Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16

pedo" drew up to our door at about
the same time Terry's maroon tour
ing car brought Betty and Jim's sis
ters to call for Neal and me. Shell
dons joy at seeing Virginia masked
her well-bred but icy nod to Envy,
but things CONCEALED again when
Sheldon begged Virginia to come in
his car and with an aloof air she
declined.
OF course he felt terribly snubbed,
since he couldn't know that it was
Envy she was avoiding and not him.
To cover his discontinue, he asked
Terry to spare him a passenger or
two-"young Neal now and Miss
Phoebe, for instance"
Phoebe and Neal were overjoyed,
and a CLEAN of pleasure came into
Evvy's narrowed eyes but the spark
didn't last long, for now Virginia
turned to Terry and from him to
Sheldon.
"Oh. dear Captain Winston, since
you aren't the stickler for formal
ity I've learned to believe all you
dear English to be, will you help
me make amends to Mr.. Blake for
my curt refusal of his invitation
and release me, along with these
children, to chaperon the big gray
carr"
This meant Virginia was going
to keep Neal and Phoebe under her
out on a cold world. Smoothly,
though with high color that meant
annoyance, she turned to Virginia.
If you've quite decided, Mrs. Dali
ton-perhaps I'm safe to plan to be
with my dear Anne?"
If l hadn't been so sorry for Envy
I might have been annoyed at her
appropriating me as her dear Anne"
right before Virginia. But a more
annoying appropriation followed
when we picked Jim up. Envy turn
ed to him with a wistful sweetness
I'm sure no man could have resist
ed.
Jimmie boy, I'm the odd one in
this party. You won't make me feel
that an old friend like me is hope
lessly-in the way, will you?"
Her tone suggested that every one
else had made her feel like an in
truder-and 1 knew that it must ap-
peal to everything chivalrous in my
boys nature.
You're just an added joy, Envy"
returned the Eternal Masculine.
In another moment Envy was
nestled up to Jim, and exclaimed, with
a little air of confding:
Jimmie, boy. do you remember
what wonderful lunches I used to
have? That time at the Vanderbilt
Cup six years ago-and the next fall
at Sheepshead Bay?"
On and on went her flow of do
you remembers?" and "have you ever
forgottens?" Betty never excluded
me from her "reminiscences of the
days in France-which wonderful as
they were, after all, could be no more
strange and alien to me than this
discussion of motor races, none of
which l had seen. But unlike Betty,
Envy appropriated my husband and
shut me out. l sat desolately hold
ing Meals box of candy-not willing
to eat it all alone. and not daring to
intrude by Offering it to anyone. The
drivers seat, where Betty and Terry
rode side by side, seemed very far
away
Jim and Envy drew closer-closer.
Their voices fell to whispers. Sud-
denly my husband drew away and
sat erect-alert, vibrating with pur-
pose. And now he spoke loud
loud enough for me to hear:
I'll follow your hunch Envy.
Every cent I have with me goes on
that Yankee Kid-Greyson. And If
l win, name your reward.
Envy laughed and slid her hand
into Jim's ito shake on it," He ap-
peared not to notice her. He was
tense again - feverish - like the