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Show Confessions of j A War Bride ! i CHAPTER XXVIII. I Evtnta Crowd Feat on Lorlmsr Fsmlly an Promise Much. This Is a most wonderful world, but sometimes I feel that the Lorlmer family fam-ily Is getting mora than Its share of ex-Ueaaent ex-Ueaaent Do sll wsr brldra havs such perplexities thrust upon them? Or am 1 only growing up and finding out what life Is like? . I csn"t decide, but I sm perfectly sure that It s a bleaslng I am an only child. If there were as many "Ameses" as there are Iorlmers" I would have to hire a secret nry to eel down my confeaalons. Today I have a silly confession to make and I'm glad I'm not going to dictate it to anybody. Afler have nen Tonv f'urt. It always takes me a Inns time to get back to my ; own pronalc orbit. ' her nurse, t murmured a quick "goodbye" and fled to my room. Then 1 surveyed myself in the mirror. My hat waa at its moat becoming angle, my hair .waa perfect. per-fect. Hut pfcver wo Id I have dona this silly thing after corning horns from a rids with Hob! And my nerves were all fluttery! Oh, Me! At luncheon. Dsdily Ixrlmer told us thut Dr. Oriels hsd proposed a most delightful de-lightful trip. H seems that before Certels csme home from that last course of medical lectures In Herlln. lit 1914, he had rented from Its foreign owners grand personages with an Austro-ltalian name a perfectly enormous eststs someshers on ths Atlantic, At-lantic, Ther sre forests snd ssnd dunea and 'hills snd cliffs snd coves snd a mansion ! and a fishing shack and a hunting lodas and a perfectly lovely little Island! Dr. Certels thinks that a little fishing and hunting up there this fsll will make Daddy Dad-dy Lorlmer quits fit for tbs very strenuous strenu-ous winter before him. Certels goes up every year ta try out some motornoat Inventions snd he assures as-sures Dsddy I .rimer thst ths sporting prospect Is Indescribably good. Mother Lorlmer Is to go. with Benjle s bshy and the nurse, and I, to keep darling mother company. I Chiys will not be with us She le training to spesk for the net Liberty onn st movlea snd hotels snd cluhs snd street corners. Miss lorlmer Is, certainly certain-ly coins to prove some a tract Ion on a soap box ! I think Mother I -or Inter hastened the decision today to soothe daddy's fraa-iled fraa-iled nerves. He had hsd a dreadful morn Ins- It appears that two Influential eltt-sens eltt-sens drove their sutos to ths Country club on gaaoltneleas Hundaya snd the committee on membership derided to ask the men to resign The committee came to talk it over with daddy. He wild that the government's leitet requeet should bind every patriot like a military order. And he decided with ths committee but I could see that he was swfully worried. And no wonder. I shouldn't think hs would cars to offend two men who are so strong In stste politics, on the very eve of his own campaign for governor. Daddy must be thoroughly patriotic all throush. I'm so grieved tp think I worried wor-ried about ths sourcs of thst big check he gwve me. (To be continued. Copyright, lm, by the Newspapsr Fiiterrrte Asportation |