Show GIVEN IVEN IN MARRIAGE MARRIAGE- Lillian S Tells Why She Halted Avis' Avis Campaign to Win Hugh For a second or two after Lillians Lillian's little boast beast I stared at her herIn herin hern in n utter amazement What do you mean I queried at last ast What guns cuns did she have to spike and nd how did you spike them A look of humorous commiseration tame ame into her ey eyes Do you mean to tell teU me she demanded de de- de that you haven't seen what B a dead set the Ar Arlen n thc neck has as been making at Hugh She's tried all the approaches evidently and finally fi fi- nally ally was clever enough to settle on n the one sure fire Lire to click the click the helpless help help- less ess girl appealing to th the drate big Strong trong man matL She nearly put it over too Im I'm telling elling you I dont don't mean that Hugh was falling for h her r. r or anything like hat Hes He's pretty well insulated as ast t II dont don't ne need d to tell you But she was getting getting him to the point where he thought taught tender helpless Avis w was s seine beIng nut Dut upon by a mla wing el el- deny erly derly cat at n named med Lillian Ulian Underwood From there it would have been hut but ut a step to having haying him think you jou ou were also too h hard rd upon upon the poor Ioor thUd hild It would have been a long tep Step I grant you but once Avis had accomplished it the rest of her campaign cam cam- m- m and her mothers mother's would have been fairly e easy y What campaign I asked confusedly con- con wedly furiously conscious that my cheeks hecks were flaming at her references refer refer- to Hughs Hugh's Insulation which understood only too well It was wasi wasa Q a i banal question enough but I was graspIng rasping at any conversational straw that hat came came caine my way Lillian looked at me rue quizzically My word But were we're dense this evening she said mockingly But you ou shall be enlightened never fear The he campaign to which I refer my dear Mrs Graham is that which is isnow slow now in proc process of launching by the mother and daughter with the he object of winding up Hugh in 5 safely bound lound at the altar Object ma ma- knitting yarns yarns' and delivering hirn in other words words and and no particular particular par- par scruples as to how the thing things Is 13 s to be accomplished hed Ohl Ohi I said banally but unwilling to o make any other comment upon what she was telling me rue Also au ab and alas I and dear dear me suz me-suz suz and all the rest of the ladylike ladylike ladylike lady lady- like expletives she mocked But I dont don't exp expect d ct any other comments from you upon this subject Youre You're handicapped hand handi capped for full lull and tr free e discussion She grinned with diabolical enjoyment enjoy enjoy- m ment nt of my furiously flushing cheeks and then went on to a statement that startled m me out of ot my confused contused embarrassment embarrassment em cm- I 1 knew something had to be done one she said but I didn't get any chance until she came in with that cock and bull story about the man on the lad lad- der She might have been right at that but I didn't choose to believe h her r. r So you saw how I 1 tried to trip her bei up and howl how I managed to get her herbacK herback herback back to her room Then perhaps you perhaps you noticed how I managed to drop into Hughs Hugh's shell-like shell car the suspicion that Avis wasn't doing right by you That was the runs mas ter stroke my dear dean In one fell feU or rather happy second the castle of blocks Avis bad had begun fell farther than the famous McGinty and not althe aUthe al aU the kings king's horses nor all the kings king's men can build it up again Im I'm certainly certainly certainly pulling a lot of mixed similes but perhaps you gather whaI what wha I mean Lillian I g gasped You dont don't mean that yo you believed what she told you about the man on on the ladder but bu made Hugh think that you didn't in order to discredit h hex han r with him and make him think she was shielding Sam Brixton because she wished to harm me Lillian Lilllan gave me a beaming smile But surely she said why not Surely youve you've heard the old proverb about everything ng being fair lair in love and war Call this whichever you choose Continued Tomorrow |