New Britain herald., 1926-06-09
EMVNA yA E A M By Beatrice Burton VI
 ~ "The Fhppe Wife Illustrated Johnson York

It was there that Fay followed Iher-Fay with her green eyes gilt Itering and her mouth drawn into q
 hard red line.
 Well, if that poor sap of an Ed die Carter thinks he can make me jealous by toting another girl around, he has another think com Iing." she said, angrily 10 Sylvia.
 But it was only too plain that she
 was jealous-wildly jealous of the little girl who had come with Eddie that night. Fury burned in her cheeks like flame and. oddly enough, she began 10 cry. Sylvia could only stare at her in blank Iamazement.
 To think of Fay the hard, the cold, the Elitteri-g Fay, breaking down like this. Sylvia had never dreamed that she really cared for i Eddie Carter, who had ambled around her for years, like a fat. patient elephant.
 ''I don't know whether I'll ever marry him or not" she had said bbEtDS Ol t-ul'S lO NNlNlt. ttI- Itainly am not crazy about him, but l am keeping him for an ace in the hole-hc has lots of money and he'd make an awlully good husband" 1 But suddenly she seemed to have made up her mind that she would marry Eddie after all. At least no other girl was going 10 walk off ! with him, that much was certain! l "Tll fix him; I'll show him who's who and why!" she was saying now. l"You watch my dust" i She dropped down on the slender chair before the dressing table and l began to remove the tear traces from her face, powdering under her i eyes and rouging the cheeks and ! lips that were already much too red. | From the top of the revealing black dress she wore she pulled something that swung and shone bue-white in the air, from the end of a chain.
 i SLe snapped the chain in two, as If it had been q piece of rotten thread, and slipped the shining thing over her engagement finger It was a ring that she had shown Sylvia more than year before-a magnificent solitaire diamond that Eddie Carter had asked her to wear. Until this minute she had refused potnt-blauk to put it on her finger. But now she walked out into the living room of The Nest holding her hand against her breast so that no one could fail 10 see the ring. At a little table in the corner by the windows Eddie Carter was sit ting with Lolly Phelps and the little March girl. Lolly was telling the lat est gossip about cousin of hers who had just broken her engage Iment.
 Sylvia caught just the tail end Of it as she came out from the bed room.
 and she sent him back his ring and a note to tell him she never wanted to see him again, Lolly was saying in her light voice. Hes still wondering what the trouble was-and I could tell him, if l wanted to! She's in love with our charlottesville. best-looking iIrishman you ever saw in your life. Oh. boy, l have a case on him my self--''
 "Lolly!" Ranny's voice stopped her flow of words, "cut it out!" l Sylvia looked at him. He had eyi- dently been out of doors trying to sober up. And he had succeeded, for there wasn't a sign of drunkenness about him now.
 He sat down beside his giddy lit tie sister as Fay came up to the table and muttered something to her in a low tone.
 Speaking of gossip" Fay said in 1 her clear voice, and everyone in the room stopped 10 listen, for everyone knew that when Fay had | bit of gossip it was a choice bit she sp.,red no one. Speaking of gossip, I have bit of news for you | all. myself, tonight
 They crowded around her, and ILolly Phelps gave a little shriek as she saw the diamond on her finger. No one could help seeing it. It blaz- ed like a headlight.
 "You're engaged!" bubbled Lolly, land I'll bet a Buffalo nickel that know who the man is-Fatty Car i ter!"
 The look of surprise and embar- lrassment and pleasure that passed over Eddie's fat pink face was fun nv. He got slowly to his feet and put his arm around Fay's slender ness.
 "Sure we're engagcd!" he blurted out, but l didn't know Fay was ready 10 tell the world at large about it, jus yet. It's been our secret"
 1 "Ours no longer. darling said Fay. Y ith a comical upward glance at him from her green eyes, Then 1 she turned a little, in his arms and spoke to Sally Marchs sister i l"Puss."
 "And we're going to be married in couple of weeks" she said blight ingly 10 her, "so keep your hands off him. Kindergarten"
 
 The news of Pays engagement was printed in the paper the next day. Sylvia read the piece aloud to Fanny that night as they drove over to his fathers house for din ! ner.
 "I wonder what made her sud denly make up her mind to take old | Eddie" unused Fanny. "The last time she talked 10 me about him she couldn't see him for trees-she said he was too settled for her now, why d'you suppose she decided to marry him after all?"
 Jealousy" Sylvia answered promptly, Jealousy, pure and simple. She almost lost her mind that night when Eddie walked into our house with Fuss" March. She