Show Marriage Trifler Trifle By HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR V I V Copyright right 1920 by Public Ledger Co l I A STARTLING ST AM OU CEMENT Barbara Knight who all her hr life had everything she wanted marries Keith I Grant Gant the most eligible man of the season It looks as though Barbara Barbaa 1 were going to keep e r right l on having II her hei eo own way and 1 it t is her ambition i to be a great geat success socially Marriage Marriage Mar Mar- however as an institution means nothing to Barbara her Barbara her r ideas of life are are too light She is not selfish fundamentally fundamentally fundamentally funda funda- I mentally but life has given her too much Se believes that husbands must mustI I be led by their wi es wives and n she is aided Je Jeb wk 1 and I abetted b by y Keiths Keith's h loving society 0 t I mother Keith in the meantime is I not interested in an anything thing he does although al although al- al I though he is madly in m love with his wife It is is' isa a dangerous thing when a man b becomes comes Interested no matter I how platonIcally In another woman be besides heI he- he sides his wife and quite unexpectedly Katherine Newbery Keiths Keith's private secretary V proffers an interesting I friendship V CHAPTER TIT When Katherine Katherina reached home that I night after Keith Grant had invited I himself lf to o one of ot the Thursday nights i sh she found Bog Craig ensconced in a aI abig I big upholstered chair cnair o on on one side of I the the table while her he mother sat on the theother theother i other side placidly y mending some someI I fragile old oid lace The center lamp cast castI casta I a rosy o glow over the soft hf h mahogany rh rho o aso U I I The Tho room was very much the counterpart counter counter- f part of Keiths Keith's idea of ot a setting for forI Katherine Katherine kissed her he mother and I raised her eyebrows impudently at BobHer Bob Her look said plainly What are you I doing here I Bob Dob r responded quickly Your mother j asked tasked me f or dinner V Katherine Katheine went on into her he tin tins I little bedroom which vas done in yellow yellow yellow yel yel- yel- yel low chintz She had made the curtains I nOd and consisted sl covers of herself some Z I old lt and pieces the se ll picked furniture k u up second-hand second and painted The effect was fresh tresh and dainty however and Katherine Katherine turning on the light by her he table dressings smoothed her dark hair tried to to- decide whether to change her clothes or not and decided in the negative nega nega- tive She went back to Bob and her mother and dropped Into a chair Tho The fact tact that Bob tob was there excited no comment from her lIe He often dropped in to dinner informally and he and Katherine always always' V sparred at atI leach each other ollier briskly Tonight she had I news new to o tell teU them them and and it gave her a wicked little feeling of excitement to think of telling her news news' to Boblie Bob lie fl flun flung down 0 his newspaper and r lo looked at her her with slightly narrowed o eyes Well he queried quert V next Guess who's coming to our Thursday night night Katherine announced dramatically Mrs Newbery looked up from her sewing Bob continued to look at Katherine Katherine Katherine Kath Kath- erine with narrowed eyes There was wasa a new excitement about her that was unusual He Ste Heas was as curious as to what had caused it Keith K Grant Wh Why Katherine came In Mrs Newbery's New- New berv berv's berys bery's s soft boft voice Bob did not speak Im I m sorry for him Katherine said quickly t J think hes he's fine and splendid did and a real person lIe He wants to come very much Why are ae you sorry for him 1 Bob asked evenly Oh Oh because from the tha way he spoke I think society bores him I know howit how how- it would bore me that eternal round of entertaining and being entertained of always trying to outdo someone else But how did you vou happen to be talkIng talking talk talk- ing log personalities with Mr Grant Mrs Newbery asked Youve always been so 50 particular about choosing friends lout out of your business life Well I don dont don't t l know now how we did get getto to talking Katherine Katharine said honestly And of course mother molher I didn't make any resolutions concerning Mr Grant himself I think Its It's Interesting that he wants to come here hee and it will do him good Dont Don't you agree agee with me Bob Dob V VAnd And Katherine turned h her r eyes to Bob meeting his squarely for a moment and surprising a look in them which Instantly vanished Bob was studying her and the thought that had been uppermost In his his mind V was vas that she was utterly lovely In spite of her Independence she was the most of women her very s severest tailored all suits sut o only ste vedero ge served to make t her more so sp Bob b thought it quite likely that KEi Keith Grant might be attracted toward Katherine In his own mind he could not see how any man could help himself and of I course she had said very little about I Keiths Keith's marriage Bob being a news- news V had no very ery great faith InI in inthe inthe the modern marriage He had seen I too many announcements come out in his own paper followed a year later by notices of a pending divorce He HeI I was not any more cynical than the e ee newspaper e man an In ra fact not nearly s so cynical fg as many a y but t nh he I knew life and he was a keen Judge of ot human nature That was what made him a success In his work How can I tell Katherine he said finally I 1 dont don't know the man man manOh Oh hes he's a dear Katherine s said ld en enthusiastically en- en Having everything hasn't spoiled him in the least Her eyes became softly reflective as though I she remembered something pleasant in inthe inthe the Keith It conversation slid and sa Bob Dob g she continued tI had d' d V had to d wl watch with I her ber narrowly V j I lom Tomorrow lisa II-i An Advent Adventure are I mid Doe 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