Show I. I The he Marriage By HAZEL DEYO f. BATCHELOR I p. p Copyright right 1920 by Public PubU Ledger Ledger C Co I I I I I A A LUNCHEON EON I. I When Barbara married Keith Grant it meant to her one more triumph in a brilliant career for all her life she had had everything She liked the brillIance brilliance bril bril- liance of being leader in the younger set she saw only the glitter and arid tinsel of society without stopping to think that there was nothing real about it It Keith L wanted real friends and as it happened Katherine Katherinc Newbery his private secretary appealed to him as a friend She liked I Ithe the things ho liked hiked and her friends were the people who did things She was aswell as aswell I well bred a as R Barbara bara herself and had I II gone gono to college Keith eith liked her and L I called caned at her home but he never saw her alone Neither did he tell Barbara about knowing her for he felt Celt that she would Mould not understand CH CHAPTER Barbara left the tire next day for the motor trip which was to last three weeks and Kei Keith j settled down to life at the club He rarely went home t tot toj the apartment It never had seemed like home to him and now with Barbara out of it It was less like home than ever Even his denh den with h its correct appointments P seemed to g igl ii him too gorgeous r u toe artificial r it- it had no lived in appearance There was no air about it of people who lived H in it It lacked the atmosphere of the Newbery living room for instance with its chintzes chintz chintz- es Cs es its candle light and its ha glistening mahogany ma ma- mahogany hogan with people in comfortable chairs Interrupting each other in their eagerness to talk Keith had never taken Katherine anywhere anywhere anywhere any any- where In fact he had never seen her alone It II was a feeling of or loneliness that Impelled him to ask her to lunch with him one da day and Katherine went with him outwardly calm and serene but Inwardly more excited than she would ha have haye e believed believed believed be be- possible She tried to analyze this feeling in the taxi that they took up to the old French hotel which was one of Keiths Keith's favorites but she could coula not She knew however that she was not in love With Keith It wasn't that at all She was too sensible her upbringing had been too well balanced She he would not have havo allowed herself to become interested in a a. man who belonged to another r wom worn an She liked this first touch louch of ot the personal personal per per- between herself and Keith He wasso wasso was wasso so gorgeously self-possessed self doing the right thing was second nature to him She Slie felt protected looked hooked out for when I she was with him and when they reached the hotel and he nodded carelessly at I several veral acquaintances and the waiters walters all rushed to do his bidding it seemed very pleasant to be the Center enter of at at- at traction i They had a a. table near the window and outside spring was creeping into the city A soft little breeze drifted in to them and Katherine sat back and let Keith order expensive delicious dishes for her No matter when or where she ate she always ordered meals with a due regard to their cost In the spring for tor instance strawberries and asparagus were out of the question and In the winter hothouse fruits and vegetables She never exactly missed having ing expensive expensive sive dishes it was simply the tea that she could not have them that subconsciously subconsciously rankled Now she sat and ate anything that was put be before Core her re regardless regardless regardless re- re of cost Keith opposite to her wished for a mad moment that she was Barbara and then told himself that Bar lIar bara could never take the time e to lunch da t y with him at noon She had a a b breakfast a Fa lunch at 11 and did not lunch till till nearly nearly 2 unless she had to go to a big luncheon of ot some kind Keith and K Katherine Katharine were on such suh good terms that quite freely treely about anything that happened to interest them The They were in the midst of ot a heated discussion discussion dis dis- dis I when a n. waiter hurried up to the next and t smiled table ld Pd pulled deferentially F e out fan a chair into officiously the blueeyes blue blueeyes eyes of a very er pretty e i girl She h was fol- fol followed lowed by a man a old enough g to oW be her father He looked slightly dissipated and there was an expression about his eyes eves that Katherine did not like Keith was not facing facin the table but hut Katherine could not ot help looking at the interesting couple The rhe girl irl was exquisitely dressed and had fluffy blonde hai hair Sh She th rew threw pet half I a tinkling mass of ot old gewgaw gewgaws I upon a n. table lable a cigarette case a a. coin I purse a vanity case and several other things suspended from a gold chain I She loosened her furs and picked up the menu meru with a spoiled little jerk When hen I she had ordered she flung it aside and looked coolly and appraisingly around the room What on earth did dd you ou want to come here her for Kendall Katherine heard her hersa sa say saS' Its FO co stupid and arid conservative and not a bit smart Katherine could not hear bear the mans man's reply He was fitting a cigarette into a. a a jade jade- holder and he looked across at the girl with narrowed eyes Katherine leaned across the table her eyes smiling and said to Keith Theres the the most most sophisticated young girl at the next table that Ive I've ever seen in my soy life Ufe She's bored at everything nothing inthe inthe in the world orld interests her and she's with an impossible man who's old enough tobe to tobe tobe be her father Keith smiled and in a a. moment or two turned sideways to see the girl better At that moment she half turned turn her head and Keith started The girl was Eleanor Knight Barbaras Barbara's sister Tomorrow Tomorrow Recognition Recognition and th the th-e result I pend if Mr F b bad had not call calico ll ing to order orde b by bt threatening i to Squirrel Mr Mj Chipmunk or his supper If Jf they did not Mr air Fox again asked about abour offered b by Mr Chipmunk for for sH and if it Would accommodates a aas as big as aa he was tl b l Mr ar r. r Chipmunk H. H t. t u large g enough O o h f for Mr i For i brainS and apologized for speak Mr Wildcat up an TEa sail sure lure he had the very place for t tings togs ings that un under r the ledge idge of Of r rhe ro rohe O Ohe he had his his' den there ran bac bad into into- the solid soUd rock it was lai laito larg to hold them alt all and al the be protected from the le he weather 1 i aIr Mr Wildcat I a added that t he ty w whis his home o was Waa a bit l untidy a d c hered that a few tufts of ot fur furs fur's X lives of Mrs airs Cottontail were about as well as asa a beautiful furi fox fax but but- lie hoped this would o i roI O minder of ot the uncertainty r woods woods' fJ fJAnd And so SO it was waS' tha thaM meetings of 01 the Four Paws Pas lull b bJ bd held ii in the cave back of ol M home 3 Each member as he the meeting felt that so IO far fara iu was concerned there wo woe beautiful tails left behind to color to the back yard dooryard o I Icat cat tOi rm Continued Tomorrow CO Copyright tSy 1920 bv by the McClur paper Syndicate a New |