The Newark journal., 1922-04-27

"Why, what ails them?n she cried.
 He shook his head.
 ''They-they're hard as rocks and flat as pancakes !" she gasped, picking one up and dropping it on the table.
 Perhaps you didn't mix them right"
 T made them straight according to rule,' she returned with dignity. Tt must have been your frying"
 "oh, but it couldn't have been," he demurred. T never left them alone minute. I Topped them over and over all the time"
 A peal of laughter interrupted him.
 "Oh-oh-you don't mean to say that you stood there and turned those poor things over every second" she cried, as soon as she could speak. No wonder their spirits couldn't rise and just look at your fat It's so hot 1t burned up what little life there was left !"
 Dear me, children, what good time you are having!a called Mrs. Ken ton from the doorway. 'When one is young and in love one can find enjoy ment anywhere"
 Dorothy choked into instant gravity, while Rainsford made q low bow.
 T am in disgrace, madam" he said meekly. T am guilty of too devoted an attendance upon doughnuts and err"
 ''Yes, you are," interrupted DOro- thy severely, vanishing into the pantry.
 At two o'clock man from the ho- tel, in response to Rainfords tele- phone message, brought a suitcase filled with the various articles he had sent for. The man laid the bag some what gingerly down on the extreme end of the walk and hurried away i; then Rainsford went down and picked it up.
 How perfectly funny r exclaimed Dorothy nervously, as he came back to the steps.
 Tt does seem queer" acknowledged Rainsford.
 Don't you two look contented !" called merry voice, as three girls stopped at the end of the walk. How is Mir. Kenton, Dorothy. dear?"
 He is very comfortable" replied Miss kenton with studied politeness.
 How absurdly idiotie some people can be-" observed Dorothy, after a time.
 Very" agreed the man.
 Dorothy looked at him sharply; then she sighed and fidgeted in her chair.
 T don't like this deception" she protested.
 No? Then why not tell?"
 She gave him scornful glance.
 "As if I could call out across the lawn to those girls: We aren't en- gagged any longer ''
 Hmm; well, there's your mother ,
 Miss Kenton drowned. ''She has enough to trouble her now AS things are she'd be dreadfully distressed. shall have to wait until father is bet ter and you are gone"
 "0h l' murmured Rainsford.
 There was a long silence; then Dor othy sprang to her feet. She was al most hysterical with the tension of the last few hours. Things had scarce ly improved since the morning, Rains ford had grown quite grave and scru- pulously polite.
 "As hostess, I feel it my duty to en- certain you" she announced sweetly. If you'll look under the table on that shelf there you'll find some games. Make your selection and we'll play"
 Dr. Kane arrived on the five o'clock train and went directly to the sick room. Fifteen minutes later Mrs. Ken ton appeared on the veranda.
 Well, Jack, you are free" she said smilingly.
 "Eh - what - how" stammered Rainsford, growing white and red by turns there was but one kind of free dom in his mind, and that he had al- ready most unwillingly received at the hands of Dorothy. He glanced at the girl now, but her face expressed only unalloyed joy.
 You mean the quarantine? It's over?' she asked eagerly.
 Mrs. Kenton nodded. "Yes; that fussy little doctor was all wrong. It's not diphtheria at all, and your father will be all right in few days
 How perfectly glorious ' cried Dor othy. T never believed father was very sick. Now we'll go off-let's see, what shall We doEride?"
 Rainsford caught his breath. "Yes !, or we might go on the lake" he said, in voice that he tried to make diplo- matically uneoncerned.
 Or we could play golf!"
 Hmm; CT we've got just time to see the sunset from Peaks hlll," he further suggested, with swift side long glance at her face.
 Just the thing after being cramped up all day I'll get into my walking skirt in no time" And she hurried through the hall door after her moth CT. The next minute she was back again with a dismayed face.
 "Why, I-I forgot" she faltered.
 "Forgot? Forgot what?" he asked smoothly.
 Why, our-our-that things weren't the same any longer" T 1A tlyz