The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-08
When A Girl
 Marrle5
CHAPTER 737.
By ANNE LESLIE.

Again YOU are absurd; Jaime wishes his White Lilac to remain here in safety and quiet. And you have so made an idiot of yourself today that you are not to be trust. No-if any, one shall go, it must be Rosa"
 I found myself growing stiff and cold at Rosa's treatment of young Ortiz, who could only vince at her cruelty and not make the slightest effort to retaliate. But l felt that this was the occasion for all the enmity and finesse I could manage, so I said quietly:
 'wouldn't it be wrong move for anyone to stir from here? Maybe the idea of this compatriot of yours was to stir up like this. May be Dick West hasn't gone South at all And if he has, won't a telegram serve our purpose? If Jim is to be warned, can't we find something quicker than rail way travel and messenger service? There might be airplane.
 Then Rosa laugh ed-sullenly and cruelty, but at least she was not be- yond seeing the humor in her own excitinent.
 Just so as to stir us up like you say it is their game, Pancho Estaban Mateixa is not friend of mine and of yours He was never friend either Manuelo Of Dick West I think he takes money just to bother us. l must give Jaime credit for taking care of himself even if Senor West is starting South.
 'swoudn't he be likely to make his start before sending the strange man to play his part before Senor Ortiz ?" I asked. 3'The idea would be to keep us from missing him to to make sure l that none of begin to figure out where he's gone. It all seems a lit l tie too obvious, and it has miscarred too badly to-match up with other l schemes of Dicks''-
 | I spoke to cheer myself as much l as for other purpose. For the thought l of Dicks sneaking off after Jim chill | ed me with terror. I couldn't shake from my mind the fact that Dick is a l potential murderer. He tried to get | my brother Neal. If he were to hatch l such a scheme as Senor Oritz and | Rosa seemed to think this bringing | of a double cross Manuelo Ortiz path l indicated, it would be only because | Dick was ready to shoot his last ar l row. Divided between the fantastic l absurdty of it. and the terrors it made possible, I turned to Rosa and l asked desperately:
 Do you think this Mateixa person is friend or foe? Could he be fooled | about Soiclx?
 For why should an imposter say he is Dick?' Rosa shrewdly demand ed.
 And why would young Pancho 1 know how much it is we give to see ] again this Dick?' asked Manuelo Ortiz.
 'Ah! You have ideas after all You are not such a silly boy as I l have thought" cried Rosa, caressing , with the voice that had just lashed out so cruelty. ''If this is something or nothing, we do not know. But this | I must travel faster than any one a telephone call to Ramon's agent at his office. I have a code ready for this. Maybe I can reach Jaime. It may be that I shall have to send him only a message. But it will be the code. I am not afraid. Soon he will have it.
 She spoke with air of complete satisfaction. In all my life I have never felt more completely out of ! things-more helpless where Jim is concerned. Humiliateed by the neces- sity, yet driven beyond any thought of my humiliation by my fears for | Jim, I cried:
 | Mrs. Cordova, you won't let the | probability that we're making up our l fears out of whole cloth stop you from warning Jim, and at once, will you?"
 Rose Cordova turned on me a smile l dazzling in it's brilliancy and yet as 1 cold and hard as steel
 Trust me-" she said slowly. Trust me to make sure-as sure as you would 1 yourself make that Jaime shall not 1 have hair of his head harmed" | Mauelo Ortiz laughed uneasily. I ! found something in his mood trans 1 ferring itself to mine. Rosa sat eye l ing both for long moment. Then with note of anxiety in her voice, she said:
 l "Ne1Io, you do not think that Pan cho is playing this little farce out just maybe for spite? Down in our country every one knows how big
 knave is this West man. Pancho l knows, too. Maybe he just amuses himself makes-how you say?- prac- tica1 joke. What you think, Nello 9"
 "I think Miss Storrs, maybe, can tell us something" suggested young Ortiz instantly. We might go to the office of Senor Harrison and ask her How is that? And if what she says shall not explain about Pancho and how well he knows Senor West you can then telegrafo this agent of Ra- mons in Texas he shall send the air plane over the border"
 Rosa flushed angrily and muttered
 something in her own tongue. knew she felt that the boy had told me something she wished kept secret. With feeling that she was n1anifestly
 unfair to him, I broke in smilingly:
 Did you notice how shrewd I was
 a while ago, Mrs. Cordova, when I
 suggested inpressing the air into our l service? And now it seems that is | precisely what you've arranged for. 1 No wonder we work so well togeth CT. l Our minds travel the same paths 1 even if they are uncharted air paths"
 How modest you arei' purred Rosa
 But I think waste time. If this
 he has maybe some days head start.
 he has maybe. some days hear start
 I must get off my messages at once
 Then you're coming right over to
 Jsn's office?" I asked.
 @I come nowhere. l go somewhere alone" Rosa replied irnpudently
 This Mabel Storrs need not know
 anything. I insist that she shall not i he j,,et