| Show lne he Yie Marriage Trifler By HAZEL DEYO Copyright 1920 by Public Ledger Co BARBARA lUShES HIDES hER IIER FEELINGS Barbara a Knight before r her marriage J 10 1 i to Keith Grant looks upon p marriage as Just a necessary step to a woman s success in life lire That it means adjusting adjusting adjust adjust- ing log oneself to another persons person's wishes sacrifice of oneself occasionally never ply accepting life as her set accepts occurs to Barbara Barbaa at all She is sim- sim it it she is a marriage trifler Keith is real and wants real friends The ceaseless round of trivial pleasures bores him he wants a home and a wife and he lie gets instead a beautiful woman whom he rarely if IC ever sees alone and a a. showy apartment In his office I there Is a girl of a different type Katherine Newbery with whom he be becomes becomes becomes be- be comes friendly Keith loves Barbara but he likes Katherine's companion ship There Is nothing wrong about his feeling for her ev even n when he takes her out to lunch one da day but Eleanor Knight Barbaras Barbara's sister sees them and andI cf cC course misinterprets the entire I thing CHAPTER Eleanor looked at her sister sitting In the now chair opposite her and hardened her young oung heart There were many reasons why Barbara ought to be told and not a single good reason why she Eleanor should keep still With quick determination sh she said suddenly Barbara theres there's something something- I think you ought to know With the words out of ot her mouth words that she could not recall sn she was vas suddenly frightened Barbara had looked up quickly a a. slight alight frown between between be ho- tween her brows Her I first words were Eleanor darling youre you're not In trouble of any kind Eleanor 1 or shook Ol her e young head d impatiently Oh no o its it's nothing about t me Its It's about Keith Barbaras Barbara's look of amazement was very real Keith she gasped out lIes Hes not ill ill Oh surely Eleanor you wouldn't wait walt and tell me like this You would have telegraphed me Oh what Is it Barbara dont don't be foolish Keiths Keith's all rl right ht at least I mean hes he's not ill but theres there's something you ought to k know ow about him Perhaps you OU know I already alread in that case its it's all right I Eleanor stopped You talk so mysteriously please goon goon go so soon on dear what Is Js It Did you know that Keith was Interested Interested in In- In In another woman Eleanors Eleanor's s stone tone torte was unconsciously melodramatic Kendall and I saw them at lunch to together together together to- to gether last Friday and when Keith came over to our table he was all flustered Something seemed to catch at BarI Bar- Bar I bara heras a s heart a a a. Veen leen r l little pang of fear I t I the first r intimation il I I of real e suffering i She Sho was not narrow if Keith had taken one ono of her own friends to lunch she would have thought ht nothing of it t. t but there was something ominous about the way Eleanor told this thing something some some- thing thinS that made Barbara sure sura that there was more to this than she knew Sh She Sho summoned 1 every ery bit hit of pride she had to her aid and smiled Well Wen It isn't so strange that Keith took some one to lunch Is it she said lightly Ive had lunch with other men and Im I'm sure It didn't mean that I loved Keith any the less hess Yes but hut you had lunch with one of Keith Keiths Keith's s friends some one who knew You you were WerA Keiths Keith's wife Keith was havI hav- hav I Jr-j Jr lunch with his private secretary There was a note of triumph in the way Eleanor said this as though h it I were an announcement that couldn't tail tall to arouse some emotion in her sister alster I A wave of pure nausea swept over Barbara and she felt suddenly faint That Keith with his hie-h hie Ideals about women Keith who had bad loved her so sowell sowell well could do anything of this kind meant much more than if he ha had been beena a man like Lawrence l B nham for In- In stEnce who Tho tl thought nothing of having I a flirtation with flirtation with any pretty woman he happened to r reet Over all an this sick feeling however was vas one other feeling predominant Eleanor must no not I know now how she felt Eleanor must not know Whatever there was between herself and Keith inus mus kept in that way and If he ho took her heart in his own I two hands and broke it into little pieces no one should know how she suffered Well VeIl theres there's nothing so very strange in that is there she heard her own voice saying Men Ien have been known to do such things and Keith may have had good reasons for It U. Eleanor stared at her sister I never knew but one reason she said a little spitefully Eleanor did not know it but underneath her surprise at Barbaras Barbara's cool manner was a vague disappointment She had looked up to Barbara In spite of herself She Sho had thought of her as loving Keith as she Eleanor leanor was not capable of caring for any man Barbara rose and set her teacup I carefully on the glass tray of the tea tea- wagon She felt the need of or doing something Hundreds of questions trembled on her lips hips things that she wanted to ask Eleanor but she must be careful not to let her suspect the thereal thereal I real l state of her feelings Suddenly kS th th lIn she knew that to ask light questions would be the best way of masl masking her emotions What was she sho like Was she pretty pretty pretty pret pret- ty she asked and she actually laughed Well I must say she is plain Eleanor Eleanor El Et- eanor admitted And of ef course she isn't the type of girl who would attract the ordinary man because she isn't a abit abit abit bit showy She Is exactly your opposite opposite site dark hair and eyes a and d an olive skin She and Keith Koith were talking ing and laughing and having the best kind of ofa ofa a a. time Thc They seemed to know each other very well To lie be continued |
