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-- TCE PE INSTALMENT FOUR "Why ig it," Barbara asked in af- fectionate and indulgent reproach, "that you can be so charming on a little picnic like this and when we have a big one you can be so un- speakably difficult?" Barry, sprawled comfortably at her feet, on the warm rocks, wound a fragrant bit of yerba buena about the shabby toe of her brown shoe. "This isn't a picnic, Barberry Bush," he protested lazily, "Well, what do you call it when you take your lunch out of doors?" "I call it heaven, Barberry," Barry answered. "Yes, and it's lovely of you to say so, But why would it spoil it to have others--say Amy and Ward Duffy--along?" "I like Amy and I like Ward Duf- fy, too--at least he isn't a gabbling fool like the rest of them," Barry conceded, "but they don't belong in my heaven, that's all" "And 1 do," Barbara added, un- embarrassed. Barry would always pour out this sort of idealized love- making when they were alone, She liked it without taking it very seriously, It was only lately that she nad been wondering if any real feel- ing lay back of it, "Well, the fact remains," Barbara said, returning to her first point, "that I think Amy is beginning to Saturdays." "Jealous," grinned Barry, not sor- ry of it, "But isn't it selfish of us?" girl said. "When I have you this way to myself you're perfectly charming, and we are laughing like a couple of kids all day, But the minute, any one else is around you the " > a y Be -- ---- TS mt ms BE mS SS SE oa SS TE Lo Lo dani 4 i A TP M herself to say interest in wake know we have more somewhat feebly, ry admitted loftily. exactly seven months you are, mouthpiece o "But you," I wish one else--ever."" 'devotion. Ee ee E vv "But they think we're weak-mind- ed" Barbara offered dubiously, bit- ing a long spear of grass, "Well, we know we're not, minute than they have in a year," "But you see the expression Amy's eyes when we tell them what we've been doing," the girl argued, "Amy's a sweet, dear child," Bar "Baby though she may be, she's Folnger Allah." he said, "you're rare. never had to be with any Barbara dimpled and flushed with sheer happiness. If this was not quite Link Mackenzie's manner of wooing at least it was as close as Barry would ever come to an expression of Barry liked a woman for the quale ities of her soul and mind, Barberry --_-- n pe LJ] 's an We in a mn i A than . together ] . is voice thickened a little, and the black lash- es misted with tears, like a child's thick lashes--"I'd be so d--happy,"" he said, smiling, "But, Barry--they'd think we were crazy, on no income at all" "We'd have an income. I rent the ranch, you know, and that more than pays taxes and insurance--or some: thing like that." Barry explained, his mused, not only for the thrilling [voice suddenly Jrowin fretted and touch of her fingers or the surrender |shrill, as one harassed beyond en- of her lips, durance by business responsibilities. Yet he was delightfully human, | "They pay me four hundred a year too, There was nothing unnatural, |and about two hundred of that's nothing transcendental or affected | eaten up with expenses--and the about his hearty pleasure in the|last two years they've only paid childish joys of life, and ard, was anything but arry; when they wer mands. of Link Mackenzie's That was it, really, Barry was a delicious, companionable, imaginative most appreciate child, And love- making, according to the new stands that, She felt very close to her coms panion today; very safe and sister], d and happy. It was restiul to be with resent my coming off with you on|B e alone gether he himself was obviously and ecstatically happy and made few de- That she should play with him, talk to him, and let him about her the flood of his admiring devotion was all that Barry asked, After last night, with the memory sudden slaught still fresh in her troubled and [$9 You out and out, You'd part--" , "They cheat you. But I'd teach em," Barbara laughed, with her brow faintly lined and her lip bit- ten, as he paused, "Well, my grandfather, my moth- er's father, made a good living on that place," the man agreed, looking at her with all a child's confidence and expectation, "How big is it, Barry?" "About two hundred acres. "Would you let me run the lace?" Babs asked, her fancy play- to- our on- Econom Britain Australia and Sout CANADIAN MARCONI COMPANY Important! MARCONIGRAMS must now be filed at CANADIAN NATIONAL TELEGRAPH OFFICES only gio the Beni fr Accune rope, As ia. h America. So many things said. think ng with the ion, as her dark hair st her knee, "Let you fun it? Why, I'd give it run it, I'd make you out a deed or "Poet A Barbara smiled, musing. "Smocks and sunshine and grapes and candlelight..." said is knees, his face alight, "Do you mean that we might do it? Are His childish eagerness touched her, ind she answered, with 8 new tend. 'Dearest, there are a think about, first, "What would we have to pbout ?" "It would be such fun to give them all the go-by," he said youthfully. cook our meals together, and have the most wonderful times!" her feet, the basket caught up, and swinging from her hand, "Come on, sun-browned fingers played with the have to somethin "Arcadians," he substituted. on JLEbErFYy Bar suddenly | we really talking about something} rness in her eyes. "No, but what--what?" he ~ "Everything, goose." "We'd take walks, and swim, and "Crazy talk, Barry," She was on it's After 4, and I've got to get me, Crazy talk, But she liked it, none the less, It made her step joyously light' and gay; it made her eyes dance with a jirange happiness, as they walked the three miles home. hat was the way a man and a wor man ought to talk to each other, na- turally and affectionately and sir ly, " Ehildren talk, There was noth- ing bu the rest, in this incessant feverish. business of and. A No girl had ever in this world had a more loyal, devoted, jealous, precocious, boyish, amusing and ri- diculous friend than Barry. Fancy being able to go out with him from noon until 4 o'clock, for hours of intimate and affectionate conversa: tion, without i ere On dined at and to X day nights home i i brad, v9id he danger and stupidity in alf |" land still disturbed by Link's elation THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV MOUNT ETNA ONLY | RE-FLOOR WITH SEAMAN-KENT HARDWOOD Nell], [¢ ST THAT 5S MADE t VERY GRADt | go up there, sometimes, Barbara, you've no idea what crazy things some of those tombstones have on them. Then we went on to Soquel, and Marianne--" it was Marianne already, Barbara noted--"Marianne wanted tamales and tortillas--she'd never tasted them, So we went into a little joint there, one of these aw ful places with a spotty tablecloth and bottle of catsup and we all had tamales. By that time, it was almost 6, so I telephoned my sister I would not be home, and we all fooled up and down the street, and went to a fortune teller--I never laughed so much in my life." There was amused and interested comment from the others in the group. but Barbara was silent, She id not like Link in this mood of hilarity; it did not, somehow, sound quite genuine, However jolly and spontaneous the afternoon's merry. making had been, it had been the sort of foolishness that belongs strictly to the moment; it could not be preserved or quoted or shared, Only a stupid person could possibly attempt to convey its giddy charm to others, and Barbara irritably felt that Link was stupid. in thinking he could do so, Evidently he had such a merry tine that he had lost all his usual quiet good sense, "How did you happen to start on this mad carouse, Link?" "Inez telephoned me just before 1 left the office, 3 o'clock, I guess and asked me if I didn't want to come over for some tennis, But when Igot there they didn't have a fourth, and 1 don't know, somebody suggested' that we go around in the car and take a look at the town." "And she's attractive, is she, Miss Scott?" "Well, shels lots of fun. She plunges right fito everything, doesn't care what anybody thinks of her or ow many are looking on, But, say, arhara, I came to get you, We're going down to the Casino." "To the Casino? What's happen- ing tonight?" "Nothing special. But they always have cabaret there Saturday nights, you know." "But, Link, it's so late now, It's after nine." "Well, that's all right. They're go- ing on ahead, Inez and Marianne and Harry Poett, and maybe some other fellow, if they can get one, and you and I are to join them." "Oh, but you don't need me, Link. I'm not dressed--" Amy and her father instantly join. ed him in trying to persuade her to go. Amy went so far as to extend a slim foot, in the dark, and press it significantly against her sister's foot. And Barbara perfectly inter- preted the message: "Don't let her think she can have it all her own with with Link Mackenzie." Only Barry was ominously and sulkily silent, "We need another man," Link re- membered suddenly, "come along, why don't you, Barry?" "Oh, thank you, Link" It was Barry's coldest, ugliest voice, "You're awfully kind, But I don't feel like Barbara added her pleading, Even though. Barry would probably fo the party, where Barry wal . bara Atherton had a s gie-eyed, single-minded, single-hearted slave. Let Marianne cott, who had thought Barry so handsome, who made unmistakable overtures to at the dance last night, thor ly understand that. But Barry wouldn't ge and about half an hour later, Barbara, still feel- ing that this hysterical rushing about 50 late at night was extremely silly, and excitement over his experience of the afternoon, climbed into the roadster beside him and was escorts Lon of Con By the Bell §; right / ell Syn- (Copyrigh dicate, My) (To be continued) EE EE ys TEE I your Rl FEET as Etna's present destructive ts only the first INFRST THROES OF VOLCANIC TURNOL tists Watching to See developments of Present Destructive Lava Flow New York, N.Y., Nov. 28.--Mt. lava flow stage of prompt or of disturbances, ependently the others, and that the activity most of them is intermittent, with paroxysms of greater or less violence occurring after intervals of comparative, or even complete, re- Etna's last serious outbreak was 18 years ago, but that period is a reds of years in some volcanoes, Other volcanoes have active periods recurring in a few years. Dr, Reeds' studies show how the lava flow keeps moving day after day even when its forward speed is only a few feet an hour, Although the surface of the flow, exposed to air, coola quickly, even to permit- ting close approach, the interior re- mains molten. When lava is suff: clently hot, it forms a protecting skin upon coming into contact with water, leaving the molten mass in- side to flow along the sea bottom without other disturbance at the sur- face than steam clouds at the point of contact, In the last flow of lava into the sea in Hawail, swimmers above the lava found parts of the wafer only warm, though in places it was too hot for swimming. Lava is molten rock, There are eight kinds, ranging from fairly light colored rock such as granite, to dark basalt, The granites contain: ing quarts and silica, which is the base of sand, do not melt as readily #8 the basalts which contain a high Bereentags of iron and mangan- ese, The lavas from Vesuvious, near Etna, are basaltic, Volcanic energy, Dr, Reeds says, comes from molten rock 80 to 60 miles below the surface, Lava col umns extend upward to volcanic vents, The force which causes the EMBER 28, 1920 of " Pawtucket, R.I., Nov. 28.--1f the merican ness man, says Rev. Daniel M. Galliher, oh dean of Providence College, "w put 'his ality eating like a cancerous ulcer at the heart of American life." "Educators, nation-wide," the dean asserts, "are alarmed over the ever- expanding. affliction of the flesh, the so-called social evil that lurks and causes grave danger to the manhood and womanhood of our country, that threatens the very integrity of our nation, "If the public would only realize that personal and private virtue is the cornerstone of the nation, that marriage is inviolable, virtue is noble, vice is vile and carries with it the awful punishments of nature, the home is sacred, hodies are ves sels to be honored and motherhood should be venerated," he explained, "America would have the seat of a purer race and the promise of a bet- ter generation to come." Should Congressmen Carry Their Pistols? Mexico City, Mex., Nov. 28, -- A recent incident in the Senate has led to renewed discussion of the propriety of carrying pistols in the halls of congress. 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