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SERIAL STORY-
BARGAIN BRIDE
CHAPTER XXI
KATHARINE HAVILAND-TAYLOR
"I'm awfully sorry for you, Mies will quiet any idlo talk there may be. The last thing Elinor wished that Stafford," said the clerk, leaving. Iler I don't want anyone to know the reh- answering smile was a trifle twisted son for our marriage. The world morning was the further strain of
misunderstand. It might seeing Barrett Colvin. He had, with despite her effort to keep it genuino. would a blunt, inconsiderate strength she"Thank you," she answered. People possibly see me as a hero instead of a word kind but kindness would not buy man who merely happens to be honest had not dreamed he possessed, over-
drugs,
comfort and ease for her enough not to want to rob others. It ridden her suggestion that he should wait for the interview until her father father. He must have the right might see war as a girl who sold hers. self instead of a girl willing to forget wax better. As she said those last treatment, his chanco to get well.
Barrett Colvin's telephone call had herself in order to Bomeone else. words her voice caught.
"I must see you," barrett repeated. come Just after that.
She received him in the drawing
He paused. Ho saw her draw a "It is important for both of us
"I don't see how it could be, Mr.room. She had not been able to step deep breath. She looked remarkably into the library since she had seen like a little girl who is balked at her
Chinese rug lessons.
"The Thropes and their boys, your father...” Barrett reminded slowly.
Colvin."
*** explain that. I wouldn't the blood stains on bother you unless it was really no-that, light in hut, showed them cessary. He had not meant to lat clearly,
"Miss Stafford," she heaol Barrett bitterness creep into that last sen- tence but it had, in spite of the desay and saw him bow. She murmured fences of will that he had erected something, vague.
"I'm
gong against it. Well, since she enjoyed toying with aging hearts it might ment, please,"
Sho settled after his words and amuse her to laugh at their stiffened
to a chair facing her. dropped
have a business proposition make to you," he began bluntly.
"Yes?" she prompted. "A proposition that is will be entirely one of a business nature, Will you keep that in mind, please?"
was a silence. He broke It by saying, "I'm coming to sea you immediately, I'll only stay
4 Low moments, Will you see that I am ad-
I'm mitted?
asking because it's only really necessary!!
"Yes, I'll see you for a few mo ments, Mr. Colvin," she promised after another brief silence.
"Yes,"
he
to
help
•
She whispered, I don't know--" Sho held a finger against her lips and ho noticed that her hand was trembl
to sit down just a moing. For a fleeting space and against his reason the old tenderness for her returned. He was shamed by the emotion which
ho mist,
bo felt, wholly hhysical. How it persisted!
"All I'm asking." ho said, "In that for
a year you will. in rublic, conduct yourself as my wife. You will have to forego, for the time, the admira- tion to which you have been accus- tomed
Sho
smiled a little at that but he "I know, Miss Stafford-I have mado a point of learning--that your did not understand her smile.
"And in turn," he continued more "Thank you," she heard. She put credit is almost exhausted and that down the telephone. Benson stood your father's business was on the weightily, "I give you my word that waiting and she knew by his delected vergo of collapse before this-ac-I will never raise my hand to touch look that something else of a trouble- |ckient." some nature had come up.
It's the druggist, bilsa Elinor, Benson stated miserably. "He won't leave the medicine unless it is paid for
Hor rounded chin went up with a little Jork. He saw this and went on
wiftly, smoothly.
"I know and you know that Miss Elin Sexton's will was unfair to your father and to your relatives, the Thropes!"
you except before others. We may have to masquerade a little before there. You can have my word that you will be safe and that I will de everything to make the situation as easy for you as possible."
He saw her moisten her pa, hesitate.
Benson appeared in the broad door.
Purse in hand she hurried to the foyer where the delivery boy waited, B a trifle insolent because of his instruc. Hons, She could still settle these small charges. But the two nurses the doctor, the endless needs made by a critically sick, patient how would sho manage to pay Buck bills?. She hind talked that morning to the one clerk in her father's age office, fother's decaying broker with the righting of that unjust will. Elinor nodded and his gaze followed stammered that ho I want to give back to the Thropes a swallow on the rounded, soft column needed his salary. He had two little the money they should have had and of hot throat. For a moment she girls and a wife who was not well, need. I want to give your father the closed her eyes. Ile had his own bills. Ellor had
"I'll deal with him," said Barrett, that will help him in his chance money dropped to a chalf rather too sudden- to get well. I shall never touch a cent as a small, rotund man appeared in |ly, talking with him.
of the money left by Miss Sexton. the door. Unless you help me It will go to chari-
bus I don't blame you " way. "It's that Mr. Streeter again, "That doesn't matter. What you Miss Stafford," he said apologetically: and I feel about blame or anything "He pushed past me and refuses to can't matter in this affair we must go. He says he must see you. Ile discuss. It's entirely a cold-blooded, won't wait emotionless affair which has to do
money really belongs to the Thropes and your father."
She said nothing.
"How are things at the offles, Metica in no particular need of it. The Gerould?" she had asked. "Bad," he told her bluntly, though his eyes wore sympathetic. "You see"," ho stammered, "so many people were "You can help me right a tragic waiting with the expectation that wrong.
Barrett went on, "You can Mr. Stafford would be remembered
give your father his chance to get rather generously in Mias Sexton's woll, give peace to the Thropes and an will. The place is alive now with education to those three boys. Will folks trying to collect what they can you
do thia?" went down, and saw the line this **How?"
collector?" Barrett asked.
(To Be. Continued)
morning and turned right around' and By marrying me," he said slowly BLADES
morally
came away. The rent's overdue two She lost colour and he went on hastily months. The collector: let it go, "I'm asking you to live in.my house hinking
as my guest for one year. In that She moistened her stiffened, drying Thropes the money that i
I know," she answered dully way I can turn over to you and the lips. "How much did my father owe if not legally, yours and theirs. It's you?" she asked. She eculd not let the only way to rectify the mistake of that go. The man had worked faith-your aunt who unfortunately was fully for her father for years. De-sound of mind, if not of heart, when sides there wore ปล two small she made her will." daughters and his ailing wife.
"But why for a year?" Elinor ask She paid him his salary with a ring ed brokenly. She was oddly dizzy and worth twice the amount and $20 from disconcerted. her purse.
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Trallat from coughing
"Because," he answered, “a year
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