New Britain herald., 1922-01-06

have q lunch and all the milk you want, Just bring over your motor kit tonight and l'li plan to get up cN- tra carly tomorrow morning, so as 10 have the things fresh. Lillian puyS you're going to start at seven, Youll want your breakfast about quarter past six, won't Sou?"
 'les, l think so," l returned dcprc- catlngly, 'l am afraid we are making you great deal of bother"
 Nadgc Explains.
 "Bothcr'a my middle name" Rhe rctortcd, "But you're not making 1t. l always rise very early anyway to get q lot of work out of the way bee fore breakfast and tomorrow haven't anything on hand that cant hr let go. It's the end of the season, and all of my people will be gono by another week. do hope 1t will be q nice day for your trip home"
 Whose trip home?" Robert Saw arin's voice, hoarsc, agitnted, sound ed In the kitchen door behind me. "Madee you don't mean"
 ''But l do Robert" I said quietly, realizing that l must convince him that the decision to go home so un- eNpectedly came from ua, not Lillian. "Diclty has been urging me to go home for several days, and today he insisted that we must start tomorrow morning. l have been almost at my wits end getting the packing done, but have the last thing finished, so if 1t doesn't rain the traditional pitch forks, we'll start at seven o'clock"
 Lillian is not going with you"
 The words were a defiant assertion and a terrified question. With a sud- den resolution l raised my eyes to telegraph a request to Mrs. Cosgrove Her supper was on the stove, her pay ing guests gathering. but she only waited the seconds necessary to slide a pan of delciously frying potatoes to the back of the stove, and open her oven door a triflc, before slipping quietly out of the kitchen.
 put my hand on Robert Savarin's arm, looked up into the brown eyes heavy with anguish and tried not to recall the fact that before I had seen him almost miraculousIy restored to sanity, those eyes had held only the glitter of madness.
 "Did She"
 Robert" I said soberly, almost sol emnly, T have been your friend your advocate, through these trying years, have l not?"
 He started, and I saw a little of the absorbed self-centredness slip away from him.
 "Yes, you have been more than kind"
 And I think you realize-it is not brageadocio to speak the truth, either-that I know Lillian better than any other woman does, and that am closer to her than anyone save Marion and you"
 T think you know her even better than l do," he said with a note of bitterness.
 l protested with an emphatic NO, indeed!" though I felt in my heart that he had uttered the truth-and hurried on a bit breathlessly.
 I must tell you, though, that you are risking much if you oppose Lil- Hans going home at this juncture. She is much overwrought, and she needs to be--well. frankly, Robert, I think she needs absence from you for a short time, a chance to get over the shock of your having taken the atti- tude you did toward-'
 He threw back his head and his eyes famed with anger.
 Did she" he began stormily.
 She told me nothing" l interrupt ed sternly, "as you very well know, if you give yourself a chance to think Of her. You told me yourself all that needed to know when Col. Travcrs came to see. her. And-T have eyes"