The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-11-11
When a Girl Marries
A Story of a..
EARLY Welded LIFE
. By Ann Lisle.

you here at shack in the woods.
Long TO see my daughter again. AS
soon as strong enough will 20 to
her. You must provide funds ana
look out for me. Pretty sick yet.
Team will meet you Monday. Lueius
Lucky Lee"
You wonderful man" cried,
turning back 10 Father Andrew.
you're going TO make sure. To
spare ME the first edges OF 49,
shame and humilistion--untii we
have TO be-certain."
A TERRIBLE THOUGHT.
Suddenly I broke on. The mean.
ing of the terrible trouble In Fal<her
Andrews eye came over me with q
fash. 1t wasn't pity for me. u
wasn't sorrow for himself. even
though there should be some one
TO claim the place that had SO Iong
been his In fact as well as tsent-
ment. There was some one else to
whom all this must mean far more a
than IL could TO either of us.
"Oh. Father Andrew. forgive
me" l cried. Forgive me-"
1--WE nothing 10 forgive. Barbara
Anne" he said. mo one could have
expected aught different It's only
natural that you shouldn't rejoice
TO think that one who shaIncd you
in life as in death has perbaps
come back-from the grave. He wssI
gone and forgotten. And you were
too honest to pretend that this
strange return can make YOU hap 3
by. You didn't try to lie TO me.
Why should you? say there's
nothing TO forgive, and your offer :
IN. NIT L. hA do
heart that's planning already to
make a poor old reprobate's last
days happy IL she finds him her
kin"
I'm not asking you to forgive
me for that" l said. I'm asking
you to forgive me because ! for
got the one to whom this means so
frishtfully much more than IL ever
can to me. Father Andrew, my
hearts aching for Ncal."
II dreaded the time when ii
would come to you," he whispered
huskily.
That's why you made them
promise not to be married until
you return" ! said. You want TO
be sure. You want me to see this
man who says he's my father
and to make sure"
II want to make certain" said
Father Andrew gently, that when
1 married my Martha, the sweet
est woman who ever suffered
through a scoundrel-I want to
make sure that when she gave me
Neal-there wasn't another man
alive who was her husband in the
sight of the law"
II this man in Canada Is my
father-if my father is still
got SO far. then sat gazing
vaguely at the soft green Of the
peaceful little nook where I'd
parked my car. Even to Father
Andrew I didn't want to express rnys
thoughts. In fact, I hated to for
mulate them in my own brain. But
Father Andrew, being a man. With
a mans habit of direct thinking. Il
decided that We couldn't longeyo
evade the truth. So he put it intos
words, and If I thought them cruels8
1t was only to realize that they
were far more cruel to him than tos
me.
"If this man in Canada is Lucky
Lee" he said, "then--my Neal has
no right to his name. That's legaI
and must be dealt with leg, ly@
when the time comes. But it +, IL
stir up dust and when We get nufT
of it / don't know that he'll have a
right to be holding Phoebe HarFi
son by the hand"
why. father" I cried. do you.
think Phoebe'd give Neal up De-
cause of this? It's an ugly new
version of Enoch Arden and no.
body's going to blame you or take
Neafs name away from him."
ITO he C0ntinued.)