The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-10

spoiled, and she's got a temper. aI- though, upon my soul, she seems diff ferent nowadays. There is a change in her, by George"'
 She's had her lesson said-L "Be- sides didn't find she had bad tenn per.''
 ''And, say, want to tell you some | thing else before I forget it. I fully ] appreciate your views on international i marriage Allie told me everything | you had to say about it. You must I have rubbed it in. But I think it did her good. She'll never marry another foreigner if I can help it, if she never marries- Well, well. I am glad to see | you and to shake your hand. IT wish i I could really tell you how I feel to- ward you, my boy, but IT don't Eeen to have the power to express myself. 1 If I''-
 tried to convince him that the pleas are had been all mine and then fin- ouired for Mrs. Titus and the countess.
 9They're both here, but the good Lord only knows where Mrs Titus goes driving every morning. Roads are fine if you can stick to them Aline said something last night about riding over to Tassifern this forenoon with Amberdale and young SkellY. Lets see, it's half past 10. Yes, they'va9 gone by this time. Why didn't yOul write or telegraph Aline Shell bel as mad as a wet hen when she hndsI you've come without letting her know
 s'I thought should like ito take her. by surprise I mumbled uncomfOrt- ably.
 And my son Jasper-why, he win explode when he hears you're here He's gone over to Covington to see a girl aff on the train for EouisyIIle- You've never seen such a boy He 1s always going to Covington with some l girl to see that she gets the right train 1 home But why are we wasting tin1e here when we might be doing few holes before lunch? I'll take you on Of course, you understand I'm q wretched player, bots I've got one viE- I tue: I never talk about my game and I never tell funny stories while my opponent is addressing the ball I'm an old duffer at the Es&as be--sI' got more sense than xaaast dufeers-
 We sauntered down to the ellsb l house. where he insisted on buying me a dozen golf balls and engaging Q caddy for me by the week. Up to the
 moment we stepped up to the first tee
 he talked necessarily of AltRe and Rosemary, but the instant the game was on he settled into the grim reserve
 that charaeterizes the man who talked
 any enterprise seriously be it work or
 play.
 [ shah not discuss our game further 2 than to say that he played in directions
 ly bad form, but with a purpose that let me to some degree into the secret of his success in life. If do say 1t my self am fairly good player don't believe was ever in. better huuol ? than on this gay November morn
 even apo4ogized for MT. T1tus' eEecra- bIe foozles. I amiably suggested thai
 he was a little off his game and thai . he'd soon strike his gait and give me
 a. sound beating after the turn Ell : smile was polite. but ironic, and T F was not long before realized that hc $ knew his own game too well to be ar
 fected by cajolery. He just pegg9e : away, always playing the odd or worse
 uncomplaining, unresentful, as eVe- i tempered as the May wind, and neVe : by any chance winning hole fron
 me. He was the rarest 'duifer 1t hai
 aver been my good fortune te meet