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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1933.
M&l&iiyiiig Barbara
hj Jmlim artuAMMmm Amikm y-roo cun turn-
Chapter it.
THE 80LUTION
'I 'HERB wag a long alienee. The
A Wear's attck leaned Idle agalnat
his knee. Barbara began to wonder
whether the old man had gone to
leep. When he moved, however,
and eyed her from under the wide
hadow of hla hat, aha saw that he
was Terr much awake.
"What's In the back ol your head,
mj dear Barbara, Is that. In the end
the only reason Farrell has not been
frble to buy yon Is that he has too
nraoh money.
She Crowned.
"Well, In a way.' Yes. Perhaps.
Tea, I suppose his strength Is, fun
damentally, money."
"Then 1 hare a piece of directly
heaven-sent news for yon. Most of
the Armltage fortune went In the
Hetrle crash last week. Farrell Isn't
penniless, but he will have to fight
his way up the ladder again, and as
he waa born quite halt-way np to
tart with he Is going to And climb
ing a very humiliating and bitter
thing."
There was another long silence.
Then
"What did yon say about Farrell I"
Stammered Barbara.
"Oh, nonsense; you heard me
perfectly," returned vicar. "(Jet
ap and run along and And blm: your
brain will begin to work once you
are moving. I Mt him right at the
top of the house packing up a case
of little fancy-dress dolls. A wed
ding present, I gathered, for you
and Mark.
"Ton swear this Isn't pity. Bar
karat" "It Isn't pity.
"Because I'm no Mark. 1 don't
want support. I never will let you
carry me along with your own ca
reer. I'm down now, but I'll be np
again. I'll give you pearls yet, and
I shall loathe It If you can afford
them before I can. I suppose It's
pride, but I'm not used to poverty"
"You gave me a year to learn that
I should be happier married to you
than to Mark. Now the year is op,
and I've come to tell yon you were
right. I want to marry you. Do yon
Still want me? Or notr
' "Do you love me, Barbara? As 1
km yon!"
; "I love yon In my own fashion.
I ean't love otherwise. Isn't it
enough?"
In this empty, room nothing
eemed to register as real and ar
ticulate except, for some reason,
fan-ell's hands. "He Is very eas
ily hurt Just now." Yes, bis bands
were the hands of a man easily hurt
Whereas Mark's hands were strong
and greedy and clever, these were
trained only to physical combat or
to social ease. They looked help
less, now, fumbling with a tiny silk
elad doll. .
"No, better get It dear," said Bar
bara, as though the old vicar were
at Fan-ell's elbow. "Perhaps my
(and ot love lsn t enough for you.
een't pretend, yon see, to be other
than I am. Farrell, that first night
when ws found Leila's portrait In
the Toxeter house you said that
When Mark was well and rich and
enjoying life I should be free to
choose. Bplrlt-tree. That's come
true. But you said I'd choose yon.
That didn't come true until now
that you may have need ot me."
"Then It la pltyr '
"What It It Is? If I can't love yon
ntll I can help you, why should you
be hurt by that? You say you fell In
lore with me at flrat sight, but I
think you loved your own Idea of
what you wore to make mi I am
not like that, I can't be hung with
pearls at the end of your battles. 1
Bust be In the battle, too. And I
think that If all that la ptty you will
just hare to endure It as I shall
bare to endure your pride and ye;r
atuptd little sorenesses.
"But perhaps." added Barbara,
suddenly all gaiety because ot the
aurrender In his empty hands, "you
would like a year In which to come
to see that I am right?"
.
At six o'clock punctually Leila
ceased to be the beat-dressed girl at
Malaria's and, stepping westwards,
became rapidly more and mora out
moded. Bond Street saw her In
definitely last year's garb, and when
a ear drew np beside her as she
waited to cross Piccadilly and a
voice spoke her name she wondered
only which 1 was of the De Capo
dragon-flies that hovered for a mo
ment to tease her and then be gone.
"Get In, please, Leila I"
It was Mark. As she got In she
reflected that ahe had no' sees him
for months. She sank back upon the
pale cushions of his car and, push
lng her hat further from her face,
passed her hands over her face In an
effort to rub away some ot her fa
tigue. "What's the matter?" demanded
Mark, Instantly querulous. "You
aren't going to cry, are you? If you
are, get out again, that's alll Cry
ing women look like hens."
"I'm moved, but not to tears,'
Leila assured him. "I sent my Con
grats by Barbara, Mark. Old you
get them?"
Mark Immediately became angri
er. "Are you talking about tblar He
thrust a crumpled paper at her.
"This morning's paper? D'you
know I've only Just read It?"
Leila eyed him over the top ot her
powder-puff.
Well, another time ask them to
wake and call you earlier, call yon
earlier, mother dear."
He flung the paper to the floor.
"You st-irl foo', I was with Patsy
last night at the De Capo, and we
went wandering oft Into the country
afterwards, I forgot why. Only
came back to St. John's Wood an
hour ago. I've been trying to get
hold of Barbara."
"You sound as though you weren't
pleased that she has chosen you,
after all."
"Chosen?" Mark was livid. "Of
all the biasing, sickening Insolence,
whistling me up In front ot all my
friends like that I"
"Are you trying to tell me that
you didn't send that announcement
to the papers?"
"I certainly dldn'tl"
''But you've been banging round
her ever since your oure, you've
been trying to cut out Farrell Arml
tage, you've been Don't yon want
to marry Barbara V
"Yes, I da At least I suppose I
do. In a way. But when I choose. .
Not when she chooses."
"Barbara didn't send that an
nouncement, Mark. She thought It
was your doing."
Mark gaped. For a moment Jie
looked like bis mother.
"She waa angry about It," contin
ued Leila slowly. "So angry that
she went oft early this morning and
definitely promised to marry Far
rail."
"That's a Hot"
"No. It Isn't And, anyway, you
won't help any by hurting my wrist.
She 'phoned the senior partner at
Jacques Malavle's and asked him to
tell me. Apparently she and Farrell
are going to Join Kenneth Poole In
South Africa. ... Oh, Mark!"
Mark had let her wrist go and was
huddling Into his oorner of the car.
Hla shoulder trembled.
"Oh, Mark, don'tl Are you crying,
Mark?" Sight and sound became
fluid for Leila, merging Into her
desperate hope. "Don't care so
much, Markle; marry me Instead,
we'll hare lots ot fun yet You
won't find me boring, you know."
"Got out I" ordered Mark thickly.
He swung open the door, but he
did not order bis chauffeur to stop.
Leila, her eyebrows very arched,
waited. Mark shut the door sulkily.
"All right!" he grumbled. "We'll
get married, then, and before they
do. That'll be something. Did you
know Armltage has gone broke? He
told me yesterday. Do you Imagine
he sent the announcement?"
"No, I don't."
"Who, then?"
She shook ber head. Patsy?
Judy? No. No. Her. chsotlo mind
ejected both ol them. Mr. Frere?
Just possibly, Mr. Frere?
Then Mark, too, was saying some
thing about Mr. Frere.
'told me I ought to marry you.
not Barbara. So that naturally I
decided I'd be damned If I did. But
probably we shan't have enough
money to stay married long. It's s
Pity you threw away that emerald.
I might have sold It back to Bar
bara."
Copyright, tin, JuHa Oltft-Atdan)
The End
PIERCES TO ATTEND
INAUGURATION RITES
PORTLAND, Pet). . (AP) Walter
K. Plerece, demooratto congressman
elect from the eastern Oregon dis
trict, aald here today he and Mrs.
Pieroe will leave for Washington, O.
O Peb. IB to attend the inaugura
tion of President Roosevelt.
Before the expected special session
of congress shortly thereafter Pierce
plans to attend a meeting of the
democratle national committee of
which he la the Oregon member.
As congressman, he said, he aspires
to a place on Vie house committee
on agriculture.
Drunken Charge
Brings $10 Fine
John T. Adams of California waa
fined $10 In city court Wednesday
when he appeared on a charge ot
drunkenesa. Willis Turpln, who also
appeared before Judge A. D. Curry
on an Intoxication charge today, was
asked to return Prtday tor his sentence.
BOLIVIANS ASSEMBLE
FOR RENEWED ATTACK
ASOtTNOION, Paraguay. Feb. 0.
(AP) The newspsper Dlsrlo today
aald It had learned that General
Hans Kundt, directing Bolivian forces
against Paraguay In the Oran Chaco
struggle, is assembling a new Bolivian
army ot 18.000 men to re-attack Port
Manawa (Ayala).
IMAGED TOO
PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. 9. (AP)
Ranting reds and belligerent Bolshe
viks who praise Russia to the dis
advantage of this government, may
find a moral in a statement Issued
today by R. P. Bonham, district Im
migration director.
John Emil Panes, former editor of
Toverl, Finnish language paper at
Astoria, who waa deported to Russia
for communlstlo attacks on the Un
ited States, has been exiled to Siberia
from Russia because be did not agree
with rulings ot the soviet govern
ment. Theodore Bsuso, another employe
of Toverl, la In a Russian prison
cell because he, too, declared the
country was not being run to suit
him.
1 .
Desirable bouses alwaya In first
clsss oondltlon for rent, lease or sale
Call 108.
&
FIRMS ALL SOLID
PORTLAND, Feb. 0. (AP) If ft
bill before the legislature becomes i
law, the Union, Prudential and Fed
eral Savings Loan Associations of
Portland may be returned to their
shareholders, James W. Mott, state
S'MATTER POP
By C. M. PAYNE
fer i in in., r
POLoTtJe -Awe J f70 V 1 r ft"i '
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corporation commissioner, said here
last night at a meeting of savings
snd loan, and building and loan of
ficials. Mott declared every building and
loan association now operating In
Oregon "la In a solvent and statu
tory condition." Re described how
"racketeers who deliberately scuttled
other building and loan associations"
had been found out and prosecuted.
ROUTS TOURISTS
8ALEM, Feb. 9. (AP) The Jan
uary registration report of the non
resident division of the secretary of
state's office showed that the great
er part of transient travel In Oregon
last month was drifting south to
warmer areas. ' , w
In spite of the unusual cold and (
wintry conditions In the northwest,
tourist permits were Issued to 1.555
visiting motorists last month. Nearly
two-thirds of the total registrations
were from northwestern localities.
The state of Washington supplied
818 visiting cars. .
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