Show Confessions Of a Bride Sri de Plans a l Secret Wedding Weddin and I I I Resolve to Keep Still Awhile Chrys' Chrys wedding was not to be announced an an- announced In- In except to her most Intimate friends that Is not until she he should be bo safely sael Installed In her magnificent foreign castle So Dr and Daddy Lorimer had agreed This ex- ex extreme extreme ex- ex degree of secrecy had been Jeen ar arranged arranged or- or ranged to humor Mother Iother Lorimer She disliked unnecessary pub publicity licit Nevertheless No ns as a soon as It should be known that the famous Dr Hamilton had come Into a grand and old Spanish title and estates and that he had been quietly wedded to Lorimer daughter of ono one of the worlds world's great makers th the marriage would be bo acclaimed one of international International Importance Such notoriety was vas to be postponed as long as pos possible all an the Lorimers agreed all reed all but little Jane Lorimer I wondered Just how much was pride and how much was 1009 policy In this scheme me for secrecy which the man I held to bo be a l spy had h hl so subtly put over my husbands husband's family There seemed to be a hundred reasons reasons rea rea- sons wh why I 1 should take the long IonS story of or my m suspicions to Daddy Dadd Lorimer at once Against them all I balanced m my old faith In the tho ultimate triumph of or orthe the right Let Chrys Chry's go 0 ahead with her plans plans- they would supply a little of that excitement ex excitement excitement ex- ex for which sho ho was as wearying I had a handful of trumps If It nothing nothing noth noth- In ing Intervened to spoil Dr Certel scheme to capture one of the richest girls in the world I could throw them then down at the tho last moment I 1 could appear appear appear ap ap- ap- ap pear before th the altar as It wore w and save t-avo Chrys And vaT vary the tho monotony of or he life which she so lamented with at least ono one grand rand movie mo thrill Meanwhile wh why Interfere with fate Some ver very Interesting events were on the Lorimer calendar Vh Why not watch the tho grand spectacles spectacle as time unrolled d them 1 Men Mm and ami women arc sorry If Ie the they lont marry and narry-and and Just us ns sorry If It they do lo do said Mother Iother Lorimer r when it came her her turn to discuss with me Chrys' Chrys ap ap- ap- ap preaching marriage Hamilton teis Is a yer very fascinating man Chrys will be much envied And I never ne did dIll believe that parents have hl any an right to make or unmake matches for their children Yet I do wish the experienced would warn the tho young not to take matrimony with such a reckless plunge I answered an an- Most of the girls I know get Set married without a single forward i glance Into the tho long years lar after mar mar- I And marriage Is so so-so so so final Its It's Just like death one way It lasts t a along long time Mother lother Lorimer smiled as If Ie she quite understood m my rather crude ef effort effort effort ef- ef fort to be clever One does docs stay stu dead and dead and married a n long time she said softly and then added with a little shake of her head nevertheless no third person Is prIvileged privileged to interfere with a love lo affair Let Lot tho parties concerned got get their own experience and experience and do their own regretting regret regret- rc rettin ret ret- tin ting Somehow mothers mother's remark comforted me I would keep m my resolve not to meddle with Chrys' Chrys matrimonial prospects pros pros- To be bo continued |