've got dandy,
 V4V stroldng gypsy band up at the hotel, the dining room floor is all waxed and I'm asking for the first dance with the young and radiant Mrs. Carter. Get into glad rag and don't keep me waiting.''
 Tom!'' gasped-
 "Oh, be a sport, MoIl, and don't take water! You said you would wake up this town, and now do it. It seems twenty instead of six years since I had my arms around you to nnus1c, and I'm not going to wait any longer. Everybody is there and they can't all dance with Miss Chester
 That settled it. I couldn't let a vis- 1ting girl be danced to death. Of course l had planned to make a dignifed de- but under my own roof, backed up by the presence of ancestral and marital rosewood, silver and mahogany, as widow should, but duty called me to deweed myself amid the inforpnality of an impromptu dance at the little town hotel. And in the fifteen min utes Tom gave me deweeded to some purpose and lowered out to still more. never do o-anything by halves.
 In that-that-4rousseau old Rene had made me there was one, what she
 
 looked Just as simple as the check 1t called for, a one and two ciphers back of it. It was of linen as sheer az a cobweb, real lace and tiny, delicfons incrustat1onS of embroidery. It fitted in lines that melted into curves, had ent1cements in the shape of long sash and a dangerous hReast knot of shizn- mery blue, tne color of my eyes, and looked newborn in it.
 Pm glad that poor MT. Carter was r go stern with me about rats and things in my hair, now that they are out of style, for I've got lots of my own left in consequence of not wearing other peoples. It clings and coils to my head just any old way that looks as if had spent an hour on it. That made me able to be ready to go down to Tom in only ten minutes over the time he gave me.
 stopped on next to the bottom step in the wide old hall and called Tom to turn out the light for me, as Judy had gone.
 I have turned out that light lots of times, but felt it best to let Tom see me in full light when we were alone. It is well I dfdl At first it stunned him, and it is a compliment to any woman to stun Tom Pollard. But Tom doesn't stay stunned long, and I only succeeded in suppressing him after he had landed two kisses on my shoulder, one on my hair and one on the back of my neck
 Molly he said, standing off and looking at me with shining eyes, ''you are one lovely dream. -Four shoulders are flushed velvet, your cheeks are peaches under cream, your eyes are blue absinth and your mouth a red devil. Come on before get drunk looking at you" didn't know wheth- CT liked that or not and turned down the light quickly myself and went to the gate hurriedly. Tom laughed and behaved himself.
 Everybody in town was up to the hotel and everybody was nice to me. girls and all. There is a bunch of lovely posy girls in this town and they were all in full flower. Most of the men were college boys home for vaca- tion, and while they are a few years younger than 1, I have been friends with them for always and they know how dance. I didn't even get near enough to the wall to know it was | there, though I was conscious of Aunt l Bettie and Mrs. Johnson sitting on it 1 at one end of the room, and every time passed them dirted with them until 1 I won smile from them both I wish I could be sure of hearing Mrs. John | son tell Aunt Adeline all about it. To be Continued.)