Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-03
" When a Girl MarrieS"
BY
A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problems of a Girl Wife

room together, Virginia arrived,
with Phoebe bringing up the rear
laden with fruits and jellies and
regular market supply of dainties.
! The little sister was only allowed to
stay for a kiss and she was ordered
off to see to the days work in Vir-
ginia's apartment. In the doorway
she sadly whispered to me:
Wee doesn't think any one can do
as much for Jim as she can. And
she doesn't think l matter to him at
all. l didn't tell her about the neck
lace"
She squeezed my hand, blew kiss
to jim and drifted away like n mass
of spring blossoms on a breeze. For
a moment a flicker of pity for Vir-
ginia passed across my mind-how
much she missed when she froze
Phoebe TO immobility. And after
this thought 1 found it more natural
to pity myself, for Virginia was
taking possession of Jim, rearrang
ing his pillows. undoing all my
plans for his comfort and-yes. 1
confess it-doing everything twice
as skillfully as l had.
And for her, Jim was conquering
the i'll temper from which l hadn't
been able to win him. He seemed
to feel at home with Virginia, and
everything 1 had done for him had
the effect of making him act surly
and sheepish. 1 comforted myself
with the thought that he wanted to
serve me, and so having me wait on
him Inundated him had brought on
sulks which ere used to disguise
feelings he might have thought
babyish." Satisfied with my own
explanation of Jim's attitude toward
his sister, / manage not to let one
atom of jealousy creep into my
manner toward her. And 1 tried
not to let it upset me when she
turned on me with an angry eX-
clamation:
Anne Harrison, you ought to be
ashamed. You haven't even an ice
bag on this poor boys ankle.
Haven't you any idea what to do
for sick MANI"
"Oh, my poor Jim! Were you
suffering without the ice-bag? We
haven't one, but III run right
they have and-anything else you
say, Virginia." l replied meekly-
for me.
BY the time I returned from the
errand on which even Jim's pro-
tests couldn't prevent my going. DIR.
Kellogg had arrived. He was a
splendid big, gray-bearded man in
the kindly zone of the late fifties.
Strength and love and understand
ing seemed to fill the room, and his
keen eyes and firm manner fore
told knowledge and skill. Rest, a
tonic and the ice-bag were a large
part of his prescription, and to
these he added n sedative for the
pain in Jim's ribs, and an injunc-
ton that "the lad" mustn't be per-
mitted TO worry.
Immediately on his departure
! Virginia went firmly to the phone,
called up the cap factory, asked for
| the manager and announced that
/ Mr.. Harrison would not return to
work there and would like his check
mailed to him. Then she advanced
upon me almost scornfully.
You might have saved Jim all
this suffering, Anne, il you'd just
| taken the trouble to realize that
if he had been fit for such work he
might have had a Government in
spectorship instead of working in
/ this -picayune cap factory.
Virginia." L cried defensively,
II tried to get him to resign last
night"
''And I resigned for him this
morning" she replied, coldly.