Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
"When a Girl MarrieS"
By ANN Isle
A New. Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problems of a Girl Wife
..Give up the tea" suggested Jim

| Give up the tea" suggested Jim.
II couldn't" Evvy's eyes were
wistful. You haven't the heart to
ask that Of me, Jim. You know
you know how much her engage
ment lean to a girl-like me-"
And can you guess how much a
snub from a girl like you might
mean to Lane Cosby?" demanded
Jim.
Not to mention his pretty wife!"
purred Envy.
I'm thinking of the man." Jim
smiled. But surely you'll consider
the woman-and not push her down
down. Envy, you're Miss Mason.
Can't you afford to help a woman
who may have a darn hard row to
hoe and not deserve it?"
You've no right to put me in
such a position. l don't know what
I'll do. I'll see," said Envy
~evasively.
Then Neal entered the arena
quietly, u~nobtrusively:
It'll answer for Envy, Jim.
She'll stand by these people because
they're friends of yours and that
counts far more than a gossipy let
ter from a few thousand miles
away"
Listen to the child" cried Envy,
drawing her chair nearer to Meals.
do L dare disobey my lord and
master when he speaks so firmly %
This sounded as if she were agree
ing to do as Jim n Neal wished,
but l felt sure that Envy had some
thing up her sleeve of which none
of us were to know until such time
as she was ready to reveal it. AS
to my sympathies, they seemed to
go out toward Valerie Cosby with
her tawdry story dragged into the
light far more than to Envy ruth
lessly stripping Val of privacy and
decency-and all out of malice.
"The music's gone, shall we go
too - 1 asked, only too anxious now
to end the party and get home to
talk it over with Jim.
So presently Envy was wrapped
in her r~ose-colored cloak again and
was tripping owe the wet sidewalk
to the taxi in her thin slippers. We
took her home first, and there Neal
asked us to wait for him.
Aren't you coming ina min
ute?' protested Envy.
It's pouring So, and I might not
be able to get another taxi" X
planned Neal. DO you mind wait
ing. JIM"
Envy gave a short laugh, leaned
over to kiss me and thank me for a
marvellous evening, and then Jim
and Neal helped her out to the
sodden pavement and Neal ran
across the walk and up the steps
with her. After only a minute he
came back.
to cuddle my hand contentedly in
Jim's. l wondered if it had been
a moment of tenderness for Neal
and Envy. Wonderland doubted.
Neal insisted on driving us home
next. During the ride and for the
first few minutes after we got home
Jim took refuge in silence. 1 re-
spected his mood and, slipping out
of my evening clothes and into a
negligee, sat down costly near at
hand and fell to brushing my hair.
If Jim decided that he wanted me
to talk TO there l was.
After a minute Jim came and
stood by me, smiling down at my
reflection in the mirror. He put his
hand gently on my head and then,
with sudden f~ierceness. he tangled
it in the masses of my hair and
drew me to my fee and into his
arms. After a minute he released
me and framing my face in my w
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me with a tenderness hat made me
ache with happiness and the joy of
making Jim happy.
"Anne!" he cried triumphantly,
i've thought it out! Love justified
a lot of things. Lane Cosby idol
ICES Val. He may have Numbered
to get her. But he never could have
done a rotten thing or a wrong
thing - lot the old brown bear.
Well stand by him, won't we? We
aren't afraid of what a bunch of
gossips say when we stand to-
gether. are We? Well get at the
truth and we'll fight wanton mall
ice with it,"
III stand by you, JIM" 1 vowed,
nesting into his arms.
But even there I wondered if Jim
and l together were a match for
Envy Mason. If l had a momentary
flicker of unrest at the thought of
fighting for Walls happiness 1 for
got it in Jim's arms, for hadn't l
vowed never again to be jealous?
To BE Continued.