Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, December 05, 1919, Page 11, Image 11

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    "When a Girl "
By ANN LISLE
A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problem of a Girl Wife
CHAPTER CCCLXVIII |
(Copyright, 1919, Ktng Features
Syndicate, Inc.).
"That's about the last thing you
thought I'd do, wasn't it?" asked
Val, after telling me that she
wanted Jim to try to reach Lane
by long distance.
Then she collapsed. She went off
Into a long faint, which was almost
a coma and didn't come out of it
until long after Jim and Ptt had
carried her up to the guest room,
and Jeanie and Bertha and I had
undressed her and had laid her'in
the big four-poster.
The doctor said it was shock,
wrote prescriptions galore, ordered
an ice bag and digatalis for her
heart and left orders with the nurse
that no one disturb his patient. But
scarcely were we through the
breakfast which had been so long,
delayed as to become breakfast
lunch —"brunch" as Jim called it—
when the nurse appeared with the
information that Mrs. Cosby insisted
on seeing me.
"You'd better come. It's best not
to let them work theirselves up,"
said she.
"Shut the door," commanded Val
when I appeared in answer to her
summons, "and lock it."
I did as she bade me. Then I sat
down beside the bed.
"Mustn't agitate yourself, Val."
"I won't. But I'm not so sick
that I don't know what 'm doing.
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With the idea of having as pretty and as complete an
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So we can, with confidence, invite you to inspect these
stocks and make comparisons—both as to quality and prices.
We claim our prices arc lower than elsewhere, due to our
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Sweaters and Scarfs,
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Bedroom Slippers, lot Men
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t I'm not going to tell you a thing,"
she declared.
"No, Val, the only person you
must tell anything to is Lane," I re
plied.
Val stared at me for a moment
with an air of looking through my
head into my mind. Then she asked
tersely:
"Has Jim reached Lane yet?"
"Not yet. But the call is in for
Montreal and the stop either side of
there."
"Oh—that's good! What's Jim
going to tell Lane when he gets
him?"
"Just that you were smashed up
a bit by a tumble down the river
bank on the boundary of the Harri
son Place."
"Well, that's so isn't it?" de
manded Val.
"If that's all, I'll open your door
and call the nurse."
"No—wait!" commanded Val. Af
ter a moment she asked: 'Have you
had any news from Mason Tow
ers?' "
"Pat went over," I replied.
Val dragged herself up in bed and
winced with pain. But she demand
ed with a sort of breathless vigor:
"What did she say?"
"Evelyn? Pat didn't see her. She
wouldn't come down. Mrs. Mason
told him"
"Told him what? Talk faster."
"Told him that Shelly is gone,"
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I replied, trembling with fear of the
effect my words might have.
"I knew that," said Val, looking at
me inscrutably. "He was gone when
we got to them down there by the
river. He died in Evelyn Mason's
arms. He was speaking to her
when he died. I wonder—l wonder
—what he told her?"
Her voice trailed off. and my as
tonishment banished discretion.
"Val!" I cried. Val! You speak
of his going—as if a pet poodle had
gone. You don't seem to care.
Sheldon's dead. I thought when
Evvy took him home that he'd come
out of his swoon and the doctors
could bring him back. But he's
dead."
"He died in her arms," repeated
Val. "He died speaking to Evvy
Mason. I've had plenty of time to
get used to that idea. What's
death? Nothing. It's living that's*
hard sometimes. Living when
you're restless and always unsatis
fied, always wanting to conquer
and to go on —on to what you
haven't got. But what's the use—
you wouldn't understand."
"I don't," I replied, "but wouldn't
you be happier if you explained?"
"I wonder what Evvy Mason's
going to do?" replied Val, ignoring
I what I'd said. "I wonder."
She stared at me for a moment as
if seeking the solution in my eyes.
Then she laughed oddly.
"Only a day or so ago you
thought I was a heroine because I
put out the fire that was threaten
ing the little Wilioughby girl. I
had to. I can't bear to see beauty
marred. But death? Pooh! And
to-day you think—no, on the whole
I won't say what you think. But
you're wrong. You're always wrong
about me, Anne. Run along now
and send Jim to me. He speaks
my language."
"Val, dear," I forced myself to
utter the word, "you're getting
yourself wrought up to a fever.
You musn't see Jim."
"Send him, please," said Val, and
so saying she turned in the big bed
so that onl ya shaking shoulder was
revealed to me.
"You must be quiet," I protested.
"I'll come back and let you know
as soon as Jim reaches Lane."
There was a knock at the door
just then and Jim's voice sounded
I through the panels:
"May I come in? I've a message."
"Let him in," said Val in a voice
that seemed to hold either stifled
laughter or muffled teatrs. "I won't
vamp him."
Then she pulled back the covers
and revealed a face distorted by
pain, with burnt-out embers for
eyes and ashes for lips.
"Jim's safe with me," she mut
tered. "Anyone would be. I'll
never play with fire again so long
as I live. But I must talk to a
man —a man like Jim —before I see
Lane. Oh, Anne, if, you want to
help, if you ever cared for poor
Shelly—go to Evvy Mason! Find
out what she means to do. She
hated me enough before. I wonder
if she'll make a dead man pay for
that? Now let Jim come in, please.
And keep the nurse away. And
I hold tight to the fact that you'd
j invited me down here for the
week-end."
To Be Continued.
Cox Calls Operators
and Miners Together
Columbus, Ohio, Dec. s.—ln an ef
| fort to settle the coal strike so far
as Ohio mines are concerned. Gov
ernor Cox called a meeting of oper-
I ators and miners' officials for 11
a. m. to-day in his office.
! This action was taken after con
| ferences for several days with lead-
I ers on both sides of the issue.
LITTLE TALKS BY
BE A TRICE FAIRFAX
' am going about with a young
man and all our recent talks have
been on the one subject, 'What is
[love?' My idea is that if a man and
(woman go about with each other
and feel happy when together, and
take pride in each other's company,
and then on leaving one another are
anxiously waiting the next meeting,
then they are In love. My friend,
however, insists that love is surely
of another nature."
This letter in to-day's mail ex
presses a question I am asked over
and over every day and every week
and every year. Why not? This is
one of life's biggest problems. It's
one of the things hardest to answer,
most difficult to measure and define,
and yet it is the great crux of much
of human happiness.
Love which is genuine and true is
the feeling that can be trusted to
illumine all, of life. Romance is the
great dream of the human soul. We
all long not only for romance but
for the Great Romance—the ro
mance and mystery clad joy that
comes from the One Great Love. We
reach for it and miss It. We are
given it by the kindly fates and de
stroy it. We have it, perhaps, and
never know it.
And one of our biggest human
problems lies in the question, "What
is love?" and its corollary, "How
are we going to know it when we
have it?"
There are a great many people to
whom love is nothing more than
physical attraction—the magnetic
leaping of some force from eye to
eye—the "biological pull" between
man and woman.
Love to others is a sublimated
friendship of the mind.
Some fancy that love is tenderness
and devotion.
Real love, however ,is all of these
and more.
Life isn't built on a floor plan of
water-tight compartments.
You can't shut off friendship
from love and liking from loving.
There aren't walls between the var
ious human emotions.
Do you remember the childish
game of "cancelling names?" We
used to tell fortunes by bracketing
,our name with that of the boy we
liked, and after striking out the
letters they had in common we said
a ritual or revelation over the let
ters that remained. As I remem
ber, it went: "Friendship, hatred,
love, indifference, marriage."
What a silly game it seems! Yet
how much joy we got out of a
kindly verdict that said Reginald
loved us and we were his friend. Of
course as we grow up, all of us dis
card the absurd game. But we
carry on with us into life, the ab
surd attitude that divides off states
of feeling from each other and
doesn't see how all feeling merges
into what has gone before and what
comes after.
There isn't a wall between friend
ship and love. Some one has wisely
said that friendship is love without
flowers and veil.
That's true.
A deep, splendid satisfying
friendship between man and woman
is perfectly possible. It may remain
a friendship and nothing more to the
end of time. But it holds the germ
of other feelings. Or perhaps we
might more conservatively say that
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'o the ena.
it is fallow ground for the germs of
other feelings.
When a man and woman enjoy
each other's society, respect each
other's opinions, are satisfied with
the stimulation .which being to
gether brings they have no more
than a splendid friendship. They
are in the state of liking each other.
And that state may remain static
for years or forever. But it is full of
potentialities. It has kinetic energy.
Love worth having must be based
on liking. Emotion worth possess
ing must have the background of
respectful friendship. The fusing of
flesh where there is no calj of spirit
is debasing and can't last.
Love is friendship. That means
love is congenially and respect and
interest and liking and regard pnd
courtesy and kindness.
But love is friendship—plus.
The affection deepens beyond
liking to desire. The congeniality
grows to a feeling of interests
shared, and multiplied a thousand
fold in value because shared. The
respects deepens to reverence. The
courtesy to tenderness. And the
kindness to A protective passion
that would suffer rather than give
suffering.
Love is the beautiful trinity of
spirit and mind and body. And
never-unless the heart, hold all
three and reverences all three feel
ings—has true love come to abide.
Advice to the Lovelorn
TEI.I, HIM THE TRUTH
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I have been going out with a young
man for a few months. He is very
| much in love with me. but I am oe
' ginning to realize that I do not love
him. I do not know how I can show
him that I do not care for him, as I
gave him encouragement. Please ad
vise me what course to pursue.
Tell the young man the truth. That
is the only fair and honest thing to
do. Pursue this course in fairness to
yourself and to the young man you
want to spare as much as possible.
Don't keep him dangling until you
find some one you like better, telling
yourself all the while that you do this
to save him. A quick, honest pain is
endurable. Treachery isn't.
... DON'T BE MERCENARY
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
A young man who works for the
same company as X do. only in one of
our branch offices, calls me up quite
often, and while on his vacation sent
me several letters. What I would like
to have your advice on is this: When
1 talk to this young man in person
he never asks me to go out with him.
P. G. K.
Perhaps the young man can't afford
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to take you out. His salary mav have
to stretch far enough to cover family
obligations. On the other hand, he may
feel that knowing you through busi
ness doesn't give him the privilege of
inviting you out socially. Don't be
mercenary and pleusure seeking
enough to sacrifice an interesting ac
quaintance because you feel it isrrt
giving you enough "good times."
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DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I am twenty-seven. When X was
discharged from the army last Jan
uary 1 fell in love. A month ago I
asked the young woman to be my
wife and she consented. I now learn
that for months this young ladv has
been going out with other men on the
nights I did not call.
READER.
Why should you judge and condemn
this girl? Don't you believe there is
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goodness and decency in this world?
Don't you know that this girl might
dine or go to the theater occasionally
with other men and still be true to
you and —what is more important—
to herself? When you were not yet
engaged she had every right to enjoy
the society of other men. And even
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after you were eengaged and she wdrn
your ring you might have trusted her
enough to understand that she could
spend an evening with a man friend
just as innocently as with a girl. The
. evil of which you write has been first
lof all in your own mind—and no
nvhere else in all likelihood.
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