| Show I I 1 lie he Marriage Trifler S By HAZEL DEYO A Copyright 1920 by P Public Ledger Co I BARBARA IS LONELY Barbara Knight marries Keith Grant the most eligible man o oC her set and settles down to married life with no very ref real idea idea of of what marriage marrage is She wants to go right on it over society and never takes into consideration tion Hon the fact that Keith may have his own ideas about marriage The result is that deprived of real friends at home and forced because of his love for Barbara Barbara Bar Bar- bara to lead an artificial kind of a life 1 Keith turns to other friends and Katherine Kath- Kath Katherine erine erme Newbery his hs private secretary is the means of introducing him to an In Interesting In- In circle of people Barbara hears of ot his friendship with his secretary and entirely misunderstands mIsunderstands' She has no one to turn to in her unhappiness and she realizes just how how- shallow ar are most of her friendships Then one da day she me meets ts an old friend of her school days I CHAPTER I Barbara studied Elise as she faced laced j her across the table S It was the same j Elise fiery interested in life and as uI i I she feared still scornful of the leisure i classes Barbara looked at her with I I em envy She wondered what she herself would have done if she had suddenly I I I i been deprived of at her source of livelihood as Elise had The waiter walter came and I I served them deftly Over the hot scones Barbara urged Elise to tell her more Where do you live and what kind of oC I work worl do have I you jou ou she asked eagerly Elise smiled You must have a far I more exciting life than I 1 have Barbara I 1 suppose you jou ou still have all kinds of of admirers ad- ad I I 1 remember you did at school and I 1 know j you ou live in a dizzy whirl of ot otI IA I gaiety with no time at all for for- your our husI hus- hus I A band 1 I I i I I i r J I j j I I I Barbara flushed and a stab of pain at the truth that lay behind the light brought back her unhappiness It was true she never seemed to have timer time for Keith It lt It made her uncomfortably conscious of ot the fact that she herself was very much to blame for his attention attention attention atten- atten tion to another woman I get up at Elise went on without waiting for Barbara to speak I have an apartment downtown with another girl and we take tale turns getting breakfast I 1 am at the office at t 9 I 1 began there In a very small Job and now I have a It small desk and very avery a very small smaIl editorship I 1 make male 40 a week weel I suppose suppose sup- sup pose you s spend pend as much as as that on fripperies S 5 Keith gave Barbara an allowance and besides that she h had d a certain sum of ot money that her father had given her when she was married The sum that Elise made seemed ridiculously ridIculous small to her in fact she did not see how it was possible to manage on it She had a great deal to learn and she wondered at ather ather ather her own eagerness to resume this this' friendship friendship friendship friend friend- ship with a girl who had always scorned her at school as one of ot the Idle rich But A. A that at she was eager caser to to be friendly with Elise was true Somehow she the felt that Elise could be trusted I Whom Thom do you jou live with Barbara asked after a moments moment's silence Nancy Fair Elise returned sh writes if 1 f Not Nancy Fair who wrote The Eddy Elise nodded nonchalantly How splendid She is splendid You'd like her Id I d like to lo meet her Barbaras Barbara's tone was more wistful than she realized It touched Elise with its sincerity She liked Barbara more at that moment than she ever had before in her life but she was wary of her emotions and she said In matter malter of fact tones tones' hav have to look us up sometime Oh Oh Id I'd love to There was no mistaking mis mis- mistaking taking the sincerity of or this Barbara opened her imported bead bag and pulled out a little little- silver sliver memorandum book bool a silly inefficient and expensive looking bauble with a little silver sliver pencil attached She looked across at Elise expectantly and Elise told her the address And now I must go Elise said brisk brisk- I ly lv Barbara glanced at her little jeweled jeweled Jew jew- wrist watch and saw that it was late much later than she had thought She called for the check and paid it out of a roll of bills and the two girls went out into the street Twilight was falling tailing in New York twilight in spring which is almost as romantically lovely in the city as it is anywhere when one is happy happ J 1 suppose y you wouldn't C care to come e t a and see rte rhe Barbara r said laughingly g n l I Elise was was- quick with her reply I have so little time you see You look us up first and then we can talk it over over j Barbara nodded and watched Elise hail haila hail a bus Then she was alone with the life Ufe I of the city swirling about her She had never felt so lonely in her life She hailed I a taxi and ia In doing so reflected ro n 1 n that I J V vuu LU to noe in taxis This fact tact made her suddenly ashamed Taxis and little luxuries of that kind she had never given a thought to they were like second nature to her but on 40 a week one would have to I give a thought to every penny spent She determined as she rode home through I the lighted streets to go and see Elise I very soon She wished alm almost st humbly for Elises Elise's friendship It was Barbaras Barbara's first experience with humbleness in any I I form if It she had but known it Tomorrow Tomorrow leanor Arain Agam |
