Show i I I I Confessions s 1 Of a Bride Bob Brings Me News Which Which Stops My Heart With Surprise Bob entered the wistaria draped pergola at the end of the blue garden and came toward me with his long easy and stride stride and I started to to run to greet him as a loving bride ought to greet her husband I I am always forgetting forgetting for tor- getting that Bob has forgotten n me Fortunately the pergola was long longland land jand and I regained my my c composure e before fi Bob reached my side And then we were wre both a little embarrassed em- em m- m Just just justas as we w we used to be when we first fust discovered that we wo were falling in love when neither o ous of ofus ofus f us was quite sure of ot the other Bob wished to talk to me he had said and of course I had concluded exactly as it if I were in my mr seventeenth year vear that he must want to see me meI I for purely personal and sentimental I reasons that he was was' seizing seizing seizing-or or ori i making making-a a chance to talk to me about I nothing in the famous old w way y of a aman ti man with a maid since Cupid first firs stalked his prey A long silence followed Bobs Bob's arrival and embarrassed me considerably before Bob finally spoke I Im sorry I kept you waiting Miss MissI I Miller had an engagement with m my y sister sister sister- I I And Chrys I Chrys-I I mean Miss bliss Lorimer was late late and and you col couldn't leave Miss MissI j I Miller until your sister arrived I finished his apology for him lm knowing wing well how grateful he would be to to me Exactly And its it's of my sisters sister's j affairs that I wish to speak She's I going to O Spain Youve You've heard o of f I course course e I I nodded Miss Miller is planning to go with her They're discussing the trip toi to- to i day dav I j I 1 nodded a a again ain while my poor heart I stood still vIt it It had been part of at the J Lorimer plan to have Bob go to Spain I i with Chrys Chryst And because he was wasI going Katherine Miller l wanted to tomake tomake I make the trip And I his wife wasn't in a position to interfere j i I shrugged my shoulders in disgust I I l-I I couldn't help doing that that and and Bob BobI I I misconstrued my meaning ning and said I Of course that doesn't interest I I you I And I had to keep right on pretending pretending pre- pre 1 tending that the most important news i in the world didn't interest me I l Never had a bride been placed in such sucha i I a wretched wretch d position I felt sure Still StillI j I resolved to seize the joy of the I moment which was being alone with my own most adorable husband in a I garden of blue blossoms The point is that n neither ither my father I I nor I can see any sense in letting I Chrys go o of off to Spain Until sh she will ilI I acknowledge that her husband is dead I I I 1 understand She told me herself about bout the ouija board message I I explained Chrys Chi ys i is plain daffy I daff daffy I I mean she Is rather obstinate about it it Bob adI ad ad- Now you ou were the last I person to see the man who went into the sea in the divers diver's dress just before the explosion You made an affidavit in New York that the person was was' Hamilton Please do not consider consider con con- sider me impertinent if I ask about your acquaintanceship with What hat ground had you for being so positive I j I had to finger my bobbed black wig to get m myself self into the right relationship re- re j to 10 events before I could speak speak- I I I r knew Dr well because I I worked in his office for a time time Ume- before I came to work for Mr Lorimer Lori- Lori mer I I see Bob went on absently as if after all that wasn't the main topic of conversation Then can you rou tell me how many diving divin- suits were made after invention Only two I J spoke positively The original l was to fit Tiny Goff A copy was made for a little dancing girl Bob shook his head You must be mistaken he said Otherwise how could I find a third one in the shack on the beach To be continued |