Show Confessions I Of a Bride I What Will Daddy Lorimer Say to the Mad Adventures s of the Lost Bride Camo Came a n da day when It was safe safo 0 for me meto meto meto to remove remo the plaster from the cut cuton cuton cuton on m my forehead There Thero would woul bo a ascar scar an scar an c everlasting reminder of or m my mild mad career as an nn unattached bride I brushed a soft waY wavy lock over the theL L- L L line tine and noticed that It was like Uko tho the car on Bobs Bob's square Jaw Then I summoned Tommy and Cr very solemnly as nA one might arrange for fora a 11 funeral wo decided ed how I was as to tor r reveal my Identity to Daddy Lorimer Lori Len mer Ver Very solemnly too 1 I waited on tho the hotel mezzanine later In tho the afternoon afternoon after after- noon for the two men to appear I IS Ivas vas S much too nervous ous to endure my myown myown myown own company In tho the sma small parlor of or orm m my suite And I ha had need to bo be grave Irn for a serious question harassed hara me Would Daddy r ln ha having heard m my story lake take me back on faith as th the same sweet little tittle girl he had loved or would he and he-and and at the tho thought an awful terror shook hook me would mc would he as asan asan an nn need experienced man of the tho world doubt me one when he learned learne that 1 had lived cd with the Queen of ot Smiles nn and andIn In n Dr Hamilton house An And how bow would Mother I Lorimer and Chrys Chry's regard me They were the he he kind of ot women who ho believe In Ideals and cultivate them I felt sure that thal Mother Iother Lorimer would I receive me nee with JO Joy and thanksgiving that that sho she would never fever question me mg concerning m my experiences Only petty minds arc are suspicious suspicious' An And Sister Chrys Chrs Bobs Bob's twin considered considered con con- sl ered herself a little moro more than loan modern She would assert that I was entitled to live m my own life In my myown myown myown own way She would take me mo back Into the home and antl stand by me mc no matter what I 1 might have done I I really had only daddys opinion to worry about Watching th tho ha crowd In the lobby from the tho hotel mezzanine I 1 noticed a flurry Cluny animating those present It ran from the door to the desk In a sense the tho crow crowd stood at nt attention as It mi might hl If It Rockefeller or ntH Dill Hart lIart were to come Into Inlo view I 1 knew al although though I could not nol glimpse the tho en entrance entrance en- en trance that the lIon Hon Jamey James D Lorimer Lorimer Lori Lorl- mer mel the towns town's richest citizen was with us LOS I watched the scene cu curiously curiously curiously cu- cu from mv my elevated seat Men rushed forward for a a. handshake handshake handshake hand hand- shake some put themselves In the way of or attracting tho the rich mans man's no notice notice notice no- no tice by chance a a. few Cew of or tho the Jealous scowled at the millionaire and ancI retreated re retreated re- re treated behind their papers stran strangers ers ersIn In town lined ti up for Cor a better beller view But there thelo wasn't a man from bellhop to blase commercial traveler who Ig Ignored I- I nored tho the president of or the Lorimer Chemical company the company tho man whoso whose millions had doubled with every o month of ot the tho war var Never before beCore had I been afraid of Dadd Dandy Daddy but Lorimer-but but now that I saw him through tho e eyes es of oC tho the crowd ho seemed sud suddenly enly an nn august personage I retreated In mad haste hasle to m my little parlor feeling myself of no account whatever A ring at the phone a namo name sent up from the office a It knock at my door and tho the Hon James D. D Lorimer en entered entered entered en- en the room Tommy Tomm stood at his elbow quite pallid ld but all smiles And clo close e to the mantel stood I Jane Lorimer And I caught a n glimpse of my face In the mirror above o tho the mantel and It was as veT very white while and andI I wasn't astonished because m my poor heart wasn't heating beating at al all I couldn't speak I couldn't advance ance a n. step fIlep to lo meet m my husbands husband's father I could only wa watt wait It Daddy Lorimer couldn't speak eith eith- er cr He pulled d at his tie as If It were choking him Then he turned from fromme fromme fromme me to Tommy Tomm with a characteristic Attempt at attempt attempt At- At tempt at al a Jibe You darn rascal And then he had cau caught ht me to him and between hi his father fatherly kisses he ho tousled m my hair In his dear old teasing way and over o his shoulder I beheld mopping awa away his tears An And then dadd daddy had to stop mussing my hair in order to get out his own handkerchief To be bo continued |