The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-06
When A Girl
 M0rries
By ANN LESLIE.
CHAPTER 453.

< that if he kept 4on as he was going
 s-no dion'd have any set-backs he'd ps up and about in week Then.
 @A IT pleased with her own words. she repeated:
 IT he don't have mo set-backs..
 rnoe6s and I stared at each other
 NoW one ana af yet plI pleadingly:
 none ait Haa morning if you don't talN
 s,s,s .,. 100 weak yet to do much
 and s'fiP T 1aa 5s azk in for sga sTasksd sso lee
 morning. But I can't have two of
 iot it too acre no,s1 because that would make
 wsth sueh nIasy kin9iH do1iluded ,,,s the nurse.
 aPpie-cheecked old face that neither
 ot us resented her ordering us
 said Phoebe forlornIx' with pposes y es
 Iors to be unselhsh:
 ,,,n. may want to-" smiled. ''but I F1ght-5ust as you'd stop aside for me with Jim" Aot
 vo,, Why ans don't you have Lyons take np and make you forget yoT.ys Eli ner oesn sick" suggested Phoebe xin,a.s M etsnIns damR,s with gratitude. "vir- told Lyons to wait for instruco
 d tt do that" - replied slowly IT touch with Dad Lee I'd been foT got hid deb. note sf osns1aara aem1andl1s sdxe. How much it was comIdn.e guess. But even tfny sum 9oui1ns was esyond me. The entire first months now. Before . start.ng nnt sHne tp, morning I'd sent a check to Dr. morman Ssnn Sa,anda and that had brought my small might have to pay inc hanp Y s fee Tor carrying my account. So ,ss ret that nat 1t was a good plan to clear to Dad Lee. without delay,
 when I got down stairs I found s1,s sre -t,t car arawn up in front of the from the drivers seat with such an eLerf aar of being mind to command that I had all could do to keep r1m netion e1psseasing sSt some snn of my indig- YES there case where d.scre- I,on ,s ana valor were more closely skin, So I smiled non-committaily, hotel. Nees
 Making so bold ma'am, I'd like to tell you how terrible I feel about
 eyes susaaiy snsa Iysns 4ns meeting qrtbaE I'd like to say that if ever we come ..to know who twas that done him from paving the dratted gun man but the best I know how"
 Just what do you mean, Lyons" ! demanded from my place in the
 He booked away and stood twist Ing his cap as If he wanted to |motion. His i0 manner was fom mneasy sne Fbut I wasn't sure 1t was suspicious "Td like you to know, ma'am, that I wouldn't have had this hap "And from now on I looks out for for Mister Neal the best knows howl
 tOh," I said with low emphasis. grateful or loyal. or something like
 Lyons put on his cap and touched l It with a sheepish grin His reply had missed him. l
 That's just what I'm trying to 'e'" Lyons. sea mea ae're sf af1 said little from Missouri, as the saying goes-when l ft comes to loyalty and gratitude" ! said gravely And now please
 Lyons hesitated a moment. Then he got back on the front seat and | we drove off. but as we glided along our peculiar conversation. It might | be interpreted two ways - as sign | of a guilty conscience trying to ex- aot1ai aaa declaPatie1 of loyalty as Bna an ing the brand of loyalty in which Lyons deas; M I .sn smiled . gr,mly hny, as Come back for me in about an hour. Lyons said.
 Now, if he wanted to spy on me federates. he would do so without any suspicion that I was spying in turn.
 Going into the hotel. made in stinctiYely for the writing room once to send up word to Dad Lee that was there: There are house and picking up one of them, I asked for Mrs. Lucius L. Lee.' As I did SO, glanced over toward the alcove Slim Darrow. sneaking on the night when I afterward noticed Dad Lee getting his overcoat from that very aicove. whether instinct or sus-
 shadowy figure was stealing out and hardly needed a second glance to tell me that it was slim Darrow. or was his presence there Just coin- Before could devote my self to a solution of this problem, Dad Lees voice came to me over the wire:
 .-This is Anne" I replied. after " waiang some revelation. = I seem seem ferever G er looking for some one to make s stammered. n, @ Where .are you. m'e dear ?" t
 .sIn the writing room, waiting g for you.'' I(
 ssIn the writing room? Are you - S alone ?" he asked. in a tone of evi- dent alarm. IN
 ~Alone? Yes. I'm alone now. Whq ( do you ask" I replied, with unde- ntable malice Il ssCh. I thought someone might be there. Sure, nobody ts-an old man don't want to be interrupted when hess going to see his daughter for ] inc first time in days. And that makes me run back on the track 1 arain and ask how you are,
 sOh, I'm all right" I replied with laugh stCome down and we'll finish our chat face to face" Ii
 saTen ninutes'll do," he replied q