| Show I Ion Confessions on f of ofA a aA ofA f A War Bride CHAPTER I IThe The Queen of Spain Tells Ouija Board Secrets Eloise dressed In the becoming fashionable fashionable fash- fash I frocks Mother Lorimer insists she must wear makes a beautiful picture picture picture pic pic- ture but she Isn't really one bit prettier prettier prettier pret pret- tier than she was in her maids maid's uniform uni uni- form And I know of one person who doesn't like Eloise at all In her new I costumes Its It's Chester Yesterday I felt awfully sorry for him as he stood stiff and still holding the door of the auto while Eloise stepped to a seat st-at beside mother Another broken heart I said to myself The worlds world's full of em But BUl ButI BUlI I guess few men regard heartbreak as asa i ia a fatal malady Certainly Dr will never perish from heartbreak I thought as we were assembled for coffee In the drawing room after our New ew Year Tear dinner din din- ner was revolving about j Eloise now and then while she pla played ed edher her role of ladys lady's maid but he did not I recognize her in her r lovely dinner gown And of course no one informed him how Cinderella had been changed to a princess though of course Daddy Lorimer is booked to do so at the first opportunity Had I not been watching al almost almost almost al- al most too closely perhaps I would not have detected his fine manners to Eloise There was something almost familiar or Intimate in their attitude toward each other as if they had been friends IP it other lands at other times I Moreover l I was distinctly hurt teis hart had set Eloise on a plane with himself and at first sight and I had achieved that honor only by way of a rouge pot and a very low bodice I was steeped In pessimism I fairly wallowed In cynicism And a phrase which made me most uncomfortable kept popping into my mind Is the big boss of of- of the spy was saying when the ball from I Eloise's bullet stopped him Of what I of of whom whom was was he he the big boss i Would I ever eer again come so close to solving the mystery which surrounds I Hamilton I set myself to piecing together all allI I the scraps of gossip and and- andall all the facts I I had heard concerning him Perhaps I could fit that unfinished sentence somewhere In the story like a troubles troublesome troublesome trouble trouble- s some some me zig-zag zig chip in a picture puzzle But Dut I didn't have a chance to o assemble assemble assemble assem assem- ble the puzzle that day for lor Chrys summoned us s all to an ouija New Years Year's day is Just the time to tell fortunes she said ald aid Somebody help me me you Eloise put your fingers fingerson on that side of the pointer Jane is too I cynical Nothing doing when her fingers fingers fingers fin fin- gers touch the board I But shed she a dandy speller hey Jane said Daddy Lorimer So get your pencil play the Sybil and write I down what fate is going to hand each of us in 1919 At first the pointer on en the ouija board simply stalled Then I jotted down a score of letters which made no sense at all Finally I had a real exciting exciting exciting ex ex- citing announcement to make A queen of Spain will talk I proclaimed proclaimed proclaimed pro pro- claimed In great glee And a new control Chrys avowed seriously I can tell by the way my arm is moving The queen wants to know I went wenton on taking down the letters as the pointer directed the queen wants to know if anybody here cares to claim relationship with her I Nobody did it appeared but the pointer was tearing around so madly I that I couldn't give much attention to the audience Her Iier majesty avers that she lived in Paris a long time And she is here to o converse with C sauntered up to the board in inthe inthe the best of humors outwardly but his eyes glittered wrathfully And Eloise with her dainty finger tips just touchIng touchIng touching touch- touch Ing the tracer looked up at him and smiled roguishly To be continued Copyright 1918 by the Newspaper Enter Enter- e Association i |
