The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25
When A Girl
 Marries
By ANNE LESLIE.

dane holds Carl BOOCn III the ultShOSI possible regard I replied
 must confess that there was enough mischief in my mind to make this answer just verge on the nnahc- ious. I can't help being on the woman's side of most arguments or situations. So 1t seemed only fair that Tom should Have his bad half hour in return for. the many he's given Daisy. When first he met Irma he vowed to me passionately that he had changed. Yet even arIer that he'd gone back to his old ways and had continued to encourage Daisy. Considering this, does he merit faith and trust?
 .sYou think Booth would butt into Haldane's personal and private af- fairs?" asked Tom, with a combina- tion of syness and actual timid1ty- "Not unless invited" I answered with elaborate solemnity. "But would MT. Haldane be likely | to turn to him?"
 s.Don,t YOU think an older man is likely to lean on a younger one if he | gets the chance?" I asked innocently. "Yes do. By Heck. I do! 1 think an old chap like Haldane would 1 be tick1ed to death to shift his bur l dens to a young man like Booth. Booth seems reserved, leVei-headeo/ | person, with his two feet firmly plant 1 ed on the ground. He'd dope out 
 l what he wanted to do and go through | with it. Wouldn't let any chance emotion or snap judgment sidetrack him. He wouldn't permit his feelings to run away with him." The air of wisdom with which Tom uttered this was. under the circunl- l stances, intensely amusing. 1 "You,re a wonderful judge Of hu- man r,ature,'' I said. with all the soberness usually attributed to judges.
 'I fell down on il once." confessed Tom. ''I didn't get Daisy as all I | don't get her now. I can't for the l life of me figure out whether she is | really in love with Booth, or l whether''-
 'Tom!" I interrupted gravely. eve owe it to Daisy Condon to be- | lieve that even if she pha1andered l a bit-as men so often have way Of l doing-she didn't marry for any but l the one big reason. It isn't fair to 1 her nor yet to Carl to suppose that | anything but big love drew them | together. No one has 8 right to spec ulate about their motives or feelings. I This marriage is their affair. The | wrong attitude from outsiders is l bound to-cheapen 1t. We musn't do 1 that We nusn't concern ourselves"
 with whats none of our business. | eh, Donna Anna?"
 Precisely. MT. Thomas Mason"
 "Righto, little lady! Wen tend to our knitting. And if the ball IS knotted up bit. we'll work all the harder to unravel it and tie up the 1 travelled sleeve of care, whatever ) it is the poet says"
 "Agreed!" cried. "So that means 1 we enter upon an agreement not to discuss the Booth menage again 1 ever"
 "Yes."
 Tom looked so crestfa1len he brought this out, that I could scarcely hold myself back from trying to com fort him. But all the Mrs. Fix-It' ! quality on which Jim has so often l leased me. was gone from my attl- 1 tude. I didn't propose to aet my sym l Ipathy run away with me In re | Thomas Mason. If he is going to 1 prove himself worthy of Irma War l ren, he has a right to her. But if he | hasn't the strength and the courage to atone for his previous mistakes, he l won't be the right husband for that 1 fine, sweet, o1d-fashioned girl.
 Not for a moment do I suppose that Carl would deliberately say one | word against another man for spite | full. personal reasons. On Daisy l l don't feel it safe to bank. She may l cherish a grudge against the man who scorned her love, even after she's happily married to another.
  ! dane will throw the Booths often into l the company of Irna Warren. I be- Ieve that Irnna is interested deeply and sincerely in Tom. How she'd feel toward a man who has in any way hurt another woman ] don't \ know.
 Sometimes a girl of her type can be very hard and unforgiving. But | only the persons concerned have a lt.isfht to judge of their feelings and their sense of values, in case Of this sort I have no right even to try to l solve a problem where there IS so much O be said boh for and agains the man who aspires to the best after so often choosing the worst.
 A long silence fell between Tom and me. At last he arose and stood smiling at me with som 1ething very wistful in his jaded face.
 Donna Anna. you've tried me in your own soul and found me want ing" he brought out at last. Can count on you to keep that decision to yourself until the day when you think YOU owe it to some one who's too good to me to warn her against me?"
 'Im sure that day will never come"
 CT. may. If aspire too high, you nav have to cast me into-the bot tornless pit where you're so often thought I belong" said Tom with a gallant effort at lightness.
 'sIf you've repented of your wicked ways, who am I to thust you back into outtor darkness" began laughingly But something in1pealed me to go on with the utmost serious ness: From, you've shown yourself the most loyal of souls when it comes to a friendship with man. r m judging you by that. I'm making be- Iieve you tried to play fair with Daisy I-even though you didn't start soon enough.
 s"Tyhen you think rn-good enough for Irnaa? ?,' demanded Tom, laying