The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-17
When A Girl
 Marries
By ANNE LISLFz


 for you that I'd chuck the whole thing and let even good old Terry go 2 broke just to feel your soft cheek against mine. But that wouldn't do, as I very we'll know. My girl wouldn't have me a stacker for all the nlon1en- tary happiness in the world.'
 Terry" I murmured. Then I went on-too happy for myself to yield to sorrow for Betty.
 But I can't stand the loneliness and the strangeness of this country much longer. The folks I've counted on up your way aren't coming across with the information I need to tie up to what I am getting down here. Don't mistake me, my Lilac Princess, the situation isn't dangerous; l am.
 'I wonder, dear, can you manage o work a miracle and find out what the foemAn plans? Somehow I t2-- tonight that it is you. after all. who must find the way. I'll stick it out hereto the point of madness. But after that comes (and I don't want you to worry)-for fear I mean this seriously) IF 1t comes is what I mean-but if it comes, then, what good am I here?
 Lilac Princess, you're witching my heart away to you tonight. Can you work magic? I hope so, for there's no one else who can. You are the only one I can depend on-tne only one can trust. Good night, dear. Your lonely boy, Jim.'
 With tears in my eyes, I looked across the room to the heart-shaped gold frame with JiIn's picture tn it. Then I crossed to it and laid my lips against the glass.
 .'Ill find someone who's clever enough to help me help you-to come back" I cried. There must be some one. Not everyone is going to fall me-"
 But as I said 1t I felt I'd spoken in sheer bravado. After all, who can help me-who is there to care-or try -ora underseand? Then at the mo ment when my thoughts were dark est, I realized there was one friend on whom I could ca11-on whom, now, I must call-Ralph Lacy.
 CHAPTER TIA
 You wouldn't just say you'd found a way to bring Betty back-into harmony with life again. stammered Tony, jerking to his feet and starting to pace up and down the pretty sum- room which is the loveliest spot in Carlotta's big old home. You'd have tom cans it.'
 'HI do mean it." I smiled. i've found out for myself that-if idle hands get into mischief. idle brains get into misery. If Betty just sits around and thinks and regrets and goes milling a9out in a circle of might-have-beens. she'll go out of her head. That's a1l.''
 Granted" said Tony. 'Now what?"
 His eyes warmed from ice-bIue to a. softness that was as kindly bless ing. And his mouth corners twinkled after a fashion all their own. Resent fully I recognized the charm and sweetness which, added to his fine sturdiness of character, makes An thony Norreys irresistible to CarIotta and-at least a focal point of interest to Betty. And found myself yearn- ing for sufficient nerve to blurt out that my main object was to keep him from becoming the centre of Betty's disjofnted universe. However. 1 re- strained myself and said in my best, clean-cut business manner: First of all, there's the question of living. Betty mustn't go back to her btg-and now empty-apartment
 ''The housing question:" Tony said dry1y.
 Precisely" I replied as drily. Betty mustn't go home alone and she can't stay here''- hHs Tony interrupted me with a glance. It was so shrewd and penetrating that it had the actual affect of traff1ce 
 '"Therefore-Drean n1w7oId." ,"
 We seem to be thinking along par al1e1 lines,' I said with certain grim amusement that it shox5sd be so. "Of course there's no question of Virgin ia's wanting Betty. I've an i'd ca she'll come sailing into town majesticaIly the minute she hears of your return. And then shortly thereafter she'll sail out again with Betty slowed away 3 h give Virginia any-back talk. She'll just do as told'
 "She won't give any one any back talk" repeated Tony, the phrase sounding highly descriptive in his rich and mellow tones. Poor Betty will do precisely as told. I've had quite a hT of time in which to prove that. She's in a daze. She hears a voice she trusts conveying an order or a suggestion, and she reacts to that stimulus. She doesn't seem to have any inner voices to guide her just now"
 Its ghastly!'' I cried. Our inde- pendent. vivid, purposefuI, direct Bet ty reduced to a state of being an autonaton- I wonder how 1ong'--
 I've spoken to the doctors about 1t. replied Tony grim1y. '"The shock or Terry's going was terrific. It came at time when she was struggling to fead1ust herself to a situation hard enough in itself. Her hand'-
 Tony looked at his own right hand as ne spoke. Knowing that inside the glove he always wears is a piece of wooden mechanism, realizing that he has designated himself again and again as hulk I was the more inn pressed by the nnagnif1cence of the man who could grapple with Betty's problem His Calling a spade a spade" isn't easy.
 waited in silence until he found the courage to go on.
 @ Betty isn't reconci1ed to being na1med. The operation appears no+ 10 nave been a success. The handf cap Of having only one hand fs greatar rhan you can imagine. For Betty there is also the blow to her faetfd- iousness, the marring of her beauty. Terry was helping her find herself