The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-27
When A Girl
 Marries
By ANNE LESLIE.
CHAPTER 693

tention to Miss May
 There was something almost f1ut- greeting. Her voice gave the impress l sion one gets on feeling a little vein | throbbing in ones own throat. Did you have a good time at Drem- | wold ?' she asked.
 | Why, how did you know I was l there?" I asked. beginning on a note | of wondering if I'd told her of my | plans and ending rather coply with | the effect of holding up my finger and l shaking it at her.
 She responded to the invitation in my final intonation. And her voice aad a little lit of great pleasure as l she said
 "I know because an attentive young 1 man told me he'd spent Sunday with you and that you'd cooked up | scheme to hit me over the head with | at dinner tonight"
 ,r, Could it be Wayne Parkinson fitting in with her mood. 'It couId-but it isn't. It is my l own original nephew, Ralph. He asked me if I could scare up lot of | naive surprise to meet a great occa-
 sion and I promised to try to be tre- | mendously surprised no matter what Z happened to me. So I will" That's a promise. We'll shut up | shop early and get all prettied up for | ing street c1othes?' I finished with awkward consciousness that may | be Miss May has nothing in which to | make herself fine for a formal dinner. l But I found I hadn't counted on that exquisite thing, her ability to fit into l environments and occasions. 'I thought it would be nice to dress ] for this party she said. 50 I man l aged a little shopping last week. I would have asked you to help me, but you've done so much that I knew you l wouldn't refuse matter how many | other claims there were on your time. ' 3 Sa1aSwon1an | ed me. Really it was lovely to see | her put herself out to find an old ! woman something becoming to wear" Funny how young people take to you!'' I exclaimed. "Of course it is chiefly because you're so doddering and old that they feel they ought to
 support pFssr s your nissbas fesbls dootgtspsi My dear, all your elaborate sar- casm can't make the opposite true" she twinkled. I'm an old woman. be turned into a Cinderilla princess by any number of fairy godmothers.'' "Y You're Q, sweet woman who never had chance to bloom in the spring and who's all the lovener because autumn has touched her so gently" [ said very seriously.
 "Oh, my dear!' gasped Miss May. That's exquisite. It's so like you I'd love to tell it to the boys, if it wouldn't seem as if were too vain of
 the 1oveliest compliment anyone ever paid me-
 "Pd like you to te1l.it. If you don't, I will, giving due credit to the au- thor,' I laughed. ''Now will you tell | me about the new dresss-or is it surprise?"
 l If I may have another minute be- l fore you get back to work I'd like to show you a sample," said Miss May l simply. "I want you to be the belle I of the dinner, as you would even if I 1 didn't desire it. But I wouldn't risk l having you wear anything my rather 1 amazing color scheme might hurt. i You see, it isn't gray as I'd have ex-
 pected to wear and as you'd probably l count on.''
 1 Mother Eve forfend it should be
 gray!' I cried, thinking how utterly drab the dear souId would be in gray.
 45! Electric blue seems indecent. And it's all soft chiffon velvet, with just one tiny touch of silver in some ! embroidery about the top of the bod 1 ice, and it has sort of angel sleeves Of ! the silver slippers and blue stockings. 1.-The young sa1esperson insisted on see l ing to every detail. She took her 1 noon hours. You see, I had to have l you know, for if you were wearing a | light blue or a nile green, I'd sort of
 put you out like a candle snuffer." 1 "Yous eyes are electric blue" I de- | clared suddenly. "I want to meet 1 thank her. I may have to hug her" l "Oh, Mrs. Harrison, if she might | meet you" said Miss May as grate- 1 fully as if I'd promised to borrow the | Hope diamond for her to wear with l her dress. You're certainly not a 1 snob-dining with me and ready to
 hug some one just for being good to me-"
 'Bless your heart!" I replied. '"The snob of a world would know that you l are the social superior of most folks l-even if they have family trees back to the flood and yachts big enough | to dare another f1Ood.' 1 Whereupon we grinned at each other and fell upon our work with an l appetite for it sharpened by our bit 1 of feminine meandering. 1 The morning passed like a flash. Almost before I knew I'd started to
 work I realized that Miss May had 1 tiptoed out to lunch. Presently the l telephone called me to an imperious
 summons from Rosa Cordova.
 Good day t9 s1 you no Whit af Liiaf taie phone station talking in one of the | so stuffy booths of your progressive l Estados Unidos. And I wish you
 r!ease to let me cut this short. so if please, will you do for once, precisely 1 what it is I ask of you?' "If I can,'' I temp porized.
 Always l1 2.i,o,e, to me you say say-.if I can
 take little Rosa on trust? You see this time what I have to ask you it 1 is Imperative you shall do. I cannot manage to put up with any answer but shall drop everything that you are doing and come at once over to the office ot Jaime.' That is not much l to ask, is it?''
 ''Why, mo- | said thoughtfully. Except that I'm in the midst of a lot of work I hate to drop. Can't you come here?"
 T can not!" replied Rosa sharply. "If I can come to your office, I do not ask you shall come to Jaime's. So will you please do what it is I say?
 There is reason. There is someone 1
 would have you meet. Someone who
 is coming from my own country
 Bring him here, by all means!'
 cried Why not? We'll be quite
 alone for Miss May is out to 1unch-''
 "Alone is not what I want in
 sisted Rosa. T have someone for
 YOU to meet. But what I wish most
 of all is that you shall how the
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