The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-21
When A Girl
 Marries
By ANN LISLE.
CHAPTER CCLVII1


 ''Evvy hates me because both of us like Jim"
 To face a woman I suspect of an l interest in Jim has never been easy ! Jealousy has always tortured me so ' that I look at everything from an { obiiQue angle, and twist and distort ! things out of all senblance to truth Throrbing heart and burning eyes and | a feeling of miserable helplessness al- ! ways made me the victim of my own | emotions when I had to deal with a woman I thought attracted to my husband or attractive to him.
 So when Val made her insolent ana shameless declaration it isn't amazing that for Q minute I was submerged under dark waters of misery and d1s" trust And then suddenly came up 1 to sunlight and sanity. l laughed. Val stared at me through scornful eyes that widened in amazement as l replied with what was almost 2 chuckle: "Oh, Val. you are funny! In- stead of hating each other because YOU want Jim's liking. why don't you and Evvy turn and rend me because 1T have his love? That would pc much more in keeping with the prob 1em-play you seem bent on invent
 Val stared back at me as if fasci- mated. She moved her lips, but dian | speak. I felt myself mistress or the situation because I was mistress or myself. and enjoyed the feeling. ! went on in the calm. superior tone had elected to take: ksa ,,,,,a o very clever woman can hope to under stand Jim Harrison. I have had the good luck to be his wife And some our pal Betty Winston understand him. He's the complete cava1er- chivalrous to all beauty. But he's impersonal in that chivalry, even when he's playing the game most oe- votedly. And women Will nlsuiiuei stand
 You are telling me very cleverly that Jim has made a fool of me. aren | you. Amer" asked Val. her long eyes fixed on me with an expression couldn't read.
 Dear me-noI" I replied with studied innocence "He wouldn't. lie s chiyalrous, as I've told you. And he'd hate to think that the wife of a rn1an he respects and likes as he does Lane Cosby would ever-weH' 10 quote you-'make a fool Of hersel1
 Valerie swung out of bed, slipped her arched feet into little amber silk mules and flung 2. robe or green ana amber satin over her chn1ton gown.
 ''Thanks for the hint she yawned -.T'il start praeticing the wdfely de voted to dear old Lane. And With Tommy for a side line, I'm 3dre EVvS won't think it worth while to dle around in our family-graNeyard Perhaps I can fix it so that hauling out of -the-closet won seem desirable to Miss Evvy
 stared at Val for a moment IF 1-o1fer that a woman could confess herself so completely to another "o- man. Lane Cosby had given me glimpse into a. tragedy a5 nGt OnGe Val pl5 who had set it all in motlon' va calmly planning to go on ptaylns he' @ game with Lane and Tom as puppets
 .spm sure you can manage EVVy-, and Tom, too, perhaps" I said wltf Hghtness that masked my real mean ing: vet I couldn't refrain rom a aoo ing: sHBut who is going to Inanage x-CI1-and see that Lane comes to hI harrn? He's been hunt enouSn-
 you might look out for Lane come, let's " out to him now SalN Val. with an air of finaity
 Five minutes later I left the CoSo! apartment with a feeling of pity foi the man and something akin to nat nat rcd for the woman Val was perc5le' = on Lanes knee assuring hum or ne love and that no one could hurt ne or make her unhappy while she @ na' her pig brown bear And Lane N NoS by. who had only lew m mn tI.tT7 u.GS oo o fore been shuddering on the prlnk o tragedy, was smiling down at the "o man he adored-smilinS and peIleN ing himself happy s..,,
 Once at home sat ana auJuSte' myself to the tangle I had been com pelled to thread that evening.
 Anne Harrison" I adm onlshe' myself. This Cosby affair has JUS h.
 Dart in it-look out or it may De 1art YOU aren't fitted to play. You'V been able to handle both ENVY dl' Val in the last week because you nav Jim's love to make you strohS' know that even if he has once hlfte' ,T-ftl1 either or both of these over willing women, neither of them mean a thing to me now. Jim s yours Bar hara Ann And you know it. As Iohi as you're sure of that, you hold al rrllT1DS.
 B,It | wouldn't let myself say eve to myself what came next In m thoughts 'As long as you sure of Jim's love. you hold all tn trlmps But how long are you soln to be sure of Jim's lover"
 A harsh dangling ring at the doo bell disturbed my thoughts A mo mo ment later Bertha came Tn, hotdhl something back of her apron a, an assuming a coaIng air that kne, was meant to mask what she consid cred bad news
 Have you had your dime e Ma'am?'' she asked Well then-u u please be letting me, me get +g3S you a 0i'
 ..This'' proved to be telegra.nI n?- r, terrifving and full of evil possibiE tes in my kind Bertha's eyes
 took it and ripped it open wh!I Bertha, stood twisting her apron Wal ing to minister to my needs;
 "So bad news I said, smiiIn sf the W girl gratefully. And IT starved. It must be all of nine' y" !.Gro aT9 iase get you a bite? Indeed 'tis no 0na And arf- Bertha vanished in evidel relief The clock chimed- I locke m curiously. Ten Then l loot1e down at my telegram again. ha not told Bertha the truth.
 It was bad news
 CTo Be Contiuued-)