New Britain herald., 1923-06-06
The News naage Overheard AS Res psan Bade Alfred Gand Wight

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 Bess Dsan has a positive flair faE
 making other women nneNmfarls hle
 when she chooses % do so, This lH
 anomalous contrast 10 the fact that
 she esn be most taetful and consider sts when she so desires From the
 moment oi my self-iRyited addition 10
 her escort home. she proceeded ta
 bend al her eAeFgy-and no mean
 power it is-to the task Of annoying
 me with every ingenious device al her command
 Keen perceptions and our former close daily association in the schools room nave provided her with an inlir mate knowledge of my predileetians and my faihles, Armed with this, she spent the half hour Of our drive 10 nay,lew in a constant succession of conversational stlletto stahs at me, which she masked in so friendly a gnise that 1T l had answered them as they deserved, Alfred would have deemed me uarrelsome. unduly sen. sitive person,
 Madge "strikes Home"
 Any woman who has suffered from a similar half hour knows how mY hands aehed for the primitive luxury of roundly skipping her. even inc dulCed myself in imagining Alfred Durkee's eonsternation if should suddenly break the bonds with which conventionality and good breeding shaekled me. and give to Bess Dean the treatment which she so richly merited.
 Aboriginal methods being denied me. I steeled myself to apparent nom chaiance, She should not detect In my demeanor the slightest hint that she was disturbing me. told myself. and before the drive ended 1 had the exquisite pleasure of realizing that. as Diclsy would phrase it. l had "nn- nexed her Angora," in a fashion most satisfactory to me.
 Her anger was as furious as mine when the car drew up before her boarding house. had managed to plant one return barb which saw was ranking deep.
 How delightfully."- odd to find you back in Bayview !'' I had remarked | with an air of absorbed interest when i we were within two minutes of her door. "The last time saw you, 1 Y understood that you had shaken the dust of the burg from your feet, and meant to spend this year teaching in a girls prep school"
 That l had struck home. realized when heard the edge in her answer ing voice. Whatever had happened to sever her connection with the prepara- tory school, and bring her back to Bayview. it had been something with distinctly unpleasant memories.
 "Ncycr Let Up"
 Tt was the trite old case of the frying pan and the fire" she rejoined carelessly enough, after a perceptibe pause. T stood three months of the frumps, and then when dear old snooky offered me more money and sang Come back to Bayview. me dar- lint. me darlint.' l simply couldn't stc 1 the gaff, and beat it down here a. st as the train wheels would roll" S,
 Alfred laughed heartily at her dis respectful reference to the president of the Bayview school board. and the , manner in which she hummed the travesty of the old bal lad. I laughed also in pretended :. amusement, but mine was in reality ! little peal of triumph and I hugged q myself in silent qualification while I Alfred escorted Bess to the door. V The house in which she was living l was so near to the street that through he taxicab door, which had swung s open after Alfred's hasty but ineffec- [ i've closing, could hear their voices T distinctly in low, hurried colloquy. 4 But just before Alfred turned away. V whether from accident or because she meant me to hear, my ears caught ignificant snatches of phrases from r fer lips. E She's on Car Nose to L let up-Look out-Tf he finds out Dicky-bird was---put Leila wise"
 Hush ,'' .. There was an expostulating answer ng murngir from Alfred, and then, S the door swung open with the girls atch key, he lifted his hat and came