New Britain herald., 1926-06-10
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her that he has fallen in love with her best friend. FAY SHIRLEY.
 Heart-broken, Sylvia gives him up, greatly to the satisfaction of AUNT AGONY. the shrewd old maid who reared her. Aunt Agony says hluntly that Ranny will never stick to any woman, and that he's a lazy good-for- nothing besides.
 And her opinion of him seems to be corr ect. For he and Fay decide not 10 marry after all and Ranny returns 10 Sylvia, who promptly proposes that they get married at once. before he has a chance to change his mind again. So they elope.
 They settle down in q, tiny flat that Sylvia calls The Nest. Fanny gives her very little housekeeping money. and none for clothes, but Sylvia wears her old ones and cheerfully does her own homework. and makes one dollar do inc work of two! Then Fanny seems to fall once more under Pays spell, and i on mgny of the nights when he lets her think he's playing poker.
 But when Sylvia tells him that shes going to have q baby he mi raculously turns over new leaf and settles down. And Fay an nounces her engagement to one Of her old beaus. EDDIE CARTER.
 Shortly afterward when Sylvia lend Ranny are dining one night at the home of Ranny's mother and father the question comes up of his sister LOLLY'S love affair with BOYLE. the family chauffeur. ! MOTHER PHELPS forbids Lolly to aver sec him again. But Lolly confesses to Sylvia, after swearing her to secrecy that she and Boyle were married that afternoon! She doesn't want to tell her mother for a few weeks. until her first anger Iis over And Sylvia promises to keep her secret for her, but as she tells everything to Ranny, she tells him that. He is furiously angry and ! Sylvia phones Lolly.
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 CHAPTER XXII
 Mother Phelps big contraHo voice came rolling richly over the telephone wire. "Hcllo," she boom- ed.
 Its I-svlvia. May I please speak 10 Lolly?"
 There was q pause. Then Mother Phelps spoke again, and her tone was sharp with disapproval.
 Well, Sylvia, it must be some thing terribly important you have to say 10 her 10 wake us all up in the dead of night but I'll call her! Wait a minute" she said, acidly.
 Sylvia felt exactly like small child who has been scoded and mada to stand in the corner, as she stood waiting for Lolly 10 answer. i No wonder the girl was afraid to tell her mother about her marriage 10 Boyle. she said to herself. And yet. as Fanny had just pointed out, the only square thing to do was to tell her about it at once.
 'I'll ask Lolly if she wants me to come over while she breaks the news D Mother Phelps" Sylvia made up her mind. "If Fanny won't drive me over, I'll call q taxi l Then she realized that she hadn't so much as dollar in the house for a taxicab. She had spent all the savings in the salt bag where she hid her money, on a bolt of white goods for baby dresses.
 "IIl have to ask Ranny for dol lar" she thought dreamily, and jumped as Mother Phelps voice boomed suddenly in her ear:
 Sylvia. Lolly isn't here!" she cried. "She hasn't been in her bed tonight! Now, you know where she is, You tell me! You tell mel"
 "N-no, I honestly don't" Sylvia stuttered in her surprise. The last thing she told me tonight was that she wouldn't even see Boyle until tomorrow-Rannya and I are comng over!"
 She hung up the receiver and ran into the bedroom where Fanny was sitting on the edge of the bed. un- lacing his shoes.
 He looked up at her as she stood in the doorway, shaking from head to foot with excitement. Even her teeth were chattering, so that she could scarcely talk.
 But she managed. somehow, to make him understand that Lolly had run away from her mothers house, and had joined Boyle, prob ably.
 He gan to lace up his shoes again.
 Then, as Sylvia picked up her hat from the dresser where she had tossed it, he shook his head. No. fyou're not going" he said tcrsely, you cant do any good over there and besides, you're sick. You're shaking so that you cant stand up now"
 NO, I'm going" she began, but Fanny took her in his arms and carried her 10 her own bed. With clumsy hands he pulled off her clothes and got her between the sheets.
 Now don't move till l get back" i he said as he went out 'I hope you 1 realize that this Lolly business is all your fault. young woman."
 And before Sylvia could open her i lips 10 defend herself L. was gone. The night stiffness shook to the rum ble of his departing automobile. 1 How unfair of him to say it was Iher fault that LolIy had run away. she thought. Why Lolly had been married that afternoon, hours bee fore Sylvia had known that she was in love with young Thomas Boyle! How could Ranny blame her for the | thing?
 Sylvia's throat swelled with tears that she would net shed, as she lay, waiting for him to come back. She wondered, as she had wondered a | | lN l1H8