New Britain herald., 1926-06-08

f'li' ulAl'' i'NA spAp't ''AAt '''' N+ ed out the light above the sink.
 Now, then, my labors are over. Lets go out into the other room and talk in comfort" she suggested, and they settled down by the tiny wood fire.
 IL was not until then that Sylvia noticed how claboratcly Fay was dressed this afternoon. She had on q new frock of the shade that Fanny called wicked green" It was band ed with dark fur, and in it Fay looked like some Russian princess painted by Titan.
 Now, why is she all fused up like that just to come over here to sca me-" Sylvia asked herself
 The answer flashed itself into her mind like a radio message. Fay hadn't come there to see her at all. She had come there 10 sec Fanny. no doubt puzzled by his | long silence.
 As Sylvia's eXes passed over her she stole a look al the little jewell ed watch on her white, freckled wrist.
 Why. shes even picked the time of day when she knows he'll be Ihere!" Sylvia gasped inwardly, It was almost beyond belief 10 her, that q girl would follow up mar ricd man, as Fay was pursuing Fanny. particularly when that man happened to be married 10 her best friend,
 Well. it's just about time I Isquclched her good and hard!" Syl- Ibe in love with Ranny after all, and ifs time she snapped out of iti'
 Until that moment she hadn't ,drcamt of breathing 6 word of their secret--hers and Ranny's-to any one for a long time Even Father and Mother Phelps didn't know. yet that April would make them grand - parents.
 And if was with painful little wrench of her spirit that Sylvia made up her mind that she had 10 tell Fay the wonderful truth--to let her knpw that there was a bond between herself and Fanny, now. that nothing must break, 1 She was glad of the dusk all around them-the friendly blue tWi- light that was like a screen between her and Fay. when she spoke.
 We haven't been going out much lately, Fay" she said, because l haven't been feeling very poppy. You sec--you see-Tm going to have a baby in tho spring"
 She never forgot inc look on Pays face when she said if.
 Even through the half darkness she could see how the green eyes widened with surprise and the mouth fell laXly open.
 'H-h-how perfectly wondcrful,' Fay said al last when she found her voice. "Aren't you thrilled to death"
 Sylvia shook her dark head. Not what you'd call thrilled to death. You don't get thrilled to death about baby coming. It's something deeper and quieter than being Ithrilled-the feeling that comes tC you when you know about it." she said. "It's the sort of feeling you have when you go to church early on Easter morning.
 She never finished the sentence
 for Fay was getting ont of her chail and speaking as mechanically as q talking machine.
 T think it's the most wonderful thing l ever heard of." she was say,
 ing jerkily. Think Of you with /; baby - you'n be the sweetest thing
 in the world as mother--now, Fvt
 got 10 go, lovcy, I've got to go."
 She only shook her head in refus
 al when Sylvia asked her 10 sta, 10 dinner.
 She had not been gone for more than five minutes before Ram! , came in,
 H. walked out into the kitcheI where Sylvia was seasoning th,
 chops for his dinner. He held he by both arms and looked down int her face with the new. worshipini tenderness that he always had fo her. now.
 Whats my sweetheart been do . ing today?" he asked, kissing he ? forehead, pearl-white under ii | misty dark hair.
 ? "A lot of - odd jobs that had f.
 he done. sooner or later" sylvi :, answered.
 Q That was the last she heard o r Fay for more than two weeks. l Then one day, early in the after e noon, Fay telephoned and asked he l Ito go for walk.
 They were gone all afternoon l. They tramped the sunny length c
 Dubois street and rambled throug e Buchanan park. stopping 10 look a T birds and leaves as they had O
 their girlhood tramps. years before r They talked and laughed, and wer 0 happy together, for the first tim . in months.
 T "I feel as if Fay and I wer
 really friends again" Sylvia said { f Fanny that night at dinner. Tv 7, been so jealous for her for the las Y few months that I really couldn . like her. as I always had. She wa h crazy about you-and l knew it. t and couldn't do anything 10 stop he
 from being in love with you! If sh II hadn't been my best friend l thin r. I would have scratched her eye 5, out"
 Il And that was the end of the Ia d affair-or almost the end of it. e CHAPTER NX c The night before HalloWe en- Sy 0 via was sitting alone in The Ne
 reading, when Fay dropped in 0 a her way home from the '. W. e A. swimmii z pool.
 s q say light up here as ] droN
 past. and thought I'd come up Il say Hello" she announced darll 2 as she dropped into a chair an ! stretched her long legs straight o' 11x,E hot