Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1933 — Page 15

JUNE 27, 15)33.

Bargain Bride KATHARINt HAWLAND TAYIOk • t93S " €A avice, ihc„

BEGIN HERE TODAY BARRETT COLVIN, buck in New York Alter years abroad, falls in love with 2n-vear-o!d ELINOR STAFFORD Barrett Is 35. wealthy, and has made a name lor himself as an archeologist. UDA STAFFORD Elinor * beautiful mother, has kept the girl in the back- ? round, wanting attention for h.trsclf. ■lda U carrying on a flirtation with VANCE CARTER and constantly scheming to keep in the good graces of rich MIRB ELLA SEXTON her husband* aunt, in order to Inherit a share of the Sexton fortune. Year* before Barrett shielded his half-sister, MARCIA, when a youthful romance ended disastrously. Marcia had a son whom Barrett adopted. She tell* Barrett th*> if her husband ever learns of the affair he will never forgive her. Elinors mother goes to Miami for three weeks When she returns she overhears Barrett talking to Elinor. Realizing he Is about to ask the girl to marry him Lida interrupts Cleverlv she leads Barrett to believe that Elinor has only been flirting with him. does not really care for him. Barrett leaves Days pass In which Elinor does not hear from him. She Is heart-broken NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER FOURTEEN ELINOR refused point blank to go to see Aunt Ella Sexton when her mother asked her to do this. She could not endure the street or the possibility of meeting Barrett there. She shook, refusing, and Lida smiled, noting the girl's show of emotion. ‘So naive!” she reflected. At the end of three long days Elinor telephoned Barrett. She could not keep from doing it. Then came the answer and she gasped: "Is—Mr. Colvin at home, please?” Higgins did not recognize this new version of the sweet voice that had become familiar to him. “Mr. Colvin is out of town for a few days,” he replied. “Is there a message?” He barely caught her stifled. "No, thank you—” For a moment she sat on the small chair, one hand pressed against her stiffened, dry lips, staring at the telephone, seeing Barrett smiling down at her. She had never dreamed love could hurt In this way. Not that she loved him! She told herself fiercely that she despised him ; that she would despise nny one would could so play with another’s feelings. Yet she dreamed of seeing him, of meeting him somewhere and having it all magically understood and as It had been. Os course she had to get through It and, of course, people had been through It again and again; again and again. She knew suddenly that the world was full of people who had loved unwisely and far too well. They had all said, so easily, that Aunt Ella had been ‘ disappointed in love." She herself, Elinor realized, might live to be as old as Miss Ella, now close to 90. n n n BENTWELL suspected that Lida’s w'hite, slender fingers had been in the pie. Lida had not wanted Elinor in the first place. Lida had wanted nothing but the money she felt would be hers through Miss Ella, Bentwell’s aunt. Elinor’s coming had made a tragedy for Lida and she had never ceased to resent it. What she called Miss Ella’s ‘‘meanness and obstinacy” had made for Lida another tragedy. Bentwell didn’t know what.-he could do about it or whether anything could be done. And because he was thus harassed, he drank steadily and more than was usual. At ihe nightly chess games to Elinor’s "Check!” he w r ould say a thick. "Er—oh—yes—swaying in his chair. It sometimes seemed to her that she could not stand that, either, but with other tested humans she learned that one endured what one must. Barett kept feeling that she might call. If she did, he knew he would go running back, no matter what she did or was. Higgins told him that "a lady” had called during his absence. Barrett paused with his overcoat half way down his arms. "I did not know the voice, sir,” Higgins added. "Oh—” Barrett murmured. He refused an invitation from Miss Ella and considered going with the Hatch Foundation to the Gobi again. They were planning some important ex-

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cavations. But he must first settle Gerald and he could not seem to find the proper place for the child despite an energetic search. n n n HE received a note from Lida Stafford, asking that he do her the favor of coming to talk with her about a matter that was important to her and with which she needed his help. He replied saying he would come as soon as the pressure of business matters gave him the time. ‘‘l’m through,” *she decided. "Through with him. This—ends it.” But of course it did not. It increased, instead, her certainty of his falseness and her misery. December was cold and stormswept. Miss Ella caught a slight cold. Miss Smythe excused Miss Ella to Bessie Thrope who had come from Brooklyn for the purpose of asking "just a little help until the first.” Bessie tried to smile. Jim, Jr., had been sick again, she confided. Miss Smythe murmured a remote, "How unfortunate!” and looked pointedly toward the clock. For the first time in Bessie’s life she let her conscious mind reckon Miss Ella’s age and speculate on how 7 much longer Miss Ella could live. "She couldn't leave us out entirely when she knows how we need it,” Bessie thought. Even SIO,OOO would make all the difference in the world to them. She sniffed, blew her reddened nose and set her chin which had been quivering. She made her way cautiously, slowly. The pavements were treacherously slippery beneath their light coating of snow. nun THE news of Miss Ella Sexton's illness traveled swiftly and Lida found a thaw in tradesmen, which she immediately took advantage of, buying tw 7 o new frocks and a hat. Then Miss Ella grew better and was able to sit up for half a day, to come downstairs for a few hours. At the end of a week of convalescence, Miss Smythe telephoned Lida that Miss Ella wished her and Elinor to come to tea in order to thank them-for their Christmas remembrances. The word "remembrances” made Lida smile sneeringly; she had "beggared” herself to get the Shetland shawl and the padded footrest. "You’ll have to go!” she said shortly to Elinor. “I suppose so,” the girl agreed dully. She w 7 as standing by a window. staring out and seeing nothing. "What are you mooning about now?” Lida questioned harshly. "You know as w T ell as I do,” Elinor answered, but in her unhappy eyes was no suspicion that her mother knew more of the matter than she did. "Why can’t you have more pride? A woman doesn’t w 7 ear her heart on her sleeve.” "I know,” Elinor admitted slowly, "but I can’t seem to help it!” She left the room then, somewhat blindly. "Little fool!” Lida murmured. She felt a vague compunction and irritation over the situation. Elinor always had been so trying! Barrett had decided he w 7 ould go to see Miss Ella early that day in order to miss a possible encounter with Elinor or her mother. Seeing either would be vinegar to his wound. At the very moment he was starting across the street Lida said to her daughter, "Well, let’s get it over!” The girl agreed quickly. If Barrett were going to Miss Ella’s he would, of course, drop in for tea. It was a shock to her, therefore, as the butler was taking her coat to her Barrett Colvin’s voice coming from the next room. (To Be Continued)

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"Reading its contents and impelled by curiosity, thcugh I very' weary, I had my chauffeur drive to a certain secluded villa. Evidently I was expected, for in a luxurious room a man awaited me. I recognized him as Prince Alexis Olinska, whom I had met in Hoskow. Recently, whenever I danced in the ballet, I had observed his piercing eyes following my every movement.

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