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"When a Girl "
By ANN 1.151.8
A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problems of a Girl Wife
CHAPTER CLXIV.
(Copyright, 1919, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
"Virginia, I'm not going to beat
'around the bush. We're sisters now
in feeling as well as fact, and we
can afford to be absolutely frank,
don't you think so?" I asked when
we found ourselves alone in my
apartment after our lunch with
Terry.
"Of course, dear."
Virginia smiled her lovely aloof
smile with the air of wanting to
admit me to the secret inner circles
of its limited radius. She was sit
ting in the high Florentine "throne,
chair to which she takes natural
ly as I to cushions fluffed up back
of me on the couch. A sudden
warmth and tenderness for this sis
ter of Jim's assailed me —it actually
battered at my heart until it hurt.
I wanted to rush over and to
fling myself on my knees at her
side and snuggle my head against
her and pour out on her some of
the love pent up in my heart. But
six months of marriage to a Har
rison had taught me that one docsn t
treat the family that way.
"Once upon a time," I said remi
niscently and indulging my own
fondness for prologues, "I would
have been afraid to discuss a Har
rison with a Harrison, but now' I
feel I'm one too Anne Harrison,
accent on the 'H'—and not Barbara
Anne Lee at all any more."
The answering smile was abso
lutely indulgent.
"Of course, Anne, you're one of
us. And while I respect all re
serve, most of all, the reserve
of those I really love, I feel it's
only natural you should have to
talk now. Perhaps if I'd had some
dear woman friend to confide in
two years ago, things would have
been different I'll understand
and keep your confidence, so go
ahead dear. And don't feel that
either of us is going to be dis
loyal to our Jimmie...."
"Jim!" I echoed half under my
breath.
I could feel that hot blood leap
up to flutter its ungovernable red
flag in my cheeks. So Virginia
suspected—guessed, Jim's growing
.ndifference to me —the thing I had
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TUESDAY EVENING,
, been fractically refusing o recog
nize—was becoming evident to his
"Jeanie." The half-contidenee, the
hint of her own trouble she had
just given me, showed that.
Then a queer, submerged sense
gave me a hint of something else
—a word of my own troubles would
bring me closer to Virginia than
j I had ever been before. My pride
submerged for a momeit in the
longing to talk it all out, and I
! just ached to confide in Jim's sis
! ter. But two things, prevented.
| First, the mere fact that Virginia
.is Jim's sister, and that m loyal
ty to the love he didn't want, I
couldn't talk about him to her,
Second, the fact that it was Phoebe
■who needed Virginia now. Little
Phoebe had first claim on Virginia's
sympathy. I didn't count —I ought
to be able to fight out my own bat
tles.
These thoughts flashed through
my brain while Virginia was
speaking, in the brief second that
it took me to echo, "Jim!" My
answer was ready after a moment
j of silence.
"Jim!" I said again,".... But
it isn't Jim; I've brought you here
[to discuss, Jeanie. It's Phoebe."
It was Virginia's turn to echo
J now—and she did it rather blankly.
"You don't like her friendship
: with Evvy, I know that," I begun.
"Yes, you're right about that, but
| I can't interfere merely on the
I grounds that I don't like the friends
I Phoebe does like."
"No, you can't," I agreed. "That
| would he stealing Phoebe's free
j dom. But you would interfere.
Wouldn't you, if Evvy's friendship
i were sweeping Phoebe into real
!danger?"
"I'd try. But I'm not much good
: at managing Phoebe," confessed Vir
! ginia.
"Between us, we must manage
somehow," I said, thinking aloud.
"Of course, I haven't any list of ao
| quaintances. But we might give
jher a debutante tea or dance and
] have her meet the right people."
Unconsciously I capitalized and
| italicized my words. I hadn't any
; snobbish feeling, but I realized as
'soon as I had spoken that Virginia
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i had. Her reply told mo a great
! deal.
"I don't think we'd better try.
The Harrisons had a real position
I once. But our loss of money—and
—well, you see my own position is
! difficult now, Anne. And Jim hasn't
, the money. The Masons are a good
I family; that makes it easier to
' reconcile oneself to Evvy's ways."
i Virginia stumbled and stammered
bit, and 1 felt the tiny, impalpable
I barrier of caste between us. But I
[ charged right' against it.
' "Evvy's ways are getting inex
| cusable," I declared.
| "You mean?"
' "I mean that she and Dick West
! and Sheldon Blake are seen night
; after night at that horrible Chinese
| dance hall where Mr. West took us
the night of Jim's last dinner. And
j people are talking."
1 "Oh, no, Anne! Really dear, you
rather alarmed me for a moment.
But Jim's partner—and Sheldon. No
one will discuss Phoebf for being
seen about with them. Really Shel
don is a splendid fellow and the
Blakes are quite one of our best
families. I've the utmost confidence
in Sheldon."
"But, Virginia! People are talk
ing, I tell you! Phoebe's. crowd is
BULRRISBTJRG TELEGRXPH"
awfully hilarious. And they're out
so late! Such gay. conspicuous j
places, too! And they don't drink —
lemonade!"
"What a catalogue! My dear, i
that's society. And, of course, now
X know that Sheldon and Blake is in |
the party, I discount all the mali- I
cious details some jealous cat of a I
gossipy woman has been giving you." |
"But it wasn't a jealous cat!" I j
I flashed out in reply. "It was"
■ I paused, amazed at my own j
! temerity. I had actually been on the
j verge of telling Virginia that Pat j
j was my informant.
(To He Continued.)'
Advice to the Lovelorn
MET THHOt'GH A FLIRTATION
DKAR MISS FAIRFAX:
While working in a theater I be
came acquainted with a very nice
I chap—through flirtation. We were
[going together for about two monihs
land due to a little misunderstanding
Ithe friendship was broken. 1 tried to
call him up, and have written many
letters, but he refuses to seo or hear
from me.
[ Finally, when about to give up hope
'l heard from him —asking me to fur
[ give and forget and renew friend
ship.
Is it a woman's privilege to forgive
and forget in this case?.
LILLIAN.
It is certainly a woman's privilege
to forget and forgive, but you have
no guarantee, after conduct of this
sort that he won't do the same thing
over again.
That is the trouble with "picked
up" friendships. They have a come
easy, go-easy quality that gives lit
tle satisfaction to the party who
takes them seriously.
NEED NOT COMMIT HERSELF ,
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I am 18 and, although not pretty, I
can have many young men call on me
because of my ability to entertain.
Now, Miss Fairfax, one of my
friends, being a pretty girl, has many
admirers, and each time a young man
calls on her she asks me whether I
like him, although it is not a ques
tion of my liking him, because she is
the one who is going out with him.
If the young man does not appeal to
me, 1 tell her the truth, that 1 do not
like him. Then she always says that
I am jealous. Do you think I should
ever advise her again, because if I
do not, she gets angry.
KITTY.
As the young woman has caught
you in this trap several times, why
not be a mite more wary and decline
to commit yourself when she seeks
to draw you out in regard to her
friends?
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LIFE'S PROBLEMS
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"It's fame, love and fortune enough
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It was a young soldier speaking
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But Rpsebery made good his boast.
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Why is it, by the way that we
count all our wishes and find most
of our happiness in life by the rule
of three? In the old fairy talcs the
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world as the third quantity in the
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And the soldier boy with whom
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Perhaps the reason he put in such
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