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uying Barbara
hy JmUm Cleft-Adalaau Aar mf-yov can-t maut
8TNOP8IB ! The targe fortune
Bir James Cane took from Bar
bara yeare before ha been re
stored, and Barbara hat divided it
equally between herself, th1- Canee,
and Mark Lodely and hie mother.
Mark ie a euacesaful London art
tat; Barbara a successful London
decorator. Their lono-standlng en
gagement was broken and Farrell
Armitage, wealthy Londoner was
Baroara's announced euttor. Now, .
without warning, a newspaper
. prints the news that Barbara and
Mark will marry. Leila Cane, who
lovee Mark, reads 'Ye article iust
at she starts to work.
Chapter 48
BARBARA'S 8URPRI8E
MARK and Barbara. After that
first swimming moment In her
mother's room Leila had felt noth
ing emoUontally new abont ft.
There had been so little hope, real
ly, that Farrell Armltage would be
able to come between them, dbe
bad not seen him since that day
of climax, nearly a year ago, when
he had pushed the emercld Into her
hand, but Patsy Baonl spoke of him
: sometimes.
Bhe went np Malavle's dark stairs
and Into the room where sue had co
leare her hat She had taken a cab,
and her eitravagancs had made her
almost the earliest arrival. Bhe
walked through the empty, sunny
workrooms and through a door let
tered "Miss Quentin." She knew
there was a telephone there, and she
thought It would amuse ber to ring
np Barbara before she left home.
"Wish her luck and all that,"
' But Barbara was sot at ber hotel;
he was here In the big, bare room,
She leaned, palms dowuwand, upon
pile of sketches, her pose absorbed
and Intent, her eyes blank..
"Oh! Sorry!" said Leila.
Barbara started and smiled. The
ketches toppled and she straight
ened them before she spoke.
' "You're early, Leila. All Weill"
"All excellent, thanks. If you
don't hear glowing reports of my
progress. It's only because I don't
eem to be making any." She paused
and added, "I came In to nse your
'phone In your absence, as a matter
of fact." '
"Breach of discipline," twinkled
Barbara. "Good thing I'm her to
top you."
They regarded each other easily
and pleasantly acr.ni the littered
table.
"Well, I hope you know what 1
: would bar said to yon on the
'phone," managed Leila a', last. "1
don't know why It always Mounds so
much thinner done face to face.
But there yon are I wish you hap
piness. Both of you."
Barbara lifted her head sharply.
The movement brought It Into shad
ow, and lmmudlately the silvery gold
deepened and darkened, wave upon
wave. Her eyes darkened, too, and
grew wary.
"I don't understand you. You
speak as though I I'd choaon."
"Well, according to the paper, you
have. Your engagement Is an
nounced to Mark."
"But it can't bel I didn't send
any announcement to the papers,
Leila shrugged.
. "Well, someone did. Mark, prob
ably. You'll have shoal of congrat
ulations all day, I don't doubt." She
turned away, moistening dry Hps,
"But " began Barbara. She
looked suddenly very young, a slen
der, bewildered child In a dark frock
"There's a mistake," she Insisted
"It Mark announced our engage
ment, he did It for some reason of
his own. I haven't said I'd marry
him."
"But you are going to. Aren't
you?"
. "Why need I marry xnyboly r I'm
happy as I am."
, "You needn't, but you will. You're
I that kind. Men Mark's kind and
.Farrell's kind will always want
you. And they'll badger you until
you get desperate and marry any
one. Malavle, Ltd." '
The tension relaxed. Barbara col
ored, glanced towards a door that
led Into the great man's sanctum.
"Oh, he's thought of It, toot" com
mented Leila shrewdly. "Well,
there's one thing, you'd And out at
last what his real name Is."
Barbara gathered up the pile or
ketches and took them to Jacques
Malavle, Ltd, who, like herself, bad
started work at six o'clock that
morning. In a room even bigger
and barer than hers he now sat with
the morning papers before htm and
removed a plnce-nes from his schol
arly countenance as he asked wheth
er she had finished.
"Yes. And I think you'll be
pleased. But I won't come ont to
breakfast with you after all, If you
don't mind."
"You must reuah food. You had
a heavy day yesterday, remembah."
"I know. But I've some private
business to attend to this morning."
She pointed to a paper open at the
social column, "1 didn't authorise
that announcement, Mr. Malavle."
"Not" Jacques Malavle, ltd.,
like Leila, was not Impressed by the
denial. "Ah, well, the day will
come, nevertheless." He added with
genuine dignity, "You know how
greatly you could honor me it you
would crown our collaboration"
"It Is I who am honored," she re
plied. "But It Isn't possible."
Jacques Malavle, Ltd., allowed a
smile to lift his austere lips.
"I congratulate you," be said, "on
having ah definitely eliminated
one of ns."
Barbara saluted the little joke
gratefully and went back to her own
room. She put on outdoor things
and ran down Into the sunshine.
Beautiful, these October days!
And on the thought there came
scurrying the ghosts. Autumn in
the west country the wandering
leaves, tbe snap of bracken under?
foot, the swelling murmur of tbe
sea. And for tbe first time In more
than twenty years she remembered,
here In the dirty little London street,
that on such a day as this she bad
promised Mark's father to take care
of Mark and that she bad bad in ber
hands a ball, a gay, big, bouncing
thing. Her fingers curved, remem
bering it.
Barbara found her thought Inevi
tably swinging from Mark to Farrell,
keeping his steady course, confident
and powerful. Barbara told herself
that If, after a year, she could not
choose between these two men she
was answered. She was not meant
to marry at all.
Old maldT Old maldT tapped Bar
bara's heels on the pavements. She
shook her bead, protesting. She
loved ber life, the life of these last
twelve months, but just because she
loved It she desired Its fulfilment.
"Good-morning, Barbara!"
She checked and turned with real
pleasure.
"Mr. Freret How In the world
could I bava passed youl 1 Oh, I am
so glad to soe youl I suppose yon
are staying at Brandish Place with
Farrell?"
Well, I thought I was." The
bright eyes snapped mischievously
at her. "But I'm not at all sure now
that I'm not staying at Brandish
Place with Mark."
Barbara looked amusedly at the
distant pile of Farrell'a house, just
visible from this part of the Park.
"Ah, a year ago you would have
apologised for him," commented tbe
old man. "You would have rushed
to his defense."
"He doesn't need defending any
more."
"He never did; but you wouldn't
seeltl Now let us just alt down for
a tew minutes on this sunny bench.
Don't say. that you haven't really
time to stop and talk to me, because
I know nobody ever has. Were you
going to Brandish Placer'
Yes. I have a bone to pick with
Mark. About the announcement be
put In this morning's papers."
"Well, then you will be disap
pointed, because he Is not at borne."
"Where Is be, do you know?"
"I understood him to say last
night that he was dining and sup
ping with Miss Patsy Baoul. Let
us hope," added Mr. Frere noncom
mittal, "that her hospitality will
Include a morning paper, too."
Barbara watched the vicar's stick
tapping and churning there In the
Ioobs earth, a poor substitute tor his
pond. ,
Mark doos almost everything de
liberately," she said after a while.
"He guessed I should came straight
to Brandish Place this morning, and
I expect he wanted to ehow me"
She broke oft, retreated along the
orderod line of her thoughts and be
gan afresh. "I broke with him, yon
know, because I felt I bored him."
"Go on."
"It was wrench for me. It had
been so many yeara that I'd loved
Mark. And Farrell saw It and didn't
want me to feel rejected. So he
promised me he'd make Mark want
me again. And be has."
"Things very often come too eas
ily to Farrell, " said Mr. Frere.
It was my money, at first," went
on Barbara, painstakingly elear
about It "When I could afford beau
tiful clothes, when I could afford to
be amusing and careless and really
young, then Mark wasn't bored with
me any more. Then 1 bought a part
nershlp In Malavle's; I thought Mark
would call that stuffy of me and
drop ma again. But he didn't. He
Is spoiled. He can't bear the thought
of my marrying anyone but him;
whether he really wants me himself
or not, he can't bear it And ao for
the last year ha has"
"Wooed you," suggested tbe vicar
as she hesitated. "A very pleasant
old word. I wish I could find as
pleasant a one for his breakfasts
with Miss Raoul."
(Copyright, Ills. Julia Oleft-Adiams)
Barbara makes, Monday, an Im
portant oholoa.
SOLDIER WHO SERVED
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NATIONAL SOLDIERS' ROMS,
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funeral servloea will be held here
today for Henry M. Brlnkerhotf. 70,
who served with General Ouster in
the battle of Pie Little Big Horn,
PENDLOTON, Ore., Feb. 8 VP)
Mrs. Ulla Kirk, prominent wheat
ranch operator of Athena, and Mrs.
Armanda Van 'Landlngham were fa
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Home Economics club will meet at
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. (P) The
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main by the establishment of na
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