The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-22
When 4 Girl
 M0rries
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By ANN LESLIE

For a minute ESvvy Mason stood facing Val triumphant1y over Shel- don B1ake's dead body. Then her face went through a gamut-from | terness to a blank inscrut liability as impenetrab1e as any expression had ever seen VaPs face wear Then she lowered her eyes. shutting away from us the final look that I almost caught as it 1eaped from their depths.
 I had always thought Evvy's eyes shallow, artificial But they were she turned from the fascinated help lessness of Vars eyes and faced me.
 You mustn't get doctors or an am bulance-noW,' she said You must help me life Shelly into my car. we'H have to ge. him to the top of the road somehow"
 from Val.
 you're hurt too badly" replied Evvy, and her voice was so low that I couldn't tell whether it held hatred or patience Anne and must do it I'm going to take him home. Home to my own place. Then I'll get doctors It will be too late then. But it's too late now. It was too late from the first.''
 Be quiet" said Evvy. But she did not speak the words rude1y or abruptly You must do what I tell you" she continued, turning to Val with a face blank of all the feeling g that must have been surging through her to give her fragiHty so much pow CT.
 Then she went on. explaining what she meant to do and what we must "I'n take Sheldon home and Anne must take you-for the visit she had asked you for.'' Even then noticed that Evvy em- 1 ployed Vars formula of the ''visit had asked Val for.' not the visit she was coming to make Anne must take you to the liar rison place and then send for doc tors. You need them. You have more need of them than he," went on Evvy. You must wait here unti. we have carried him up the bank to my car. First I will drive it on the road through that gap in the woods a few yards back. No one will see us. It's only a little after eight now. No one is stirring yet You must send to doctors and nurses, Anne. I will tele- phone to the crossroads inn and to town. It's all clear now. isn't it? You | will do as say?'
 tTH do as you say,' I repeataed.
 And you?'' demanded Evvy of Val again refusing to call her by name. 'I will do as you say," Val gasped. But tell me what you are going to
  will you explain? Anne had asked me to pay her visit You understand that, don't you? I was coming to spend the day with Anne, That's why I was so early. I wanted a real day-a long day"
 She whimpered uneasi1y as she spoke. And Evvy and I turned with one accord to the luggage rest on the its side few feet away. a crump1ed mass of wreckage. Then our eyes met for second, clashed and parted.
 I'll get my car" said EvSy- Iv .,ono Val crept to my side-abject, pitiab1e, a battered wreck of her indolent in solent self.
 turned questioning eyes to her burning face. And then Valerie Cos by laughed throatily.
 "I can see what you're thinking she began, with a return to her old creaminess. well, think, then I'll never explain nor retract. Some fla nous writer said one shou1dn't-nor deny. Just let 'em howl and get things done was what he advised.''
 Then words burst from me as I found my eyes going to the still form that was what remained of Sheldon Blake.
 Look what you've donei'' cried,
 Val staggered bac k and leaned against her slim birch again And with breeding, dOwncaSt eyes she stood at Sheldon's head until Evvy burst on us from a little opening on the bank.
 '-The cars quite near. I drove 1t in and turned it again. Come Anne we must do what we have to do," said Evvy.
 Somehow, then-lifting and pulling and heaving horribly-we got Shell don to the car and propped him there. Once Val started forward to felp us but Evvy called out to her sternly, and she sank back against the tree again, half standing, half falling against it.
 When we had finished the grim business of placing the body in Ev-
 Take her home with you,'' she said. Perhaps she isn't worth much, but she's alive, and that means she's worth saving"
 "You mean her life is worth sav-
 q mean-what you do,'' said Evvy Now go to her. I'll drive out bet ter if you don't stand watching me. Goodbye Anne"
 There was a fina1ity about Evvy which sent me back to Val. I found her lying on the ground in the utter collapse of a heavy faint Only af- ter had brought water from the riv- CT and dashed it on her poor, bruised face, did she rouse herself. Don't touch my wrist or arm!" she cried; they're torturing me. The burns were a glorious pain, but now '-this."