" When a Girl Marries" By ANN USLE A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing Problem of a Girl Wife CHAPTER CCLXIII •Copyright, 1919, King Feature Syn dicate, Inc.l As s?e drove up the circling road that leads from the gate of Mason Towers to the ports cochere at the left of the house, we noticed Evvy's blue car standing at the front steps. "Maybe she was coming to town to get me," said Neal in a voice that suggested he was whipping him self to an enthusiasm he didn't feel. "Pretty late for that, isn't it dear?" I asked without taking deep, thought of the matter. "Guess it is." Then Neal leaped out, swung me and his bag out of the car, and was just at the point of pressing his finger to the bell when I cried. "See if the door's open, first. It ought to be, here in the country. And we might as well have a real surprise party." „ The screen door gave at Neal s first touch, and so we crept in like two conspirators. Through the corridor to the living room we went without finding Evvy. The house lay cool and silent, shuttered and brooding, hidden away from the copper sun of late afternoon. We, tiptoed along, stifling our giggles and feeling very young and mis chievious. "I'll bet she's in the little Summer house," whispered Neal when the conservatory and the breakfast room had joined the rest of the floor in refusing us Evvy. So we ran along the corridor to the little house where Val and I had found Evvy with Neal the night she announced her engagement. As we approached we heard the click of ice in a glass and Evvy's voice— throaty, provocative, unmistakable. "Some one with her," said Neal to me; then he called: "Evvy—surprise party! Guess who's here!" And then we stepped over the threshold of the sweet-smelling, vine-hung Summer house. For a second my eyes refused to adjust themselves to the outdoor glare. Then I saw Evvy on her feet by a chair her hasty movement had evi dently overturned. She was stand ing straight and taut and looking with a queer, stained expression at her companion, who was rising from a chair at the farther side of the rustic table around which the Sum mer house was built. I turned my head and met Jim's eyes. Jim! My Jim! Alone with Evvy Mason at her country place. For a moment I trembled, tortured beyond thought of faith by a burning rush of the old jealousy. This was the second time 1 had surprised them! How they must have laughed be fore —how they must be laughing now! Ilarsh. and ugly I felt laugh ter well up in my own throat. And then, as if they were hands to touch me gently, I became conscious of Jim's eyes on my face —on my very soul it seemed. His eyes were in tent, desperately earnest, they seem ed to be waiting for what I would do. I walked across the Summer house and lay my hand on Jim's shoulder. His hand went up to take it. Then Evvy broke the silence. Turning to Neal, she cried in high strident tones that bore no resem blance to the throaty, purring voice I had always heard: "What are you doing here, Neal! I thought you were coming out to morrow with mother." "Anne stopped for me. We drove out in her little car —to surprise you," replied Neal with emotion that astonished me. Did he care for Evvy, after all? * "To surprise me!" laughed Evvy curtly. "Well, you did. What are you going to do about it?" "Take my sister home!" Neal's voice rang out and he started toward me with boyish concern for what he thought I was undergoing. But strangely enough I was undergoing nothing of what he thought. Jim's eyes—the touch of Jim's hand had told me that I had nothnig to fear or to resent, that there was a reason for his being here and that the reason would satisfy me completely. At Neal's words Jini turned and looked at Neal—smiling as if he were waiting for something. "I'll take Anne home, Neal. Per haps you owe Neal some explana tion of our tete-a-tete, Evvy," he added carelessly, "We'll run along and leave you to—straighten things out." As he spoke, his arm slid about my shoulders and I leaned close to him, expressing silently, the love and faith I felt. Evvy studied us sneeringly for a moment—then she flung her arms out in a gesture of fury. "So you've been making a fool of me again, Jim Harrison. Per haps you staged this whole thing. You've been playing with me just as you did before. I wish I knew what it is you want of me—so I wouldn't have to do it this time. Well, run along—run along, you two. I wish you joy, you and your trusting wife." "Evvy!" cried Neal. Y r ou're speak ing to my sister! And it isn't Anne who has—offended you." At this Evvy turned on him with a look of utter scorn. "You fool," she said. "You young fool! Jim Harrison has you twisted around his finger, too. Here! I've had you twisted around mine long enough." She jerked her engagement ring ~7m her hand and flung it on the bible among the glasses and plates. Then she turned on Jim, shaking with rage: "1 hate you;" she cried. "I only I could show you how much 1.0,te .o,te you. Why did you call me back Cgain? And now you stand there M®*nting your love for Anne in my i*:e! Why don't you say something? Why don't you explain your fiickle, philandering nature? Perhaps you think I'd take you back again some IHarrisburg's LEADING and ACCREDITED Business College SCHOOL OF COMMERCE GIVES WHAT YOU WANT STANDARD Courses approved by the National Associa tion of Accredited Commercial Schools of the United States. Bell 485 - Enter Any Time Dial 4393 SATURDAY EVENING, day. But I won't—l'm through! You've made your choice of your angel-faced wife. You may stick to her for all of me—and I'll throw in her sweet baby brother for luck." Then she rushed out of the Sum mer house. We could hear her flying feet on the pebbles of the path, and then af ter a moment the chug-chug of a motor. I looked at Neal. lie seemed sud denly old and tired. But he didn't | appear to be noticing Evvy's de parture, nor yet the ring sparkling on the tea tray. Instead he was watching Jim and me with brooding, troubled eyes. To lie Continued. Advice to the Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX SHE WON'T "MAKE VP" Dear Miss Fairfax: About a year ago a young lady and I had a quarrel, for which both were to blame. I wrote a letter of apology, but received a very sar castic reply. This young lady and I are always meeting, us we have the same group i of friends, and as this is embarrass -1 ing, I should like to be on speaking I terms with her again. However, I am afraid to try, for fear of a repeti ! tion of the snub I received in the j first place. PUZZLED. ( Why not attempt a light, airy tone i of banter with the young lady, since she will not accept your apology seriously. When girls act this way it is usually because they "care," though often they fail to recognize this symptom, and keep right on playing they are "mad." If you succeed in breaking the young lady's proud reserve by making her laugh, I believe you will have no further trouble. SHY WITH BOYS Dear Miss Fairfax: I am seventeen, and really I do not know whether I am good look- | ing or whether it's my ways that at- I tract the male sex. I am a steno- | gruplier, work all day and work in | my father's store at night, which he I does not want me to do. He wants | me to go out and enjoy myself, as | I have ever so many invitations. When I go out with girls I can have a lovely time back and forth to work. I I do not go out very often. Now, Miss Fairfax, mother scolds me and calls me a regular house hermit. Can you advise me fiow to overcome these ways of mine, as I could have a fine time if I wanted to. PUZZLED. Y'our lack of conversation when you are with young men doubtless comes from self-consciousness and a lack of poise. The only way to over come this is to go out until you overcome your timidity. Accept some of these various invitations and do not think so much about yourself. TO PLEASE HER PARENTS Dear Miss Fairfax: I am going about with a young man whom 1 do not love at all, but am doing so to please my parents, whom I love very much. I have known another young man I do like, but my parents object to him because he is only making $25 per week. The young man they want me to marry is well established in business. 13. M. P. Years ago when women were pawns on life's chess board, they married for a home, to please their parents, to take care of some wid ower's children—everything, appar ently except because they were in love, or to please themselves. Nowa days women don't marry to be ac commodating. 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He flies out in a passion, ho, ho! and falls to calling me names—dizard, ass, lunatic, moper, bedlamite. I smile in his face bidding him be patient, tranquil; but to no purpose. He still rages until he burseth a bloodvessel. "Yet is there nothing strange in this," observes the Doctor. "In the dog days men are commonly af flicted with such vapors arising from the overheating of the blood." And these are the dog days! "Thar or tharabouts;" for I never yet know anybody who could tell me just exactly when that luridly-named season commences or how long it lasts. It is supposed to be the sul try period of July and August, when the dog star, Sirius, is coincident with the rising of the sun; but the usual rule is to apply the term to any continuous stretch of hot weather between Independence and Labor days. According to the old-fashioned idea, it was a - season when dogs were more apt to go mad, and this impression istill persists, although science has definitely shown that rabies is as much a disease of win ter as of summer. Nevertheless, it is beyond ques tion a barking, biting, snappy, I scrappy time, with the surly crab and the rampant lion ascendant in 7 the Zodiac, and lines of influence extending from them—as is por trayed in that graphic picture in the front of the almanacs—directly to the liver and the spleen of matt. On these accounts it is a good time to Keep cool and to attend strictly to one's own knitting. We are all on edge, unwilling to be touched either mentally or phys ically, and bristling up like a paw cupine the moment any one does so. Even the wisest advice, as Doctor Burton found, is not well received when the temperature stands at eighty in the shade. 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