The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-11
Continued from Yesterday

Continued from Yesterday l T hope she's improved in appear 1 ance, Mrs. Poland remarked severe
 ly. You remember how dreadfully
 she looked, Barbara?''
 1 Barbara smiled, half lifted dubious brows, and shrugged slightly. | Shes enormously improved" Miss To1and said sharply. ''She wears an extremely becoming uniform now.'' 'tShe's evidently got your number, Auntie,' Barbara said, watching three young men who were entering the room. ''She evidently knows that you're nutty about appearances!' ''I am not nutty about appearances at aH," her aunt responded, as she attacked an elaborate ice. 'I like things done decently, and I like to see Julia in her nice, trim dresses. That Eastern woman I tried, Miss Knox, wouldn't hear of wearing a uniform-not she! Julia has more sense."
 q expect that Julia hasn't an idea in her head that you haven't put there" Barbara said dryly.
 Don't you believer her aunt said with fire She seemed ready for fur and was ccntented with a mere repe- tition of her first words, Don't you believe it.
 "Your geese are all swans. Sanna.' D smile.
 "Very likely" Miss Toland said briefly, drinking off . her black lack ,tt, eof, on briskly, where are you good peo- pie going? Julia's to meet me here in the Turkish Room at two; we have to pick out a hundred books, to start
 ''It's after that now,'' Barbara said. She's probably waiting. Let's go out that way, Mother, and walk over to Sutter? ?"
 They sauntered along the wide pas sage to the Turkish Room, and just before they reached it youns woman came toward them, slender, erect person, under whose neatly buttoned long coat showed the crisp hem of blue linen dress. Julia bowed briefly to the mother and daughter, but her eyese were only for Miss Holland. She was nervous and constrained; bright colour had come into her cheeks; she could not speak But Barbara merely though that the cheap little common actress ance and manner. and noted the blue, blue eyes, and the glittering sweep of hair under JuIia's neat hat, and Miss Poland felt herself curiously touched by. the appealing look that
 f.Now for the books, Julia." said she, bearning approval. The two went off together, chattering like friends
 "What does Aunt Sanna see in her?" marvelled Barbara, watching.
 "Your aunt is peculiar Mrs Tol- and said, with vague disapprova1, compressing her lips.
 ''Weu the way she runs The Alex ander is curious. to say the least, Barbara commented vigorously. I couldn't stay out there one week, my self and have Aunt Sanna carrying on the way she does, planning thing, and forgetting it in two seconds, and yelling at the children one day. and treating them to ice-cream the nexti Why, the last time I went out there Aunt Sanna was in bed, at eleven o'clock, because she felt like reading, and she'd called off the housekeeping class for no reason at all except that she didn't feel like itt''
 "Yes, I know. know" Mrs. Toland said, picking her way daintily across Market Street. But she has her own money and I suppose she'll go her own gaiti" But she looked little uneasy, and was silent for some mo- ments, busy with her own thoughts
 Long before this Julia's where >A<A.t. had hAAn disaauArad A4 k>-