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Show THE PROVO HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1922. next Brazilian steamer. I shall have to be a month or six weeks In Rio de Janeiro every year now. Now, I've just been wondering why you and Harriet dont come with me this first trip? We stop at the Barbadoes and Bahla ; It's a magnificent steamer swimming tanks and gymnasium; you'll love it. a ad you'll love a touch of the South American countries, too, a chance to try your Spanish. Why not put off this marriage Idea for a year, come along with me; you'll make steamer acquaintances, you'll broaden out a little omi G'te (POCPHOS bit" "I won't go anywhere I" thai she won't I. know her fa- ther. He won't yield. Hell forbid it ; If she does It he'll not hesitate. against his will, she will have to wait three years for her money. Three years I Roy, she wouldn't be happy three weeks ! Mr. Carter spoke to me about it the only time we ve spoken of He said that he was glad the vmi. affair had ended naturally; that you were not the man to make Mna happy, nd that he would rather hare her suf fer anything, and find out her mistake at once, than have her heart broken, and her money wasted, through several wretched years l" Blondln had listened to this Quietly, his eyes moving from her Hps to her own earnest eyes, and wandering over her animated face. "I count on rou t be my advocate, my dear Harriet," he said, after a mo ment's silence. "Kicnara carter In you; he has great faith In If you represent to your Judgment. him that you believe this to be a wise step all round, we shall have no further trouble" "I can't honestly tell htm so, Roy I" the girl Interrupted. "Can't you?" Blondln said, lie looked across the open hallway to Mna, descending hi fresh ruffles and ribbons, and raised his voice. "Here she is looking like the very rose of girls ! Come on now, Nina, you aren't going to belong to anybody else but ine for a while I" he said. But as he turned to leave Harriet, he added again: "Can't you? Think It over." The girl thought It over with a maddening and feverish persistence that presently caused her a sensation of actual sickness. Vague speculations churned and seethed in the weary drain that could find no beginning and To have made a no end to them. clean breast of the whole mutter months ago would have meant a delicious sense of freedom from re sponsibility now, but then under those would she, Harriet, circumstances have been here now? Certainly, even In the present purely technical sense, she would not have been the second Mrs. Richard Carter, nor would she have held her present position of trust and responsibility. While Nina and her lover murmured on the terrace Harriet brooded on these things, and after dinner that evening she gave Richard so sharp a warning that he sent at once tor Nina, and with a clouded brow and angry eyes briefly requested Harriet to be present while he spoke to her. Nina came at once, with an Inno cent expression on her rather heavy young face. She seated herself near Harriet, and her father went to the point at once. "Nina," he said, seriously, "you saw Royal Blondln this afternoon, didn't you?" And as Nina answered only with an ugly glance at Harriet, the betrayer, he added, "Didn't I ask you not to see him any more, several months ago?" "Yes, you did." Mna said, In a low tone, and with a heaving breast. "I hone, and we all hope, that you will marry some day," Richard said. But you are too young now to make a wise choiee. And until vou are a little older, you will have to take my word for it that such an affair would only lead you to misery and regret." Nina mumbled something bravely. "I didn't hear you," her father said. "I said, I didn't secwhat you could do about it!" the girl repeated, desperately. For a few moments of silence Richard merely looked gravely at his (laughter. Then he clasped his fine, hands on the desk before him, and cleared his throat. "I cannot do as much as I should like. Nina," he conceded, "but I shall do what I can. But first let me ask you : have you promised to marry Mr. Blondln?" Silence. Nina looked at the floor. Richard reneated his nnestlon. "Yes. I have and you can't kill me r It!" Nina said, and burst into tears. "Well," the father resumed, when Harriet had supplied a consolatory murmur aqd a handkerchief, "I'm sorry, of course. Mrs. Tabor carried Otters between ycu, did she? You net him occasionally T "Two or three times," Nina said, snlfflnif and drying her eyes busily. "You know my reasons for disliking him, Nina." her father said. "He Is a nmn more than twice your age; he has a certain sort of unsavory reputa-t'tft- n his affaliB with women. He ai no Income, DO profession, no home; all those things tell against Mm. You're only a child" "I shall be of age Tuesday 1" Nina burst forth, resentfully. , . age Tuesday. True. my ward, as far as Jour Uncle Edward's legacy Is lor another three years. Now, "You will be of But you will be Nina; IT you" perriS Tn this ioTly. against my most earnest advice, I can only forbid the man the house, and lock you In your room ln(the good way. Tltat I shall Jo. I shall then give out to the world that has already had a rare treat at the expense of the Carter family the news of my utter disapproval of the match. If you manage the marriage In spite of me, I shall forbid you and Blondln my house, and as a matter of course use my tight to withhold the payment of your legacy for three years, and stop your present allowance, and your credit with the shops. That's all I can do! And I do It, Nina," said Richard hi a softer tone, "I do It to hasten the Inevitable, my dear! I do It to bring you buck to your father sooner Instead f later ; to give you only one year of disillusionment and suffering, instead of seven or eight!" It must be a brave girl, thought Harriet, who could persist In any course, after that. But Nina had the Impregnable armor of Ignosanee awl pride, and she only sntfC3d pathetically again, and shrugged her shoulders. i "Yjou do everything in the world make my marriage a failure t" she said with the Irrepressible tears. "And I suppose youH be delighted if it Is! And I ddn't see If a woman can man marry a rl,ch man, why shouldn't sometimes he glad If a girl has money! I'm proud to help him out, if he'll let me. He says he won't why, we had planned going well just everywhere, Ilo&oiuUi 'and southern California and just everywhere, only now he won't go ! He says he Is gofag to stay right here, and take a position with an art magazine that he just hates, and work It all off before we go, If It takes years" "Work what all off?" Harriet asked simply and quietly. "This, money that a friend of his really lost, but he has taken It upon himself," Nina answered, a little mollified. "It was eleven thousand dollars, and he has paid off about four, and anyway, I hate so much talk about money !" she finished, angrily. "My dear," Harriet said, as Richard, with a troubled face, remained silent, "It Isn't the money thatwe are worryWhy, ask your father, ing about. Nina! Ask him If he wouldn't write Roval Blondln a check for any sum to day, any sum, If you and he would promise solemnly to wait three years more. You will only be twenty-on- e then, Nina, still such a child ! Harriet paused, glancing at Richard for encouragement ; he nodded eagerly, and she went on: "Marriage Is a tremendous thing, Nina, and the only thing that makes it right" going to say love," Nina broke In, scornfully, "you didn't marry "If you're Father for lovel" "I was going to say mutual understanding and respect," Harriet said, quietly, but the splendid color flooded her face as she spoke, "and you d not understand life, Nina, or men, oi marriage. Royal Blondln Is a charming man, and a gifted man, but he is hn adventurer, dear; he is a man who has lived In all sorts of places, known all sorts of persons, accepted all sorts of queer codes. There are coarse In him. Nina, things that would Your utterly sicken and frighten you! father is right; you would be bck with us In a few months or years, perIn haps with a child, perhaps shattered body as well as soul not free to take up your life again with Ward and and Amy, but scarred and embittered , !" changed the "My God, how that woman loves Richard said to himself, child?" inwatching her. To him she seemed Her eyes were blurred with spired. tears, her voice shaking, and she had leaned over to clasp Nina's hands, and so hold the girl's unwilling attention. "Nina, can't you trust your father that far?" Harriet finished. "Can't youd realize that a man like Royal, emDar-rassefor money no matter If he you, and truly means to admires truly think of you make you happy-c- an't without thinking also of what your mean to generous checks are going to hlra? WUte him a check for eleven thousand, Nina, as delaying the marriage a' year. for Try e Nina, wildly, turning for flight, I'm going to kill myself I" Harriet only waited long enough after her dramatic wit to give Richard a reassuring nod. Then she hurried after Nina. The girl was sobbing on her bed, and for awhile she answered Harriet's soothing touch of voice and hand only with angry Jerks. Then they fell to talking, and Nina confided for the first time fullyTn the older woman. Royal's letters, his exquisite cards, sent with flow ers, the poems he had written her ; here they all were. Harriet sympathized, sfghed, and consoled her affectionately. Presently she was able to suggest a new thought to Nina, one that could not but be palatable to the girl's hurt spirit. "You see, you're only seventeen, Nina," Harriet said, "the age when most girls are still in the schoolroom, long before they have affairs! 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