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" THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1928 ( Dt Et Ct Cat Ct Ct ht et Gh Gt co es 2s i] BARBERRY BUSH One Girl's Marriage Problems - By KATHLEEN NORRIS A, i Al le Al Ai i di Ml A AT free to wed Link, On the eve of the wedding Barry returns, INSTALMENT 29 "I got to San Francisco yesterday and the first thing Schofield showed me was an old paper with something in it about.our marriage not being legal. Did you gee it?" The remembered voice, the famil- far intonations! Barbara could not speak, She walked along silently, feeling dizzy and sick, \ "Do you mean you are really so angry at me, Barbara?' Barry said, And they might have parted yester- day in the old hacienda; it might have been only yesterday that they had quarreled and Barry had flung himself away from her to walk the wet flat flelds above the sea and to return penitent and plead for her forgiveness once again, "It 4sn't that at all, Barry," she managed to say faintly, The night- mare continued; the sound of her own voice did not waken her as it might have done, She was still walking with Barry du Spain past the Wilsons' garden fence, long and dim and ghostly white, stretching away into a perspective of scalloped poles in the twilight, In the Mackenzie house, only a square away in Link's room, stand- ing beside his own packed bag, was her suitcase with the new clothes in it, the silk pyjamas that extravagant Amy had given her, the tortoise shell mirror and brushes. And in Amy's house, fragrant and soft and white on its hanger, was her wedding suit, and above it, in Jayers of tissue, her white hat--wait- ing, like the ranked glasses in the dining room, and the softly droop- ing flowers in the drawing room, and the little white romper with the but- terfly on it--for tomorrow, Tomorrow, when more than a hundred affectionate folk would stream along the sidewalk and turn in at Dr. Ward Duffy's gate and come into Amy's house to see Bar- bara Atherton happily married. Would this man, whose wife she had in fact been, whose child she had borne, be among them? A wild hysterical impulse toward laughter shook her, and Barbara realized that she must summon all the strength and self-control she might and meet the situation with the su- preme courageous effort of her life. "Barbara," he asked anxiously, "is it true?" She could actually see the bland old white-painted brick walls of the Mackenzie house. She was to have been mistress of that splendid old | tree-bowered place tomorrow. Why i were she and Barry du Spain wand- "The story thus far: " "Barbara Bush Atherton lives with her father and sister Amy in a modest little bungalow in onwood, Cal, Lincoln Mae- kenszie, the richest young man in town and one of the nicest, is in- terested in Barbara, but she shows a preference for Berrv du Spain, poet and dreamer, Mari» 'anne Scott, pretty and sophisti. eated, comes to Cottonwood on a visit. Link's wealth attracts her, {most against his will he falls in ove with her. At the thought of Marianne Scott's becoming Mrs. Lincoln Mackenzie Barbara finds herself unaccountably distressed, On an impulse she and Barry marry and go to his old ranch to live. Resolutely Barbara slaphs herself to the hardships of life with her irresponsible husband. Link's wedding is deferred, Mari- anne having revealed the exis- tence of a ad from whom she is getting a divorce. 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Barry said, "she's nearly 2, I've thought of her every day-- every hour!--since I went away, and of you, too." Barbara's throat felt thick and dry; she was utterly weary. "You don't look very well, Barry." "Oh, I've been sick!" he said eag- erly, pathetically, "What brought you-" she was so tired--"what brought you back to California?" 4 He stopped. In the dusk she could feel rather than see his reproachful stare. "Why, I was always coming back! I've only been gone eight months!" Barbara felt weak and chilled, "But, Barry--so much has pened!" There was a moment's Then he sald: "Why aren't you married to me? That's what I can't understand, You are married to me!" "No, it was no marriage, The man who married us wasn't really a cler- gyman at all." "Barberry, who said so?" "Why, everyone, Barry--and the| people he married had to have it done all over again!" "What of it!" he exclaimed impa- tiently. "Have the old town biddies been making capital out of it?" It was almost dark now. She was still walking in a nightmare. This was Barry--Barry come back again. "Have you and the baby gone back to the hacienda?" "No, Barry--Link Mackenzie and I are to be married tomorrow." It was said. There was a dead silence, She could not see his face in the gloom. "What are you talking about?" he presently asked bewilderedly. She knew that elaborate, surprise, "I know you won't stay here -- I know you won't make it hard for me," Barbara said, Another silence, Then and harshly he said: "Oh, my God--I don't believe it!" "It's true, Barry. If you had come here at this time tomorrow it would have been all over." "I would have followed you, where- ever you went," Barry said, after a moment, in a low, tense voice, "and shot him down like a dog! I don't blame you, I treated you terribly, terribly, and he's rich and he can play the friend--I know Link Mac- kenzie! Of course, it would impress you. But he can d---- well keep his hands off you!" She knew the tone, half earnest, half sheer drama. : "You're talking foolishly," he ans- wered in an unexpectedly gentle, de- termined tone. "I know just how wrong I've been--" he was begin- ning, when her tired voice arrested him, "Come to Amy's. hap- silence, gentle suddenly This is no place to talk." They turned in the side gate; | walked up the steps, and Barry fol- | lowed Barbara into the lamplighted, | comfortable sitting room. Ward was in a chair by the fire | with his baby in his arms, Amy was | opposite him sewing. Both Amy | and Ward blinked at the shadows | that softly wrapped the doorway, try- ing to see who the tall man was, { bent a little and shabby, following | | Barbara in. i "Amy," Barbara said, a frightened voice, "it's Barry." | Amy was instantly on her feet, | her mild little face flushed, her mild tones raised to sharpness. | "Barry du Spain can't come into | my house!" she said flatly. | Ward, his honest simple face also | turning dark red, remained seated, the baby's downy little bobbing head just under his chin, his eyegl | light, | 80% OF WIFE BEATERS HAVE BROWN EYES This is not as terrible an indictment on Brown eyes as it appears, It simply means here arc more Brown«eyed people in the world, However, the color and form of eyes is an interesting study in character, Every- one has heard of "green-eyed" jealousy "flashing", "black-eyed beauty" --the downcast eye of modesty, the restless eye of shifty disposition, etc, 1009 HEALTH IS REFLECTED BY THE EYES If your eyes are dull and tinged with yellow, you are suffering from intestinal sluggishness, Headaches, biliousness or constipation are robbing your eyes of their natural lustre, Take heed, You need a laxative, BEECHAM'S PILLS THE IDEAL LAXATIVE Fruits and vegetables are renowned for their laxative properties, But often they arc not prompt cnough, . Beecham's Pills being composed of vege- table constituents, in concentrated form, possess the :quivalent laxative value of fruits and vegetables, They are a simple but very effective remedy, giving quick relief to disordered systems. B-14 REMOVE YELLOW TINGE wimpy (AX V-V TRS Take a regular daily course of Beecham's Pills for a short period, Your eyes will soon reflect improved health A Vegetable Product and sent forth into the night an enemy, And that even the enraged and un- friendly: Amy was shrewd and swift enough to appreciate thig, was evinced by the fact that it was Amy's voice that asked: "You'll have tea, Barry?" "Oh, Amy!" lhe answered quickly, humbly, "I'm starving!" That was Barry's way, too, That would win the heart of the house- wife, of the young woman who had a boy child of her own, upstairs, as could nothing else. The sandwiches were substantial, oozing sustaining wedges of egg and tomato and lettuce. Barry fell upon them ravenously; Ward kept him company. But Amy, nervous and suspicious, would only nibble, and although Barbara drank her tea gratefully and smiled courageously at her sister every time Amy's anxi- ous glance reached her, she could not eat. When Barry had finished, he put away his plate and flung his crum- pled napkin on the tray. His color was better now; he looked less tired and spent and much more like his old self as, sinking forward in his chair and linking his fingers, he fixed his dark and troubled gaze upon' Barbara. i "Barbara, what did 1 do?" | She had sunk back into her own big chair, slender and frightened and more beautiful in her pallor, with the bl e) burning beneath the fire of her blazing hair, than any one of these three had ever seen her { before "Barry, it's too late to discuss that!" she answered nervously. "Let's | not go into it. I've forgiven you long { ago. We never were married -- you knew that? It's all over, and the only thing for us to do is forget it." | His 'brow contracted a trifie; he did not shift his steady gaze. "J heard," he said patiently, as one who determines to unravel a mys- tery at any cf "that that fellow who married us was not a clergy- man." H "Exactly!" Amy contributed on a » of trinvmph | "is that true? Barry asked be-| wilderedly, turning to Ward. "Yes, absolutely'" "He must have married other per-| sons?" Barry pursued. H "He did. The little Prince girl, | |] | | st, | | For better values in || | i | DIAMONDS | for one, They've all been remar- ried," Ward explained, "There had to be formal annul. ments and remarriages," Barbara added faintly, "Did they arrest him?" Barry de- manded, piecing it all together with a judicial air, "They've arrested him on other charges -- forgery, 1 don't know what," "I should think so!" Barry ejacu- lated, and appeared to muse, The other three eyed him in sil ence, all three afraid of what he might say next, He looked humbly at Barbara, "I only got the news two days ago, I was in San Francisco, and some one had sent Schofield a Cottonwood paper," he explained, *I thought, of course, you and I would be married again, right away," Barbara spoke slowly, determined- ly, She must be the one to say this; no one could say it far her, "Barry, what reason had I to sup- pose that what I did or didn't do was of any interest to you?" It was a broadside, and he weak- ened under it, and still sitting for- ward in his low chair, he turned his eyes toward the fire and faintly shrugged, "I left you last December--this is August," he presently said, "All that time I've been trying -- you don't have to believe it -- hut I've heen trying to make good, for you and the baby, I suppose I've heen stupid about it--God knows I'm an ass! But I always thought----" he paused, blinking, and pressing his palms tightly together---- "I've al- ways thought you'd stand by me, Barbara!" he faltered, smiling shame- facedly like a boy, and giving her a quick glance before sending his gaze back ta the fire, Her answer came quick and hurt, Amy realized with a sort of terror that the thing was taking the shape of an affair debatable, "You didn't stand by me!" "No, I know I didn't. You were terribly ill; Joe Dodge told me that. But I didn't know that until it was all over--I eouldn't understand it, I thought Ward and Amy were down in Los Angeles. It was all confu- sion to me, I hadn't a cent, I knew there was no use in my coming back ----" *I suppose you didn't know that a tramp got down there, and fright. ened her almost to death, and that she almost died?" Ward asked, think- ing in his own kindly soul that he was being mercilessly stern. But Amy, perceiving that this attitude of argument was the one thing for which Barry had hoped, felt a most unwonted sensation of impatience and anger. Barry sent a look of genuine con- sternation about the circle. "A tramp!" he ejaculated. Barbara sat back in her chair. In the warm firelight her cheeks were the color of ivory; her heavy dark lashes were lowered, and between the closed lids two tears slipped, while they watched her. (Copyright 1928 by The Bell Syndi- cate Inc.) (To be continued) U. S. SCIENTIST SAYS ROCKS ARE MELTING AT BOTTOM OF OCEAN New York, Dee. 27.--The earth's crust probably is mot "dead" and finished in shape, the American Association for the advancement of Science was told last night by Dr. Bailey Willis of Leland Stanford University. Instead, even the stable bottom of the Atlantic Ocean now may be heating up, preparatory to causing land shifts. The theory is that |zcores of miles down in the rocks that form the skin of mother earth, great blisters form, and that, as they melt the rocks, the resulting upthrusts make the earth's surface what it is, and whatever it may change to. But there was nothing of pos- sible human catastrophe in- Dr. Willis's picture, for he spoke In the new-time concept of science, his changes well-known places where, on the slow time scale, such shifts actu- ally seem now under way. Dr. Willis's address inaugurat- requiring millions of | | years, and he comfortingly named | Burns' Jewelry Store Corner King and Prince Cash or Terns |ed the annual convention of the as- {sociation. His subject was "The {Origin and Development of Con- look focussed anxiously on Amy. "Barry didn't know I was to be married tomorrow, Ward," Barbara explained thickly. And it sickened Amy to hear the wold conciliatory note, the explaining note, in her voice again. "That has nothing to do with it," Ward contributed slowly, in a silence. | "I want to talk with her," Barry pleaded. He stood, down-at-heel and gentle and forlorn, in the lamplight and firelight. "I'm going away," he said. "I just want to talk with Bar- berry Bush." He had put her old love name in to make it pathetic, Barbara thought, steeled against the effect of his voice, his beauty, his charm had always held for her. She knew them too well! --- |tinents." He said all coltinents jare great plateaus of granite, standing high above the sea bot- fer rock. underlies the sea," he said, *'from seismographs. With the aid of earthquakes we ean sink our plum- 'mets more than halfway to the centre of the earth: velocity at which shocks travel, the depths at which they pass through or around the earth, and the kind of rock they pass through. We know that the earth is envel- coped about 2.000 miles thick with elastic rock, below which is a core about 2,000 miles in radius, appar- ently inelastic, very heavy. prob- ably iron. which may be meited." "I can't see what you can have to say to her, Barry," Amy said sternly, after a pause. Barry crossed to the fire and sat down. And they saw that there was gray in the dark hair above his tem- ples, and that in every way he seemed a much older man than the' poetic, graceful boy who had left Cottonwood almost a year ago. They all sat down; it was like Barry's old power over every one with whom he came in contact that this first point was in his favor. And immediately circumstances began to work for him, to shelter him, as they always had. ! The baby's nurse came down to | carry the baby away and following | her, with an enormous and substan- | tial tea #ay, came the waitress who | had been impressed into special ser- vice for tomorrow's great occasion, | and who had been counting napkins | and rubbing floors all day. - ! It appeared that because of a late, hearty lunch, and because of the domestic excitement, the family was to have sandwiches and tea in- stead of supper tonight. Barbara had forgotten the arrangement, but it made it simply impossible not to include Barry in the meal. unless he | were to be antagonized, infuriated. | The heat that causes blisters, he said, probably does mot emanate from the earth's inner core. Heat from Ce "Compression by gravity," he added, "is capable of producing all the heat of which we have evi- dence. - As rocks heat, the melting Jtends to extend laterally faster than upward, thus forming blis- ters--asthenoliths, we call them. Conditions favorable to formauon of asthenoliths appear likely to de- velop in those layers 30 to 600 miles below the earth's surface, and probably only those within less than 100 miles of the surface di- rectly affeet it. "A Dblister may grow several hundred miles across, and be ten to twenty miles deep, containing one or more million 'cubic miles. The cover eventually breaks around {the margins, re eruptions fol- low, and findll» the cover falls in- to the emptied centre. Conditions thus theoretically sketched are fea- tures of the smaller depressions that are in the depths of the oceans. 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