The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-22
When a Girl Marries
STORY OF EARLY Welded LIFE
Anne Discovers That Jim Borrowed
$4,000 to Speculate in Oil From
Her Enemy, Tom Mason

elaborate care arranged my hair,
washed and fell to buffing my fin
ger nails. But at last came the
time 1 dreaded. I was all hooked
into my best mulberry satin dinner
dress-and had nothing to do but
to sit and think-and think.
A WhirIIgIg OF Events.
I dared not consider my own
problem, so forced my mind to 60
back to the disappearance OF our
Betty. It seemed weeks since it had
happened, and yet it was only last
night that Terry had come to the
canteen for me-only last night
that Betty had walked out of our
lives and our knowledge. In a few
hours Terry would be in Washing
ton. BY morning we could expect
news from him.
Betty, Tom, Doris West, Terry,
our new fortune, Anthony Norreys
my mind whirled with the in
grained confusion and the whirl of
just mere living.
Again 1 feel the need to act-to
do ething-everything. So I
got up and rearranged the silver on
my bureau. When that was finish
ed 1 fetched out a discarded hat
and fell to ripping it apart-and
just as I had my bed Uttered with
silk and ribbon and canvas, Jim
walked in.
. "Over the sulks?" he asked.
is he gone" 1 parted, giving
my absorbed attention to pulling
threads from piece OF blue taf-
feta.
No ba b. -..s -y4.I n
He's waiting to arrange with me
about our dinner to celebrate.
Wen make il a bang-up affair
and ask jeanne and Phoebe and
Sheldon. The only drawback is
not having Terry and Betty"
How can you give a dinner with
Betty-Betty may be lying some
where" began. q
Jim interrupted angrilY.
Can the morbid whimpering,
Anne! Betty is all right You
needn't try to hide behind her and
pretend she's the reason for your
not wanting to celebrate when it's
really your insane hatred of good
Good old Tom" I mimicked
angrily. when you know per
fectly we'll that he came here
drunk and annoyed me-"
A Friend In Need.
What 1 know perfectly we'll is
that a friend in needs a friend in
deed" crieAtJim. whirling on me
with flashing eyes and hard.
brusque voice. Who gave me a
home at rent I could manage
when was down and out? Who
warned me on when the rest Of my
friends were going to let me get
mixed up with that crook. Sned-
den? Tom-good old Tom And
when asked him for this I'VE
thousand, did he argue or ask
questions? No-he came right
across"
But Jim cried, struggling to
keep my voice whole when il want
ed to crumple up along the edges
and cave in. How could you-how
could you in decency and self
respect get deeper in debt TO Tom
Mason? How could you? II seems
to me can never forgive you for
this First you let a little stenog-
rapher tip you to a big deal. Then
you let Tom Mason finance you.
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you. The establishment Of it,
! knew when ] spoke that / was
inviting Jim's fury-kindlinC his
ready temper to wrath. But his
reply surprised me. 1t was cold
and elf-contained-as II suddenly
hadn't the power to anger him.
You don't get this right, Anne
In good time you'll be ready to beg
my pardon for your unjust sus-
picions. In good time you'll get the
facts. haven't time to bother with
them now. But for the present
listen 10 this. ] let Tom Mason in
on this deal too. He has cleared
up twice what ] have. That can
GELS all the Indebtedness to him that
you were worrying about so the
other night. Now. please come out
and tell Mason that you're sorry il
took you so long TO dress, and that
you're mighty pleased with the
whole thing. Come on
And that's your answer re
piled helplessly.
Then, because there was no way
out Of it, I followed Jim into the
other room. And as I went up and
gave my hand TO Tom Mason his
eyes met mine with a swift. chal-
longing look, and he murmUred un-
der his breath:
Didn't ] tell you to count on me
when you needed a friend"