Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
"When a Girl MQrries"
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A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problem of a Girl Wife

I son thinks of us is pretty clear from
what she said to use when she got
through with us. And she's through,
all right. But I'll bet we never do
much talking on that score. I'm
darn glad Envy has marched her
starting along?"
lie held out the ring as he spoke.
| But Neal, his face matching his
hair, stammered:
Would you just give it to Babbs
to keep for me?"
l took the ring and slipped it into
the inner compartment of my bag.
That made two diamond rings l had
received from Neal in one after=
noon. But l was pretty sure that
one of these rings was only mine in
trust.
Say, Anne, do you want to drive
us over to the old Harrison place
before we go home?" Jim asked as
we made ready to leave after Civ
ing, by tacit consent, a decent
margin of time for Envy to come
back and establish whatever rela-
tions she wished with us.
l noticed CLINT in Meals eyes
when Jim said that. And as we
roamed over the tangled but lovely
utes later Neal drew Jim aside and
murmured a few sentences to him.
They seemed to re-establish from
Meals angle the same cordial rela-
tions which Jim had shown every
evidence of feeling from the mo-
ment Neal had cried out his anX-
iety for my happiness.
We spent SO much time on the
Harrison place that Z o'clock caught
us unawares and hungry and we had
to stop at an inn for dinner. Mas
culino poise and calmness stood us
in such good stead that we ate in
good-natured commonplace fellow
ship, as if nothing unusual had
happened. And we motored Neal
home and bade him goodnight on
the same unstressed note.
See you for dinner tomorrow,
announced Jim as parting, and Neal
agreed.
Jims first words when we were
once alone in our own apartment
were pitched in a far different key,
however.
Anne" he cried, seizing my
shoulders in firm hands and hold
ing me off at arms length. Have
you stopped caring for me?"
Have 1 stopped caring?" l began
already to protest, and then the
quizzled CLEAN that had come again
to Jim's eyes arrested my attention
and made me change my tune and
tone. "Of course, Sir James, it
would f1atter your masculine vanity
for me to swoop down on you with
a query as to what you were doing
alone with that woman. But 1 re-
main calm. Is it a disappointing
calm Sir JameS?"
Tis-and 'taint!" laughed Jim.
But, of course, if you haven't the
least curiosity l won't bore you with
my story"
"Oh, JIM" burst from me in a
tone of complete betrayal.
And then Jim told me-part of
it-as much as a man who isn't
cad could tell. I filled in the rest.
I've been making money-fist-
fuls, Lilac Lady. And 1 thought
the old Harrison place ought too
come back to us. I've had Neal on
the trail of the present owners and
their price. Thought it would be
easy for him to get his finger on
the Sturges Construction Com
pany. But it isn't listed with them,
and he can't pussy foot a bit of
knowledge for me. Well, to-day
went out there by train to take
Il look. And as L was hoofing it
from the station, where the one
hack and half a taxi were work
ing for other folks when l wanted
them, l met Evvy."
And went to Mason Towers with
her in pursuit of the policy you've
been following for weeks" l haz-
arded in a breathless rush. you've
been trying to. make her realize
i.
it and marry Neal-just to spite
Phoebe and you and me and to be
revenged on you for jilting her-by
making your little sister suffer.
After all my failures you've saved
Neal from his own stubborn ideas