"When a Girl " By ANN LISLE A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing Problems of a Girl Wife CHAPTER CXLIX. i When I promised Dr. Lucas that I'd tell any one who had to know that our | Betty had only one chance in a hundred I to recover the use of her right arm, ] 1 hadn't more than half an idea what j 1 meant. And yet I suppose my decision j rested completely formed and unchange- j able in the back of my mind from the j very beginning. Now I realize that my very next question showed that. "Does Miss Moss know?" I asked. "Yes; she saw me just now. It was a blow. Things looked so hopeful. She lifts too strong a sence of professional etiquette to say a word, but she begged me to tell you at once—because of the wedding. 1 suppose." "Yes. Doctor, that's why. Well, then, if under the stress of her feelings when | 1 told her about the wedding she didn't . tell. 1 suppose we can count on her not j to—not to spread the news?" I asked ■ beginning to be half conscious of my | purpose. "We can count on her," said the i Doctor studying me under intent brows, j "And I suppose I can count on you to | do the right thing?" "Yes. I'll do the right thing." "Brave little friend." said the Doctor, smiling at me very gravely. He trusted J me—l was sure of that. Then I left him and went in for a [ good-night chat with Betty. Her happi-j ness —sweet. peaceful, undisturbed— fairly twisted my heart. Her gratitude to • me, her faith in Terry, her joy in having his strength to lean on. and the depth of her love for him she was daring at last to acknowledge—were at once very preeiops and very painful. Miss Moss let me have only a few minutes with Betty and then she bundled me off to a room in Oreyfriars Hall. I lay there sleepless all through Are you always successful on baking day? Are your cakes light and spongy and your biscuits white and flaky? If not, let us help you with RUMFORDffI THE WHOLESOME BAKING POWDER & Garments of. 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T) Silk Camisoles Georgette erepc of excel- I |"X Q *7Washable satin, georgette lent quality in flesh only, I I 1Q | J Itl 1 and crepe de chine cami (?j .in soles in flesh and white, rib- Bloomers 50.4y bon, lace and embroidery Combination, 54.49 8"lO "12 S. FOURTH ST. """""4 j 54.49 , /9c to $2.69 FRIDAY EVENING. HARRISBURG TETJEGKXFEC MARCH 21, 1919 the long night, thinking of Betty, re membering each shy glance, each whispered word, each timid flush of blood under her smooth cheeks as she spoke Terry's name. How Betty loved him. How happy she was now that she dared at last to confess it! At dawn I slipped into my clothes and went out to walk in the fragrant pine woods stretching away from the sani tarium to a little lake of gentle blue gray. And in the peace of outdoors, I stopped struggling and decided to do what all along I had known 1 must do. I didn't doubt Terry. I didn't feel for a moment that knowledge of what Betty was facing would make him other than more tender, more loving. I knew the ugly truth wouldn't give him a moment's pause in the marriage into which he was rushing Betty. But I wanted that marriage to start with good cheer and with high hopes. Terry had a right to his share of un clouded joy. Betty and Terry must start even— loving, hoping, dreaming together. I wasn't going to let Terry have a bitter secret to hide from Betty. I couldn't permit him to pity her—too much, and T refused to consider the day when they must both find out. When that day came 1 felt sure Betty and Terry would forgive me and would understand that 1 had acted through love of them. I hadn't promised the doctor that I'd tell Terry. I had only said I'd tell whomever had a right to know. Well, Terry had a right to be saved from knowing. And then my thoughts insisted on focussing on the problem I had been avoiding all night long. What I was planning to do meant gambling with human lives—gambling as desperately as ever Jim did at the games of chance to which I objected Bringing Up Father "• " Copyright, 1918 ; International News Service By McManus BY <iOl_LY- MUt)T TV IF I KIN OUST t>NEAX T1 1.1 MUST HAVEL siT^wTTTCE I T7T ~H 1 BE SITTIN OP IN THE J F J your oSom Jk.l° DAUGHTER lb I h FOR THAT 0Y - ] I ~~ ~ Ut I so bitterly. [the pines and went in to help the bride I | Jim! What would Jim say? How | make ready for her day. I would Jim. who had felt that he could] Hut as I retraced my steps there was I forbid my forming friendships, that he black fear in my heart. Would Jim ' ; could decide who were to be my friends! understand? and who not. react to my making so' . Would anyone understand? momentous a decision for myself and I To he continued my friends? . | Somewhere in the back of my mind j W A „U f,,* j was the feeling that tilings could never j "WUIU bill WOrKlng be quite the same between Jim and me ; flair nf Rrifick Minor again unless he understood and sympa- > J U IUSU ITllllcr j thized. Somewhere in my heart was a tt little prayer tliat he wouldn't fail me— | London, March 21. The interim, j that he would uphold me if our world 1 report of the Coal Commission of j | criticized me for the silence I was | which Sir John Sankey is chairman,! I going to keep. | rec ommended seven hours of work ! Suppose even that when the day of I , , ~ 'revelation came. Terry resented what | UnderSr0 V nd ' lnstea " of el Sht -1 was going to do, felt that I hadn't i July IG, and six hours from July 1 trusted him, that I had been untyarrant- ! 13, 1921, subject to the economic posi edly bold in making his decision of him ! tion of the Industry. ] —would Jim help me make clear to ! The report recommends an increase ; him, would Jim stand by? ] in wages of two shillings per shift ; If Hetty felt that I had owed it to ! for colliery workers now under slid -1 Terry to give him the chance to change ing scales, and an advance of one his plans—would Jim help me convince ' shilling for workers under sixteen , her sensitiveness and pride that Terry years. ] never would have changed? in the interest of the country the [ 1 didn't know. 1 couldn't be sure, colliery workers, it is further recom- I had to take a momentous step with- mended, shall have an effective voice I out consulting anyone. And once it in the direction of the mines. was taken there was no turning back. "It's for Betty's happiness," I said ! n l . P _ 1 to the pines and the lake. "Its for . **Cu CIOSS 10 OCllfl Terry's happiness, also. They'll have fl _iL' „ i_ C! L t their honeymoon lighted by the hope i VlOining lO tJlDcrla ■ that he's nursing her back to health 1 —— , again. They must face tljeir pain soon I Washington, March 21.—T0 relieve j enough—and it's their right to face ] suffering in Siberia caused by an it together. Terry has longed for happi- i acu te shortage of warm clothing and ! ness and served tor it, and waited for it. „ . , . Now I won't cloud it for him by telling Cross haa made arrangements for him how Betty may have to suffer. | cloth material, the American Bed He's going to believe she'll be all well. | sending 390,000 yards of bathrobing j And she's going to believe that she'll | and 30,000 blankets to its Siberian i be nil well. And maybe a blessed I commission. The cost of the ship miracle will make it happen." ment was estimated at more than | Then 1 smiled sadly at the lake and j {500,000. THE HEART BREAKER A REAL AMERICAN LOVE STORY IIy VIRGINIA TGHHVNB VAN DE WATER CHAPTER CIV. I An hour passed, and Mildred Brent ] still sat in the library, knitting busily J on a khaki colored sweater. She re- i called Tom Chandler's question as to | whether she could knit. He should , come and find her engaged with her ! patriotic work. When he rang the j bell she would go to the door with ; the half-finished sweater in her hands. But the door bell did not ring as j soon as she expected. Four-thirty i came and still her caller did not ar- I rive. What could have detained him?! She remembered with a throb of gratitude that it was against the law to sell liquor to men in uniform. One of the many corner saloons could not be keeping Tom from her. At 5 o'clock she could stand the sus pense no longer and telephoned the Chandler home. The maid answered. l)r. Chandler was out. So was Mrs. j Thomas. He had gone out at 11 I o'clock. Two o'clock! If he had come di-j dectly to Mildred, what a lovely after noon he and she Would have had to gether! She returned to the library, and. switching on the electric light—'for the afternoon was cloudy—tried to read. But only for a few minutes. I he tinkle of Mrs. Higgin's bell sum moned her to the invalid's room. "I just rang to ask you to turn on my light," Mrs. Higgins explained. "Has your caller gone?" "My caller has not arrived yet," Mildred replied fretfully. "It is too bad, for 1 had counted on having somebody to keep me from being lone ly and to get my thoughts off of poor Arthur's trouble and his father's ill ness." Disappointment Her voice broky. She was cha grined and disappointed, but the lis tener attributed the quavering ac cents to natural depression. "And you have to take your din ner alone, too!" Mrs. Higgins sympa thized. "What a shame! When your i friend comes, why not ask her to stay j to dinner?" "Oh!" Mildred's ejaculation was I fraught with astonished delight. ] That's a lovely idea! I'll tell Katie | you proposed it." "Yes, do," Mrs. Higgins advised, j "You are entitled to a litt,le pleas- j ure. Hark! There's the door-bell now. Don't stay here for a moment longer, my dear. Bun down and wel come your friend." Mildred needed no second bidding, but in her haste to obey she did not neglect to shut Mrs. Higgin's door | behind her. Tom Chandler greeted her genially as she admitted him. "Hello! I'm a bit late, I guess." "A bit late!" the girl scoffed. "I | expected, you two hours ago.* But j if you can stand a short call, I can." j 'But 1 can't stand it!" he declared I laughingly. And I'm not going home I until your dinner is ready. I was | awfully disappointed not to get here ; sooner, but 1 must go back to camp J tomorrow, and there were some things : I had to attend to this afternoon—! military matter, you see." "Oh, you go tomorrow?" "Yes, 1 do." "Where are you dining?" Mildred i inquired. "At home," Tom replied. "Why do | you ask?" "Why not dine here?" she suggest- ' ed, her eyes bright with anticipation, j "You see," she hurried on, "I am all alone to dinner. Mrs. Higgins want- I ed me to ask some friend in. YVhy j not let it be you?" "Good!" he ejaculated. "I told my I mother not to expect me until she j saw me. But I must leave by i) ! o'clock," he added casually. Tom In Willing "That will give us several hours to; talk in," the girl said. "Of course,! if you are going back to camp to- I morrow, your mother will have a! right to claim you for a part of this ! evening." "Of course," he echoed. "It is the! least 1 can give her—for she had been | fine about sparing, me to go where I I pleased." , Then the pair seated themselves j in the library and Mildred took up her I knitting. "I thought," the man teased, "that you would never do any knitting' when you had a guest—that it was j not complimentary to him." "So I did," she admitted. "But, you • see, I want to get this sweater done." j "You mean that you want to prove! to me that you know how to knit," . he accused. j She flushed and put the sweater j into her knitting-bag. This man's | ability to see through her ruse was | slightly disconcerting. Y'et she liked i his cleverness. He was much more \ exhilirating than Arthur ever was. | "One reason," he said daringly, af- j ter a moment's silence, "that 1 do not i like you to knit is that I may want j to take your hand frequently, and the | needles interfere." "Y'es, she parried, only last eve-i ning you said that Honora's fingers ] looked so pretty whep she was knit- | ting that you liked to watch them.", "But yours look so much prettier that 1 want to hold them," he argued. | "That is just the difference in the cf- i feet produced upon me by you two j girls, my dear," The sound of Katie'g footsteps iril the kitchen gave Mildred an excuse for avoiding a reply. "1 must go out and speak to the maid," she said hastily. "X will be right back." Katie faced her young • mistress smilingly. Mildred had won her ap proval by giving her the afternoon off. "I'm sorry I was a bit late about getting back. Mhss Mildred,' she be gan. "Oh. all right, Katie," the girl Interrupted. "I just came out here to tell you please to put two places at the table for dinner to night.' tTo be Continued.) FREED IIY GERMANS Washington, March 20. John G. Kolb, of Trenton. N. J., and John Thompson, of Chaulk Hill, Pa., were reported by the War Department to day as having been released from German prison camps. RAISE I.OAN IN |. s. Snntingo, Chile, March 21. The WORU>sJgS^M^ WE UNPraßUl^^C^^^EJUNPfe's|j.L Shoe prices for this Spring have reached a higher level than any previous record of the trade. This is all the more reason why you should look before buying and compare value, style and price. Never before has our organization of 60 stores been in a better position to prove its ability to retail shoes satisfactorily and economi cally. \ ZfJ fiiil Ladies' Spring Footwear \ C I anc * ox f orc * cuts a variety that \ 0 >s. * S not e Q ua ' ec * — at P r ices from $1.50 to \ /f7\jV $3.00 actual saving to you. \ not attem P t to y° u about styles k \°—\ or P r i ces> but promise you a complete variety St A \s~\ < 1 ° r '° W s * loes ' n ma bogany calf, African i C T\ \ c ] Brown, grays or blacks All we ask is for / ■ |[R \\ 1 you to ta^e a gi anc e at our window display ®\\ for convincing proof of real values. K Extra High Spots In Values— ! Ladies' Mahogany Calf lace d>Q QQ 1 boots, military heel Ji/U ■ \ J Ladies' African Brown Mili- A Q \ \J|j tary heel oxfords, welts u)3<7o Ladies' Gray, Cloth Top lace Q O shoes, military heel % We have prepared specially for the growing girl with a good variety of low and medium heel shoes in mahogany calf and African brown, welted soles. NEW SHIPMENT OF MEN'S SPRING /' \\ STYLES yK A Good Variety of Lasts Tbe tans sell at $5 9^" " Blacks from , $2.98 pto $4.98 INFANTS' SHOES in a big variety! MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S of plain or fancy colors, $ J BROWN LACE SHOES in both calf 3 to 6, with heels 7 ! and kid leathers — 5,1... *1.25; $2.49" $3.98 G. R. KINNEY CO., Inc. 19 and 21 North Fourth Street newspapers here assert that a loan of 9,000,000 pesos is being raised in CAN Cathartic fl|| the United States for Chilean rail ways. 9
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