The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-19
When A Girl
 Marries
By ANN LISLE.
CHAPTER CCxxx.

> CHAPTER CCxXx.
 When Jim flung out of our apart ment and went to his club I went | down into the very depths of despair. 1 felt that everything was over for us
 two, that we had come to the parting
 of the ways and had gone beyond it.
 All that endless night I had to dig | my nails into my palms to keep my self from going to the telephone and
 begging Jim to come back. But got
 through the hours somehow without huIniHating myself so abjected1y.
 In the morning I determined to
 telephone the canteen and to ask for
 duty with two units that day. This
 double shift would busy me all the
 afternoon and evening and keep me
 from grovelling before Jim or from giving myself away to any of our friends. I couldn't bear the thought Of facing any one who would perceive
 my unhaippiness and guess the cause of it.
 ''I,H never ask Jim to come back" told myself. ''Neverl If he doesn't l need me, I'm not going to beg him After a few days I'll get adjusted te this and be able to bear it better- | then I can see people.
 So I wrote Phoebe a note saying i that had no news yet and wouldn't 1 take up any of her time until I had. | There was a double reason for my | wanting to avoid Phoebe. I don't | know whether or not she had heard | .
 stand talking it over with her. l Perhaps another woman might | have been braver, but my world was | crumbling under my feet and I had
 no way to piece it together nor to | find a foothold in another world. Just I was going to the teis-
 phone to call the canteen the tele- phone tangled. I stopped with my hand on my heant. It it were Jim? It was Betty. I had never been Hess anxious to see her, but couldn't
 avoid her. Why did it have to be | Betty, of all persons?
 l '@We're in town just for the day, Sister Anne I couldn't stand it down | at the bungalow any longer. So we | shut up shop and we're off for Lake | Louise this evening"" she explained. | honor and fairy godmosher match maker with me today. 1ou'u come,
 "Of course, dear. I'll see the bride | agreed chokingly.
 "Is Jim still there ?" asked Betty, casually.
 NO; he's-gone," I replied truth | fully enough.
 "Bully for Jimmie-keeps good | hours. Well, we'll call him at the office."
 twill you come here for lunch7 I'd love to have you see the house." ! I said half Simorously. half joyfully, because that would give me real I excuse to call Jim-an excuse rnS pride couldn't reject"
 'I'd love to, dear,'' replied Betty. | ''But I've 8 bit of shopping I must do. So you won't be hurt if the | house waits for our return. And
 you will come along to the stores | with me, won't you?'' "Of course' I replied. And then we arranged our meeting place. It seemed to me that Fate was taking my day out of my hands. After a morning of shopping Bet
 ana to arTlred ee at TerH rhe at hots one 'Terrys never late,' commented Betty, after several minutes of wait ! ing. 'sT1l wager he's waiting for Jim. Has your lord and master
 "Jim doesn't keep me waiting," l | replied.
 Betty laughed and searched my l face with friendly amusement.
 You should have heard how prinn~ | ly you said that, Anne. As if you
 dared @ mere husband to keep you
 waiting. Jin's still a boy, you
 know, and has a boys faults-tardi- ness, vanity, irresponsibility.' You sound as if you were descrfb- ing a weakling." I said bitterly, hav- | ing just experienced c glimpse of how
 set and determined Jim could be; That's about the last thing I'd call | Jim. I saw his bravery at the front, Anne. I've seen his stubbornness, | too. And when I saw what sweet | tlilac-Iedy' he'd married, I rejoiced. Jim has a. lot of latent force and | determination. If he'd married a | taosIess creature or an ardent femin | ist there would have been breakers | away for the .Jimmies.''
 | At her very first word I turned to | watch Betty. I wondered if she had | any hidden meaning any suspicion | that had developed into a. thinking
 woman and wasn't just the little lilac