The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-05-17
BECAUSE OF BRUIN
ey CATHARINE cRANmER.

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The most confirmed case Of blues
will fly in the face OF sunny spring
morning. especially when the sufferer
is a pretty girl OF twenty.
Dorothy swung along over the
smooth slopes. stopping often to gath
or wood violets or to listen to the sing
ing OF the birds.
It's too lovely a world to be IN
happy in," she murmured. \ SOUR
rel gave a harsh and saucy bark.
That's right. little fellow, retorted
Dorothy. seating herself on a park
bench; Just scold when things don't
suit you I'm going to scold, too, ana
give mother and daddy to understand
that | don't care how blue John Now
bray's blood is or how big his bank ac-
count or how good his chances TO be-
come governor"
Suddenly the chorus Of birds ended
in Quaycring chit-chat Dorothy
looked about and saw a full-grown
black bear leisurely sauntering toward
her. She sprang from her seat ana
ran for the nearest roadway.
She looked back once and saw IN.
bear galloping toward her, but she dlt
not see two park laborcrs BEARING
down on him. Neither did she see
4 lono young golfer strolling cityWaTi
until she rushed directly into him.
+ The force Of their collision sent the
Young mans glasses flying and they
/ broke into bits.
! The devil" he muttered.
"Oh. I'm sorry. shr gasprd, but its
really coming right after me"
! What's coming? The devil
40. you stupid; the bear" Dor
| othy's high-wrought tension almost
snapped and the tears hung on her
/ Iashes. Seeing no bear or other cause
for her agitation, the young man
/ looked puzzled. but the next instant
! perplexity gave way to riOtous smile
! Down the road came the two park 10
! borers with the captive bear. Dor
| othv quickly snatChed a bill from heF
! purse and flung it at the astOnishtt
young man.
There, Pay for your old glasses
and stop laughing at me-" She fled
behind the shrubbery and after her
went the young man.
81 say" he stammered, as lie
reached her side and trotted along
with her. I'm sorry was nasty about
the glasses. and you must take this
| back"
His laugh was too infectious to be
resisted. and Dorothy laughed, too.
They slowed up as they reached the
seat she had vacated and dropped into
| it. Between bursts of laughter, she
| explained that when the bear had
| frightened her 1t was gallOping toward
her, with never a keeper in sight.
II | hadn't already been wrought
up, maybe it wouldn't have frightened
me So" Then she surprised him by
suddenly asking: III somebody tried
to make you marry a woman twice as
old as you just because she was rict
and influential. what would you do?'
I'm afraid should decline
But because I'm young and silly
and want TO stay that way, daddy
won't take me seriously when l de
cline; so I'm going to run away"
oh, don't do that" he pleaded
why not head off the old man by
marrying young one?"
We'll, I'm sure don't want to mar
~ anybody Just now" plaintively. 4
moment later she stamped her small
foot defantly. And daddy needn'
try to thrust me upon old John Now
bray"
John Mowbray." exclaimed thu
young man. Dorothy clapped her hanC
over her mouth and fled.
All day Dorothy avoided her parent!
because Of the scene at breakfast fol
lowing their announcement that the!
had invited John MOwbray and hi.
widowed sister and her children to al
informal dinner that evening. The.
also openly admitted that they hat
hopes OF having John Mowbray for ;
son-in-law and had reason to believ,
, that he also had such an ambition
, Their precipftate mention Of the plan
5 caused Dorothy to begin at once t
End excuse for despising her father
professional friend, whom she ha'
hitherto regarded with polite indiffeI
ence. She passed an uncomfortabl
day, and as the dinner hour ar
: preached she mentally pictured thei
guests as a tiresOme lot, although sh
, hadn't even inquired about their nun
! Der, their age or their sex.
5 In simple dinner gown OF white ne
t with a blue girdle, with her blond hal
t softly knotted at the back and wit
her blue eyes deeply serious, she er
tered the living room from the rea
just as her mother was greeting tn
arriving guests. First, her mothe
presented her to Mrs. Elwood, a won
t an OF fifty; then came Miss Elsie Z
t wood, in her early teens, and the
/ from the hall entered John Mowbra
a and Dorothy's father and with ther
came the young man whose glasse
y she had shivered that morning in tn
park.
Only nephew. Jack Elwood, Miss Dol
II othy," said John Mowbray, and III
i embarrassment of the young peopl