Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-21
"When q Girl M0rrieS"
New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problem of Girl Wife

! consideration. 1t hadn't right to
weigh with me for n minute-it
was the thought of Daisy Condor
lsneaking out of the shadowy corner
Of another restaurant the night be-
fore; Daisy speaking to Tom with
an unexplained air of understand
I ing-despite her loneliness and lack
of society and young companions,
Irma Warren, sweet, dignitied niece
of Graham Haldane, would get her
chance in life. But Daisy Condor
worried me, haunted me, somehow.
She was, you might say, the last
straw. And that last st raw weighed
down the balance overwhelmingly
against any thought of Toms house
party.
Il can't go" I said ITS impos-
sible."
rs it that Jim might get back ?"
asked Tom, sticking it out, as usual,
for the thing that was denied him.
You know he could join us-un-
less you want an undisturbed re-
union
Jim may get back but l doubt
it," L replied. Mo- just can't
make it. A lot of little reasons that
wouldn't be understandable to any
one but myself"
Perhaps you'd come anyway?"
suggested Tom, turning eagerly to
Miss Warren. Your uncle's a
chaperone, you know,
I've been thoughtless again."
and, saying that Irma Warren shook
her head gravely. II forgot uncle.
There's his Sunday chess game. And
he's so comfortable and happy at
home-so little inclined to enjoy
change. l can't leave him.
That ended it; and Tom, who sell
dom brooks denial until he has tried
wearing down all defences, accepted
the girls simple word as final. 1t
amazed met was so unlike the
headlong, self-seeking person I'd
known.
All of this might have faded into
the background and blended into
the general memory of a pleasant
though unusual evening if it hadn't
been for the fact that Phoebe tele-
phoned me next morning to suggest
that she and Neal would like me to
Chaperone them for n weekend at
a nearby lake. To refuse them
had been cruel to deprive Irma
Warren of a good time. And to ac-
cept this second invitation, after
refusing the first. were rude. So |
told Phoebe a little about the stua-
ton.
That's all right" she cried.
Don't you see, they'll think you
had to refuse because of a previous
invitation-that is, if they ever find
out"
Why, Phoebe Harrison, you un-
scrupulous little thing!" 1 replied.
Course l am,' returned Phoebe
Unexpectedly. "All women are
whe!e their love is concerned. You
can't go back on us, Anne. You've
got to stand by us and get us the
little there's possible for us. Vir-
sinia's stealing our big happiness.
And because Neal feels your preju-
dice against an elopement, ! can't
do thing but sit and wait Now I
want my holiday-and you're going
TO give it to me-"
Jim might get back" / objected
feebly.
"Virginia's going off somewhere.
1--we got to get away"
You could come here, Phoebe"
"Oh, Anne-please! l want a
holiday said Phoebe in a tremu-
lous voice. Il want to get away
with Neal. Won't you? Won't YOU
please. let me have this little bit of
happiness? I'll choke if l don't get
out of town! Won't you make it
possible for me to have this little
bit of happiness-this little bit?"
'All right l replied uneasily
III 60"
ITO Be Continued.)