The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-05
When A Girl
 Marries
CHAPTER CGN-
By ANN LESLIE.

o SEo1 dSo. hTSI SAW my Jlm- And
 now, just in time to save me from
 hurting him. recognized the man
 who had been my one pal in the city
 during all the lonely years before I found Jim. I Ieaped to my feet and held outb oth hands in greeting Carl Booth.'' I repeated. Good old Carl. This is jolly. And for a whole minute I didn't know you. A taken about twenty pounds" I ex- l plained.
 i Carl blushed with joy-I suppose l at having my hesitancy cleared up Ehis too, too solid flesh had melted } His clear. boyish skin went a shade ! pfnker and his twink1ing hazel eyes G1nk1ed at the corners
 i "As if you'd forget a pal-or cut him." he said almost as if he were defending me to some one.
 when presented him to Virginia i She astonished me by being very gra- ! ctoua With the sweetness and in sdnc0ve courtesy that are just as sure ; to do the correct thing as the culture G1o which I have gone since leaving e,1e old one where I knew him, Carl now turned to Virginia:
 1 May we have our coffee with you. Mrs. Dalton? It's a. treat to me to see Barbara Anne agafn-and the girl who's with me will love the chance to visit with her. It's Daisy Condon, Anne. Remember her from Hal dane's?.'
 Bring her right over" said vtr- Efn1a graclous1y-and then spoiled it Dy adding, i've just time to add an : other of my sisters old friends to my l list and then I must leave you to your "reminiscences and run along to Eeep an engagement.
 That's the man who took me to i khe recruiting meeting where I first HaW JiIn- He's on the adverthSl staff of Haldane's,'' I said when Carl went to get his companion. And I plain to Virginia
 And one of the stenographers. I Akresay, she replied carelessly, ig- Horlng J1n's part in my narrative
 Then Carl returned with q slim. eoloriess brunette, whom I remem ber- ed vaguely as a. younger sister of good old Rates Kate was the splendid
 friend whom I had liked-and for gotten. Now, in a rush of remorse
 for the way I had neglected her when
 my new world swept me from old n1oord1iss, I was particularly cordial to the almost draf little grain of dust because she was Kate's sister
 In the moment before she left us. Virginia was very gracious-too gra- cious I wondered if my new-old friends knew that she was conde- scending. I fancied they both drew sighs of relief when she departed. And where's kate?' I said cordial fy- to clear the air.
 Daisy Condton leaned forward. her eyes brfmning and some inner-spirit lighting her former duliness as she spoke in a sweet. grave voice: no1tht Rhtes goPet Tbo h Mrs sBa HarFi5oq gIitad for you. and tried to find you, but Mfr. Haldane was out of town and | no one knew where to look for you | since you weren't in the telephone
 sDear old Kate" I murmured sad | 1y. How we do lose track here in | the big cityi I called her once or twice, but I never reached her: And we weren't in the book then because we had a sub-let apartment And | now-it's too late"
 Kate was a wonder Bet she's a l useful citizen in the beyond" broke l in Carl Booth with the warm. kind 1 1y, hearhness that I remembered so | well now that it had swept across my 1 path again. shed be glad to have her little sister know you"
 -1f you have tinre,'' said Daisy Condon ShyH.
 CarPs suggestion and the girls self effacing modesty made me more than seffshness even, that had made me permit my new world to absorb me so completely. And I determined nhen and there that if I could make it up to Rates little sister, neither the | Harrison pride nor the Harrison world should prevent 1npu1Syely acted on that idea
 This is a jolly reunion with old pals" said, including Daisy and no sfcing how the least attention made der drabness brighten to pink and flash to bronze "But I suppose it must be short, since the workers of spare for us drones- But why can't Tou two come up to dinner tonight?"
 '-ofis' gasped Daisy. leaning, for at me, as she replied, "Td love it five only could ?''
 ~You can-you must-you sha11i" T Insisted, sma1ng at the girl with fhe beginnings of real liking. She seemed a1ke starved kitten placed within p1dnk-tongued distance of a saucer of cream cream. =& and purring = a polite tt "Meou"-
 Carl's brown eyes wreStled with the problem for minute, and his honest color heightened
 Are you sure MT Harrison would care to have us?'' he asked bluntly.
 read into his question a recogni- tton of the caste system, of the social little fear lest Jim be as politely su- perior as his sister had been But 7oyaIfy. a. homeSickness for the world tslat-once-I1ad-been, and a great re- ret at the way l had neglected Kate swept me eon-
 My husband will be as happy to meet my old friends as I've always been to meet his,' I declared rashly. smiling reniniscently as I realized how happy I had been to meet some of JiTn's friends.
 -An light, we'll be with you" re- piled ca-l-answerfng. as I realized at once-for both Then to the waiter: Cheek. please"
 Madame paid it on the way out" replied the waiter a trifle inSolently- {
 That huniNated my old friend, as could very well see. I promised myself uncaSiiy that running across me again would mean nothing worse than this momentary annoyance to good old Carl But that very VOW my doubts
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