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THE OSHAWA DAILY 1IMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928 PAGE SIX EE HE bs Ct At Ms 8 ME Al He Ale MBL FED SB 2 SEL SEL : story thus far: hea Bush Atherton lives father and Sister Amy in a t little bungalow in wood, Cal, Li Mac- the richest puns man in and one of the nicest, is interested in Barbara, but she shows a preference for Bary du Spain, or and dreamer, Mari. anne tt, pretty and sophisti- cated, comes to Cottonw on a Link's wealth attracts her. Almost against his will he falls in love with her. At the thought Marianne Scott's becoming Mrs, Lincoln Mackenzie Barbara herself unaccountably dis- On an impulse she and marry and go to his old to live. Resolutely Bar- adapts herself to the hard- of life with her irrespons- usband. Link's wedding is Marianne having re- the existence of a hus- from whom she is getting oree, Finally Link, realizing it is his money she wants, breaks their 'engagement. After two years of marriage Barbara is a tired, over-worked mother. And the restless Barry seeks amuse- ment away from home. A rich woman in San Francisco offers to send Barry to New York and pay 'his expenses there while he is getting his start as a playwright he deserts, Mackenzie helps Barbara through a long .illness, pays her such constant attention that they are the subject of much gossip, and wins from her an avowal of gratitude and love, but not her promise to divorce Barry. INSTALMENT 27 Link acted, from this time on, ac- cording to no code. If he could have thought at all, he must have thought of his father, his faith, of Barbara's bond to Barry du Spain. But he had long passed the state of being able to think, He lived wrapped in the conscious- ness of Barbara, and in that alone. She was there, the slender woman with the coppery hair, there in the old Duffy house, walking to Amy's, walking to school, and his one desire was to be near her always. One August evening. about two weeks after his father's return, he walked in Mrs. Duffy's garden with Barbara, and she asked him not to see her again, For the present, any- way. "Other people do it," he pleaded. "Get divorces? I know. But that would break my father's heart and probably kill your father. Don't let's talk about it." §§ 1000 ST. NORTH BARBERRY BUSH One Girl's Marriage Problems By KATHLEEN NORRIS "Barbara, they'd make an awful fuss for a little while. And then, when they saw how madly happy we were, 'they'd forgive us." And after a silence he added: "You can't love me or you would- n't be able to be so cool." To this Barbara countered pre- sently : "I'm the one whe can't stand it, I can't eat--I don't sleep. I don't seem to be able to sleep. It's like--being burned alive." He caught her to him, kissed her; he felt her unresisting in his arms, There was no response from the beautiful, fragrant lips. "You make it very hard for me," she said simply when she was free. "Barbara, you are made of iron, I think," Link muttered in despair. After a long silence shé started walking slowly toward lights, voices, toward the porch. "I have to be," she offered reso- lutely. "Would you feel differently if we got in touch with Barry, if he didn't mind?" "I've written Barry." "You asked him if he would fight a divorce?" . "I asked hint--to come home. No, Link," Barbara said more forcefully, with the new sternness that had de- veloped in her so lately, ™it's all clearer to me than to you--expiation, sticking it out, the need for facing the hardest thing there is to face. It's what I have to do, I've heen weak in my life and careless--perhaps my marriage was weakness and care- lessness, I don't know, I know that there's a man to whom I and my child belong. I can't throw them both over just because he has disap- pointed me." And, as if to confirm her words, from the house, black, tall' and squared with lighted windows against the warm summer sky, there came a voice, "Mrs, du Spain! Bar'bry! baby's awake!" She flitted from Link's side in the She was gone. * ¥* *% Your darkness. Watching Cottonwood noted that the friendshjp between them cooled to merc acquaintance and the local paper regularly predicted the return to town of Barry du Spain, whose "Napoleon [IL" had been one of the artistic successes of New York's the- atrical season. The word "artistic" was perhaps inserted to explain the fact that Barry's play had been per- formed but eight times and had clos- ed after exactly one week, The paper generally added that Mrs. du Spain and daughter Kate would probably return to New York with the play- wright in the fall. And Barbara allowed herself only onc "weakness. Sometimes, when she knew herself safe from observation, she walked past the Mackenzie house and looked in upon its white brick magnificence, bowered in great trees, and thought of Link as a little boy there and found, with her puzzled, Mash and make 16 Celina St. Do Your Hens Lay? With cold weather coming and not much sunshine your poul- try need cod liver oil. We have the best on the market in any quantity you want. Feed our Superior Scratch Grain along with our Laying thoughtful eyes, the windows of his big room. And then éne morning, just before the 1 o'clock closing, he appeared in her schoolroom, : 1 but there was an odd light in it and a strange shining in his eyes. | is face was pale, "Barbara," he said, coming to the desk and ignoring the score of star~ ing. little children as if they did not exist, "don't let me frighten you. I've got news|" | She sent a quick glance toward Kate, contentedly marshaling weaving straws on a slate, : "Barry?" she whispered, "He's all right--I've not heard any, thing of him, that is" Link said, "But suppose I told you that you are not married to him at all? Sup- pose I told you that you are not his wife?" : She looked at him with a faint frown, displeased. The room began to go around, fd say that you were crazy, that's al " "it's true," Not married to Barry? But what nonsense! Barbara was frightened, not know- ing whether to laugh or to ery, Link caught her hand tightly, reassuringly, and had hardly loosened his grip when she dismissed the children and went with him bewilderedly to the street, The whistles were shrilling 1 o'clock, it was a sunshiny autumn day, mild and hazy and sweet, At the gate she hesitated, spoke dazedly. "Dad--TI'll have to see dad, He's at Amy's today, I think." Link's car was at the school gate, but they left it there and walked to Amy's, only around the corner, Bar- bara was breathing hard, her eyes looked bewildered. She did not speak. 5» Amy and her father were at the lunch table, Without preamble Bax- bara, sitting down next to her father and catching his hand, said in the vague, puzzled voice she had used be- fore: ; "Dad, Link just came up to school. It seems--" She frowned and stopped and Link, transferring Kate from his arm to a seat and sitting down himself on Prof. Atherton's other side, took up the story. "I scared Barbara, maybe. But I --" his yoice broke upon an embar- rassed and excited laugh-- "I got hold of some news today that knock- ed me flat," he said. "Barry?" Amy surmised swiftly, as Barbara had. "Not Barry, no, although it has to do with Barry. Amy," Link inter- rupted himself to question suddenly, "you remember that clergyman, she as assistant at St. Rita's?' Amy looked at him, perplexed, looked at Barbara, who was anxiously studying her father's face as he re- ceived the news. "Well, cBrtainly," warily. "It seems," Link burst out, he wasn't a clergyman at all." There was a moment of stupefied silence, then Amy said: "Ward read in the paper, a night or two ago, that he'd been arrested for stealing or forgery or something inn Oakland, but nothing was said of his not being really a clergyman." Another pause. "Why, then, Barbara," Amy pur- sued slowly, with a staring look, "you're not married!" "That," Barbara agreed faintly, "is what Link says. What do you think, dad?" she questioned. The professor rumpled his thinning hair. "I don't know what to think, dear, Prof. Atherton said. "This is a-- this is a mest extraordinary thing! she admitted "that your hens lay. Cooper-Smith Co. Phone 8 {| Amy, where's Ward?" "Oh, that's just what I was think- ing!" Anty snatched the extension "lephone that was never far from! the doctor's elbow. She jiggled the receiver just as Ward's triple honk announced him at the side gate, and beginning to be tr ly excited, , flung the news at him hysterically as he came in. "Link saw in the paper that this man Hutchinson was arrested and he telephoned to Oakland and got some information about it. This afternoon paper's going to have the whole story ' | --for he married several other couples besides Barbara and Barry--he mar- ried the little Prince girl and he mar- ried--" This was Amy. Link interrupted her: Barbara, very white, and cling- ing to her father's arm, did not speak at all. "I not only telephoned Oakland," Link said, "but I went over to Judge Cobb's office just now and he looked it up for me. He says that the couples Hutchinson married are not married at all. And then, about an hour ago," added Link, "I called the Oakland chief of police again and he says there is no mistake about it, they | have the man's whole ; history: he Felt Bros. 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"It makes her illegitimate," Bar- bara said, still in the strange, lifeless, puzzled, mild voice she had used be- fore. No one answered and presently she said herself what they were all eager to say. "Not in any real sense, it doesn't of course. It would be ridiculous to worry about that!" She sat silent, her elbow on the table, her chin cupped in her hand, "One wonders what would be the right thing to do?" she asked sud- denly. "I don't think you owe Barry du Spain much, Barberry," her {father offered, in the silence. "The extraordinary thing is," Bar- bara answered, in a tone more like her old spirited voice than any she had used in months, "the extraordin- ary thing is that, if I'm not Barry's wite I'm--" she spread her hands in an eloquent gesture, arched her eye- brows-- "I'm nothing!" she finished artlessly, she * * ¥ The others suddenly burst into shaken laughter, but it was to be observed that Link was pale and his smile was strained. The look of fear and hope in his eyes made Amy's motherly heart ache. "Exactly!" said Ward. Barbara, mused, scowling faintly, her eyes very bright, "Well, I'm not going to let myself think about it until I know and I'm not going to talk about it!" she said, after another silence during which they all watched her expectantly. And, smiling at them all, suddenly face and mood changed and the tears | began to run down her face. Blindly, her arm crooked childishly over her i face, she got up and stumbled to her { father's chair and sat on his knee, with her arms about his neck,her face ! buried on his shoulder, and her cop- pery hair touching his white . hair. And he comforted her, holding the slender figure tightly and half laugh- ing and half scolding her as she scbbed. "You mustn't cry, Babs, it isn't your fault!" Amy said, blinking away tears herself. "I'm crying," Barbara admitted, in a muffled voice, "for fear it isn't true!" And at this there was laugh- ter again. But it was true, as t. other "Hutchinson brides' found to their confusion. There was some good- natured laughter in the town as they and their partners hurried into legi- timate wedlock, but for Barbara's case a more respectful feeling pre- vailed. Every one knew that she had been badly treated and there was a general satisfaction that she did mot have to abide by the consequences of her unfortunate marriage. The matter of the annulment was simple ; a mere putting on record the fact that there never had been a le- gal union. Barbara and her father and Judge Cobb settled it in fifteen minutes and afterward, rather white and quiet, in spite of her uanques- tionable satisfaction in this wunex- pected turn of events, she and her father, Amy and the babies took the car and went up the old Mesa trail to the mountain-top and spent a whole day there, talking and resting and planning for the time to come. A strange day, a dreamy happy day, set between the hard months that bound her to Barry and the hour that would give her to Link. Bar- bara was silent and abstracted, but Amy could read aright the light of utter peace and content in her eyes. The next morning she went again to Judge Cobb's office and had a talk with hum. And coming out, she Walk- ed to St. Rita's and discussed the with the pastor. "You're as free as air, my dear!" said the old man, who had known her from babyhood and liked her. "You mean morally free?" the girl asked anxiously. "We've had a chi vou know, Barry and I. Wouldn't lt make one obliged to remarry the ther? 'Not necessarily. Marriages are .mctimes annulled,' her adviser re- aded her. "A marriage might be ~nulled because a girl was under ze, for example, I don't believe any- me would expect her to remarry the an, immediately it was legally pos- ble. No, you've been the vietim of fraud and as far as you'r con- srned you acted in good fi... Now rat legally--for, mind you, this ain't uything but a legal question--now hat legally you are free, you're not sound to do anything. The law would hold vou tight enough if the fraud had broken the other way, you may be sure of that!" And in conclusion he came to the door. "Go intg, the church there. and see whole matter, from beginning to end, | man in the parish the minute you say the word!" Barbara went into the church and | knelt down at the altar and cried. But they were tears of joy. (Copyright, 1928, By the Bell Syn- dicate, Inc.) (To be continued.) ' THREE INJURED IN CRASH AT BADEN Kitchener, Dec. 2G, -- Three men are in the Kitchener-\Vaterloo Hos- pital in a serious condition follow- ing an accident at the Baden C, N.R. crossing early Sunday morn- ing, when the car in which they were riding, crashed into a freignt train, Joe Phillips, of Kitchener, driver of the car, escaped unin- jured. 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