The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-26
When 4 Girl
 Marries
CHAPTER 47o.
By ANN LIsLE

CHAPTER 47o.
 T Copyright, 1920, King Features Syndicate Inc
 "Just a minute. Nurse Whitcon1b '' said Phoebe smiling with an air of knowing recisely what she wanted to do. Will you please tell Mr. Neal l that his sister merely dropped in to inquire flor him and that I thought it best to carry out the doctors or ders to keep him quiet this evening since he is to sit up for the first time l tomorrow
 She's right, Mrs. Harrison" l agreed the nurse. And as he'd be awful set on seeing you if he knew you was here. I'll just make bold to tell him you've left"
 l With a whdslz of her white apron. she vanished beyond the door leading | to the bedroom. The moment she was gone I burst out accusingly:
 You are taking a shameful ad-3 1 vantage of my love for Neal I cant appeal to him for a square deal to Evvy-and myself so I'll have to con- 1 tent myself with talking things over with Jeanie.''
 1 phantly." Don't you suppose her pa tlence with you is alb out worn out as | 1t IS? You dictate to us in the case i or Jim, who was our brotherr long l before he was your husband, though you seem to forget it. You make a mystery of his trip and won't let us make a move to help him. We have to trust the Harrison name to you, and to your judgment. And when I want a certain amount of authority where Neal is concerned, you try to keep me from having it. But you ! can't run the Harrisons and the lily lands, tool"
 In this moment I saw that Phoebe wasn't merely ugly and stubborn and disagreeable as I'd been thinking her. She had a point of view, and from that point of view she was justified in her stand. My anger and disgust died down and I made one more ef- fort to set things straight Phoebe" said pleadingly, 'twonst you sit down here with me on the couch and let me explain? It may look to you as if I'm trying to run 1 things. But it isn't that, dear You'll see 1t in. minute. Won't you sit here and try to love me a Httle2,' "ru stand" said Phoebe, audetEi
 Please set things right-if you can Its like this." began, picking my words. "Pm not trying to manage the Harrison affairs at all. I'm sim ply carrying out Jim's orders. He want complete secrecy-even from you and Jaenie and Pat. I've said nothing of his concerns to anyone not even to Neal"
 Phoebe's face softened She sat down on the edgeo the couch. outve said nothing to any one?" she asked. ''You haven't breathed 8 word about Jim and his affairs to a soul-not a word ?"
 I've had to go over things with Miss Storrs.' I replied "Jin left her in charge of the office''
 Phoebe stared at me with a pe- culiar glitter in her eyes. But didn't know what it meant 4
 "Of course. Miss Storrs,' she said z Anyone else?'' [
 'tNo one," returned. Then I re-t membered, and in my desire to have l everything clear between us. I gave he the precise truth. ''I did tell F-ath- { CT Andrew one or two things he had to know because of-n1y father"1
 Phoebe leaped to her feet, and her sliml little body quivererd into ten-( sity.
 Your father!" she cried. q thought we'd come to him. Yon see, you aren't much to Neal, after all. Father Andrew isn't anything to you You're the daughter of this Lucby
 
 mother. who died when he came And the one bond there used to be between you is gone now.
 Phoebe!" I pleaded, not daring , to discuss Dad Lee in my first shame at finding him Dick Vests accom- plice- You're making bad matters worse. You're telling me that the brother I've always adored is nofh- ing to me. Don't you know how you're hurting me"
 Phoebe tossed up her little heart shaped flower face. Her lips culver ed scornfully, but her voice was steady as she demanded:
 Do you know how you're hurting me? There's nothing to stand be- tween Neal and me but you. Ills worry over this father of yours and Jim's strange disappearance',-
 Jim hasn't disappeared" pro- tested
 But Phoebe swept on:
 Don't you see why can't endure your high-handedness in doing just as you choose and not listening to Jeanie and me at all? You take up with Evvy Mason and we have fo accept that You won't tell ua thing about Jim and we have to ac- cept that. And all the while that you're running things your own way you're costing me my happiness If NeaI didn't have you on his hands wouldn't we be married and happy2''
 At the end of her words Phoebe broke and crumpled down into a chair with her hands over her quiv- ering face. I dared not touch her stood staring at her in grief over the sorrow was causing her. The child had faced one trial after an- other in her fight for love.
 But Phoebe's words revealed that she was suffering from more than the piled up woes of the past, from more even than the 1ongings of the present She was staring ahead.
 "If Neal didn't have you on his hands wouldn't we be married and happy?" Phoebe had asked. What she meant was: "You won't let us lift a. finger to bring Jim back. Enp- i