Show Confessions Co n fess on s Of a Bri Bride de Hating My Old Disguise I Don It Ye Yet Again For Again For I Hate Kate Miller Worse Then came the great day when Bo Bob received his discharge from the arm army Mother and I had the news by wire a awe as we were lunching for the first time a athe at atthe atthe the house on the coast We had come corn out in the morning to get everything settled Chrys would arrive in he her usual independent way when she was wa ready ready might be in the middle of the afternoon or at midnight or r ra ina in m ma a week or a month And Daddy Lorimer would bring Bo Bob out late in the day Mother had planned a grand family famil reunion but unfortunately Jim Jr ha had been sent to a distant aviation field t to try tryout out a new plane for the govern govern- ment meat Mother took the wire from Jim over the phone As she repeated th the message to me I realized that while the war Is over for most of us us it never neve will end for Mother until rim Jim im Jr stops stop flying and gets back into To take her mind from that worry J said it going to be wonderful t tc have our Bob Dob at home home home-as as our ver verj own own and and no Katherine Miller bothering bothering bother ing round and pretending to keep a record of his case for tor the army files My dear Mother remonstrated remonstrates Are you still a little jealous Im a great deal Jealous I as And Im I'm not ashamed of i It either Didn't that woman take oui ou boy away from us us and have hav him callee calle back to that old camp hospital Didn she do It deliberately because she coul caul I see he was beginning to fall faU in lov with a queer dark little girl Daddy ha hac hired for a secretary Mother Iother nodded then said Perhaps Jealousy Isn't always evil evi Our emotions ns are good or bad according accord accordIng Ing to their results I suppose Who we build through them they are goon good When we destroy them they are bad Katherine Miller was jealous in i common way She would have destroyed de destroyed Bob rather than let me cur CUP him through love For that I f hate heI her he herI I cant can't help It itai But she she had her chant and she failed Now It is my turn And I will not fail faU I tried hard t ti t. keep a note of ot triumph out of ot my voice void I I hope your promised miracle happens hap happens pens very soon said aid Mother You Youl I pardon me dear but hut Im I'm too old antoo antoo an anI too tired to have full faith In It It Thus Thu I perceived did Mother try to warn nv mj against too great a hope Never Nevertheless she helped me make i j beginning She acted as critic I put on that abominable tan complex complexIon Ion once more It had been agree that I should appear to Bob as Rose Dadd Daddys Daddy's s secretary All the servants I Ithe ii I the new house on othe the a shore suppose me to be one of ot the Lorimer employee Chrys alone was perfectly that I should return to the old dis guise She came in after alter luncheon a impetuously as unexpectedly Gee she said using the she had practiced with ith her brothers I III li II I her childhood an exclamation shi sh could never improve when her though required an emphatic Introduction Gee I thought I scrubbed that dy loft off once You did And most of ot my skI with it it Ill Til take all of the skin next time Ill I'll get an acid from Dr He tone was as amiable as a giants giant's In e i fairy tale Why the grouch Chrys Ive been trying to get Dr Certel by phone all morning And he wasn warn in hospital nor at his office nor at hi hotel I 1 see I I. I said I-said saId quite calm outwardly but inwardly In a turmoil How coup coull I tell ten her that tt at that hat moment I coup coule see Hamilton i from th the window windor where I was sitting And that he wa working at the engine of a motorboat i e good way do down the e beach To be continued |