New Britain herald., 1926-06-01
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free him from their engagement. He tells her that he has fallen in love with her best friend, FAY SHIR- LEY.
 Sylvia, heart-brol5en, gives him up, greatly to the satisfaction of her AUNT AGONY, the shrewd old maid who reared her. She calls Fanny Phelps a lazy good-for- -noth- ing and advises Sylvia to marry ! PETER WII.K. a sober bachelor.
 As the time draws near for the 3. wedding of Fay and Ranny. Fay tells Sylvia that they have decided they don't love each other enough to marry. And Sylvia. herself. discov- CTS that Fay is seeing a great deal of her old beau, EDDIE CARTER.
 On a moonlit May night, Peter gives q picnic in Sylvia's honor. Aft er supper the crowd plays hide-and- seek in the dark woods, like so many children, and Sylvia finds her self paired off with Ranny. He makes love to her and tells her shes the only girl he ever really cared for. And Sylvia says: All right, then. let's run away and get married now. tonight" And they do.
 Long before the end of the honey lmoon Sylvia can see that Fanny is restless 10 get back 10 his friends in town, so at the end of the first week back they go. They stay with his parents until their own little flat The Nest, is ready for them.
 The first night they are to spend there Sylvia cooks dinner for Ranny. But he comes home three hours late and brings with him Fay and Eddie Garter. They have been drinking and Fanny quarrels with Sylvia for not Having gingerale and sandwiches for them. While Eddie eats up the ruined dinner, Fay and Ranny dance 1 and Sylvia sees them kiss each other. One Saturday night, a week later, Fanny declares himself bored and leaves the house 10 go and play cards with Eddie Carter's 'croWd.' Sylvia telephones Fay and asks her to go for a stroll so that she can ask her advice about something, (SOW GO ON WITH THE STORN)
 CHAPTER XII
 Sylvia and Fay Shirley had been chums for more than ten years. Ever since they were little bits of girls they had told each other every ithing about themselves-the things that they thought, as well as the i things that happened to them. SIs- ters could not have been better friends than they were,
 There were things that Sylvia knew about Fay that would have made Aunt Agony's gray hair stand straight up on end, if $he had known about them. Sylvia had known when ray smoked her first cigaret' taken her first cocktail and gone out with her first "boy friend"-sccretly' oi course.
 The friendship between them was so strong that not even the love at- fair between Fay and Fanny had spoiled it. It was so deeply-rooted that not even Sylyia's bitter jealousy of Fay could not kill i- now.
 And when the two of them met each other tonight at the corner ol Pine street and Second avenue in the soft June darkness, they kissed each other like the good friends that they still were and always would be-
 Sure you don't want 10 go 10 movie dcar?" Fay asked, as they linked their arms and started OH down the lamplit length of Pine street.
 Sylvia shook her head. "No, want to talk to you," Sylvia an swerod, and then because she could mt make up her mind how best to say what she had to say 10 Fay she pulled her oyer 10 mlllIners VIII dow to look at the hats.
 "You'd be q doll in that green hat in inc corner, Fay" she said.
 Fay looked down at her and laughed. Honey she said quizzl- callv. "I know what you wanted to talk to me about, tonight-you'ro upset because you saw me kiss Ranny the other night aren't you? Well. you needn't be. I don't want vour precious lamb. And he doesn't want me"
 She drew Sylvia away from the window with it's gay display of hats and they walked on.
 DO you want mo 10 tell you something about Ranny?" she asked suddenly.
 Sylvia nodded without word.
 "Wen, then, he's the same kind of shallow person that l am Fay went on. You know me better than any one. Sylvia. You know how I'm al ways falling hcad-ovor-heelS i'll love with somebody or other and then i falling out of it just as suddenly and Ranny's just like me. We kiss ed each other the other night just ] for the thrill of the thing, l suppose. Neither of us meant it, And We both know that we didl't!'
 Sylvia was silent,
 She couldn't for the life of her un- derstand that sort of kiss between two people. If a kiss didn't mean anvthing-if it didn't mean love where in the world was the thrill in it?
 i "1ou needn't be jealous or me- sylvy," Fay was saying. now, in her clear metallic voice that was like the jingle of silver. You needn't he jealous of any of the girls that Ran ny has seen. It's the ones that he hasn't seen yet that you've got to be jealous of! See what I mean?'
 Sylvia shook her bent head.
 "Wcll, you know that Ranny's one of the best looking men you've ever gazed upon, don't you?" Fay asked, "and besides that, he's inter- esting and full of pep. He has what you'd call charm in a woman. And thereIl always be somebody or other wild about him."
 Sylvia reflected that "charm" was exactly what Fanny did have. No matter how angry you were with I,;,,, or how dicu,istnJ vOu inst