Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-06-18
A REAL SISTER
BY Il. LOUIS RAyRoLD.

nat. 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. gooG-by !"
And he was gone.
Betty Reynolds stood as he had
ieft her. then crumpled into for
Torn heap in the old rocker and sobhed
her heart out. Where was the JOY
IN noble self-sacrifice she had expected
TO feel? All her being ached to run
after the man she had Just peremp-
toriiy dismissed. 10 bring him back
ana tell him il was all a mistake
she did love him-would marry him.
Wait-if she did. how about sue?
Betty was one of those lucky girls
with sister Just enough older 10 be
both comrade and mother 10 the Young
err one. Even before the death of their
mother, il had been Sue who laid out
Betty's party frocks. who mended the
torn lace in her petticoats. who riaed
her own ribbon box for bow where
with TO adorn Betty's fluffy hair.
Bur now something more vital than
4 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 late caught a certain
happy usefulness in Sues gray eyes?
The tall girl who entered the room
a moment later seemed more than
three years older than her sister, a
fact due, no doubt to acting as both
mother and father TO gay little Betty.
She gave one quick glance at her sis
ter. Then, stripping off her gloves,
she said quite casually: Isn't Jack at
the corner?"
Betty looked up, startled. Then.
very bravely, 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 Deiaharre,
my chief in the labf WelI-would you
fancy him for-for a brother-in-law2''
Betty stared at her sister in hewil-
derment. Then in a flash realization
came to her. sue Reynolds" she
cried. and leaping to her feet she
| whirled her sister in hreathIess dance
| about the room. "Oh, | thought
thought il was Jack And | sent him
away and now ! can have him! And
oh, You darling, I'm so glad for you!"
Sue was shaking her gently.
'Histen, dear. you mustn't mention ii
to q soul Nobody knows yet"
| mot even Doctor Deabarre?"
teaSed Betty, and In her happiness
missed her sisters startled glance
"Oh, Sue. / must telephone Jacks
| boarding house and leave word for him
to come right up this evening. And
while I'm out TO telephone I'll get q
whole chocolate cake and some straw
berry mousse to celebratew
Sue sank down into the rocker
Betty had so recently vacated And,
even as Betty had. Sue buried her
face in her hands. Dear heaven
Would that she had the right TO say
before the world that she was Doe
| TOR Delaharre's affianced wife, Daily
working with him in the laboratory
of the city hospital, she had come
| TO look upon him as the most won
derful man she had ever met.
AS ii was--well, she had done what
she did for Betty's sake. Jack, glum
and unhappy, had just told her at thu
corner how he loved Betty and how
| Betty. for some reason she would not
| give. had turned him down. And Sue.
| with the tender intuition Of an elder
sister. put two and two together and
made exactly four-no more, no less,
Sue had herself well in hand by
the time her sister came home. Betty
| chartered like a magpie and supper
was a gay affair." After a sociabe
washing up of the dishes the younger
girl came ND to her sister soberly.
/ III dNtuI4H SUI " SUI aver Wlldi
YOU said-but you really didn't say
mustn't mention il to him. and | was
Just coming out Of the shop loaded
with the cake and all and / bumped
right into him And before thought
| congratulated him
"What--who-Rct
Doctor Delanarre, Of course" said
BETTY. And he's coming up this eve
ring hope-there's the bell Jack ?"
Joyfully she few to answer.
While Sue-well Sue was trembling
from head 10 foot. What would he
think! She must get Betty TO make
her excuses If be came. She could not
see him.
But she had no choice. 1t was Doc
tor Delabarre, not Jack, whom Betty
found at the door, although Jack was
almost at the steps. And Betty. he
cause she wanted her moment with
Jack, sent Doctor Delabarre In alone
Sues moment of reckoning had
come. The doctor entered quickly.