The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-01
When A GirL
 M0rries
By ANN LESLIE
CHAPTER CD.

Death gave Sheldon back Z re- peated after Evvy with a stunned feeling that she wasn't entirely sane.
 Her sudden warm smile reassured me even before she spoke.
 .Ie he'd gone on living, he might ! have gone on being the man I'd made him. I'd un-made him, don't you see that, Amer"
 "Yes. see" replied doubtfully.
 Any blunder he made-any tragic blunder he almost persuaded some one else to make-fs my fault. my the others. : drove them over the precipice."
 Don't he morbid" I cried, seizing Evvy's hand and trying to>warn its this is just as wrong as it would be for me to judge or blame-them .,,
 Then you don't judge them them -
 No. I remember ,the old saying, There but for the grace of God goes J ohm Bunyan,' and don't judge pso- nesses can't know. But I've some i thing to confess. Evvy. did judge | you. I thought you hated Val, that ] you were. glorying in your triumph h
 T was" replied Evvy. with quiet composure. That's what made me capable of being decent to her. That's what I meant when I said death gave i him back Those minutes I had alone i with him before he went-they gave :, him back. He forgave me Tor the ne i went out still caring. He didn't blame me. He just rose above all the i mistakes and the pain and-went out 1 loving me. There were beautiful thing different. I'm different, too. I fYou seem like another Evvy," I | murmured.
 o,, 6orp+ ,,o,, 600 I,oI.y J Y, Wa i him back to ?" asked Evvy quietly. 'It's his actual living presence that's 1 changing me. His love survives every ] thing. His spirit survives everything, i too.''
 : Then you couldn't want to punish | any one-to revenge yourself on any : one? Oh, forgive me for saving what once thoughti' I cried, shamed by ] the quick look of hurt in Evvy's eyes. :. "What I meant was thas I wished , you'd write Val and tell her how gen ] tle and kind your feelings are.'
 ''Val knows," returned Evvy. 'Thas was all settled between us before she : went away with her man. For Lane 1; Is her man..
 g. look of anxiety and warning.
 Lane is her man." I repeated, in ! credu1ous despite my declaration that !; I wasn't siating in judgment.
 ''Yes,'' repeated Evvy with convic- {, tion. Wal has my tragic fault of wanting what she can't have and un- dervaIuing what is hers. Don't you
 shook my head. Evvy smied gently as she explained: ''Of course you wouldn't see. How could you? Bus it's all so clear to : me that I don't realize no one else can know Those last few minutes with Shelly made me know he'd all ways been mine, as told you. Then it's natural that a woTnaR who wants whats denied her might tnis Rke her attitude ttuowrd him. But I've made her see how terrible it was and what it cost me. So now she knows Lane is her man and always was. That's true. Anne
 "Tm trying to believe vou. F,vvy.''
 "Oh. it's true! It Nwas true even when she f1irted with Jim because he was yours. Even when she thought she cared for my poor Shelly just be cause he was mine. I've been that kind of tragic fool. too. So I know. So many women make the same blum der and pay terribly. I'm paying and Shelly paid So what good will it do for Val to suffer any more2'
 You wonderful girr'' cried. You're ready to let Val off scott free, aren't you?
 She couldn't get off scott free no ghas nai9 hSw lpe8 PnGh F9g errb thqt Why should Val pay any more, Anne?"
 well. she won't" I replied calmly. ..Since you don't demand your pound of flesh, she's through paying. You'll /: never say a word of all this to a Iiv- ; ing soul. Neither will I. That prom 1! ise is what you're waiting for, isn't it?"
 Evvy shook her head and took my hands in hers with a tenderness hadn't ever before dreamed could be ! hers.
 ''Ne Anne. that's not what I'm waiting for. I knew you'd never say a word of all this tangle we can't ever hope fully to understand. What I'm waiting for is the courage to say som ething to you"
 What could you be afraid to say after this"'' I asked.
 ''Som ething that may hurt you I know how I used to hurt you. I used j to try. That, you don't hate me for it shows what a big woman you are. ship. Anne. I can't bear to lose your again. And yet
 -I don't think we could ever stop , being friends now I broke in. 'But what can you have to say that will hurt me? Pm so outside all thiS'
 You're inside what I have to say. In it terribly. It's about Val and her , happiness. When we were talking about her-about our trasedy-she shtowed me something she'd been {. wearing even on that awful day. It was something that never went with ] out Her talisman. I think she'd have been true to 1t even if fate hadn't saved her. It was Lanes first present to her, Anne. An octagon gold piece. l saw its mate in your hand today. If Lane could give that
 Her voice trafled off and we sat staring at each other. wondering 5 what the end of that sentence must
 (To Be Continued