Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
When a Girl N1QrrieS"
by
A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With tie Absorbing
Problem of Girl Wife
ny ANN Isle

a girl who actually cares. enough
about other folks happiness TO try
to get II back from them when
lheyve thrown it away. In the
meantime, I'll go up and sit with
| our appreciative and charming guest
while her nurse has her two hours
| OIL IN the car you furnish, because
you're such spoil-sport and med
| dler!"
That's the pleasantcst sarcasm
I've ever heard" l laughed.
! Then, like the thoroughbred she'd
| shown herself again, Jeanie said nc
more. and left me to establish my
| self comfortably in the living room
| with pile of new magazines and
another pile of new apples.
So it was 1 who received Lane
and Uncle Ned when Bertha ushered
from neiShboring estate of across
the border from another country.
How is she?" blurted out Lane al
| most in the same breath that both of
them greeted me. Then he added. in
! tone entirely free from alarm:
annex Guess you think I'm big
baby to come tearing back because
the kiddie has sprained ankle and
| couple of black and blue spots.
Don't your
IL think you're a devoted hus-
band" / countered, avoiding Uncle
Ned's eyes because | suspected he
/ realized there was more amiss than
! he'd seen fit to tell Lane.
We'll, you weren't Il devoted
| friend letting her tumble down the
! river bank" rumbled Lane in his
| big brown bear fashion. "Couldn t
! you have stopped her from going
! on a cross-country jaunt in those
! silly high-heeled pumps she will
wear? Is that the way you look
out Tor your guests?'
But even as ne rumbled out his
| seedlings he heamed at me unsus-
| pcctingly and concluded by order
! ing me to convey him to his little
girl at once. l escorted him to the
| turn of the hall. pointed TO Nars
! door and then fled back to Uncle
Ned. l was convinced that he and
had few things to say to each
.Where's my bride?" he demanded.
rising with courtly dignity as l came
| back to the room. surely Mollie
didn't stay up there to chaperone the
reunion"
shes not in VaPs room. She isn't
here at all. She was down yester-
day, but she felt she had to get
back to Lacy Willoughby.'
That isn't like Mollie," replied
Uncle Ned shaking his head in per-
pleNity. | te-egraphed her to fling
a few odds and ends into bag and
go to our Val at once. Mollie never
fails me. l don't understand"
Seeing Val upset her" | replied.
But Jim said our little girl wasn't
badly hurt. Is poor little Lacy in
dangerous shape" demanded Uncle
Ned.
no. Aunt Mollie was just upset"
| floundered, torn between what
wasn't supposed to know and what
! surmised about Aunt Mollie's prob
able desire to protect Val even from
dear Uncle Ned. And she wasn't
eXactly-prepared TO stay"
bring a bag. Doesn't your sister
in-law banker after so much COM
pany?"
wanted her-she begged her-to
stay I replied defensively and then
backed down. regretting the heat
that had committed me too far. But
Aunt Mollie said she had to carry
Walls bag. And | suppose, not being
sure she's got taXis all the time when
she needed them. she didn't want
two bags in case she had to carry
them"
THAT'S a great speech. Anne. And
| can see you mean to reassure me,
replied Uncle Ned. fiNing his shrewd
eyes on me with craving Tor the
truth, which made them shine tiercely
under his beetling brows. But what
| want to know is why my bride
didn't stand by the girl we both love
seeing as how the girl was hurt
bad enough. so Jim shouts across
national boundary to get us back to
her?
What are you trying to hide?'
I'm not trying to hide anything.
I stammered. 81 must go fad Jeanie
and tell her you're here. And order
some tea
Not much little girl. You don't
stir from your old uncle until you've
broken your news to him however
much it's going to hurt him.
Then suddenly his insistent yet
pleading eyes left my face and
focused on the doorway. / followed
their glance.
There on the threshold, stood Lane
To BE Continued.