The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-31
SYNOPSIS

wife, Emeline, was markd with fre- quent quarrels between her mother shiftleSs ways and matinee fan friends. At fourteen, Julia, grown exceedingly handsome, and her mother livedS a hstleSs life, Emeline having divorced george years be- fore. Julia was to be an actress and her friends mostly of that profes- sion. Mark Rosenthal of the family on the floor above, had fallen in love with her
 At the home of Barbara Poland, a
 society girl whom she met at an amateur play in which Julia had a professional part, she met Barbara's half-brother, Dr. James Studdiford, and her aunt, Miss Poland, who had
 established a settlement house. Her father being i'll, her mother became
 reconciled to him and they went to
 live on fruit ranch, leaving Julia
 with her grandma mother- Max begged
 her to marry him but she put him
 off. Julia became an assistant to
 Miss Poland at her neighborhood
 before her. Julia met Dr. Studdi-
 ford again through an accident to
 child at the home. Mark again begged
 her to marry him: She refused him.
 shot himself, falling dead at her feet
 in the neighporhood house.
 (Coninued From Yesterday
 Julia you little duck!'' Jim bent his head over her in the starlight, and felt her soft hair brush his face, and caught the glint of her laughing eyes close to his own, and the vague de- Hcious little perfume of youth and beauty and radiant health that hung about her. Do you know that you are as cunning as a sassy kid?" he
 demanded. 'Now, kiss me once and for all, and no nonsense about it, for I can hear the others coming backi"
 Two days later they were married,
 very quietly, in the little Church of
 Saint Charles Borromeo, where Julia's
 father and mother had been married
 a quarter of a century ago. They had
 taken advantage" as Julia said, of
 her old grandfather's death, and an nounced that because the brides fam fly was in mourning the ceremony would be a very quiet one. Even the press was not notified; the Hollands filled two pews, and two more were filled by Ju1ia's mother, her grand mother, and cousins. Kennedy Scott Marbury and her husband were there, md sturdy two-year-old Scott Mar bury, who was much interested in his extraordinary edifice and inn pressive proceeding, but there were no other witnesses. Julia wore a dark-blue gown, and a wide black hat whose lacy brin cast a. most be- coming shadow over her lovely, seri- ous face. She and Miss Poland drove from the settlement house, and stop ped to pick up Mrs Page, who was lwed by Ju1ia's dignity, and little resentfu1 of the way in which others had usurped her place with her daughter. However, Emeline had very wisely decided to make the best of the situation, and treated Miss Tol- and with stiff politeness. Julia was in a smiling dream, out of which she reused herself, at intervals, for only a gentle, absent-minded ''Yes'' or 'tNo.''
 'I tried to persuade her to be mar ried at the Cathedral. by His Grace '' said Miss Poland to Mrs. Page. ''But she wanted it this way!'
 Well, I'm sure she feels you've done too much for her as it is," Eme- 1 line said mincingly. 'Now she must turn around and return some of ftp To this Miss Toland made no an- ! swer except an outraged snort, and a closer pressure of her fine, bony | hand upon Julia's warm little fingers. They presently reached the church, and Julia was in .Barbara's hands. "You look lovely. darling, and i your hat is a dream!" said Barbara, ] who looked very handsome herself. in l Ter brown suit and f1ower-trimmed ed | we go upstairs, I think. Jim's here, | nervous as a fish. You're wonderful as calmi I'd simply be in spasms. Ted was awful; you'd think she had l been married every day but Robert | his collar wi1tedI'
 1 They had reached the upper church now, and Miss Poland and Mrs. Page followed the girls down the long aisle to the altar. Julia saw her little old sra ndmother, in an outrageous flow cred bonnet, and Evelyn who was a most successful modiste now, and Marguerite. looking flushed and ex- cited, with her fat, apple-faced young husband, and three 1umpy little chil- dren. Also her Aunt May was there
 and some young people: Muriel, who
 was what Evelyn had been at fifteen,
 and a toothleSS nine-year-o Regina,
 in pink, and some boys. On the other side were the elegant Hollands, the dear old doctor in aisle seat, with his hands, holding his eyeglasses and knee; Ted lovely in blue, Constance | and Jane with Ned and Mrs. Ned, frankly staring.
 As Julia came down the aisle, with
 a sudden nervous jump of her heart, she saw Jim and Richie, who was | limping badly, but without his 1 crutch, come toward her. The old |
 the same time. She and Jim listened
 respectfully to short address with i out hearing a word of it, and found l themselves saying the familiar words | withou in the least. sensing them 1 Julia batt1ed through the prayer with l a vague idea that she was losing a valuable opportunity to invoke the blessing of God, but unable to think l of anything but the fact that the | Wa af oh the groom's arm, and that St. Charles l aisle was long and rather dismal ir
 the waning afternoon light
 Here, darling. in the vestry'" Tim | was whispering, smiling his dear, eas, reassuring smile as he guided her tC the nearby door. And in a second they were all about her, her first kis:
 on the wet cheek of Aunt Sanna, the l second to her mother-"Evelyn, yoJ | were darling to come way across tho city. and Marguerite, you were z darling to bring those preciOu.