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a IHE OSHAWA DAILY I'IMES, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1929 | "I hate trains, I hate strangers," | husband in the old way, and she! "And so your life belongs to your Barry put in sulkily, as she paused, knows it!" hero!" he sneered. ! But Barbara was not Aveaing to "I loved you!" Barry said quickly,| Amy made a scandalized little ex- BARBERRY BUSH him, Her narrowed eyes were fixed | grinding his palms together, his des- | clamation and looked at him indig- i ice, She wa speaking dreamily, oaks eyes full of tears, nantly, But before she could speak 's Marr Problems as 0 herse "You say you did, just as lots of Barbara spoke, One Girl's iage y 1 had Kate, litle and troublesattie men do, But if IT loved any one] "Yes.my ite Songs to Link," she THLEEN NORRIS anc exacting, © she said alter a mo- | Barbara said, accusation in her voice, | acknowledged gravely, By KA ment, 'and 1 was chained to the new | "I could make sacrifices for that per- "If I had Link's money--" Barry baby=--waiting to be freshly burdened, | son, I can stay up all night with | began insinuatingly. FALE LEN Do You Own Your Own Rl Tt Ct Ct Gt Et Gd Jt Jd dd AE J 'The story thus far: Barbara Bush Atherton lives with her father and sister Am; a modest little Sdngalow J in "or , Cal, Li zie, the richest oung Mask in town and one of the nicest, is in- terested in Barbara, but she shows a preference for Barry du Spain, poet and dreamer, ari+ anne Scott, pretty and sophisti- cated, visits Cottonwood, Link's wealth attracts her. Almost against his will he falls in love with her, At the thought of Marianne's Scott's becoming Mrs. Lincoln Mackenzie Barbara finds herself unaccountably distressed. On an impulse' she and Barry marry and go to his old sonch to live, Resolutely Barbara a herself to the hardships of fants with her irresponsible husband. Link's wedding is deferred, Mari- anne having revealed the exis- tence of a husband from whom she is getting a divorce. . Finally Link, realizing that it is hi money she wants, breaks their engagement, After two years of mariage Barbara is a tired over- worked mother. And the restless Barry seeks amusement away from home. A rich woman in San Francisco offers to send Bar- ry to New York and pay his ex- penses there while he is getting his start as a playwright and he deserts. Link helps Barbara through a long illness and wins from her an avowal of gratitude and love, but not her promise to divorce Barry, Then it is discov- ered that the clergyman who mar- ried them is an impostor, so that the marriage is not legal. Bar- "As a matter of fact, it does not," said Prof, Atherton, "My plan," Link said, with an anxi- ous glance at Barbara's white, tired face, "would be to call off the wed- ding this afternoon--" "Oh, yes, we'll have to do that!" Barbara said faintly, "And then later in the day get quietly: married and slip away and take Kate with us," Link pursued eagerly. "Barry can investigate then, and if he finds he has no claim he will probably disappear long before we get back." For one instant a wild light of hope hrightened Barbara's eyes, but immediately she subsided into weari- ness and despondency again and shook her Puig . "No, we can't do that," she said, "He mightn't disappear. Hc might get ugly, It would put us all into a hopelessly compromised situation, There must be some other way than that?" "You'll see how patient 1 can be Barbara," Link said cheerfully, "I know already that there is no one clse in the world just like you, Link," the girl answered, with brim- ming eyes, Amy began to cry sil- ently, "Now I'm going down to the office just as if it were any other day," Link observed with a sort of quiet hardi- ness, "You can get me there at any minute, I'll be up again around 2, and this afternoon I'd like to take you for a drive--bring Kate if you like, © My father suggested that we dine with him, We must just take the thing day by day and pres- ently it'll be over and I'll have my my wife safe in my own home, never to be out of my sight again!" doubly tied down and without a cent, and without any knowledge of where the food and clothes were Coming from for the next few years! "I gave you all 1 had," Barry re- minded her, very white, "That's the woman's part of it," Barbara resumed, "Wait--hope--fill the bottles, jump up in the eold nights, wash and cook and sweep through the lonely days and realize-- as I've realized so many times--that at any minute some pretty girl far away may he asking a man she ad- mires: 'Are you married, Mr, du Spain?' " "Realizing" Barbara added, with bitter force, "that the very man whose kitchen one is sweeping, whose little helpless children one is tending, may --if he likes--tell any one that he is not married! And many of them do like to deny it," Barbara said, her eyes flashing with angry tears, She dashed them away. "If any onc ever says that I ever denied that I adored 'my wife, and was only working and slaving to get back to her--" Barry began hotly. But she silenced him, "You used to come back from San Francisco and tell me about the wo- men who were 'crazy about you," she olserved indifferently, "But that isn't the point. The point was that we started even, youznd I--were just a young man and a young girl begin- ning marriage together. But the cards are always stacked against the woman! Within a few months it was I--I who was physically handicapped, who was sick and tearful and help- less, it was | who bore the child and had to submit to your comings and goings in silence because a woman with a voung baby is helpless--she is absorbed, she isn't attractive to her Kate, I'd die for Amy or her baby here, and she knows it." "Men aren't like that, You loved me, but you were furious when you knew the second baby was coming-- vou left me alone for three days, then, And afterward, when I was sick, and worried and lonely, caring for Kate all day and all night, wash- ing, cooking, feeding the chickens-- you didn't love me then!" "I did!" Barry affirmad resentfully, "vou know I did! It was because I] felt so deeply, because it made me so frantic to sec yot tired and worried and ill, that T couldn't scand it!" Barbara looked at him speculatively for a long while, But there was no indecision in her quiet look. "Well, anyway, you went away," she said unemotionally, "And a man who was mentally twisted, who is in the state asylum for the insanc row, | came' creeping down there in the dark of night--" She fell silent, and in her eyes was the reflection of an unforgettable horror, Barry looked up quickly, his eyes resentful. But if he would "have said "That wasn't my fault!" he thought better of it,.and did not speak. "Fortunately," Barbara went on, "Link came down that night--it was my birthday night, He Drought us home--" Her dreamy eyes were full of strange liquid light now, and her tips | touched with a smile, "They saved me, with surgery and blood transfusions and stimulants," she finished, after a pause, "But, ex- cept for that, I would have died!" Barry was studying her scornfully, an ugly expression in his eyes. Amy said, "Oh, shame!" indig- nantly. But Barbara, long used to his argumentative characteristics, did not even flush, "You have nothing, Barry," she told him. "And just this once, lifc has given the wife the. whip hand, Ninety-nine times ouf of a hundred || it would he I--I with my two or three little babies and my empty I pocketbook who was pleading to be | remarried. 1 would be haunting the courts and you would be free!" "But this once it is different. If you and I were legally married, to save my character with all the wo- men of this town I would have to go back to the hacienda with youn this afternoon, give up my job, perhaps bear more babies, and go on washing and struggling and cooking, hecausc you were my husband, and that's marriage." "Yes, just this once, " Barbara con | cluded, in a silence, "just this once it's all different, I'm free. And aiter generations of women who have ac- cepted the man's law, and crept into legitimate: marriage because of the children, I'm going to stay free!" "So that's your decision?" Barry asked, in a heavy, menacing tone, after a pause. "That has to be my decision, Bar- [ry 'And Kate's side of it=her grow- ing up in another man's house, with a her father right here in tow, that doc sn't matter? "That's the lesser evil, Barry." 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SA eed or her lack of Iaith, It was well after 12' when Barry we ge came in. In the broad daylight Bar- INSTALMENT 32 bara could see how shabby he was; Through those mysterious agencies | his wrists showed at the shiny cuffs y which news spreads in a small { of his sleeves and his trousers had own only a few hours after Barry | not known a tailor's care for many O u Spain's return all Cottonwood | weeks. able to No, No! You DON'T UNDERSTAND! MY RENT AND MY WEEKLY PAYMENTS, PLUS THE EXPENSE OF EATING, new that he was home again, shab- y, penniless and without plans-- or hadn't Amy's husband, Ward Putty, taken or to Mrs. Watson's t 10 o'clock at night and arranged or a room for him there, and had- 4 Barry said, right in the presence i Maxime Watson, that he didn't now how long he'd stay and im- sediately borrowed $10 from Ward uffy? All Cottonwood was dis- issing this before midnight, and all ottonwood was indulging in a sur- shise--so exact that it amounted to sitive knowledge -- that Barbara therton and Link Mackenzie would t be married next day, whatever ppened in the future! Scores of folk found excuses, to iter past the younger Duffy's old modeled homestead next morning, soft August morning. They saw Dr. Ward Duffy come t on his porch at about half past with pretty young Mrs. Duffy, who iad been Amy Atherton a few years go, accompanied him. Amy had fer own baby on her shoulder, and it her knee clung Barbara du Spain's pautiful child, a starry-eyed brun- Mte with apricot cheeks and tumbled Wky black curls. Little Kate du pain's sturdy person was buttoned to a romper deliciously faded and liciously snug; she carried a woolly g, tO W 'hich Uncle Ward had to say n affectionate good-by. When Ward had started his car hd was gone Amy took the children bok into the house and closed the bor. There was no sign of Barbara, e heroine of the occasion, the wo- @n who was to have been married this old house at 4 o'clock this ry afternoon. And with great excitement among e watchers at 10 o'clock: "Link's ere now--at Ward Duffy's. And a telephoned Mrs. Watson, and e says Barry du Spain isn't up eo If the cager cves and ears could ve followed Link into Amy's little rary they would have found, as he Amy, Barbara and their father fing there with Amy's warm- arted old mother-in-law. The wo- pn looked up expectantly as Link me in. He stooped to give Bar- ra a quick kiss and took the chair side her. 'Get any sleep, dear," he asked jietly. rly," Barbara answered. Fias Barry been over?" Not yet. He sent a message about fif an hour ago. He's coming in noon Do you know, Amy, just what he pos to doz" No," Amy answered, "and we n't think he does. Dad and Judge sbb went in to see him--he was in d, all tously and everything, dad d. He says that he sn't mean interfere with Barbara's plans, and ot of stuff like that, but that, if 2 hin believes he is married to a wo- and wants to protect his child wo 'he finds he is mot, doesn't the bw give him any rights?" 'Oh, yes! I wakened up rather | determination in her tone. "But we J might have butt that time into a His beautiful face was tired and distressed, and after a nod of greet- ing to Amy and Mrs. Duffy he went as far as was humanly possible to- ward disarming the two hostile, watching women by his first words. "Barbara, I've been thinking all this over, It must be hellishly hard for you. I've come to ask you what you want me to do?" Amy and Mrs, Duffy exchanged glances that were surprised and even faintly mollified. But Barbara knew this tone only too well "Your father and old Cobh came in this morning," Barry pursued. "They tell me I haven't any claim on the baby, Barbara." He looked up, scowling, and finished on a little rue- ful smile. "Well, that's all right," he said philosophically, "if that's the law, that's the law." He ground his palms together, his old familiar gesture, looked down at the linked hands that were hanging between his knees, looked up again. "But I'm going to stay here near her. I'm going to. make good and bave her know and love her daddy whether she belongs to him or not," he said simply. "You're going to be married to Link this afternoon--all right. My loving you--my having thought ior threc years that you were mine--hasn't anything to do with it. But--but could you leave the baby with me, just for your hon- eymoon, Barbara? [I'd take her down to the ranch; she'd be happy live yp to ker position as a star Ellas Haire Fl BL the bills URE (iggy kB by Mesopoian ear reh, Service By Geo. McManus with me; children always are. And live through the days when I know you belong to Link--know that you aren't ever going to be mine any | more. i Mrs. Duffy, departing kitchenward with some vague thought of extract- ing lunch from the comfusion and stagnation that reigned there, was | visibly affected by this. But Amy had had time to recover herself now, and she directed toward Barry an unconvinced and contemptuous cye. "I want to 'talk to you" Barry began when he and the sisters were | alone. He glanced at Amy signifi- cantly. | But Amy gave no sign of moving | and instantly Barbara said: | "I'd rather have Amy here, Barry. There's nothing to say." | He came over to her side as Link | had done, and if he had not pointedly | exclude Amy from the conversation, at least his turned shoulder and low- ered tone indicated how distasteful | to him was her presence. | "There's this to say, Barbara" Barry pleaded. "Through it all--no | matter what a fool I've been!--it has | been because I loved you. I'm mot al business man: I.can't sell real estate or write policies, but I did work for you ir my own way! We--we were happy, Barbara." he faltered, his eyes suddenly filling with tears, his Jhand holding tightly to hers. "Those first days down at the haci- enda--when we cleared the cellar-- you fed the hens--" She T took her hand away, linked her fingers and, leaning back in her, deep chair, rested her clasped hands | on her breast. "Yes, we were happy then, we were like children then," she said steadily, and Amy's heart leaped for joy at hearing the composure, the inflexible maybe--maybe it would help me vl are mot children now, Barry. [If everything had gone well with us we happier time--it might be just a memory of poverty and- and, youth, such as s0 many people have! "But it didn't go well with us," she pursued, as he watched her anxiously. and Amy's concerned look enveloped them both, "it didn't go well. You were the man and you got out. I; was the woman--and I couldn't get' out? { "I got out to make money, to suc- | | ceed--for you!" Barry interpoiated. "Yes, I know, that's what vou sad, | that's what men always say," bara answered. "I wonder if ghey ever fnink how casy it is- 0 give up the stupid drudgery of he problem they ve failed to solve and be off new oroblems! "Traveiing on | Pac- a, new faces--" sy GOLLY - TIER, ME ERS ARE DRIMIN' ME DAFFY WITH THEIR PIANO lH I'M CONINA SEE IF SHE'LL GIVE LP THE i PIANO FER THE | KNOW IT- BOT | WIN | THROW A VIOLIN CUT OF THE WINDOW - TELLING TOMMY TODAY THE OCEAN LANES ARE DOTTED WITH MORE THAN 13500 LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS HOST POWERFUL BE GUIDE THE SEAMAN IN SAFETY, TOMMY. OF PHAROS, KNOWN AS THE PHAROS OF ALEXANDRIA, AND FAMED AS ONE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. THE ROMANS BUILT LIGHTHOUSES AT SEVERAL PORTS OF THE EMPIRE, AND AFTER THE OM THE NORTH COAST OF EGYPT,AND HUNG FROM PROJECTING POLES. 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