The daily Alaskan., 1920-08-21
A REAL SISTER
By H. LOUIS RAYBoLD.

"An right, Betty" saId Jack grimly, rising and reaching for his hat. You say you have excellent reasons for what you are doing, but as long as you won't tell me what they are, you can hardly expect me to be satisfied. However-good-by w And he was gone.
 Betty Reynolds stood as he had left her, then crumpled into a for lorn heap in the old rocker and sobbed her heart out. Where was the joy in noble self-sncrihce she had expected to feel? All her being aChed to run after the man she had just peremp- torIly dismissed, to bring him back and tell him 1t was all a mistake she did love him-wOuld marry him.
 Walt-if she did, how about Sue?
 Betty wns oRe of those lucky girls with a sister just enough older to be both comrade and mother to the young CT one. Even before the death of their mother, it had been Sue who laid out Betty's party froCks, who mended the torn lnce ln her pctticoats, who riaed her own ribbon box for bow where with to adOrn Betty's fluffy hair.
 But now something more vital than q question of hair ribbons or vacations had arisen. Which of the two girls should have Jack Hemingway?
 Her opportunity had come. If she refused Jack, she felt sure that, ulti- mateIy, he would marry Sue. Also she suspected that Sue cared for Jack. Hadn't she of latc caught a certain happy wistfulness in Sues gray eyes?
 The tall girl who entered the room moment later seemed more than three years older than her sister, fact due, no doubt, to acting as both mother and father to gay little Betty. She gave one quick glance at her sls- ter. Then. stripping off her gloves, she said quite casually: Isn't Jack at the corner"
 Betty looked up startled. Then very braveIy, she began her campaign. He didn't stay as long as usual, prob ably because you weren't here."
 Sue said nothing for a moment Then she sat down on the arm of the chair and put her arm around the girls shoulders. Little sister," she began lovingly, ''want a piece of news? You know Doctor Delabarre, my chief in the lab? Well-would you fancy him for-for q brothcr-in-luw"
 Betty stared at her sister in hewll- dermcnt. Then in flash realization came to her. Sue Reynolds" she cried, and leaNing to her feet she whirIed her sister in hroathl"ss dance about the room. "Oh I thought-I thought it was Jack. And ! sent him away and now I can have hIml And oh, you darling, I'm so glad for you"
 Sue was shaking her gently. Listen, dear. you mustn't mention It to a soul Nobody knows yet"
 Not even Doctor Drlaharre" leased Betty, md in her happiness missed her sisters startled glance "Oh. Sue I must telephone Jacks boarding house and leave word for him to come right up this evening. And while I'm u"t to telephone I'll get a , wIolu chocolate cake and some straw berry mousse tn rc.rlrHe!"
 Srn sank town into the rocker Bctty had so recently vacatc1 And, even as Betty had, Sue buried her face in her hands. Dear heaven ! Would that she had the right to say before thrswcrlI that she was Doc tor Dclaharre's aGianced wifrt Daily working with him in the laboratory of the city hospital, she had come to look upon him as the most won. detful man she had eyer met
 i As 1t was-well. slle had done what she did for Bctty's sake. Jack, gum and unhappy had inst told her at the corner how he loved Petty and how ! Betty. for some reason sine wnuld not give, had turned him down. And Sue, with the tender iutuitiOn of an elder sister. put two and two together and made exactly foVr--no more, no less,
 Sue had herself well in hand by the time her sister came home. Petty chattbred like a m0gDle and supper was gay affair! After a sociable washing up of the dishes the younger girl came up to her sister soberly. "Um awfuly sorry, Sue after what you said-but you really didn't say mustn't mention it to him. and I was ! just coming out Of the shop loaded with the cake and all and I bumped right into him! And before thought, 1 I congratulated him."
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 "DoctOr Delanarre, of course" said Betty. And he's coming up this eve- ming. I hope-therc'S the bell! JaCk!" | Joyfully she flew tO answer.
 While Suc-well, Sue was trembling I from head ,o foot, What would he think! She must get Betty to make her excuses if he came. She could not see him.
 But she had no choice. It was Doc tor Delaharre, not Jack, whom Betty found at the door, although Jack was almost at the steps. And Betty, be-