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"When a Girl "
Br ANN LISLE
A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problems of a Girl Wife
CHAPTER CXXX
{Copyright, 1919, King Features Syn
dicate, Inc.)
At the "Salt Water Oil" celebra
tion dinner, not a single thing hap
pened as I had expected, and a great
.many things occurred which I could
certainly never have anticipated.
Of course I had bought that I
would sit next to Jim at the table,
and that he and Tom Mason, as co
hosts, would take head and foot But
it didn't work out that way mathe
matically—Jim and I had opposite
ends of the table and between us
stretched a sea of faces.
At Jim's right hand sat Doris
West, as flashing and Oriental as I
had remembered her. Then came
her friend, Fred Ilatper, with
Phoebe between him and Dick West,
who sat on my left.
Uc my right, Tom Mas in— and
next on the way back to Jim was
Virginia, then Sheldon, while Evvy
eat on Jim's left.
An ill-assorted, awkward party, it
seemed to me. Doris West alternated
between flashing warm glances at
Jim and turning the battery ot her
long, dark upslantlng eyes on her
Mr. Fred Harper. Across the table
Evvy was devoting herself whole
heartedly to diverting Jim's atten
tion from Miss West to herself. Vir- i
ginia and Sheldon seemed to be hav-1
ing a sort of private party of their
own, walled off from ours by their
indifference.
Tom Mason took possession of me
in a well-bred way. There seemed
no escaping, for when I turned from i
him to Doris West's brother
whose resemblance to his sister'
translated itself into the dark, flash
ing, alert, American Indian type in
stead of in her compelling, yet al
most Indolent, Eastern beauty—l
got the greatest surprise of all.
There sat Phoebe—her little heart
shaped face flushed, her gentle eyes
provocative, her soft youny mouth a
crimson splash with a certain hard
ness, in spite of the short, trembling
upper lip. And Phoebe was leaning |
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WEDNESDAY EVENING.
toward Dick West with a challenge
| in every line of her eager face and
a fresh lure in every turn of her
elender throat. A Phoebe trans
formed! What had done it?
While the dinner dragged through
to the demi-tasse, I gave half my
mind holding Tom Mason at his
proper distance without quite snub
bing the man to whom my grateful
husband was drinking so many
toasts. But the other half was
very, very busy with cause and ef
fect. What had happened to change
Neat's little Phoebe into this girl I
scarcely knew?
This wasn't "Neal's little Phoebe"
at all, but some brilliant changeling,
who rose suddenly and, waving lier
coffee cup in a gesture of command, J
cried:
"Friends—harlcen! This get-to
gether party must seem pretty
slow to the western discoverer of the
actual merits of 'Salt-Water-Oil.' He
tells me he has dug down —that's the
way you put it. Isn't it, Mr. Engi
neer?—dug down into the lower
strata of the city and discovered a
Chinese dancery that will wake us
all up. Who's in favor of being
waked?"
I expected an emphatic protest I
from Jim—and it seemed certain to |
me that Virginia would coldly
squelch Phoebe. But both of them
were strangely tolerant, and every
one else was exuberant about the
"Chinese dancery."
"Better order a couple of taxis
from the starter, Jim." suggested
Virginia with more animation than
I had ever seen her show. "You
know there never are any extra
ones here."
"All right, Jeanle," .Tim agreed.
"Tom and I will attend to them
while you girls are powdering your
noses."
I drew Jim aside for a second be
fore I followed the girls from the
dlningroom.
"You know you haven't any ready
cash, dear —shall I borrow some
money from Jennie?" I asked, en
tirely ready to borrow, now that I
was sure we could repay.
"Don't bother. This end of it is,
young West's party," said Jim care- I
lcssly. Then, seeing the expression j
on my face, he added: "Calm your
self, Anne. Tom can foot all the
bills and I'll send him a check after
I get mine from the brokers to
morrow."
In the dressingroom I did, how
ever, approach Virginia with the sug
gestion that I'd like to requisition
all her ready caah. At once sh e drew
out a little beaded bag and pulled
from it a crumpled mass of bills,
which she gave to me carelessly.
"How much is this?" I asked.
"I don't know—count it," replied
Virginia carelessly.
I pulled the bills out of their little
wad. There were two twenties, three
tens, two fives and two ones, Vir
ginia was carrying SB2 as carelessly
as I would handle a dollars change.
"This is a lot—Too much," I be
gan.
"Oh, it's nothing." Virginia shrug
ged her shoulders. "There's ho need
for Jimmio to be a piker now that
he's come into his own again, Anne.
And now that he's begun I suppose
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he really will get back on his feet.
We have been drearily poor for so
long. Perhaps the Harrisons are go
ing to take their place In the world
again. Who knows?"
Virginia smiled slowly—in deli
cious contemplation o£ her own Idea
I looked at her in amazement —and
then something that was going on
across the room startled me even
more. There stood Phoebe, her arm
entwined with Evvy's, talking non
chalantly to Doris West, and care
lessly applying a red lip-stick to her
soft young mouth.
Suddenly it came to me that I had
a great deal to learn about the Har
risons—my Jim himself and Virginia
—but most of all Phoebe.
(To Be Continued)
CI'MMIXGS HEADS DEMOCRATS
Washington. Feb. 26. Homer S.
Cummings, of Connecticut, was elect
ed chairman of the National Demo
cratic Committee today and the com
mittee voted a complete reorganiza
tion for an aggressive campaign in
1920.
AFTERNOON FLASHES
OF GENERAL EVENTS
By Associated Press
Paris, The supreme council of
the peace conference has decided,
according to a Havas report to tele
graph to Vienna asking that coupons
of the Austro-Hungarian debt fall
ing due on March 1 be paid.
London.—Deaths from influence
increased at an alarming rate last
week according to the official figures
issued to-day.
London.—The second battalion of
the Grenadier Guards received an
enthusiastic welcome on its return
to London from Germany yesterday.
Unprecedented scenes were witness
ed as the troops proceeded through
the crowded streets thousand of peo
ple joining in the march.
Chicago.—Dr. Edmund J. Jathes,
president of the University of Illi
nois. advocated a system of national
education before the department of
superintendence of the National Ed
ucational Association here to-day.
I
HARRIBBURG TELEGR'APH
THE HEART BREAKER
A REAL AMERICAN LOVE, STORY
By VIRGINIA TEKHUNG VAN DG WATER
Mildred Brent was quite safe in sug
gesting that she and her lover talk of
something besides the war, for she was
certain that she had said enough to
make her companion as uncomfortable
as she wished him to be.
The seed she had sown so wilfully
had begun to bear fruit in Arthur
Bruce's extreme mental discomfort by
the time he was ready to go home that
night
Ho bade his betrothed goodby with
out a smile. >
"You look awfully glum," she re
marked.
"I was thinking," he informed her,
"of something you said a while ago."
She did not want to say any more
on this subject. She preferred that
he should retain the impression she
had produced early in the evening.
Anything she added now might detract
from the force of her former remarks.
"Well, you love me, anyway, don't
you?" she smiled up at him.
He put his arms about her and
kissed her again and again. "You are
adorably pretty, darling!" he murmur-]
ed.
That was the effect Mildred always
had on him, he reflected, as he walked
home through the soft Spring darkness.
She wopld disagree with him until he
was bewildered; she would show her
displeasure at some of his views; she
would actually disappoint him. And
then. she would look up at him with
that wonderfully sweet smile of her 3
and her beauty would make him her
slave. She was certainly the prettiest
girl he had ever seen.
Compared With Honorm
Now there was Honora, for instance.
She was pretty, too, yet not nearly as
beautiful as Mildred. In fact, by com
parison, she was lacking In color and
regularity of feature. Her beauty de
pended upon her mood and her ex
pression. Yet that, too, warf one of her
attractions—she had so much variety of
expression. And she was capable of a
tenderness that was lacking in Mil
dred. Milly never had the look in her
eyes that he had seen in Honora's eyes
a look of almost maternal compas
sion.
What a dear, understanding friend
and chum Honora was! He did not
know how he could get on without her.
But, of-course, he could never love her
as he loved Mildred—not In that pe
culiar way. Yet he certainly under
stood Honora better than he did Alil
dred. And she understood him so well.
Was there more in the elder girl than
in the younger?
He stifled the thought as disloyal.
Honora was older—that was the dif
ference. Of course nobody was quite
Mildred's equal.
As he went up the path to his home
he saw that the light in his mother's
room was still burning. That was a
sign that she was up and waiting to
speak to him. He hastened his steps.
He hoped nothing was wrong.
He expressed this hope In words as
he entered her room and found Mrs.
Bruce sitting In her armchair reading.
"No, there is nothing wrong," she
assured him. "But I was not sleepy,
so thought I would read for a while."
She was looking at him searchingly.
"Did you have a pleasant evening?"
she asked.
' "Yes," he answered. "I always have
a pleasant time when I go to see Milly."
His words did not carry conviction
with them. And a mother's sense are
acute where her children's happiness
is concerned.
"Mildred is very pretty," Mrs. Bruce
commented. "I met her this afternoon
on the street. Did she tell you?"
A Feminine Excuse
"No, she did not mention it. I sup
pose she forgot."
"Perhaps she did," the mother ad
mitted. "She was apparently absorbed
In her thoughts. She said she was
thinking about the war. That is
enough to make any woman serious."
"Yes, it is," he agreed. "And. moth
er, it Is enough to make any man think
pretty deep thoughts, too. A well,
strong man ought to do his part to
ward ending tho awful condition of af
fairs."
"Ah!" the exclamation was full of
pain. "That is just what I was afraid
of. son 1 You have always wanted to
enlist. I have known that Yet I
hoped you saw that your duty might
lie at home just now. Then, when I
talked with Mildred this afternoon, I
was frightened lest she might unsettle
you."
"Arthur, do not let what a young
girl says—no matter how dear she is
to you—sway you and make you do
that which Is certainly not the right
thing for you to do."
"Mildred wants me always to do only
what is right," he defended his be
trothed. "You misjudge her, mother, if
you think she would try to persuade
me to neglect anything that was my
duty. Yet, after all, two duties do
sometimes conflict—don't they?"
"Not if we keep sane enough to see
them both clearly," she argued. "Oh,
Arthur, please do not allow an im
pulse that you mistake for patriotism
to run away with you! You have no
right to enlist"
"No right?" ho repeated. "Perhaps
not now, but later I may—later, when,
as I hope may be the case, business Is
'better than it is at the present time."
I "Yes," she agreed, "and when your
father's health Is restored. Promise '
me to wait until then."
"I do not need to promise you that,
mother," he assured her. "I hope lam
clearheaded enough not to take anv
rash step. But when I feel 1 must, I
will have to go."
"Even if your father and I need
you ?"
"Dear mother," he pleaded, kissing
her, "let us live in the present, and
not borrow trouble about the future."
Yet when he had bade her good- i
night and gone to his own room he I
lay awake, far into the night, won
dering.
(To be Continued.)
Wfll Ask Million
For Mothers' Pensions
"The general question of mothers'
pensions is now regarded as a most
worthy undertaking, and I can not
see why the appropriation given that
work in the last session should not
be increased in this session of the
Legislature," said Chairman William
J. McCaig, of the appropriations
committee of the House. Mr. Mc-
Caig is reserved in his statements
and would not confine himself to any
set amount of increase for the work
of uniting mothers and children and
preserving the home.
Chairman McCaig said that he had
set, at the request of Representa
tive John W. Vlckerman, a hearing
next Tuesday afternoon for mothers
pensions in Ilarrisburg.
It will be preceded by conferences
in the morning at which time the
arguments for 11,000,000 for the next
two years will be reviewed for pres
entation to the committee. Chair
man McCaig has faith in the ap
propriation given for the purpose
and wants to see it increased, but
does not say that $1,000,000 will be
given.
To Protect Pigeons
A bill forbidding use of pigeons
for trap or similar shooting, under
penalty of $25 fine for each bird
killed or shot at was introduced into
the House by Air. Ditrich, Allegheny,
by request.
Salaries For Treasurers
Treasurers in counties having less
than 150,000 population are to be
paid salaries ranging from $1,200 to
$4,000, according to population in
lieu of all commissions and fees by
terms of a bill introduced in the
House to-day by Mr. Helt, North
umberland. The county is to fur
nish stationery and supplies.
To Audit 11. and I/. Accounts
A system of auditing accounts and
examining securities of building and
loan associations by the state bank
ing department's examiners is pro
vided in a bill from Air. Sterling, of
Philadelphia. A scale of fees with
$25 as a minimum is established
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headlights on automobiles was sent
to the roads committee which has
several bills of similar character in
its hands. Mr. RAsey, Delaware,
was called to of Speaker
Spangler, the first member to be tem
porary speaker.
State Borough Men
to Widen Their Scope
Unanimous endorsement was given to
the movement for publication of oflicial
advertising in none but English lan
guage newspapers of the state, at the
eighth annual convention of the Penn
sylvania State Association of Boroughs,
held in the ballroom of the Penn-Harris
hotel today. Advertising in foreign
language newspapers was strongly con
demned in several speeches made by
delegates of the convention.
The next convention will he held at
Stroudsburg, .Tune 10, 11 and 12, it was
decided following an invitation given
by Burgess C. L. Edinger of that
borough.
Discussion of various matters of im
portance to the borough officers was the
predominating feature in this morning's
session. The House bill No. 93 chang
ing method of election of councilmen
was condemned. A motion to endorse
legislation providing for classification
of boroughs by population was lost after
a stormy debate. This legislation would
entail passing of an amendment to the
constitution of the Commonwealth, it
is said.
It was decided to give the president
power to appoint a vice-president from
each county in the state to stimulate
interest in the organization and thus
to better organize the boroughs of
the state.
Lane's Appeal Brings
Favorable Finding Upon
Public Lands Measure
Washington, Feb. 2C.—A favorable
report on the bill J.o appropriate
$100,000,000 to make reclaimed public
lands available for settlement by dis
charged soldiers and sailors, was or
dered today by the Senate Public
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Lands Committee after Secretary
Lane had appealed for action on the
ground that this was a great recon
struction measure. A similar bill has
been reported to the House.
CONGRESS DEADLOCK BROKEN
Washington, Feb. 26.—The dead
lock between the House and Senate
on the bill legalizing informal war
contracts was broken today with a
compromise agreement limiting the
amendment providing for settlement
of claims growing out of the stimu-
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