The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 21, 1932, Page 3

ion, 20 Barbara amy and sa atarh eeately, chile married ‘em together, are five days, ‘hou fark 18.4 cripple and often cruel. It was making yang Farrell Armitage’s fortune that bankrupted the firm, yet Farrell has fallen in love wi Barbara at "at sight, and ines to win her from Mark, ally in tho venture ts the James. Barbara has eeoted har attempt to remake thes fire ie Mark’s room, wes he laughs, Chapter 9 ‘ BAITING BARBARA, aes Sharam rearranged the fire, kneeling before it to hide the feolor that swept her face, then re- ‘sumed her seat. She knew better than to chatter |to Mark but his hard stare discom- her and she picked up a sheaf drawings from the floor and be- jgan to examine them. She. was bending over the third before she \realized that he had probably left ‘them on the floor on purpose. They were in pencil. and they were ‘brutal. They followed the fortunes of a man and a girl—a lame man and a girl with a plodding, peasant soul: They showed the lame man cooking a meager dinner’ while she, tall, square and frowning, battled with her ledgers. Or he—in: & boudoir cap—wedt fwhile she glowered,, three ie coins upon the table hétween Or he sat, his shoulders | timialy jhunched, winding yarn, his, lame deg propped up to hold thé skein clear; and she tinkered at some bookshelves against the wall. Barbara, cold by the crackling Jog, closed her eyes. Often, with ‘Mark, one had to close one’s eyes fora moment and fumble back for things—betiefs, vows, endurances. They came in the form of pictures, Mr. ‘Lodely, coming through. the garden to turn Mark's tear-s| sulky face to his; Mr. Lodely re- linguishing him and Jaying his hand Anstead on her curls. ) 3 who “Babs, 1 want you to promijee| something. I’ve got to go fi ‘Until I come back, tike care Mark. Take good'caze of him, Bane And then, three minutes Inter, the, sound of the shot .... And then there was her own mother, fading gently out of before her husband had been ato year in his grave, “Never forget that it’s dignified to earn and just to take. 1 planned, you Hee to keep a little shop. Perhaps whep you're a grown-up .girl,:.my. you'll like to keep a Tittle et ep “Thisis naughty ot Rage she protested tranquilly. a brilliant. You're always a Peo sear «We eal tie ao ee i Mant when you're most unkind.” “It’s not unkindness, it’s the c of thé sensitive spirit.” Me’ flick @ cigarette end in the direction ie -~ grate. It was not extinguis! nd she was obliged to put it into'the fire or it we ahd burned a hole in the hearth-rug. “Judy has been telling me: see ee mace eoccccccccccvceaceocs when I'm in love with them. “But, generally, they refuse.” She felt the blood scorch her face. She was not jealous. It was not that. It was that there were so many rumoi about Mark and his affairs; there was a very nearly substantiated story about Mark and Leila’ Cane—; and somehow Barbara could not | bear that curious coarseness in Mark, that laid these things bare. | +++ She dames her control with | an effort. “There is’ still time for me to fan into line with 6” She, said quietly, “Say, w ie in your mind instead of—-of Ing me into say- ing it, That's—vulgar.” i She knew, as she used the word, that if. was the wrong one. To ac- cuse him of vulgarity was to strike home, and under the smart of aaie- served blow, he could be devilish, She stumbled on and made things worse, _“T fhink, we shall have to decide | tonight, one way or the other, be- cause if you don’t want to live in Toxeter I ought to close the shop there and accept that London con- tract—” He giggled. “Beautiful Barbara, how could the whims of,a. foolish, coy_creature like me be allowed to interfere with Big Business? And, by the way, how was business today? Isn’t that the question that every loving help- meéet hurls at the wage-earn- er, before he—I'm she falls ed Ro Sead F Bones” nothing. “She need not, surely, him to torture her. The ‘inhouse need not stay alive to amuse the cat. She wondered, dazedly, for | she was tired and sick at heart, whether Mark would kill her one day. . .., He haa shifted over to one side and was w, Mark could thake ening. - She found herself breaking it, at- ter all, She told him how business Packie how she hoped it would be. etting him, for @ moment, she into tho future, calenlating, silence so fright- eit that will always be theré.” | Be Boe Itell you? I spent it” Fin Dake ong helpiees, popes as shied to 4 too sensitive,” he went on, “kd Th the f must be. Am I, Barbara?” “Not about stupid, conventional) emeral ” she sald cautiously. ¢ often, in this kind of conversa Se ed one helped to.dig a pit for oneself). “Not about ‘stupid, conventi things,” ‘echoed Mark in toned of} admiration. “And how stupid the! eonventions can be only @ Jolly, Bohemian sou! like our Bar- ean ever know. Now I come think of it, we shall be bowing to @ very Soong convention next ee tors cot was. atill pis Go whe? put’ oe “Would you fing married, Mark? As pre ean quite well wait abit, ‘E aff— we can’t spare tinie for honeymoon, anyway.” “Postponement of sentence? 1a Father get it over, my dear.” She was goaded, in spite of the ook Patient years, into & flash of | “If you're even remotely serious| a An what you gay, let’s call it offt {We can go on being close friends—” “Thank you!" Ob, thank you for Rhose kind words!” “—nothing need be changed. ‘But, after all, it was your—your sugges tion, originally. You—asked me to fo marry you.” He Ut another cigarette. “Bat, beautiful Barbara—golamn, (hard-working, sensible Barbara—I always ask women to aiarry mé ra she did not like eee ita + peek who emerald it it ts a tae to find foot tk in her the he fain to strike the smile and flung out a not go to him ioment—give her a moment vont mort pao that he had flung swould be Pavan ee ee ag appealing. A moment dnd ‘would ‘be able to take his “Batbiita, don't shut your face up tke Don't lock me out of your jthat! 1 won't be a beast I'm damned sorry—" ent, ina moment! When deep, one mast beg just ent— come over here.” She turned stiffly, still not look- inget him, She would have gope to hipi, of course, bat at that moment the door opened and Mrs. Lodely came in, followed by the man who had pulled her back on to the pave ment in the Yarn Market. (Wopyright, £938, Julia Cleft-Addams) Sarbard, tomorrew, does some- thing ghe wn never oe able to pe pOCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN 20 WEEK * B. SMITH. Agt. eeeeccoveses rs. in this little town! ing the fire. Only | , Bo, ne for their living | topay | ies to ee Basketball Game Friday | THE KEY WES? CITIZEN OLD'LETTER SHOWS UP BENJAMIN LOPEZ Evening At High School! petra, coto—A ietter post | FUNERAL HOM e|| | Arrangements have been made} jfor a basketball game to be played} on Friday evening at the high school gymnasium, between the! Alumni team and DeMolay cagers. The former team is composed} almost entirely of , former . high! school varsity players, and an ex-; cellent exhibition of the game is looked forward to by the many, who contemplate Senne aecistereo, “Now all we need,” Puff exclaims, ' “is p snow To fill out our picture of Yu!e- tide.” And so. , The weather man comes to his res- | cue posthaste | 'And piles up the drifts till the reach Pufty’s heal | U.S. Senator David A. Reed, of | Pennsylvania, born in Pittsburgh, | 52 years ago. | U.S, Senator Lynn J. Frazier, of North Dakota, born in Steele }Co.. Minn., 58 years ago. Trenee Du Pont, Delaware man- ufacturer, Del., 56 years ago. Edward Hungerford, noted New York author, born at Dexter, N. ;¥., 57 years ago. Jerome Alexander, noted New ) York City chemist, born there, 56 years ago. “|, ey, one of Presi- dent Hoover's secretaries, born at| | Harrisburz, Pa., 47 years ago. Dr. Edward C, Elliott, president of Purdue Univers Indiana; born in Chicago, 58 years ago. | Dr. Edward ae noted Prince-| ton professor of the classics, born} at Jacksonville, Ill., 66 years ago. | Walter F. Wyman, noted Bos- executive, born there, Joseph Stalin, the greatest pow-} er in Soviet Russia, born 53 years ZO. Today’s Anniversaries | Racine, famous jtragic dramatist, born. | April 21. 1699. French | Died 1696—James E. Oglethorpe, English general and philanthropist, | ‘founder of Georgia, born. Died} in 1785, | _t pare ‘ £1795—Robert Moffat, famed| {Seottish Congregational, mission-| ary to Africa, born. 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