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iy DAILY nw, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1928 PAGE wiz. BARBERRY BUSH One Girl's Marriage Problems By KATHLEEN NORRIS The story thus far: Barbara Bush Atherton lives with her father and sister Amy in a modest little bungalow in Cottonwood, Cal. Lincoln Mack- enzie, the richest young man in town and one of the nicest, is interested in Barbara, but she shows a preference for Barry du pain, poet and dreamer, Mar- Scott, pretty and sophisti- cated, comes to Cottonwood on a visit, Link's wealth attracts her. Almost against his will he falls in love with her, At the thought of Marianne Scott's becoming Mrs, Lincoln Mackenzie Barbara finds herself unaccountably dis- tressed. On an impulse she and Barry marry and go to his old ranch te live, Resolutely Barbara adarts herself to the hardships of life with her irresponsible husband. Link's wedding if defer- red, Marianne having revealed the exi of a h d from whom she is getting a divorce, Finally Link, realizing that 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 play- ht and he deserts. Link helps a through a long illness and wins from her an avowal of gratitude and love, but not her promise to divorce Barry. In- stead, feeling it her. duty to try to save her marriage, she write Barry, asking him to come home. Then it is discovered that the clergyman who married them is an impostor, so that the mar- viage is mot legal. Barbara is free to wed Link. INSTALMENT 28 That night Link came to see Bar- para and she went away with him for an hour's drive in the summer darkness in the new car. And again they left the car on the cliff and walked across the short, turfy grass above the sea and sat staring out over the mysteriously moving waters, "I love you, You are the most wonderiyl woman in the world," he said, "I love to hear you say so, Link." They turned their faces together, put their kiss tonight was a child's iss, "Barbara, if you could know what it means to me--the thought of tak- ing you home to our house, of hav- ing you always there." / "And if you "could know what Rt' means © me to come." . "I can't get over it, I'm dazed Every little while 1 go back to a week ago, when I was half crazy, worrying, wondering--" "I know," Her voice trailed off in- to an infinitely contented silence, and moonli © and the peeping of the gulls again held the cliff, "Link, isn't it marvellous, the love of a man and a woman?" Barbara asked, after awhile, "I was thinking of that, I was thinking of our brea fasting togeth- er. Always together, Barberry, Im- agine the runs in the car--" His voice thickened; he kissed the top of her hair, "I can't believe that you and I are going to be married." "You're sure you're happy about it? You do love me?" "Oh, Link, too much, How could I help it? You've stood by me in the y darkest hours of my life. I'd Le dead-if it weren't for you. You're always in the back of all my thoughts--there's ncthing else." "Why, I've tried," Barbara began again after a pause, "I've tried my best to get intere. ed .in dad, or Amy, or anything else, during .these days when I thought I had to give you up--and it's no use. Every street corner means you, means the thought of you turning into it unexpected- ly. Every telephone call or letter or man walking along e sidewalk' has == 8 REPAIRIN radao ~ mz WATCHES OUR SPECIALTY If your Watch is not giving satisfaction we ean repair and make it tell the correct time D. J. BROWN THE JEWELER Ofticial Watch inspector for Canadian Naticnal and O:h- awa Railroads. been, you--until it's been somebody else, "Oh, my God," Link said, more in prayer than as an ejaculation, "When will you marry me, Bar- berry?" "Oh--I haven't got that far, even thinking, What about our birthday?" "Our birthday! Christmas evel! Good Lord, this is only August." "Our birthday has te:rible memor- ies, too," said Barbara's rich voice slowly, in the dark, "Well, if you think I'm going to wait for our birthday you're mis- taken," Link said, "Why not right away? Why not a week from today? I want my wife." "Link, I have to get things." "What things?" "Oh, a dress and shoes--Amy thinks you can't get decent shoes in Cottonwood, but I saw some beau- ties in Washington street today." "Did you, darling? And did you stop and think about being married in them?" Link asked, diverted, "Well, I felt happy--I was walking home from church, And I did think of them, a little," Barbara confess- "Well, if not a week--you mean that a month won't really be enough time to get them in, Babs?" "I mean that I'll talk to dad to- morrow and tomorrow night, if you haven't anything else to do, you might come in to supper and have stewed tomatoes and brown Letty and we'll talk about it." Nat more than a month," he plead- ed, "Not more than a month," she agreed. "But I can't believe it," she said again, "I can't believe that I'll be Mrs. Lincoln Mackenzie, charging things to you at shops and having cards with your name on them" And over and over again in the days that followed she said to Amy or her father or to Link again: "I simply can't believe it." Her own tremendously augmented importance was one of the things that dazed her, Cottonwood flocked to the Duffy house, presents and in- vitations flooded every mail. The shop-keepers were gracious, the old cashier of the bank came out to the sidewal' to talk and laugh with the happily engaged pair, all the world smiled on Barbara du Spain--or Barbara Atherton, as the wedding li- cense must read--and Link Mack- enzie, whose wife she was so soon to be, Link's aunt sent her magnificent lace, her mother's lace once, and all her silver, Lucy and Margaret were indefatigable. But the attitude of Link's father was, after all, the one element that gave Barbara keenest satisfactiou. The old man had asked Link's sweet- heart and her family to dine with him immediately upon the publication of the strange circumstances of her supposed first marriage. They had all sat talking pleasant- ly and easily enough through the beginning of the rather imposing af- fair but long before the chicken was served Link knew his girl had won his father and after that Barbara had her own way with him. 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Some of the curtains were still folded, and wait- ing, with brass hooks and rods, on tables or chairs. The beds were not made; but upon the deep new mat- tresses were folded the blankets and linen, There were details of picture hanging and the placing of chairs still to manage; even while they strolled, enchanted, through the whole domain that was scented with paint, varnish and the new smell of rugs and hangings, crates were being unpacked in the barn, and Barbara's desk and Link's dresser were car- ried upstairs and carefully placed in their destined corners. Ready for the desk was her en- graved stationery, boxes and boxes of it, her heavy crystal inkwell and marbled trays and bowls, The clos- ets looked deliciously large and bright and empty; certain fascinating box- es had been placed within them, "I can't remember half the things we've bought!" Barbara said, in a perfect whirl of confusing and happy im- pressions, "We'll take our time opening them all up," Link assured her, It was on this occasion that he suddenly diverted the conversation to the almost forgotten ranch. "Barbara, do you remember that, while you were ill, you asked me to go down to the old hacienda and look about for letters and deeds and things?" i "Perfectly," But she never quite liked to be reminded of the ranch. "You remember that Barry had told you he was giving you the place? Was that before or after you were married?" 5 "I'm not sure. Afterward, I think. It was just around that time. And finally he did give me a deed. Didn't you find the deed?" "Yes. It was made out to Barbara Atherton, though, So that it is val- id." "Even though I'm not Barbara du Spain," she mused, struck. "I sup- pose he either arranged it before we were married, or else was in one of his absent-minded moods, later. It isn't the ranch isn't worth much, 1s it, Link? It's mortgaged, you know, to the hilt. That property never will worth anything." ; be not vy sure," Link said, with the look that Barbara secretly (char- acterized as his "business face," and secretly admired. "It won't be for some time. But Miller and I have had a little scheme about it for al- most a year. As a matter of fact, we had it in mind when we went down there, Christmas eve. We don't want to make a mushroom development of the place, like some of these other places, but we both feel, and my fa- ther feels, too, that it might make a very fine investment. To lay out roads, put sewerage and water in-- "It would have to go slowly, there'd never be anything sensation- al about it. But it would mean a little money trickling in for Kate. year after year. By the time she was a young lady, it'd bg a good nest » 2. » EE iller is working on a proposi- tion to make you now; you to pre- serve a certain interest in the whole thing, we to develop it; and the pro- fits, if there are any, to go to Kate." "Oh, Link, Link--this 1s a put-up job." "Put-up job nothing; it's a straight business deal.. And you might easily do better, if the southern end of the town begins to develop. But, anyway, there's a possibglity there. We'd pre- serve the hacienda, make in into an inn, some day--" "You're the best man in the world, I think. You're so much nearer her --nearer Kate--than her own father." Barbara presently said in an under- tone. And in the room that was so soon to be their study and own pri- vate upstairs sitting room and libra- ry, she put her two hands on his broad shoulders and raised her face to give him one of her rare kisses. The hands of the clock moved on; it was 4 o'clock on the wedding eve, it was 5 o'clock. Link was to dine with his father and sisters tonight, Barbara and Kate would be at Amy's. After supper 'she wouldn't see Link, she would be writing notes of thanks for presents; it would be a quiet eve- ning. She would go early to bed. Dusk was at half-past six tonight. Barbara paid her father, who was in bed with a cold, a daughterly visit, loitered through the Duffy kitchen with a reminder to her good friend and landlady that he was unattended, and left the house by the side gate, to walk the two short blocks to Amy's house. Kate was already there. A man was standing at the gate-- a tall man--waiting for a girl, per- haps. Barbara came near him, glan- ced at him directly in the half light. And then she saw he was Barry, looking at her with the old look, she knew so well, the doubtful, timid, little boy look she had seen upon his face after meaningless quarrels, a score of times. Her heart stood still, and her mouth grew dry, She looked at him for a long minute, quite unable to think at all, much less to speak. He was shabby. But he was still beautiful, the dark eyes burning in his white face, the remembered wing of black hair loosened across his low forehead. "Barbara," he said, in a hoarse voice, broken a little with an awk- ward Jaugh, "I've come back, I'm sorry. The sickening significance, the ut- ter horrifying unexpectedness of it, caused her a wave of something act- ually like nausea. She trembled and stared at him blankly, locking the fingers of both hands together and pressing them over her plunging eart, "Barry," she whispered. No woice soma. She out one hand be- hind her and steadied herself against the picket fence. She had kissed this man, her hand had caressed that wave of dark dis- ordered hair; she had slept through winter nights, through hundreds of nights, with his big arm about her, In agony and weakness and fright she had borne him a child, And now he was nothing to her, nothing more than any other casual passer-by om this dim autumn side- walk, under these gaunt, thinning trees, Tomorrow she was to marry another man, "I just got in on the train; I've not seen any onel" Barry said, "Where are you going? May I walk with you?" Not knowing where she went, or what she said, she faced about, and they walked slowly along together, A woman, passing, gave Barbara a smile, and the man a sharp look, She turned, Barbara could hear her ejaculate "For the land's sake!" as she went on her way. Now what--now what--now what? Barbara's thought ran confusedly, What was she to do? What would happen now? Were they all crazy that they had gone on placidly plan- ning her wedding, while this 'man, who was her husband, walked the earth? (To be continued.) (Copyright 1928 By The Bell Syn- dicate Inc.) PLOT TO UPSET GOV'T OF HUNGARY Members of Fascist Organi- zations Are Arrested Budapest, Hungary, Dec. Charged with planning to overthrow the government, 21 members of rival Hungarian Fascist organizations led by Ludwig Dan and Joseph Schreyer, were arrested. The police said that the two lead- ers had been arrested before for sub- versive activities, They accused them of having created what is known as "the blood league," the members of which were pledged by a gruesome oath to die if necessary in carrying out the objects of the organization. ELY GOLDSMITH ORDERED FROM DETROIT COURT Detroit, Dec. 27--Ely Goldsmith, "Immigration Consultant" of Wind- sor, received a walking ticket from Federal court and a threat of jail when he aroused the ire of Judge Charles C. Simons, Goldsmith's acti- vities on behalf of barred aliens have got him into difficulties before and he lost no time in carrying out the Judge's suggestion that he disappear. Goldsmith, who has maintained an office in Windsor and spent his time finding loopholes in the immigration laws of the United States, was in court in the interests of several of his "clients." He had a lawyer who was attempting to appeal several cases, Each appeal Judge Simons denied. Finally, seeing the lawyer was get- ting nowhere, Goldsmith rose from his chair and started toward the bench. It will never be known just what he was going to do. Before he had progressed a dozen feet a com- mang from Judge Simons stopped im. "You are not a lawyer. What are you doing before this court?" Judge Simons demanded. "You will find yourself in jail if you ever give me the slightest ex- cuse for it," Judge Simons contin- ued before Goldsmith could say a word. "You get out and stay out," the judge roared. "You're nothing but a meddlesome busybody, shaking poor people down for large fees. I never want to see you here again." Goldsmith got out. Two weeks ago Goldsmith was ar- rested in Buffalo and charged with perjury in connection with state- ments he made in the Court of Ap- peals at New York in an immigra- tive case. This action is still pend- ng. BELGIAN KING TO PARTICIPATE IN HOO- VER DEMONSTRATION Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 27--King Albert today annonuced his intention of participating in the Herbert Hoo- ver demonstration planned for Jan. 19, by Belgian "friends of America," in honor of the President-elect and his work as chairman® of the Belgian Relief Committee. ROUGH WEATHER DELAYS LINER Halifax, Dec. 27--Rough wea- ther encountered all the way across lengthened the trip of the Scandin- avian-American Liner Oscar II. by one day. The liner arrived this af- ternoon from Copenhagen and Oslo. Among passengers for New York is Count Sigsmund von Rosen from Denmark. 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