The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-31
When A Girl
 Marries
By ANNE LESLIE.

Ut certainly is O.. K. Ralph. think it's wonderful of you to save me from by bad genera.lship. I must have antagonized Max Hoadley him over? And are you saving Park from the disappointment I've almost
 brought upon himf"
 The concern in her voice was very real, and MT. Lacy replied with due consid eration for it:
 Park is going to win out. You wait and see. He believes in you, little lady, just as you did in Santa when you were four. But he won't wake up to find you a myth. Wait till you see what your reindeers are bringing down tho chimney for him. I'll break 1t to you Monday oyer the lunch table. And please tell your partner she's invited.
 After that the conversation n1oder- ated away into goodbys, which blur | cut-in which resolved itself into Cars l lotta saying Hello
 1 Anne, I've got to see you" she cried without preliminary. Her words
 tumbled over each other with an ut
 most breathless effect. i've had a | telegram from Tony. Need I say | more over the phone?"
 Don't say another word. dear. be-
 yond telling me where to meet you
 and when,' I replied, held to an al-
 most breathless brevity by the throb- | ping tension of Carlotta's voice. 1 T want to see you at home" cried | Carlotta, in the same breathless note | with which she had told me of her l telegram from Anthony Norreys. | Can you be early? Well have din-
 ner together. Just the two of us. | You don't mind %
 "Of course, I don't mind. It's ab- 1 long i'm
 that way-just the two of us. mean
 I replied heartily. "I'l1 be in as soon
 after six as I can make it. l Goodbye, then I'll be glad when 1 Iits-after six,'' cried Carlotta with a
 gallant attempt to make her tone l light and casual.
 l You look all tensed up," said Miss
 May as I turned from the telephone.
 T do wish you had someone you could turn to and kind of put the
 burden of your troubles on his should CTS like I can with Ralph l T wish so myself" was wrung from
 me, But it was of Carlotta rather | than myself I thought when I said II. l know Car1otta Sturges far too
 we'll to hope that she's going to escape | the suffering her high generosity
 marks her out for. I'm sure she will l ch1Valrously step aside from her own path to serve someone else. She is convinced that Betty needs Tony. And out of that conviction she will stuh-
 bornly raise barrier too big for a l man or his sensitive, se1f-depreciation to see over.
 Now, at a moment like this a man m1ght be able to manage the situation,
 ana Carlotta and Tony-better than can nope to do. If Jim were at nome. I wonder how he'd act? Would | he forget his old dislike of Tony and l ryLo | thing see as an impending tragedy? Working away on my new copy for l the Dalton-Sturges Corporation all l through the rest of the afternoon
 round it difficult to hold my mind l oown to business. Everything did re- 1 minded me of Carlotta And every I time I thought of her naturally I was overwhelmed by desire to help her. So at last. seeing that my copy wasn't likely to carry much smashing con- V1ct1on l gave up and started off for nome l swung along brisISIy, hoping that fresh air and exercise would blow l the cobwebs out of my brain and put some zest and power into it II wonder how a man like RaIph Lacy would handle difficulty like th1s?' l pondered as I walked along. Hes the sort who'd think straight on almost any subject. And act de- cisively on his thoughts If this were my problem I'd go to him. can't 20 to him with Car1otta's. But I wish could think up a few hypothetical questions to put to him. They might help me find way to help herr.
 smiled at the way I was running on. It was only this morning that Ralph Lacy and I arrived at the of declared friendship. And here I am already wishing I could plunge in and take advantage of it.
 EHyid that need a shoulder to lean Or. has put me in very clinging vine sort of mood.
 When I arrived at the house that mod vanished as if it had been puffed out by strong gust of wind. For found the second floor in a state Of unrest and furry astonishing in " Ihe Sturges menase. Carlotta's door was open, and one glance served to snow me that there was a collection or garments strewn around the room Moreover, there were several bags Of varying sizes. Carlotta hailed me breezily, in a tone I certainly could never have foreto1d.
 I'm glad you're so early" she cried.
 I'll have a chance to visit with you a bit before making the eight-forty- five.'
 The eight-forty-ffve ?'' I repeated in a sort of daze. Where are you going on the eight-forty-fi -five?'
 Maybe it's eight-forty or fifty or quarter past eight instead of quarter to-, replied Carlotta, with a futile at- tempt to be causuaL I've sent Lyons to make sure- I've fallen back on Lyons as on tower of strength"
 But what does this nean?" cried helplessly.
 had monentary impulse to ask If she was going out to join Tony and Betty, but omething prevented me carrying it out. That something" I shall always regard as a mercifu1 in- terentfon of fate. For me to connect her telegram with her departure was natural. For me to tie it up wrongly would have been sad, for they gave me the notion I haven't yet shaken off
 I'm going north a trip" she said. There is some timber land we