The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-28
When A Girl
 Marries
By ANN LESLIE.

Tn the midst of my unhappy thoughts thought the phone rang and Carl abrim with boyish eagerneSs:
 Barbara Anne, you haven't for gotten that I'm counting on showing have you?"
 I had forgotten. It flashed across my mind that I had never told Jim of this engagement at which I had was on the edge of a dangerous mood, to which he felt that I and I alone had goaded him I temporar- jed for a moment
 You didn't know I'd been suffer Carl?"
 Poor little grill" cried Carl in stantly. ''Is is still very painful? I'll tell you. we'll put it off till you're all right I wouldn't have you hurt for the world. When will you be pain ?''
 Tonight a week." I replied. feel ing heartily ashamed of myself as dld so and wondering why it didn't seem exactly right for Carl to be so klnd- But anyway. I needn't feel guilty. Tor since Daisy is left I'm not entirely breaking up your evening"" s,id ph; G I'll call it off with Daisy. too," this afternoon to see if there's any Nhlns your old pal can do for you" ,nxss,f As nung i up the receiver I found hyselI uneas1ly wishing that he wouldn't come, and then wondering why wished that But at noon 2 phoned Haldanes and asked Daisy to run Tn after the days work was over.
 CHAPTER CCLxxxIx.
 minute after I had asked Daisy to drop in when her day at the office was hnlshed I regretted the impulse Whlch has swept me to the teIeDhone l recognized it for just what it Was my own fondness for playing the role of Fairy Godmother,'' as I call it, or
 Mrs Fdx-It,' to quote Jin1
 l had been dipIeased by the cavalier way in which Carl Booth called off EhlS dinner engagement with Daisy when he discovered that Jim and I ~1alr to Daisy, who might reasonably expect him to keep his engagement With her: And when Carl insisted on running fin to see how I was feeling I almost automatically proceeded to ar range to have Daisy here too.
 But now that I had let myself in Efor the situation didn't see what I Twas going to do with it
 Carl arrived first-which was not what I'd been counting on. He brought an enormous box of peonies, representations
 They're wonderfult' I exclaimed But I've no right to them or the consideration you showed in poapon- ing your party I might have man aged to hobbe out I did Last night
 All the more reason why you should take it easy and let the ankle brick about ginning and bearing things, Barbara Anne Do be careful of yourself now I hate to think of your suffering
 made little move to cover my own consciousness that Carl was be- ing melodramatic about a trif1e, a ten .dency he'd never shown in the old days.
 I'm making a fuss now and about nothing" I said airi1y. s'If I were still a poor working girl I'd be hob bling off daily to my job. But I'm a pampered darhng.''
 I'm glad he's so good to you," said Carl, with unnecessary emphasis, and then a pert little voice interrupted as Daisy appeared heltatingly in the d doorway:
 Once a darling. always a. darling she said with seeming in- consequence that told me neverthe- Jess that shed been listening for a minute or so. Do I intrude? The maid said come right in"
 Daisy's face was flushed and her usually dull eyes were a1ight- She | looked excited, and her mentary i color gave her a vfvidness that was | almost beauty Then she faded again | to her usual d1'ab tans, which were | further, accented by the yellow linen Daisy's favorite color, and nothing could have been less becoming.
 Please come right in and find your self the sort of chair that will make | you want to settle down for a, real visit" I said, wondering if I had dreamed the flash of annoyance that | seemed to dart across Carrs face.
 ''I think I'll stay with your hand | some husband comes home, anyway" | replied Daisy with a toss of her head l
 Our conversation ierked and creak- | ed along for the next half hour. Daisy | was alternately sullen and insolent. | Her air of indifference to CarFs exist l ence was overdone and he was obvi- l ously annoyed either by it or by her. The less pleased Carl appeared, the | more Daisy swept herself along into i her awkward efforts to impress him | with the idea that he didn't matter the least in the world to her. Her ungraciousness and sulIenness filled | me with a vague pity for a time. Then Thev began to make me uneasy, to bore and annoy. Her soggy sulIen- ness seemed to hold a threat and a menace I made up my mind that I would discontinue my misdirected efforts to help this dull and malicious little grain of dust.
 l might have carried out my plans. But just then something occurred | which made it necessary for me to keep Daisy Condon in my life whether I wanted her there or no.
 (To Be Continued.)