The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-11

4AO OAS ACAL IO yOU, EOP1EGO recovering from his confusion. 'T hear perfectly well with the other one.''
 ''Ees," drawled Freddie, with a wink, ''so I've observed" After reflective silence tho young man ventured the in- teresting conclusion, t'She's stunning girl, all right" Brock looked politely askance. By love, Pm glad she isn't my sister-in-lawr'
 'I suppose Pm expected to ask why" frigidly.
 Certainly. Because If she was I couldn't. Do you get the po1nt?' He crossed his legs and looked insupporta- ply sure of himself.
 They reached Munich late in the aft ernoon and went at once to the Hotel vier Jahretzetten, where they were to find the OdeIkCarneys.
 MT. Odelk Carney was middle aged Eng1ishman Of the extremely unini- tiattve type. He was taH and narrow and distant, far beyond what is com nonly accepted as blase. Indeed, he was especially slow of speech, even for an Englishman, quite as if 1t were an everlasting question with him whether 1t was worth while to speak at all. One had the feeling when listening to MT. Odel1-Carney that he was being favored beyond words. It took him So long to say anything that if one were but moderately bright he could finish the sentence mentally some little time in advance of the speaker and thus be prepared to properly appreciate that which otherwise might have puzzled him considerably. It could not be said, however, that MT. Odell-Carney was ponderous. He was merely the e6ec- tuaI result of delay. Perhaps it is safe ! An 7T1r I'm best; they maintained that Ode1l-Car- ney was a pose, nothing more.
 His wife was quite the opposite in nearly every particular except height and angularity. She was bony and red faced and opinionated. A few sallow years, with rapid, prohfgate nobleman had brought her, in widow hood, to fine sense of appreciation of the slow going though tiresomely un- practical men of the Odell-Carney type. It mattered little that he made poor investment of the money she had sequestered from his lordship. He had kept her in the foreground by associat- ing himself with every big venture that interested the financial smart set. Not withstanding the fact that he never was known to have any money, he was looked upon as hnancier of the high est order, which is saying a great deal in these unfeeIing days of pounds and shiI1ings.
 Of course Mrs. OdelI-Carney was dressed as all rangy, long nmbed Eng lishwomen are prone to dress-after a model peculiarly not her own. She looked rfdicufoua1y ungraceful along side the smart, chic American women, and yet not one of them but would have given her boots to be able to array herself as one of these. There was no denying the fact that Mrs. OdeIl-Car- ney was regular hptopper,'' as Mr. Rodney was only too eager to say. She had the afr of born leader-that is to say, she could be gracious when occasion demanded, without being pat fonizing.
 In due course of time the Medcrofts and Mss Fowler were presented to the distinguished couple. This function was necessarily delayed until Odell- Carney had time to go into the details of a particularly annoying episode of the afternoon. He was telling the sto- ry to his friend Rodney, and Of course everything was at standst1n until he got through.
 It seems that MT. Odell-Carney felt the need of a nap at 8 o'clock. He
 gave strict injunct1ons that there was
 to be no noise in the halls while he
 slept and then went into his room and
 stretched out Any one who has stop
 ped at the Hotel Four Seasons will
 have no difficulty in recalling the cleo
 trfc hall bells which serve to attract
 the chamberma1ds to gfYen spots. If one needs the chambermafd he press
 Rs the button in his room and a lit
 Sle bell in the hall tfnkIes fur1ous1y until she responds and shuts 1t of. In that way one is sure that she has heard and is coming, a most admirable } bit of German ingenuity If she hap 1 pens to be taking her lunch at the time, the bell goes on ringing until she returns. It is a faithful bell. Coming 7 back to Odell- Carney, the maid on his floor was making up a room in close
 proximity when most annoying thing happened to her. A porter who had reason to dislike her came along and turned her key from the outside, lock ing her in the room. She couldn't ge- out, and she had been warned aga1nst making a sound that might disturt ! the English guest. With rare 1ntelli gence, she did not scream or make ar outcry,4 but wisely proceeded to press [ the button for a chambermaid Ther 3 she evidently sat down to wait. IL make the story short, she rang hel own call bell for two hours, no othe1
 maid condescending to notice the call : which speaks volumes for the a1mos - martial system of the hotel. The bel
 was opposite the narrator's door. I: v 1t. therefore, surprising that he re
 ouired a great deal of time to tell al 8 that he felt? It was not so much o 7 what he did that he spoke at sucl T great length, but of what he felt |
 To be Continued.A