The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-18
When A Girl
 Marries
By ANNE LESLIE.

!
 my name. And she's going to hear
 lot more tomorrow night when she attends our dinner to Aunt May. Sc 1 maybe now-old man-as one who
 has been here before and knows all l about the place. it would be a good 1 idea for me to offer to show you the 1 grounds or something. Personally
 conducted tours-this way!'' ''Why, it's after six! I cried 1 glancing at my watch. we might ] 1 look up our host and hostess. You'll | love Pat Dalton as well as you did his wife"
 l will you listen ao the things she's | | insinuating about two conservative | young men neither of whom intended ! to show his overmasterIng love for 1 Mrs. Dalton so plainly!' cried Park 1 in a tone of mock-heroics which | broke up our conference in a gale of laughter. With comfortable let-down fee1-- I ing I rang for Hedwig and asked her | to tell MT. and Mrs. Dalton that we'd l be delighted to see them whenever 1 they were ready to join us. They're down in the summer house and did be leaving word that 1 if you got ready you should come and get look at the view, Ma'am, 1 said Hedwig with the slight sur1i- 1 ness toward me which she has never | relaxed since Bertha became a mem 1 Der of the Sturges household. So we sped down to the little house by the river. On the way, Park 2 pointed out some of the beauties or the grounds. But Ralph Lacy had an almost reverent air toward the 7 exquisite setting of the old Harrison place. His feeling for it delighted Virginia. So she volunteered to show 1 him about. I declined to go along on the plea that I had to brush up for tea. But I wanted Virginia and 7 1 Ralph Lacy to get this chance to 1 know each other. So leaving Pat to / 1 take charge of Wayne Parkinson with IT | whom he seemed to be at once on a 1 friendly, chaffing footing. I ran up | to my room.
 l As I entered the house, was as- | tonished to have Rosa Cordova come | to the door to greet me. Her tone | was chastened. She pouted a bit like 1 a child who has been naughty and | who yearns to be forgiven. '"I see you come ur the path" she 1 explained. ''So I come to open the | door. You have perhaps today missed l Rosa little?"
 1 I was too astonished to answer at 1 once. But to cover either my em- | barrassment or hers. Rosa raced on, l filling the gap with a froth of words out of which emerged something that 1 seemed like a new light on the little humn1ing bird woman.
 T come home sooner than it is | expect that I shall,'' she said. f'If | you think maybe the table is laid l for just five and I am in the way, I l can have the try sent to my room. 1 Anyway I am tired, so I shall per
 ha.ps be not such good company" 1 Didn't you bring MT. Stone back lrr-if1 h II aclyn ir, all Rosa turned on me in a blaze of | fury.
 Do not speak his name. Do not l speak it to me ever again." she fam l ed. 'I am finish with that Lennte
 Stone. He is-how you say-a bound CT and a car. I am finish-finish! I tear his heart out if get maybe a | chance. Now you know how I feel about, that Lennie Stone.'' 4r What did he do?" gasped. May | be you misunderstood-misin terpret- l ed. Maybe you're making yocrself ! miserable over nothing. I might be l able to give you some side light on 1 the matter. If there's anything you care to tell me-
 I T do noti" Rosa shrieked "Do f you think I am fool enough to tell you anything so you shal. maybe sheer and tell 1t also to Jaime? Do | you think I would have him know" She broke off and stared at me through wide dry eyes which mar l rowed suddenly to bright points. Then she laughed harshly and flung around on her heel so suddenly that berore I had the slightest idea that she was
 planning to leave me, she had darted
 up the hall and was disappearing
 around bend in the stairs.
 Something impelled me to follow
 her. I ran as fast as I could, but
 Rosa had too much start. I arrived
 at her door just in time to have it
 sla m in my face and to hear the
 key turn in the lock. Then a sound
 came through the closed door It
 may have been a scornful and jeer-
 ing laugh. It may have been
 strangled sob. I do not know.
 I stood at Rosa's door for mo-
 ment or two. But finally I decided that she'd fled me, still that expressd
 upon her. Even if it was in hysteria
 thta she'd fled me, still that expressed
 her mood and her desire to be alone,
 I had no right to intr-de upon it.
 went to my room and made my
 preparations for tea Then scrib-
 bled a few lines offering to do what
 ever I could for her, and slipped my
 note under Rosa's door as I went
 downstairs to supper.
 It didn't occur to me to mention the incident After all, Park came into our lives through Lenn1e Stone
 So any accounting of the incident
 might tie him up with person who
 had been called a bounder and
 cad Naturally on his first meeting
 with Jeanie and Pat, didn't want
 any shadows cast on Park. So kept the fact that Rosa had returned from Virginia and managed a secret 2 request to Hedwi9 for 8 tray to go up to Rosa's room. I sat back through the delightful first course with the proud feeling of a parent whose chil- dren are showing off very we'll in the school exercises. Pat and Park were already fast friends. They were ban tering and chaffing one minute deep in a discovery of some mutual state the next
 Already they were planning that Pat should revive his tennis at q