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BARGAIN BRIDE Canadian

CHAPTER XXXII

KATHARINE HAVILAND-TAYLOR

"You'll have to pull up or be very ear she had bought the day, after miserable," he stated. "Enay spend her daughter's marriage. "She can't Elinor, wrote Barrett stilted little ing is a habit, you know"

be havin' that husband of her sha notes about the weather, her father's Sho TOSC. With a slow, almost dowed" he mused. "Ile can't get gay, condition, and the routine, of the insolent gesturo she pulled her furthed like he is to his bed and a wheel household. He read them thin, Ho close around her soft, white throat. chair!" Grlor gave up the riddle, could not help it. He carried them "I shall not forget," sho anid, Meanwhile inside Lida had explain- in an inner coat pocket and scorned "that I came to you for help and thated her errand. The sleek Individuni himself for keeping them. He tried you refused melí

who ant hack of the desk had listened to burn them one night in the library "I'm sorry you feel as you do, Mrs, to her tale and written Barrett Col-

burned the Stalford. Can't you see that when I Areplace. Instead ho hand that salvaged them,

asked Elinor to refure you ald I Toward the end of April Barrett pledged myself to do the same thing?" saw Lida Stafford for the first time

"Elinor would not have to know," since her daughter had gone south. "I do not le, Mra. Stafford—” Lidu appeared on a Sunday morning, Her face hardened. She caught wearing a dress so simple a man the implication he had not meant to would call it plain, though to make with his statement. woman it bore the unmistakable stamp of Parls.

She left the house shaking with

vin's name and New York address on that is possible and we'll keep you in- A pad. Now he said, "We'll do all formed, Mm. Stafford. If the faela are what you think they are and Mr. Colvin makes a trip to Connecticut woon it won't take us very long to give you the lowdown!"

Lida smiled. "We usually number those cases,"

...

"My dear Barrett!" she murmured, rage. There was Miss Ella Sexton's the man went on. "For one thing it gliding into the library.

houses across the street. Miss. Ella; makes telephone calls casler. Your Stiffly he took her outstretched and

been influenced by Barrett's case will be-" he consulted records hands. He heard her ask, "Lonely 7" scheming and persuaded not to leave"6072B." and responded heavily, "Very!"

"You must dine with me some night, Barrett. I would so like to know you better!"

murmured vaguely about having to get a great deal of work out of the way. Ile detested woman!

her money as it should have gone. If Lida wrote, "00721" in a spall en- the money had been left as it should ragement, book, murmuring a she have been there would be no need of did no, "Thank you!"

"Not at all, Mrs. Stafford-" approaching Elinor or her husband for loans. The shoe would be on the She rose and drew her coat around ether foot! As things were there her. The man's eyes appraised her the were few chances to even up with running over her slowly from head Darrett Colvin, Unless he had on the to foot and back again. Lida was Lida settled by the hearth. She side some little affair! Lida could warmed, reassured. She had been ag stretched a slender foot toward the hurt him that way, extract from him alone since Vance Carter's "absurd fender. Her ankles were still quito what she wished with the pledge of outbreak." Men had been shy of her. good as Elinor's, he saw happily silence. Who was it who said that She had once or twice felt the threat "1 саме in because I have found he was always running up to Con-of age and wondered what she would myself to be in the most amazing necticut? Why did he go there? do with time and herself-when she position." she began.

Had she hit upon it-the fact that was old. She had no investment that "Yes?" he prompted without en-would level his pride and open his would return peace as the fire burned. thusiasm.

purAC?

low.

She did not realize her lack of resource. She thought only, "Old age is hideous1”

Os

"Overdrawn again! Can you fancy it, Barrett? I simply know nothing of figures! And I can't seem to Jearni"

He said nothing.

"I knew if unor were in town that she'd help me out for a little time and this morning I thought, But what is more natural than to turn to my Elinor's husband? The man whom she go ndores!'!

He opened his cigarette case, offerer her one and lit one for himself after

It cost a great deal. Lida knew, to have anyone "shadower" "but the original coat might prove to be one She left the place smiling over the of het best investments.

mammary of this strange man's sen- She moistened her tinted lips. autously glittering eyes. Her daughter she could find her proud and lofty would have shuddered at their light son-in-law in a compromising situa and struggled to forget it. tion, how who would put on the screwat And someone had said he drove to Connecticut often..

Monday four Lida abroad early. She usually woke about 10 o'clock to bathe and return to był for her break- fast. After that she would dawdle over letters, the newspapers or per

haps a sensational novel. Then came

"Perhaps," Lida mused, "Barrett willi The day was clear, unusually warm, drive up there this afternoon!"

To Be Continued)

Are You Subject To Colds?

Regular ellmination of the waste

lighting hers.

"Mr.

Stalford," he said slowly the fine art of dressing which alwah materials from the boily is the key after a moment's silence, the last took an hour and often more.

the

ather ailments.

time Elinor lent you money-which clock struck one she usually anunter-note of good health. Neglect of this you have not returned to her-I tabled forth to meet some one for lun- vital function poisons the system and her I did not like it. She promised gheen or to hunt úp diversion for the leaves you open to contract colds and me she would not do it again. You day. ace, therefore, that, while I am sorry to refuse you, I cannot help you OUL

Lida grew white, her eyes hard. She laughed harshly,

Without heeding the interruption, Barrett went on, "Elinor settled you and your husband a large for tune, more settle apon you

on

at eight and dressed by nine. In her lent purgatives, which injure and

This Monday morning found her up Ta

To currect constipation avoid vio- ear a half hour later she ordered, wenken the digestive organs, and Grier to an address on a side street. follow the example of the many inen The chauffeur, waiting before this and women who are protecting their address, smiled the cynical smile that health by using Pinkettos when in came often to his honest Irish lips. need of inxative sid.

His

that appeared on a plate glass win-cleanse the intestinal tract, restore eyes were on the gilt lettering In a mild natural way Pinkettes

than wanted her widow. Women like Lida Stafford went } reptivate the liver, dispel:

"I quite believe that!" Lida broke in scathingly.

"If you can't manage on that you couldn't

mannge

on any amount,' Barrett said, still coolly.

"What a delightful ""lecture!'"

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