The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-08
WHEN A GIRL MARRIES
AN ABSORBING SERIAL OF EARLY Welded LIFE

ton, which lay palpabIy between
US like dead thing. when the
situation was relieved by q jar
ring ring at the doorbeIl. Three
times it commanded attention.
And as I arose to answer II
saw Rosa smile.
Those three rings were a signal
to her. To me they suggested q
teiegram-possibly Jim himself
mysteriously and benignly re-
turned to me by a relenting fate.
I opened the door and found
Manuelo Ortiz on the threshold.
MY Rosa he said, with q
brazen display of his feelings as
If what thought couldn't posi-
bly, matter. ..She is here-not?"
Mrs. Cordova is here" I re-
piled. preserving the amenities.
But Manuelo smiled at me,
WdUly anu WISIIutIys
ITO me, Rosa is My Rosa, be-
cause next after my faith / wor-
ship her. he murnured, with
something at once beautiful and
fantastic in his voice and man
ner. There is only respect in
that. Will you please to renlem-
Der that is so, Mrs. White Lilacg.'
At the door Of the dining room
stopped and pointed the way.
81 forgot something" I said,
weakly, and turned back. But
Manuelo smiled wisely and UNDER
standingly and said:
Thank you for this. It makes
us friends. But to be with he.
alone it is no good to me. It
only hurts. You shall come with
US, and if it is something should
say without you hear, / say
him maybe in Spanish. Rosa--it
is I, Manuelo. Your Nello!'
Come in-lititle boy" she
laughed insolently. From Jaime
it is maybe you bring me the
news. Yes?"
Manuelo gave vent to some
thing that may have been a Span
ish oath. Anyway, he ended up
with a word resembling the IA
miliar "Carambap' of a related
tongue. Then he swept into q
long dissertation in English. and
a peculiar patois Rosa seemed to
understand. Out Of it 1 made
jerky set of facts running like
this:
Tonight there is appointment
with Pancho. He nibbles-the sill
ly little minnow He thinks may
be his sister shall meet my fam
lily. should know such a peon
when I have with the sun daz-
zled my eyes" The sun pre-
sunably and plausibly being
Rosa.
1t took a long time and q flow
of words to express this. Rosa
interrupted with:
you shall play Pancho as IL
he is fish. Good fisherman and
hunter, are you, Nello. though
silly boy"
"You did not always talk 90.
think soon comes one who
Manuelo Agrees.
But Rosa interrupted with q
sound like a hiss, and Manueio
went on in Spanish. Suddenly
she broke in again on his flow OF
soft syllables.
go, too! Me, I see this
through. 1t is now approach the
critical stages of our game.
shall be there to play it with
you, Nello."
"And be soiled by the eyes OF
Pancho," protested Nello.
Listen SO silly little boy!'
cooed Rosa. ''I may have even
to be to Pancho pleasant. I may
have to coquet me a little bit.
But it is for a-cause that means
to me much. You should under
stand how it is when-a cause
means to someone much"
What you like" acquiesced
Nello duly.
You must be anliable, amigo
milo, while LAND our fish," in
sisted Rosa. "Wait for me In the
car; speak now to Mrs. Harri-
son."
Then she turned to me as he
departed. obediently. ST think
you are clover to see that Pan
cho leads us maybe to Dick and
maybe to-
Dad Lee" / filled in.
II do not blame you for want
ing to-how you say?-keep this
crook and gambler father of
yours-dark," says Rosa, In q
tone that threatened but did not
concede.
You will not drag me In?
There is no need Of that" I in
sisted with all the force at my
command.
1--WE shall see-White Lilac! II
I can manage. How Jamie
would hate for Nello to know
his father-in.Iaw"