The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-09

i'iSil-dltd Win, MIS-. CO1QOVa.
Rosa turned to Pat with a CAV
exclamation. But felt the barb be-
hind her word
isn't she the-how you say-con-
ceited mink? Maybe, Patrick. I get
you to help me sometime and we show
her how pride rides for fall,
CHAPTER $50
Our evening of bridge left me with
a sense of having seen Rosa Coruova
under a microscope. Perhaps al
ways realized that she is a brilliant
gambler and a reckless one, too. But
I'm sure I'd not appreciated how
logical she is, and how much sane
reasoning there is back of her every
move. I know now that her most
daring plunges into dangerous realms
are thought out carefully on basis
Of sizing up people and things
I'm sure she has been and can be
of great aid to Jim. But I also know
that If I have to thank her for his
ultimate success, shall have a hard
time to keep from wishing it had been
failure. I have to confess that I re-
spect Rosa cordova's mind. that I
understand her charm ana that
dislike her to the point Of actual t1a-
tired.
Sunday brought about a number OF
strange situations in our camp" We
were still at the breakfast table when
I was called to the telephone. As
guessed, Mr.. Lacy was on the wire.
After an exchange Of greetings, he
burst out boyishly:
Elm a thousand years you'll never
guess where I anu! So I won't make
you try. But I'll keep you guessing
so you'll have some incentive to let
me come over and see you this after
noon. May ~"
"Of course" agreed. TIL be glad
70 see you. This will be q splendid
opportunity for you to meet my hus-
bands sister, Mrs. Dalton. and her
very charming husband"
May I bring Park along?" asked
Mr.. Lacy. "Bring him, by all means"
I cried. "And as I was once his hos
tess here. I'll invite you both to stay
| for tea
Really? Will it be all right ror
us to do that?'' cried Mr.. Lacy.
Sunday evenings are terrincaIly
lonely for bachelors."
| This one shan't be-" promised.
| Then we arranged for Mr.. Lacy to
| drive over at 4:30 so we could have
couple of hours for business. After
| our goodbye. I hurried back to the
breakfast room. where promptly
said to Virginia:
"I'v just proved how thoroughly at
home I am here, and how completely
| I believe in your hospitality. My
| telephone call was from Mr.. Lacy,
/! the advertising manager Of the star
| He is the kindest OF business ad-
| visers and a good friend as well. He
and his cllum, Wayne Parkinson, are
| driving over On blsiness at 4:30 and"
| And you were a sweet, hoepitable
creature and asked them to tea,' con-
| cluded Virginia. with her most grac-
| ious smile. "If you had done any
| thing else, Anne. I'd have commas
sooned Pat to spank his A1anna,"
Her words were so whimsical and
chunrny that they give me a warm
| ing sense of being closer to Virginia
| than I'd ever come in all my previous
life. But before I could say some.
thing to convey my feeling OF 'purry'
satisfa ctfon, Rosa broke in with
purr of her own, but this wasn't a.
kitty-in-th e-sun1ight affair. Instead
1t had an effect Of claws just sheath
ed.
so my friend Park comes againI
I knew that with him you had made
--chums So I suppose he come to
see you, not me. Shall I then take
your very good friend Lacy off your
hands?''
Have you met MIR. Lacy?" asked
Virginia, with an evident determine
ton to make everybody happy.
mot exactly" said Rosa. seizing
on this with such avidfty that I felt
sure 1t was precisely the opportunity
she'd awaited "I only have a-how
you say-happy faculty Of coming
along just when Mrs. Harrison is hav-
Ing a nice little telephone tete-a-tete
with her very good and devoted
friend, Ralph Lacy"
She looked around to make sure
Of her effect But there wasn't any.
Virginia and Pat are far too nice
minded and far too thoroughly con-
WINGED of my admiration for Jim to
be swept away by word OF inuendo
But Rosa wasn't to be so easily de-
feated. She held up her finger and
wiggied 1t at me very coyly.
sNaughtyi Naughty!" she cried.
Weeks days you are free to f1irt with
your admirer, but can't you take for
yourself a vacation on Sunday? It Is
a day Of rest from what you do all
the rest OF the week, Mrs Harrison.
And maybe some of the peoples also
think how 1t is a day of repenting
their Gins r
Ralph Lacy's no SIM" I laughed,
determined that this splendid and
loyal frienship should not be
touched by her malice. Yes one8of
my good points You'll like him
tremendously, Pat. And it will do
him worlds of good to know Jeanfe.
He's a. brilliant man without kiln
or kin. He worked his way through
col1ege and up to his present sp1eu-
did position. And he longs to learn
all the delicate, fine things to which
a friendship with Jeanne might give
him access
Bravo cried Pat That's a fine
little speech, Alanna- And I'm after
thinking that man of whom you ape
prove will be worth the pains OF
Jeanne might be put to to show him
a few of the things she's after know
ing,
70 Be Continued.