The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-07
When A Girl
 Marries
By ANNE LIsLE.
CHAPTER e7s.

Yo our language she does not bother mel" laughed Rosa sweetly sTrue, l do not understand her always. get her wrong like you do, Mabel storrs. and how it is Jaime know her we'll enough to give her this job she is so badly filling''
 T believe you're jealous!" I flung out at a venture.
 Rosa's face crimsoned so that it was congested to something like blackness. Then she trilled out on a thread of laughter:
 T am to be Jealous of the Storrs? Oh, no-with Jaime I have such clear understanding that I could not ever be jealous of so good a friend to Ramon and me-"
 When Rosa dragged her husband in I felt the artidciality of her whole attitude. But I forced myself to re- ply with a large and seemingly phil 'osophic calm:
 T can't explain your malicious wish to undermine my confidence in Mabel Storrs. I thought it wise to interpret 1t as the wish to serve Jim and me and to get most of the glory for doing it. They say your Southern temperaments are notoriously hot and jealous. Jim's an attractive man. ' admire him myself! So why should I blame any other woman for think ing well of him?''
 Now you try to turn it ob with laugh" sneered Rosa
 Not at aH," I returned, TT am simply telling you the facts in the case. and they aren't the solemn ana almost tragic things you seem to think They aren't in keeping with -melodrama- You must cultivate a little Northern calm and poise' How dare you!' Rosa interrupted furiously. Dear 1ady-please!" broke in. conscious I had now the upper hand and must hold to 1t firmly. For the moment I was scarcely conscious of the surge and see the ofemotfons f,.- side me. 'It will be all be clear to you in a minute when sum it LID, You don't like Mabel. She stands as completely for the Northern temper ament as you for the Southern. She's calm and cool. cold in fact. She's merely manhater. But she admfres Jim. Moreover she's indebted to him for things you wouldn't comprehend. Shes the only person you've ever l found who could withstand your every blandishment. Therefore, you resent 1 her. You boil over with resentment. l And being of tempermental South erner. you decide to remove the per son whose resistance Of even your S"OOICcL SSlI-du1Cy you.
 'fMe sweet to Storrs? Neverf> cried Rosa with so much of truth that I l was hard put to 1t to keep from 1 laughing in her face.
 | Well, must confess that I've 1 never seen you-saccharine." con l fessed. 'But it boils down to the fact that you can't tolerate her and that you wouldn't tolerate her and that you wouldn't scruple to remove her. 1 1 ment so you come to me with the line of talk you think most likely to l influence me. Now shan we have | some plain words ?"
 'What else have we?'' asked Rosa l in tone thought completely cowed, 1 We'll, we can do with a few more" l smiled grimly as said this, and l forged ahead with my head down like | battering ram-fguratfve1y, at least. Here it is. You have an idea that the romantic suggestions you l manage now and then to throw over your acquaintance with Jim will an- noy you. They don't. Jim Is my hus- band. My love is based on faith. His friendship with even so charming a woman yourself as just a friend ship-that I know. But when you presume on that friendship to try to i make me think the least bit of evil of oOilS OliS elSC WlOSS 1TlSnOSQ1p you begrudge him, you do a very silly thing. Am I clear?'
 50 I am silly!" cried Rosa in choken voice. "Yes. you are most clear. But you are silly, too. If me you need not have made the enemy. Now that you rouse me by your impertinence. I ask you what you think to gain by insulting me7 am Rosa Cordova-me!"
 Does your pride of family enter into this?'' I asked gently.
 How e1se?" stormed Rosa. "ShalI you insult me with impunity? Am I nothing? Do I command no respect from the friends of Mabel Storrs ?''
 Lets get one thing clear" I re- turned with a sort of weary patience.
 Mabel Storrs is-to quote a great English writer-'armed so strongly in honesty that these things pass her by proach. She is intrenched in the or- flee of J. H. Harrison & Co. until Jim gets back. And if know my man at all, she will be more firmly intrench- ed thereafter. So-"
 Your friend Shakespeare has said it. laughed Rosa, suddenly all gamin, and yet surprising me by the unex- 2ected twist of a personality which knew it's Shakespeare. of Mabel
 
 Jaime somes again. Then we shall see what he has to say to you and your loyalty to her-at his expense"
 I shook my head irritably. The per sfstence with which Rosa harped on this one topic couldn't shake my faith in Mabel, bued-constant drip ping does wear a stone. And a fla vorite form of torture in the Inouisi- ton was the falling of drop after drop of water on one spot.
 We were approaching Dreamwofd now, driving up the main road by Mason Towers. Gratefully I realized that this enforced intimacy was af- most over-and I made a resolve to request Pat to avoid another such arrangement. Rosa broke into my thoughts.
 "One thing sure there is still open between us. That is your so silly treatment of me, White sLilac. First you spy on me. Then you show more and more clearly that you prefer this