The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-11
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Copyright, 1920, King Features Syndi- cate, Inc. CHAPTER SIS With eagerness I made no effort to
 mask, I caught up the big, square let ter lying on the table of the wide
 Sturges hall. My glimpse of Jim's
 handwriting the envelope made the tangle of problems the day had brought seem suddenly negligible. For a happy moment there were just two persons in my whole world-Jim and I.
 As I turned toward the stairway Carlotta called me. I looked up to find her smiling at me with gentle un- derstanding.
 Run along upstirs for quiet hour, honey" she said in a muted voice full of rich undertones. This has been an -em otional day for you. I'll be here ready to greet our dinner guest when she arrives. You can trust the en- tertainment of Miss Storrs to me for a while. I'll tell Bertha not to an- nounce dinner until 7:30 so you just take things easy
 With a word of thanks I hurried to my room, tore open Jim's letter and running across to the window so the c1earest light should illuminate every | word, I began to read. Lilac Princess, 'the letter began, Lilac Princess" I could hear Jim | murmur the love name. Way, way | off, trailing like a ghost through my 1 mind was an echo of Lilac Princess" t5-an echo I didn't Iike-as if I'd didn't hke-as if I'd heard it parodied
 in a mocking voice. But without per- | hitting the ghost to haunt me, I went | on:
 l My dear friend, Rosa Cordova, will | mail this letter special delivery" it | read. She'll start it off to you the
 minute she reaches the big city where | 1t won't have any telltale postmarks | So what I have to say to you about
 my little delegate ought to reach you l minute ahead of her. Anne dear,
 this will introduce you to the gamest l little sport and cleverest business
 woman I've ever come across You 1 will have a chance to get two sep-
 arate angles on her. I recommend a
 study of both to you
 "As the shrewd, level-headed won-
 an with a mans brain you are going to | deal with down in my office, you will | take off your hat to her. As the aris- | tocrat with charm and savoir faire
 who comes to live with you at Jeanie's,
 you'll give her your heart. No one could resist her"
 1 I stopped reading Mechanically | IeHloNeu 11ly nat ana cape. L1feleSS-
 ly I found a comfortable chair and pulled it into the shadows. The first letter I've had from Jim | for weeks! And I couldn't take it | standing. ] couldn't bear to stand
 with it in the full light of the waning day.
 Lilac Princess it began-no more. | And now I knew why there was a 1 hint of mockery in the dear old love | name. Rosa Cordova had called me l White Lilac" Jim's love name isn't 1 sacred to him if he can use it casu- 1 ally to any new acquaintance to whom | he wants to give a description of his | wife.
 l Lilac Princess my letter began 1 with never a dear to soften it. Then
 it flung out in lavish praise of Rosa Cordova. Somehow I was afraid to
 go on. I was afraid of what I'd read | next
 After a minute I forced my eyes back to the letter, grimly rereadfng the sentence which had hurt me so 'As the aristocrat with charm and
 savoir faire who comes to live with