Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
!" When a Girl MarrieS"
BY
New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problems of a Girl Wife
BY ANN LISLE
Problems of a Girl Wife

You'd be glad to hear the true
story OF this evenings adventures"
L repeated in sheer amazement.
Then you didn't believe Tom Ma
sons story after all?"
Il did not, but I was willing to let
MIN get away with murder before
there was the scene you seemed
fairly painting to produce" retorted
Jim sharply.
But, Jim, YOU gave him the i'm
preston that you believed him in
stead of me-" 1 walled.
saints preserve us-the woman's
pound to- have the scene after all"
Jim cried. Now, listen, Anne, and
prime that magnificent .44-caliber
brain of your for action. The way
YOU were heading 1 was in for a
grand splftup with Tom. This cozy
little apartment at a mighty low rent
looks good to me.
Il don't want to move. I don't
want TO buy furniture just now. l
don't want to get stuck for a bunch
OF rent money till l been on a decent
payroll for q while and can afford
q place as good as this at the price
any one but Tom would be sure to
charge. So just quit sputtering at
our landlord like a tabby with her
back up"
"Jim-you shan't talk to me like
evening"
oh! shan't talk to you like that,
eh? And you've had about all you
can stand?' stormed Jim. How
about me? My wife makes a fool
of me. traipsing OFF with a bunch Of
women, and keeps me guessing for
hours where she is-and then I
come in and find her ranting all over
the place because good old Tom Ma
son told her she had wonderful eyes
or something like that"
l stared at Jim for a moment
trying to make my brain focus on
his viewpoint. But the closer 1
came to seeing it the less 1 liked it.
Evidently Jim did not mind having
men compliment me and flatter me
either because he was so sure of me
that he knew they couldn't touch me
at all.
A flash from a long-ago situation
come to me like a moving picture
cut-back. I was again at the Tow
ers by the Sea. Sheldon and Dicky
Royce were paying ridiculous sums
to get the last rag monkeys in the
place for Envy and Sally-and hint
ing in their half-sneering, half
laughing manner that they consid-
cred my Jim a social pirate-a
CRATER who didn't pay his way.
Resolutely 1 pushed that into a
dark corner under the caves in the
attic of memory.
Jim, l want to get out of this
apartment at once" said. Tom
Mason may have come for that blue
robe which I once told you he has
repeatedly tried to force on me. But
he was hiding-in the other room
when 1 came in. And he tried to
make love to me. 1t was horrible.
Let's leave here-at once. dear"
Il can't, Anne" Jim replied in a
tone that sounded as if he were
throwing himself on my mercy. Its
the first of the month. Have you
noticed that pile of bills on the
table? The rent is paid up to the
thirty-first. l can't waste all that
money. Surely you won't ask me to
because of a hysterical notion?"
Jim, are you going to fail me
in the first thing l ever asked of
you?" I demanded sternly.
"Oh. 1 wouldn't say that. dear"
protested Jim. laughingly.
But l went on unheedingly:
II tell you Tom Mason tried to
make love TO me-to me, your wife!
Now will you stay in his apartment
at a figure that's really a personal
favor"
ITO you, I supposed" interrupted
jim. Anne, please don't develop into
one of those silly women who thinks
that every MN who glances her
way is in love with her. Men say
a lot they don't mean. And now that
we've disposed of Mason-suppose
you give me an idea If I'm to expect
time you go to the canteen."
wait a minute, Jim-let's get
this straight" ! replied in voice
tried to make calm and even. You
want to stay in this apartment, be-
cause it's a great bargain-and so
you choose to believe what Tom Ma
son tells you in explanation of his
presence here. 1 tell you he-an-
noyed me. And you reply that you
don't want me to be the sort of silly
woman who thinks every man who
looks at her is in love with her. You
dismiss it like that do you?"
I'm the name of reason, Anne
what do you want me to do? Go
out and fight a duel with Mason? If
this isn't all figment of your imag-
ination, tell me-did anything hap
pen? For instance. did Tommy kiss
you?"
1 felt myself stiffen and solidify
into a mold. l had never been
angrier in all my life, and yet was
only cold-icy cold.
"No.' I said curtly. "No-after
all, 1 can take care of myself, which
is perhaps just as well under the
circumstances"
Jim's answering laugh was ugly.
e young wife who can-take
care on herself doesn't some strolling
home at 10 e'alock at night. You
haven't yet deisned to tell me where
you were"
YEARLY I realized that now was