New Britain herald., 1921-10-21

she didn't say so-she's gam$ as the devil-ll give her that credit--but l she couldn't get away with it. The | Kid g clever, too, and she staged a | slip, with a consequent wrenched back that was a pippin and gave her the chance to lean on us the last part of the way and ease her feet bit. And then old Lils spiel about making her l comfortable and our not turning around-of course that meant shoes and stockings off. AS a matter of fact l heard the snip of the sheers, and Lils stage whispers when she doesn't $care boot whether anyone hears or not are mighty carrying.
 So you see know all about it ex- cept how bad her feet really are,' l Dicky grinned. Tt it's just something | that's temporary, I shan't care. It'll 1 teach her a good lesson. She's alto | gether too cocky. But if it turns out
 to be serious, I'll be mighty sorry I
 didn't let you give her those larger | shoes. Say, do you know you're a good scout, old dear?''
 i He threw an arm around me and gave me careless kiss, but though it thrilled to 1t, as almost always do to
 his caresses, could not finger in his
 embrace, for what he had just said ] alarmed me.
 "Oh, it couldn't be serious, could it
 I must go at once and see.'',
 Keep away from the buzz saw,
 that's my advice," Dicky called after
 me, but already was we'll on my way ] to the house.
 I Ldllian's Advice. | Lillian came out of Bess Deans | room as entered the hall When she
 saw me, she laid her finger on her lips and came swiftly down the hall toward l me.
 I've turned her over to Mary" she 1 said, meaning Mrs. Cosgrove. Its
 better all around. What Mary doesn t know about blistered and swollen feet
 up here in this mountain country | isn't worth knowing. And don t think Miss Dean particularly cares for my company just now. She knows
 I'm your most intimate friend and you-you're sure in Dutch with the l fair damse1. How dare you be able to l wear smaller shoe than she does.'
 T shan't.' replied demurely, '.un- til I can get to shore store." Lillian stared, then laughed. I had
 known from her turning the care of
 the girl over to someone else that she feared no serious consequences, and her laugh confirmed my own op- timism.
 | That's so," she said. Your shoes
 are cut to pieces. Well! I'll repeat my dictum of few hours back. If ! you ask me, think the whole per l formance has been distinctly worth while That girls colossal vanity needed blow, and it certainly re- I ceived Dempsey knockout. There's only one unpleasant feature about it. She'll stage a comeback of some kind you mark my word. Oh, don't mean janything melodramatic or vicious such as the Draper or Rita Brown I would engineer! But if she can hu- I initiate you in any particularly ag- gravating way, Bess Deans going to do it, and make her own chance ii ] none comes her way" went back to Dicky with heI words filing themselves away for ref 'l erence in corner of my brain. I'm glad 1t won't be serious } Dicky said when had told him wha1 Lillian had said. "But aren't you get ting pretty well fed up on little Bess-ee ?ss Can't you manage to sene
 her home with flea in her ear, ol make it % uncomfortable for he
 that she'll vamoose?"
 ''Dicky, you know I couldn't d.
 that!'' I expostulated, although ther
 was a tiny thrill of joy in my hear
 at his query.
 "All right, she's your guest an
 your funera1,' Dicky retorted. "Bu
 you just listen to your Uncle Dudley
 That lady isn't going to forget thi
 stunt in a hurry--and-she's apt t
 make you remember it--unpleasant
 ly."