Show HER OWN GWAY WAY cA C A GIRL 0 o BARRY DARRY CRONWALL'S LL'S WIFE It lt was wa the only Wll way I could write It Joan Barry Cornwall said I 1 I did Intend to get rooms on dl- dl dif different ferent floors and register resistor you OU un under tier der an assumed name But I found that that suite suit were the tho only rOoms In the house that were unoccupied and as the Inn preserves outside conventions It had to be Barr Barry Cornwall and wife wire You You will at least let me juS- juS jut Jus Justify myself by saying that when you went Into your own room and locked the door I did not even kiss kl ayou you good frood tIght night At that time you see I had not thought that this an- an annoying an annoying circumstance would como coma comoto comoto to pass pillS Why should It make any dif difference ference whom you register as your wife No Ko one would know that th the tho woman was WIlS I Yes Joan he asserted Some dome one does know I By ny a curious fortunate or un unfortunate in- in I fortunate circumstance the man man- manager man manager ager of the Circio was wu In the lob lobby by by of that house house- that night and stepped Just inside the door oC or an another other room He recognised recognized us both I sometimes think he ho fol followed lowed ua uj Intending Intending to to blackmail us For many times since he has baa want wanted ed mc me to ask uk you to pay for that page of ot damning evidence which I carefully cut from Crom the register as soon lIoon as I found out that he had seen us Something h he had forgot forgot- forgotten forgotten ten to do or you would have heard from It before this this this- Last night the manager ot of o the Circle Cirelo Inveigled me Into a card game In which there were three or four of the he richest youn young men In town I lost fifty thousand dollars and on the Impulse I went Into the tho theother other room and signed a check checkwith Checkwith checkwith with your stepfathers step name It was then that I decided that YOu and I would bo be married at least gO through the ceremony for tor that Voa was the way only I could see myVa my Va way out I knew your stepfather would do anything to get rid of ot me Your Insistence upon having a witness to our marriage upset all my plans for of course I had no license A A friend was going to Im- Im Impersonate Im Impersonate personate the minister Conse Conse Consequently you OU must get me out of the mix mix up up My eyes ees must have havo been wide with horror for Barry continued I really wouldn't do this Joan well but well you see tee It If I dont don't get the money by tomorrow night night- It Is prison for tor mo me and Im I'm desperate Get that money I must and got get It I will The stork Is coming to my house and Im I'm not going to let m my child claim a criminal for tor a 11 father It if I can help It Jud Judy I do not believe that I could again feel what I felt at that moment The agony and horror of mind was too great I think It has haa dulled my brain for tor evermore When I heard Barry arry say that his wife was going going- to to- to have havo a 0 baby and I remembered that he had been making love to me mo for many months well well-Oh well Oh I cant can't descrIbe It It Does Lela Leia know about a-a-about a a us I stuttered Yes of or course but she know knew it If was wa business We Ve e had to live She shared In oney from Crom the first in tact fact she ehe he got the most ot of It it poor girl Copyright 1926 by NEA Service Inc TOMORROW A Girls Girl's Murdered Faith |