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Show I BUYING BARBARA I 1 By Julim Otft-Addamt Is that Lodely toln tmrnr tlr. I believe . Found aeene-m aeene-m to finish eM tat him, I shouldn't "II lust areas to ma, aald the tnan-ger, tnan-ger, look Isf ea gasa, "Thai there are MM arange peel on the (top wtwi I cam hi thU afternoon. 60 after him, wtll you end make fur that ha get peat M all right" . The heed clerk soft tha room without with-out rejoinder. Ha went, unwillingly. Into Um lobby end Kill mora unwillingly unwill-ingly Into tha kail. Mark baa' already closed tha main soon behind him. ana tha alark, fumbling Irritably with hi sheaf eg paper end disinclined to to out Into Iha nma at tha October evening, turned back Into Iha hank. I rarrall Armltagw end" King Millar Mil-lar ware taking atock of aach ether through Iha auturaaj duak, Armltage bstemc award af Tha scrutiny aa aoea aa ha tloai j tha Uppar Mallard vlcerag rate bahlnd hint and started am tha hill Into Iha town. A paestng laborar atared end. lower down, a f irl pushing a Dor-ambulator Dor-ambulator full W washing glowed bar para; af tha center where enen thara had b 1 1 ia a candy ahop, thraa lounging youth In capa pivoted aa their haala to poor after Mm. I Armftaca did sot flatter klmeslf that It waa either hla beauty ar hla brawa that draw attention, nor aran Iha tagoad of kla wealth atraf ha trevele nor hla tnisreet la Leila Cane, daughter af kir Jim Casse "auger4 Cana thrice mayee eg Iha town and once ntoinbot af parliament foe Klnaa Mallard. No. Kings Mallard eured barauaa. m a war, ba waa a etrengee and atraBfara had to ba aUrad at; and bacauaa In anathac wy ha we not a rtraarvr, being ealy Iha tnen-etae edition edi-tion mt Iha allanl, add )Vraar-ol4 wha had lived alon at parson at Uppar Mallard for nearly a year. Let aaa now. wasn't It to Iha aama autumn Mr. Lodely ahot himself. Ihal Iha boy tottf No, twac tha year before, aural. And aa forth. . rarrall walked an. frowamt Ka told kurnalf thai ha had not aama back to tha west aouau-T hafora thla be-aaaaa be-aaaaa tha tricar af Uppar Mallard, hla ana tntlmata friend, aa greaUy aa toyed vlelling him to London. And iaa for kla avoney. af llnaaa might kava made K bul la Ita torn It aould mesa I beauty lot Iha mete ph yak-teas giaea j tangle IhaU And e tor LaUa Mark Lodely haa a mlshep frame I row thai Influence half a aoroa lives. imurni I Unable la fare ruin. Samuel Lodely haa ahot hlmaalf. Lionel Wuentin. hM partner. Ilea dying. Only Jamee Cana. of the firm of Quentln, Lodely A Cane, rem tine matter at blmeelL And ha haa dona nothing to diatingulah hlmaalf In anyone' eyee unleaa the jlelegram Mr. Lodely aaw him (tuff unto hla wallet meant anything. Three lonely children are left pennilea by the amaih: Barbara Sjuentln, La I la Cane and Mark Lodely. CHAPTDI 4 MARK IN A MAZE There waa electric light la King, Mallard, twenty yeara later, but It had not coma to Iha bank. The bank waa Utlll III by gaa, which flared and made .duty patchee upon the calling. ' Under the badly placed globec tha clerk, at and Inacrlbed rowa of figure, end jleaaly In their ledger. I To the eccentric perception of Mark 'Lndelr. the long row, of figure were. any fun at all. aaw ar aid," aald Mark coldly. It waa character letle at hla that, although arevared to anna Mia Roop aa aavagely aa aortal ruetora would tot him. he did not anticipate for ana moment Ihal aha would withdraw with-draw her offer to tinkw hla total. He reached for but crutch and. aa tha head clerk d iaa ope red Into Iha aaaar ger'i room, (lid aft hla ftooL "Maw, you know quite well what 1 meant that II I tha young lady walling wall-ing for you that haa got the aaw fur," Impered Ml Rood, walking atraighl Into tha enub. "On af theee dare 1 hall he coming to your wadding, I aa-pect aa-pect "Not la any rapacity," duoented Mark and made hi way with aurprle-Ing aurprle-Ing agility between the linee af daakj to Iha door behind which waited kla coat and hat The manager rooked tra from hi work a, Mark crutch tapped to and fra In Ihe adjoining lobby. ladder, lifting people to wealth which he aummarlaed aa freedom or forcing them downward to poverty, which ha deeignaled quite briefly a hell. . . . Mark set under the last gas-globe, gas-globe, farthest awsy from tha door, farthest away from the girl and by tha float tally farthest away from the manager 1 room. Of three advents, Msrk counted thla third tha greatest and beat: tor tha business of getting him Into the sanctum to receive complaint In per-on per-on waa a lengthy one. 80 lengthy and so piteous by the time Msrk had dragged hlmaalf to hi feet and found and dropped hla crutch and nearly ,',lipped going round tha head clerk desk and finally sunk eshaurted Into ' the visitor's chair by the fire that ' even the manner tried to Ignore the 1 Incomprehensible mesa Mark anme-. anme-. times made of both tha ascending sod the descending ladders. Instead, tha head clerk had Instruction Instruc-tion that thst poor young beggar. . Lodely. should be given tasks mono to- nou In their llmpllclty. "Neer through with H. Lodely?" aiked the head clerk In hi not unfriendly un-friendly wy. He stopped behind Mark'a chair and crutinied a total. -Why you're )ust fooling look ee here now, you can " Hm pencil went from entry to entry and finally drew as sure a Una through the whole page as Msrk had ever seen. Presently, he moved on. grumbling, and Mark resumed re-sumed hla contemplation of the val-iue val-iue of the upward flung light Ha began be-gan absently to place the curve of a shadow on paper. . . , "Mr. Lodelv. I'll finish off those totals to-tals for you.u Msrk met Ihe horn rimmed gste of Mis Roop. "I'd Ilk to, I would, reallv. I've cleared w ,11 mine and you look properly tired I alway think you should be excused the overtime work, you should, really you can't stand It" "Besides." added Mies Roop arrhlv. "Mia Tanner la sitting over by the window this evening and she say a certain young lady has been walking jup and down on the opposite aide of the Market from before the gaa was lit And these autumn Bights aren't lanv too warm." I Mark' feeling for Mis Roop at once rose from contempt to pure loathing loath-ing She babbled on, unknowingly. "Doesn't she look fascinating, loo. . In those new furs?" "I didn't know Miss Tinner hd |