The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-09
When 4 Girl
 MUrries
By ANN LESLIE.
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tCoutinued)
 CHAPTER CCCxK
 You're going to Reno--to give Var g1n1a the one gift she can't refuse--- her freedom,'' I repeated mechani- cally, staring at Pat with a complete ssense of unreaIity.
 It seemed a bad dream Or some
 nahclous fairy's twisted conception of fyery idea Virginia had so proudly EWorked out but short time ago, the Ehaif sure that had diverted her. You can't You musn't,'' gasped- t I can and I must,'' replied Pat Egrimly. 'fWhy do you question it? What other way out is there? What sorher. solution has there been since i-fhe night when you tried to bring us Ecouldn't be getting away fast enough? Fsince?"
 seNo, but that doesn't matter. It <wan come right in the end"-.
 4WII it?' interrupted Pat +I EsadIy nisdoubt it. Anne- For a long Ewaidng for things to come right JThey don 'ttwhen a woman so desp1ses fa man<that she turns against her own apeople for the knowing of him. -The Emiracle can't happen when a woman E.as filled with loathing at the thought kof coming back into her own place Fin the world--owning her family es- Htate--through the man who was once Finer husband. My gifts and I are Eblack shame ana C<SSrace III n0f SSco- T4'n be going to Reno:'
 ."The slime of the divorce court Ssyou'n drag her through that
 .sI'II see that it doesn't befoul her." areplied Pat grave1y, and he swept oil Halis hat in unconscious gesture or Hcontriteness.
 E .-Then you're going to perform a Egraat miracle,'' I said scornfuIly Er4Youal go to the divorce court ana 4wrest your freedom from the law EAnd people aren't going to date 1t all Eback to just such an incident as oc- I 4curred at the restaurant today! Oh' S1noi People aren't going to gloat over Hahes choice tidbit you offer them-in- sdeed notI' ed
 tiI mean Sheldon Blake I mean 9gossip and islander. I mean the eno aof Virginia's good name" rephed. 2 5Saying-that'S what it Will De oolhS 1to the fine pride of her, murmured EPat more to himself than to me. After that we drove on in silence afor a while. Smiling folk drove by us Sdn luxurious cars. I wondered what ssiramas of life and human happiness s,were masked by faces that toIo so ; and minds. ~ A SssReno now said Pat at last. ,,,d I reached out and laid my hano f-oyer his, hoping some message or my admiration for his chivalry Wou1d wing out, through the elect eiectr1elty IeH inL 0L
 .aasive and strangely cold under mine I turned to him, and more than ever the terrible gr1mness od his face struck me. It was masknke and drawn into old and hagBaro N lines The fine proud set of his up flung head was gone and ne sasseu 4 at chest and shoulders.
 .sPat-you're so splendid. so chiv- alrous. feel sometimes as 1T you were my br9tner; mant t8omn5G %ou to know Mg how k-how much I care about your nap f piness; how much l value our 1rleno- T 1T Know. little Anne.' he said. re sturning pressure for pressure like the s good pal he had come to be.
 nne~' nie too. u Bus W its hopeless now. You'll have to let me go II aione rnow." ,,t,+ ,s decided ssn,t ft?" insisted, and I don't know now whether that insistance was c E stupid or wise. WHY out I'll take it. said Pat.
 iAnother way out?" I gasped al q most in a daze.
 s-some other way out. Some way. sTn find it. and finding it, be glad to stake it" ., -toa Rnot knowing against what was pro Stestdng; but at the beginnlng or a S.feelfng that grew all the rest or the Mtime I was with him-the teeHng kstbat had to prevent something Tsin1ster and menacing. "You musn't 2 do a thing until you have talked II I over with me-your sister. For Ram that I want to have you kno" Ethat I am that. ., ,.7 EPat, lifting my fingers quickly 10 hls ss1sr,s with a touch of his old grace
 Then the devil-may-care reckless hnegs of him crept back into his voice k for a minute and. instead ot oelng < shvelcome after the haggard orooP' Il S frightened me more than ever.
 f'Faith, Alanna," said Pat. Kind N mess like yours is n memory of a ny < ing well. A man might carry It into < as desert of sand and loneliness with Shfm Or into another world
 Then such terror took me by the Sthroat that I dared not say another $word4 We drove by swaying green fztrees and past sward of living green as -dsuprled with ardent sunshine. put ssthe world seemed cold and gray 70 4-me-a fearsone place. Because II '\g had come to me that Pats other Seven than the path of divorce Ana sa1 felt couldn't stop him. Then Pat
 zlye me q last bit of cruel eV1oence | to make out my case.
 -<I'ye- some affairs to settle up. I'll s~be going North for a week. The E miniature you'll get tomorrow. sfrwant you should have that. And Iwhen I come back. before I take the IS1ong journey I'm planning I'll see ! about the Harrison place. It's for E you and Jt1n-or Phoebe and Neal. Emaybe, as a wedding present. Don't Eprotest Anne. I can't take the liar rison place with me-where I'm go- P ing
 (To Be Continued)