Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-19

tsWhen Eve on earth again." cuoth the pretty girl in the panama hat, m net going to bag the privilege of being beautiful and rish--I'm going to ask be quite happy every woman should be able to walk tight rope and keep her feadi"
 If you'll sit down in this shady cor ner." suggested the girl in the blue silk sweater. "and take some of this nice iced tea you will feel lots better!" Don't be so indirect about ii" sweetly said the girl in the panama
 hat. "Why not state your opinion of me openly? But forgive you. because
 until this moment you have been in | utter ignorance of what befen me yesterday and gave rise to these emo tions I got locked out of the house at a time when there wasn't a soul home, and had an engagement to go to din- ner at a garden and had to dress. After doing all the various idiouc I things a woman always does in those circumstances such as mournfuliy shaking the doorl1nob and then angrt- l ly rattling it, peeking in through the 1 locked windows and staring vaguely 1 into the air and across the street. l rang the Needles bell next door. Only the maid was at home and told her wanted to go upstairs and climb out | the front bedroom window onto the porch roof, which is exactly the same US OuESs SIOplnS OOWu db lhC S0AA0 oA- l gle from the front of the house.
 There is just one foot open space between the edge of their porch rooL and ours, and what is twelve inches?
 Easily spanned by one skip of the foot, | if lady is anxious to put on some perfectly gorgeous clothes to dazzle bored young man coming to take her out to dine. The maid was in hurry | and when she had seen me safely out of the window she shut 1t and depart ed. It was then that essayed to walk | along that porch roof"
 The girl with the panama hat turned pale at the memory and shuddered. T took two steps," she reported, and
 then I sat right down in a heap! 1
 was so sick and dizzy that expected | to roll off the next instant! The slope i of that roof looked to my excited imag- 1 ination like 5000 foot toboggan slide with me on roller skates at the top, and 1t was at least a mile in from
 where sat to the bedroom window on
 my own roof. The sun poured down on me, and you know how l freckle The man was to dine with is esthetic and loathes freckles and altogether il
 was an awful situation.
 "It occurred to me, as l was only
 two or three steps from the Neeles
 bedroom window, I might more easily go back whence I came and save my life; ut I found that I didn't dare turr
 around. To do so I had either to face down that dreadful slope or turn my back on it. which was worse. Always
 have hated not seeing whatever wal
 threatening me.
 People passing by looked up mos interestedly. I suppose that they
 thought I was a lady lunatic out for ar
 airing. attached to a rope held by my
 keeper inside.
 'I simply had to do something so
 began to crawl, inch by inch, shudder.
 ing in every nerve, with that queer hid
 eous feeling at the pit of my stomacl
 that you have when you know you art
 going to be hanged the next minute! kept my eyes glued straight ahead ana tried to imagine I was a limpet O. , something that clings to rock s' tightly that people have to blast 'en off with dynamite when it is necessar. to get them loose! And after thous } and miles of this horror I came t
 kwhat was worse, the chasm between this roof and mine!
 Honestly. the Grand canyon of tn
 Colorado had nothing on that twelv inch space! I couldn't crawl across l and could no more get up on my fee l and step over than I could hay changed into a sparrow and flow across. So I sunk down into as com pact a heap as I could make of my
 self and began to cry. I could see tn
 years come and go. myself still crouch ing there shudderiny. 1 might evei get to be a national monument in tn