The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-06
When A Girl
 Marries
By ANNE LISLY.

How did you find out?" I coaxed.
 q tell you" replied Rosa ingenu- ously "I think my Manuelo he likes you maybe. Or it might be that he does not like you, and so does not trust you. Which ever it is, he has begun now to watch you a little. And so when people thinks 1t is funny that I do not more of you, at least I can smile and say how it is am busy and that you were so and so last night. Then they shall think, maybe. it is how you wished me to be also there and it is so I could rot come" T see," I said quietly. Rosa, if I have not seemed as cordial your Spanish blood would require, won't you allow for the fact that I have no real home of my own and that 1 from the very beginning you seemed headed for hospitality other than my own?''
 You think to make up now fiji case Jaime comes soon?" sneered Rosa cutting1y. You think, maybe, if I | do not make good report of you he Is angry. So you wish to make H all
 nice and sweet with me, eh?" ] Tt isn't that I persisted. Don't l you see what <<s touched me and 1 made it possible for me to speak out | like this is the knowledge that you might have wanted to be with me 1 more? I didn't know there was any | thing for you to be sensitive about I thought you chose to be with Virginia | and that, in any case you deliberately | avoided me-
 How is it that you get such an | impression?" demanded Rosa. | Why didn't you bring her letter | from Jim and deliberately hold mine i back from the mail for 24 hours?" I 1 demanded.
 "I know not what you meant" cried Rosa furiously. Like Jaime tells 1 me mail you the letter at office when
 I am here right away so soon I can
 to his office. And when you meet 1 me you treat me as stranger. Never l is it explained to me why you shall 1 pretend you do not get my letter, I mail it special delivery like I am l told, and I know how fast 1t is those 1 letters go.''
 l Did you mall it as soon as you l landed?" I asked co1dly l "No; mail him when I geS to the 1 office building of Jaime. There I buy me the special delivery stamp at the cigarro stand and off she go.' Someone tempered with that let 1 ter,' I said quietly, expressing the ! theory Ralph Lacy had evolved some ! time ago.
 "For why? There Is nothing in | it, Rosa shrugged the matter away. But I felt that I had new piece of evidence to add to those MT. Lacy was collecting. For there had been
 no special delivery stamp on the let l ter when 1t came to me. ! CHAPTER zs6. Since Rosa Cordova says that she ! mailed Jim's letter special delivery | from his building, I have no doubt
 that she did just this. However, little
 like Rosa, I know she Is truthful ] in all matters pertaining to our busi- ness realtion. The fact she has given l me only clinches MT. Lacy's theory l that the letter was tempered with. l But it seems also to indicate that something happened to it right in the building where Jinn's office Is To- ] cated.
 Determining to get this information 1 to Ralph Lacy as quickly as possible. 1 turned back to Rosa, eager to find
 a way of making our relationship a 1 little more cordial
 l Don't you see that not getting
 any message from Jim until you'd
 become Virginia's guest-put me all
 out of tune with your" I asked earn estly.
 l ilac-more perhaps like the thorny
 red rose," laughed Rosa. Well, that make 1t mere inter esting-not?
 Make what more interestingly" I
 asked, hating myself for my naivete
 after I'd spoken.
 "Oh-everything" - replied Rosa l waving her hand largely And now
 I tell you why it is that I have taken ! the liberty to send out your faithful 1 Miss May. It Is because I am wishing ] to have you come to lunch again 1 with Manuelo and me, and another l of our friends So stay here to keep
 your office from being empty. And l now so soon the little Miss May ar l rives, and I think 1t will be soon we
 shall be free to go and keep the en-
 gagement l have made for us No?"
 "I can't go," I cried. Truly T. appreciate your wanting me and I'd be happy to come, but I wasted the
 whole morning and my business must
 have first claim on me for the rest
 of the day.
 Your business-has it more claim
 on you than Jaime?" demanded Rosa
 "xou know it hasn't" I replied
 qu' ee1y
 "I do not know You Americans
 are So very funny that I cannot tell
 what 1t is yau are wanting. If it is
 to love or to succeed or to have
 many admirers and no husband and T home or what 1t is I cannot say
 som chimes I think it is maybe onIv
 to have more pearls and motors tha n
 has any other womab you know.
 With you think it is to have more
 pride than anyone else and to make
 always things for yourself"
 ! You are very clever diagnositi-
 elan of this period in the worlds his
 tory" I smiled. And you have a caus-
 tic wit as applied to your fellow wo-
 men It's good to hear things Ike 1 those you've just said. They-as we
 say-haul a fellow up'
 Rosa threw back her head and
 thrilled out in laughter.
 1 How you mock me is very clev-
 er," she declared. "I have told you before and l am now reminding you that like to find me foeman worthy l Of my steel You are very good sport Anne Harrison. And very clever vo- l man, and think som etimes I would
 not hurt you ever-4f I could help it. Adhere is my little frferd Mice