The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-04
When A Girl
 Marries
By ANNE I1ISLE

in my own mind But it would DC
 wonderf and if both of us are phop-
 ing for it and helping it along a bit,
 Us twice likely to happen. You
 see, MabeFs very bitter against-men.
 And to her Parks only nice kid Sn l If he should care-he'd not have suo&
 a very easy row to hoe"
 T see,' said Betty dryly. Wayne l Parkinson, Third. would not seem
 | desirable part to the oung woman
 who is. as you tell me, Jim's mana ger
 pro tenn. It's a funny old world, isn't l {, Anne?"
 The wrong people are always fall l ng in love. aren't they?" I replied.
 Here's Mabel-rem emberinS the
 wrong man, and not seeing Park.
 wonder how women can be like that?" | q wonder"-laughed Betty, then
 ] note of terrible bitterness crept into
 her voice she said slowly and inn | pressively: Think about it, Anne. And remember the years I wasted 1 Atherton Bryce"
 The door closed gently. felt that 1 Betty had left me with a m essage, but I didn't know what it was she'd meant 1 to convey.
 1 The next morning found Betty in a 1 mood of depression so terrible that ] her warm humanness on the evening l of my arrival to take up my home l with her seemed "a. figment of imagi- | nation. She slumped back into dull l and deadly inertia; and so dared not leave her alone. It was noon before could get Miss Moss. and naturally l did not leave until Betty was in her safe and kindly hands. l I'd kept in touch with my office | over the telephone, but 1t worried me to be cut off from actual parti- cipation in the days work. And ! may as we'll confess that in the back of my mind there was the ugly fear that living with Betty might serious ly interfere with my work. tried to shake 1t off. but there's no getting away from one big fact which doesn't often worry me but that exists and must be faced.
 On Anthony Norrey's signature I've borrowed s1o.o0o from MT. Fair brothers bank. Some day-and that day isn't many months off-the note must be met. That Tony should pay it is unthinkable. But < won't be able to 1iquidate this date unless I have the money to meet it. or suf- ficient background of success to just fly my extension of time.
 If coming to live with a woman who is going to pay for her happy moments by terrible re1apses into black depression costs me the suc- cess on which J1m's future may de-
 
 ly wrong. For, if Jim fails and I fail, where is Betty's fortune?
 But all this talk of failure won't do. I can't let Betty depress me. must make good at the job of nv- ing with her and buoying her up to meet the big problems of life and the little ones of mere living.
 When I arrived at the office I found it occupied by no less & person than Rosa Cordova. Rising nonchal- antly, she greeted me if 1t were the regular thing for her to make her headquarters at my office
 Hello, White Lilac!' she said. 'I am surprised again-not?''
 Good morning, Mrs. Cordova-" I replied. with rising ire. through re have been at a loss to tell just why she frrirtated me this time.
 "It is afternoon now" she giggled. Twenty minutes after noon. Me I came in half an hour ago and I send out the little rabbit lady to get some lunch for herself. She say you are expect presently and she will wait But I make her go. I shoo her-so.''
 Rosa pranced to her feet and made a gay little gesture.
 "She shouldn't have gone," I said vaguely.
 "Oh, for her to go is all right!'
 
 know. if you do not, that I might be left here all day and never once would I take 8 peek at what is for you private and personal I am like that, White Lilac, and the white rab- bit she knows it.'
 There was something indescribably malicious in the use of the two titles together, White Lilac" might have seemed complimentary term, but not when used in conjunction with the unpleasantly descriptive White Rabbit" which told me that Rosa coE@idered Miss May a shy little soul, easily frightened and intimidated,
 I don't think you'd-pryi" I said hotly.
 "Oh, I think you would not-how you say-put it past mel And now maybe I pry. I ask you how is it that you leave the G.urgus mansion and go live another placer"
 How do you know!f I asked in- dignantly, realizing that spying didn't seeem to me to possess all the charm lacked by prying.
 "Oh. I have ways-' began Rosa, adding suddenly and passionateIy: How are we to work together if you are where I do not know and I can not get to you if there is something We should do together pronto? Sup pose I am needing you this morning or last night? How I do then to get you?'
 Of coursei" I laughed propiitiat- ingly, and wishing to smooth this sud- den mountain down to it's normal + molehin proportions You tele- phoned Car1otta Sturges and she told you where to reach me.
 T do that?" asked Rosa proudly. No! That Is not for me, the rep- resentative of Jaime. do not beg someone to tell me where is the wife of the man I serve like a part ner should If once it is known that we do not work together good and In harmonies, what you think the en- en1fes of Jaime will do? It is a say ing that united states we stands, but divided states we fall So feel We should get more together, like you say Anne.'