Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-19
"When a Girl
Marries "
By ANN Isle
A New, Romantic Serial
Dealing With the Absorb
ing Problems Of a Girl
Wife.
CHAPTER XXXV.
By ANN Isle


out to be a jolly. intimate affair. We
knew that Jim would want his first
dinner to Captain Winston to be a
great success, and when We got the
currant jelly out of its glass un-
broken in its rich red translucence.
Betty did a little jig. We fairly
beamed with housewifely zest when
Betty found the melons l had been
saving for next mornings breakfast
and started zigzagging them into an
appetizer"
Shall l peel the potatoes. Anne.
when I've done with the melons? Jim
never did like them with their jac-
kets on, you know" suggested Betty.
l didn't know. And when she con-
tinued. in chuckling reminiscence.
began to lose my warm glow of lik-
ing for her in a cool spray of feel
ing "out-or-things."
Serving pertaties' in their jac-
kets were the pet vice of the squad
ron cook. Once when we ate at an
infantry mess in the Vosges. Jim al
most wept with emotion over the
Httle naked pertaties' . There. the
melons are gorgeous Anne, how are
inns affairs coming on?"
She threw il in casually. But l
stiffened at her intrusion into our
personal concerns. AS we'll as if
she had put it crudely. l knew Betty
meant Has Jim a job?"
All right" l replied almost curtly
All right? You said that as if
everything were-all wrong"
, Betty came over to my side. She
took the bread from my hand and
swung me around to face her. Then
! she caught me in her arms and gave
me little warm. friendly shake.
Ill
so want to help you"
Perhaps it was that word help"
perhaps it was the memory of her
knowing how Jim liked his potatoes
but 1 couldn't respond to Betty.
My coffee!" l cried. 1t really was
! boiling over
l shook off Betty's clinging hands.
set the coffee back to keep hot and
then turned with cold reply:
Jim is really quite all right. He
does an article month for Hal
dane Sand he has just accepted a
position as inspector in a factory"
"Airplanes?" asked Betty eagerly.
Caps"
The word came out with a little
explosion. Betty repeated it in ut
ter astonishment.
Caps"
"Yes-a very good cap factory"
cried. with an air of finallty.
/ Betty. stood staring at me in per-
! pleXity. She was holding her right
/ hand against her lips in a way she
has-the fire of that red scar against
/ her mouth. And queenIy Betty sud :
denly seemed childish and appeal
! ing as she stood there with her fin-
gers curled out toward me from her
open palm. s.
But. Anne. an inspector has to
walk miles. He has to walk all day,
Jim's ankle! 1t will torture him"
l hadn't thought of that. Betty,
pressing her own scar to her lips.
had realized how my boys lameness
| handicapped him. hated myself
remembering!
| Tears were very close to my eyes.
L wonder what would have happened
| If had let them come. If had cried
] out my thoughts:
"Oh. it won't do for him to go
walking about all day. So he hasn't
job. after all. And he is so happy
because he thinks he has! Oh Betty
what shall we do?"
/ Instead, l said coldly:
He has probably thought of that.
Mrs. Bryce. and arranged according
, ly."
And then I marched in to put TIE
melon on the table When l came
back again Betty had served up the
vegetables and had set them on top
of the oven to keep hot.
| Thank you for all you've done,
! Mrs. Bryce. You've helped wonder
| fully. Now well go in. Please let
me have your apron. 1 want you to
be company from now on" got
I the sentences out jerkily, and Betty
! looking at me gravely. obeyed.
1t was Jim who helped me carry
lon the roast and the vegetables-he
insisted on snatchins a kiss from
the cook, which restored her com
posure, but only for brief moment
for when we returned to our guests
l could see that Betty had been talk
ing confidentially to Captain Wins
ton. Her head was close to his.
felt sure that she had been asking
him what to do about Jim.
An angry wave of resentment
swept over me. We were asking nc
favors. Then why couldn't they
leave us alone to manage our own af-
fairs?
But 1 managed to conceal my feel
ings, so dinner was a social as well
/ as a gastronomic success. Captain
winston called 1t the delicious est
nome meal he had met on this side oi
the pond" And Jim beamed
Every one helped. clean-on''- sc
that was over in a jiffy. Then Can
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