The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
When A Girl Marries
By ANN LISL.E

| sinia wasn't in the habit of giving in to any one, and was rather ashamed of what she evidently thought was her I own weakness.
 tRetty didn't want to worry us" Virginia said. 'She was going to have I Miss Moss phone tomorrow. There was just a little operation on her arm and she preferred to have it nicely | over before she told us about it. It's | all right now, Miss Moss assured me. She won't lose the use of her arm. It's her right arm. Oh, Betty's too 1 good to be truei"
 | f'Betty Bryce is glorious woman" l said Anthony Norreys reverent1y. A glow lighted his thin face, and my eyes turned very humbly to the glove that showed beneath his right sleeve. I seemed to hear again the simple words he had spoken at our I first meeting:
 They got the good old right hand back in the days when Terry and I were together at Verdun." And now Betty! Our beautiful, proud Betty. That gesture of hers as she had stood so often before me with her scared white hand against her lips. Wars aftermath is so cruel I sent up a quick little pray>- that I might see Betty again with her hand against her lips, and then came the thought of the pain and the fear that gesture must have indicated. What fear had Betty's scared white hand pressed back from screaming it's way out of her throat in a terrified plea for help?
 Then, precisely as if he had heard my chaotic thoughts. Anthony Nor reys answered me:
 Anne, our Betty will win through She's been enduring sore pain, no doubt. They'll cure that. And scars don't matter. Betty'1l learn that soon when Terry's love teaches it to her. She has a, big love to bless her. And love comes from every side to her Q 1AI Inr11 too sorely over Betty.'
 Then strangely enough I found that IL wasn't Betty but Anthony Norreys over whom l was grieving. For he had neither beauty nor love to com pensate him. So I went over and laid my hand on the wrist above that gloVed wooden substitute for the right hand.
 What a friend you are! What a friend!" I said
 What a friend you are! Betty is rich in you and Vee. Whatever comes you girls must make sure that Betty sees nobody can be crippled-except in his own mind. The wounds that have come out of the war are going to secure for life's step-chiIdren-the fame and the deformed-their right ful place at life's table. Don't pity Betty. Promise me you won't do that, whatever happens. Just love her."
 We promised. And then, after ar
 
 to start as soon as I heard from Terry, Anthony Norreys took Virginia home As she kissed me goodby I noticed now tired and wan she looked.
 Now what am I going to do?" round myself asking of space when they had gone.
 It was only o'clock-and the pros pect of the hours until Jim should come home and I could talk it all over with him seemed interminably Ions had so much to tell him, running the gamut from our discovery of Betty,s whereabouts to the loving fare well kiss Virginia had given me. So It was with a shock like the prickle Of cold spray that I remembered thai Jim had said he might not be home to dinner.
 Then the phone rang. It was Car lotta Sturges inquiring for Betty T told her our news weren't you going to let me know?" she asked almost reproach- fully.
 Remembering all her kindly inter est, l assured her, and think meant It In spite of my discovery that her fathers fths company had ruined Jirn's | Iather. After all. vengeance was not | mine. And in spite of her fathers business methods and her own friend | snip with Pat Dalton, Carlotta Sturges l mad won a right to my kindness
 A long. lonely interval after Car Iottas call. and then the telephone again. It was Jim. b1urted out that We had found Betty.
 "Greati Bullyi Didn't I tell you so ?' he cried, almost absentmindedly. | Nov you'll be in a mood to celebrate my forming new firm. Meet me at the e1s oecident Theatre at s:15."
 But, Jfn1-must I have dinner a1one?" cried.
 Oh, cheer up; that won't hurt you. | Just think how happy you are about | Betty and cut out the whimpertng. Meet me at S:15. And mind you look sweet. No grouch, now"
 All right" I promised. "But you l naNen,t told me who's in the new firm. | Jlm-Jim''-
 But Jim had rung off,
 (Te Be Continued.)