New Britain herald., 1916-11-23
REVELATI0NSOF WIFE,
Why the Persistent Unknown Thought
Madge Was Dicks Sister.
BY ADELE GARRWON

Why the Persistent Unknown Thought
NIadge Was Dicks Sister.
"I's sure your brother and you will
enjoy Cosgrove's very much"
Had it not been for Dicky punching
my arm 1 think T should have stopped
short upon the rustic bridge over
which we were making our way to
Cosgrove's farmhouse, and stared in
blank amazement at the slender,
dark woman who had just asSumel
that Dicky was my brother
She had been a fellow-passenge
with us on the little mountain train
climbing from Kingston to Cold Spring
in the Catski1ls, where Dacley and
had planned a weeks fishing. She
had vaguely annoyed me with her ap-
proving looks at Dicky when she
had accosted me on the train.
After we had alighted from the
same station she had been a spectator
of the dilemma in which the quaran-
tine on the farmhouse we had ex-
pected to visit had placed us.
She had heard the ridiculous little
| nickname Of "Sister Sue which Dicky
| had called me, and the request for
| two rooms which he had made to the
evident surprise Of the Cosgrove boy.
| Her assum ption that Dicky was my
brother instead Of my husband was'
| of course, natural one, but 1t an
| noyed me intesely.
I was about to correct her mistake
when the pressure on my arm from
Dicky's fingers grew stronger, and In
a tone which I recognized as full of
| the mischief in which he so often
| delights, he said:
| eyes We expect to have great
time up her. don't we Sister Sue?"
| knew that Dicky's love of jest
was such that he would greatly resent
any attempt Of mine to spoil 1t, so
contented myself with a demure:
Eyes, indeed
| But the vogue annoyance which l
had felt when the woman first &C.
costed me deepened at this mistake
in our relationship which she had
made and Dicky had sanctioned.
I was sure that the woman had no
martial ties-either she was widow
or had never married.
"Ah, You Are English
To my imagination the light in he1
eye as she looked at Dicky was specu-
lative. With an adroitness which ]
could not help but admire, she had
dropped back with Us as if it were
the most natural thing in the WORLD
that we should walk together, while
the boy from Cosgrove's who was
carrying our luggage, trudged or
| ahead
you know, I'm not particularly
keen on trying this new place." Dicl1y
/ said to me in a low voice, first max
ing sure that the boy was out OF
earshot.
Our new acquaintance cooked he1
head to one side and looked up a
him with a bird-like gesture AS she
did so she flashed a provocative glance
at him, and said quickly:
"Ah, you are English, I see.''
It was Dicky's turn to stare at he1
now. Then he threw back his heat
4 and laughed
THAT'S a good one, Sister Sue
he said to me, and I inwardly re
sented his mischievous emphasis OF
\ the nickname
what makes you think we're eng
lish ?" he asked the woman, with
Dicky so attractive to women.
ooh, because you said keen" sh,
returned, with another allurin.
futter of her wonderfully long, darl
q eyelashes. '"The English all say keen
4 I never heard an American say i
Il before, SO I thought you might b.
n En- gIish, and T know you are, aren'
: you?"
4 7 suppose her playful persistenc