New Britain herald., 1926-06-09

l W nat LOlly was QOIIlS Was pdSA~ | ing two suitcases and big patent Heather hGtbox just as fast as she could throw things into them-siI- ver-backed brushes. silver-toppcd perfume bottles, silk stockings. chiffon underthings. highheeled san dals, strings of beads, imitation gar denias, little felt hats, short scant dresses of bright silk.
 q can't get everything in!" she cried, glancing up at Sylvia and then down again. Run into Moth er's room, like a good kid, and bring me her big hatbox. will you?"
 Sylvia shook her head. Where are you going, Baby" she asked. You really don't intend to marry Boyle. do you?"
 Lolly strengthened up from her job at that, She stood. with a pink inightgown in one hand and a bottle of perfume in the other, and look ed lntently al Sylvia with her big soft eyes.
 "I have married him. she said very softly. 'l married him this morning --. and I'm just scared to death. If Mother finds 1t out-oh. my dear." She raised her mortified hands.
 I've just got 10 clear out of this house before she does find it out!' she went on wildly, and ran 10 the windows. all draped in blue taffeta, to look out. "Thoma" is waiting for me now, with his little Ford, across the street.
 g lyia crossed the room 10 her and laid both her hands on the slim little shoulders. 'Lolly, don't go tor 'ght while your mother and father are so upset" she begged. Stay here until they've recovered a bit from the shock you've given them, and then tell them you're marriod- please!'
 After five minutes argument that was what Lolly decided to do. And Sylvia started home with Ranny. well pleased with her evenings work.
 She told him about it while they were getting ready for bed. a half hour later.
 What do you mean-that the darned kid has married this chauf- feur?" he asked, turning from the chiffonier. Do you mean shes really married fim::"
 Sylvia nodded. "Yes, she has, And told her not 10 say a. word about it for a while-until your mother is over her anger"
 Fanny interrupted her with look of scorn. Well, if that isn't the most sneaking thing l ever heard in my life!" he exclaimed. and a dull red flush of fury swept under his skin. I've always said all women were cheats at heart. They don't know how to be honest, do they? And you're just like the rest of them.'
 He went into the bathroom and banged the door behind him.
 Sylvia sat as If she were carved in stone, on the edge of his bed for a full minute after he had left her. It hadn't occurred to her as "sneaky"-this thing she had advis- cd Lolly to do.
 But perhaps Fanny was right. Perhaps the only honest thing for Lolly TO do was to tell her mother at once that she and Thomas Boyle were man and wife.
 She got up from the bed and gent to the telephone in the hall and called the number of the Phelps homestead.
 AS she stood there waiting for someone 10 answer a question formed itself sharply in her mind what had caused Fanny to think that all women were cheats at heart?
 She herself had always been fair and square with him. She knew that. What other kind of women had he known. then-Women who didn't know how to be honest" And what experience had he had with them. this husband of hers of whom, after all. she knew so little?
 "Why, he's just stranger to me. after all" she thought, as many another wife has thought after months or even years of married life.
 (TO BE CONTINUFD)
 Fanny planes Sylvia for Lolly's disappearance. Sylvia feels the in- justice but is glad In her heart that Lolly and Boyle have taken matters In their own hands.