Show GIVEN IN MARRIAGE I fl Phil Angers Madge by Calling I Grantland a a Catch for for A Avis vi J I By ADELE GARRISON Philip voice cut through my humiliating thought and brought I me back to attention with a jerk in reality less than a second had elapsed since ince Fanny Arl Arlen's ns n's pouting reply to him lim him but in that time I had traveled far ar into the past and back aga again 1 the oldest of all pretty sen- sen Fanny that one about marrying marrying marrying mar mar- only for tor love said Mr Vent Vent- en Its just what you ought to say sayat at t this time But now that youve you've goten gotten gotten got- got ten en it out of your system dont don't you think you would do better to consider a bit i what an opportunity your daugh- daugh er may be passing up if she follows the he advice you OU have just outlined Opportunity Fanny Arlen's voice again gain held a shrill note and I ref reflect reflect- lect- lect ed d that she must be excited indeed to 0 betray what I suspected to be the natural timber of her voice Invariably Invariably Invariably ably during my acquaintanceship with her she has spoken in son soft tones almost too beautifully modulated to toe be e natural I had already wondered once or twice twice and and scored myself as catty for the conjecture whether conjecture whether she were not carefully employing those tones ones because she knew Philip Vent Vent- zens zen's horror of shrill feminine voices and if she were not setting her cap capor for or the man mw who in her husbands husband's lifetime had been his best friend and business partner An Ambitions Mother Opportunity she he shrilled shrilled again What do you mean Mr bowed and spread his lands hands ironically I My dear Fanny he said suavely Think a minute and md you will real real- ize ze what I mean A moonlight night an nit open pen car ocean waves rolling up upon on oaths the the- beach a beautiful girl an im im- man what man what better opportunity unity could a girl or an ambitious mother wish I I think youre you're horrid Phil Fanny len Arlen repeated her former playful indictment and pouted again Im lm not an ambitious mother in the sense you mean Im I'm ambitious for iny my darlings darling's daring's dar dar- lings ing's happiness but but Better stop right there Fanny Mr Hr advised I Ill If I know any anything thing about the modern girl happiness happiness happiness happi happi- ness spells pearls and Paris gowns gowns and imported motors and md country estates states and all aU the rest of the list I 1 cant can't imagine Avis Avis' married to a poor man Better throw out the lines for Cor a rich one when he swims into your vi vicinity ini I shant shan't listen to you any longer Mrs Arlen said shrugging a shapely shape shape- ly shoulder at hin hilI I dont don't like ike it and youve you've o only ly made me begin to worry over Avis Its It's terribly late for her to be out alone llone especially with a man of the world such as I 1 ludge judg Major Grantland to be I 1 am very angry at him He has no business business business busi busi- ness to keep her out so much longer than han the rest of us Is A Avis vis Safe Sate Tell me Mrs Graham You are our hostess What sort o of man is Major Grantland Do you think it itis itis itis is perfectly all aU right fox for Avis to be out with him I saw red for an instant then as often happens happens' to my ray rages I turned icy cold And I did not try to restraIn restrain re re- strain the catty impulse which made me rae say frigidly rigidly If I had not known Major GrantLand Grantland Grantland Grant- Grant Land S to be everything that is hon honorable and chivalrous us I should have Interposed when your daughter asked him to take her to the beach in his hiscar car As her hostess I would not have permitted her to go But knowing Major Grantland he Grantland-he he Is a n friend ol oj many years' years standing of both oth my huSband huS huS' husband band and myself I myself I knew that she sIn would have a delightful drive and was v glad to h have her enjoy y the out ing mb That is very sweet of of you Mrs Arlen said perfunctorily and as 11 she did not believe a word I 1 h had d been beet |