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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, 1HURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929 PACE SEVEN The story thus far: Barbara Bush Atherton lives with her father and sister Amy a modest little bungal in C d, Cal. Lincoln Mae- kenzie, the richest young man in town and one of the nicest, is interested in Barbara, but she sho vs a preference for Barry du Spain, poet and drcamer. Yet oy Mavianne Scott, pretty and sophisticated, visits Cottonwood and, attracted by his wealth, wins Link's love, Barbara finds herself tably dist d On an impulse she and Barry marry and go to his old ranch to live. Resolutely Barbara adapts herself to the hardchips of life with her irresponsible h Marianne reveals the existence of a husband from whom she is get- ting a divorce. And Link, realiz- ing that it is his money she 'wants, breaks their. engagement, After two years of marriage Bar. bara is a tired, overworked mother 2nd the restless Barry seeks amusement away from home. A rich woman in San Francisco offers to send Barry to New York and pay his expenses 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 Bar- ry. Then it is discovered that the clergyman who married them is an impostor, so that the marriage is not legal, Barbara is free to wed Link. Barry comes back, in- sists that he has been trying to make good for his wife and child snd reproaches Barbara for her lack of faith. But she refuses to return to him. INSTALMENT 33 Link returned at about half-past two, and sat quietly beside the couch where Barbara was lying; her blue eyes were ringed in faint laven- der shadows, and her face was pale, She put her fingers in his limply, and while they talked he held them in his own brown, hard hand, "All the town buzzing, I suppose, Link?" BARBERRY BUSH One Girl's Marriage Problems By KATHLEEN NORRIS "Let 'em buzz, about something!" "It's horrible!" Barbara said in a whisper, with shut eyes, "It's just one of those things that happen," Link said vaguely, indif- ferently, : "What do you think will happen next, Link?" "I don't know," he said. "But I know something.will and whatever it is, it will give us our cue, And what do we care--we love each other! Lucy, by the way, is all upset, and sent you her love and said she would come in when things had quieted down a little, Margaret's coming in late this afternoon, She was going to Tahoe tomorrow, anyway, and I think she'll still go." "What do you suppose Barry will do?" Barbara asked fearfully. Amy, who had come in and was pitting beside the window, said They have to buzz || promptly: "I know this, Mrs, Watson told him she needed that room tonight and so he won't stay there!" "Poor Barry!" Link said. "I know he went into the bank and tried to borrow some money, but they would: n't hear of it." "Well, perhaps if they treat him that way he'll get out," Amy ob- served with vindictive satisfaction, Ward, returning from his after. noon round, could add to the report, "Harris was telling me that Barry came down to the garage about one o'clock and asked for a car to take him out to the ranch," Ward said, "but Harris wouldn't do it on credit, From what he said, I imagine he went down to the ranch, anyway, and I imagine he walked, Anyway, he started on foot, He's sure to get a lift, if it's only on a haycart," . % » Barbara lay still, listening, think- ing. And when Link went back to the office for a little while she lay still, thinking of Barry. Poor, handsome, headstrong Barry, once a happy, gifted, popular boy, driffing about the town, laughing and writing rhymes, picnicking with Barbara Atherton down on the old Mission creek, playing writing games | with the Athertons in the winter | evenings! Jealous, eager, clever -- REPAIRI EE a EE ATCHES Ww OUR SPECIAATY It your Watch is not giving satisfaction we ean repair and make it tell the correct time D. J. BROWN THE JEWELER Official Watch imspecior for awa Railroads. Canadian Naticpgl and O.b- how had it happened that life had served him so badly before his thir tieth year! Whatever his faults----and no one knew Barry's better than she!-no man quite deserved to be made ridi- culous in the eyes of his own town: ship, to sneak away in the gathering autumn dusk and hide his head, Alone--it was a horrible thing to be. It would be especially horrible to Barry, with his overdeveloped sen: sitiveness and his overdeveloped ima- gination, Suddenly, hurriedly, she was sit. ting erect on the couch, she was straightening her disordered dress and buttoning herself into a long, warm coat. A soft shapeless hat was pulled down over her unruly copper hair, and Barbara pulling on a pair of loose gloves, had slipped out of the side door and was walking the two blocks that separated the senior Duffy's house from the jun- ior Duffy's, There was an old riding hdrse in the stable that was far back of the mansarded house, on a quiet lane. Sometimes Ward had ridden him, years ago; now he spent most of his time idling in the yard, Barbara had had more than one early morn: |' ing ride on his back of late months ig Link on his buckskin beside er, This afternoon she put the saddle over his back with trembling fingers, fastened the straps nervously, quick- ly, and slipped the bit in between his enormous yellow teeth; almost as she opened the barn door into the lane she climbed into the saddle and they were moving toward the highway to the south, Perhaps some of the townspeople saw her and wondered, But she saw nothing and nobody; she was only vaguely conscious of the miles and the moving ecene about her, Barbara rode on at an easy gallop. She had not the slightest idea of what ber intention was in going down to the ranch, Nothing had formed itself in her mind to say; she merely felt a deep need of Barry's presence,' she felt that she must find him and that he must hear her, At Milo's one little store she stopped and bought bread and hutter and sugar and coffee. The Portu- guese proprietor brought back the same sharp pain to her heart, the same fluttering urgent fear, by ex- plaining volubly why he had not felt himself justified in trusting Mr. du Spain with a small grocery order. "Oh! How long ago was he here" "Hour, maybe, Maybe not so much." Barbara remounted and took the familiar road to the hacienda. Its aspect shocked her; it looked so lonely, so deserted in the sunset. The long, pipe-tiled roofs seemed to have shrunk down under the shabby peppers and eucalyptus; the fences were broken, the walls and roofs of the barns showed actual gaps. In the patio drifts of leaves had packed and rotted. 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Barberry Bush!" She could not speak; she stood holding his hands, breathing deeply, trying to smile, ; "Who's with you?" Barry asked quickly with a glance at the door, "Nobody, I came alone," "Driving?" "No, On the Duffys' old horse," She sat down at the table and he knelt at her feet and put her hands to his lips. And all the joy and Deguty of youth had returned to his ace, "Barbara, in all your life you never did anything as kind as this. Oh, my God, if you knew what I've been going through!" Suddenly she felt that he was only a little boy--her little boy. She freed a hand and laid it on his hair, "I can imagine it!" she said briefly, Breaking all at ence he put his arms about her, and dropped bis head on her breast as if he were exhausted. His eyes were closed, he was breathing deeply, like a spent child, t~ "Poor Barry--my poor old Barry!" Barbara said, infinitely tender, And her voice sounded like a silver bell in the silence of the room, "Oh, Barberry, Barberry, don't be kind to me--you'll kill me! I love you so!" he sobbed, clinging to her. And as he pressed his face against hers, grasping her tightly, she felt that his cheek was wet. "I was go- ing to kill him!" he whispered. "Link?" "Link, Damn him! And I want ed to kill you---Amy---every one who is laughing at me--who hates me--" Barbara smoothed his hair, "They don't hate you. They aren't laughing at you, You mustn't take things so hard!" "Oh, I don't care!" he gasped, on a great breath of exhaustion and re- lief, "I don't care what they do, if you're not cgeinst me--if you're not angry with me. Amy! She doesn't count, None of them count but you," The full revulsion of his feeling had broken him completely and he could only hold her tightly 2s if the touch 'of warm, human sympathy were his anchor and his healing. "You came down here clone!" "I got worrying," Barbara fessed, with her blue-eyed smile. She sat down. ing--such things of you," she went on, Barry leaned backward a little and looked at her with wet eyes; his face was flushed, his hair disordered. "You are the most wonderful wo- man in the world," he said slowly, solemnly. "I thought, a few minutes ago, that I hated all life! But see-- see how casily you bring it all back, Barberry Bush! That you came to me, all alone--" "Why," Barry faltered, his eyes suddenly brimming again, "you must still love me a little, you must still care for me a little, or you wouldnt have done that?" Her arms were linked loosely about his neck, she rested her face against his heir. "f don't know," she said wearily, and sighed. "A little?" he asked jealously, something of his old buoyancy al- ready returned to his voice. "I know that I can't leave you to fight it out alone, with them all against you, Barry. We're not le- gally married, you and I. And yet there is something stronger, some- thing deeper than the law--where a man and a woman are concerned. I belonged to you -- for all those months. I belong to you still, some- how." Barbara was speaking gently as if half to herself. Now her voice drifted into silence, and they remained sil- ent for a full minute, the man's arms about her waist, as he knelt before her, and her hand on his hair. "Women are like that, I suppose, or some women are," the girl began again, in a puzzled voice. "It came to me--that I had to stand by you, other way of happiness for me." (Copyright 1928 by the Bell Syandi- cate Inc.) (To be continued) BUNAWAY TEAM KILLED BY C.P.R. FREIGHT TRAIN Milton, Jan. 3.--While Roy Binkley was driving a team of val- uable horses without a wagon mear Hornby Station Wednesday after- noon, the animals became fright- ened, ran away from the driver, and in crossing the tracks were struck by a C.P.R. freight train and beth killed. cracked, the fireplace, in which a few |. Barry knelt beside her. | = "I couldn't have them saying--think- just as I would by Kate. There's no' SOCIETY SUPPORTS CALENDAR REFORM League In Canada Expected Recommendation of Ottawa Branch Ottawa, Ont, J:n, 8,--An fin- itial step towards urging action on the part of the Dominion govern: ment he matter of calendar reform and th adoption of the new International Fixed Calendar has been taken by the League of Na- tions Society in Canada, which has its headquarters at the capital, The Ottawa Branch of the society re- cently passed a resolution recom- mending the subject to the atten- tion of the Central Executive, and it appears likely that this body, which includes Bir George E, Fos. ter, Sir Robert L, Borden, Sir George Perley, M,P,, Hom, N, A, Belcourt, Hon, H, 8, Beland, Pr, H, M. Tory, C, G, Cowan, Mrs, J. A, Wilson, President N.C,W, Col. onel O, M, Biggar, K.C,, Tom Moore, Graham Spry, and Mrs. A. J, Freiman will lend its support to the movement, The {irregularities of the present calendar have long been a source of trouble and exp:nse to almost /ery form of activity it was stated and from many different sources have come suggestions for their correction, The varying number of w Jks in the months, the carying length of the months themselves and of the standard periods of the year, the lack of fixity of the cal. endar, and the lack of fixity of religious and national holidays-- particularly Easter--have com- bined to make the present sys'em unsatisfactory and inefficient, it is claimed, The movement for calendar sim- plitication has been on foot [or meny years, but it was not until the new International Fixed Csulen- dar was devised by Moses B., Cots- worth, an English statistician, that a worthwhile alternative was avail- able, This calendar is composed of thirteen months, the exira month named '*Sol"' being inserted be- tween June and July, with each month numbering 28 days. Each monthly date would fall upon the same week day, and vice versa, the month always starting on a Sun- day -and ending on a Saturday. National and Yellfians holidays would be fixed where possible to occur on Mondays, giving a long week-end beneficial both to indus- try and the working man, Not 'only would this new fixed calendar benefit industry, hisiness, education, and labour, but it would also be a particular boon to agricul- ture, it is claimed. Its regularity and the absolute equality of the months, seasons, and various stand. ard periods of the year would make comparisons of crop statis. tics more accurate and would help the farmer in making his plans from year to year, The Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva instructed a special committee to look into the question of calendar reform some years ago:and, approving of its re- port, requested the various nations of the world to eppoint national committees to consider the matter with the object of bringing about an international conference on the subject. A Canadian committees has not yet been formed, and as a re- sult of the interest being taken by the League of Nations Society in Canada, this may be brought about. REMINISCENCES OF GYPSY LIFE IN DEER PARK GIVEN Toronto, Ont.,, Jan, 3.--Interest- ing reminiscences of gypsy encamp- ments in Deer Park, Toronto, are given by Edwin Grainger who re- calls the eventful summer when the "Queen of the Gypsies' chose Deer Park as her camping site and arrived in her gaily decorated car- avan, An athractive woman of the Spanish type was the "Queen," and from many parts of the country came other gypsies to pay her hom- age, Throughout that summer Decry, Park was the scene of activitly with many gypsy caravans and vans "parked" in the shade of the fine old oak trees. From the City of To- ronto came also curious citizens to make the acquaintance of the "Queen of the Gypsies'. Ruchly- patterned rugs were spread on the green surrounding her caravan home, A veritable fairyland must Deer Park have been in those summer- times of half a century ago, with the wind singing in the pines and the sunshine splashing in golden pools on the green of the open spaces where the gypsies danced to | the accompaniment of their musi- cians, City folk delighted in fre- bag of Snowdrift Flour. and Make no mistake; when you dealer you want "the Flour Snowdrift Flour, It is milled wheat, It is a patent Flour, The Snowdrift Fairy's ' magic turns out the most wonderful Bread cooks use the famous ao to the store for Flour, tell your t has bee: MAKES BEAUTIFUL BREAD AND BISCUITS Luck with your Baking goes with Snowdrift Flour, STANDARD MILLING CO, OF CANADA LIMITED Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Saint John, Halifax vor ule . SNOW FARY has touched her wand to every Biscuits when FLOUR n touched by magic"'-- from high grade Manitoba hard ich good cooks love because it COOPER-SMITH CO. 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