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CHAPTER XXXVI

KATHARINE HAVILAND-TAYLOR

You think me to be capable of Birting and trying to hide it! You said last night that I needn't pretend to be surprised!" • *

The day dawned gray and chill. At 10 the mirt and turned to a steady, cok rain. Barrett had eaten a ceant breakfast and moved restlessly, wait- She tried to look the score for this aho felf. She failed. Her pa ing for Elinor who, for the first time he could remember, had had her break-trembird and she turned from him, fast in bed. He sind before the fire. crying. hands thrust deeply into his pockets, rattling coins, le moyed to a win dow and then turned away, picked up in

"But, child" he said brokenly. "Oh, don't!" she begged. "I'll be think it will last again. I'll

"You care?"

be

murmured.

to

In book; Infd it down and sat down to start being happy and then to-morrow try to read a paper. A moment later for the next day you'll scarcely speak he bad cast that aside to wander once to me!" more to the window. He did all these things half a dozen times and found awaze.

could settle to nothing. The maid, dusting, watched him "He's a very restless circumspectly. Hort of gentleman," she said later to the cook.

he

At 11 Barrett gave in and serit a

nete to Elinor. His handwriting was nervously unsteady. The note rend: "Child-Will you give me

I don't chance to talk with you? deserve your consideration in the least but I don't know how to go without through another heur trying to make you understand a Hitle of my shame..

Barrett." Elinor came down almost immedi ately. She looked pale and there were shadows beneath the blue eyes Shivering a little, she dropped to an attoman neng the fire and turned her wan fnew to the dareing flames,

"You were very good to come down,

he said with the stiffuese which speaks of strain.

"Oh, no" she answered listlessly "Elinor!" "Yes?

"Will you try to understand me?"

have always tried. Barrett. Sometimes it hasn't been easy. You see I feel the same way all the time. You-well, you know how it's been with us from the first!" The words ended a trifle brokenly.

you,

•

He dropped to a chair tit was close to her and leaned toward her, arms on knees. "I have always loved "he said slowly and gravely "Then it hasn't made you kind!” she answered hotly. "I'm sorry but for the first time since I've known you, I doubt you! If you had loved me things wouldn't have happened the way they did last night. The way you kissed me it was as though

"Yes, if it's any satisfaction you, I do. And I. too, am ashamed of caring!"

She struggled up. Barrett got to this feet and put a hand on her arm.

"Please let me go, Barrett!" sho begged

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that made it impossible for her to do food. He more than toy with her decided that he would see to it that the doctor had a look at the daughter na well as the father. His heart caught at the thought of her being ill.. As the clock struck, midnight the stair. Al mald hurried down the

the door of the living room she paused, swallowed hard and then spoke.

"Mr. Colvin," she said, "please sir, Miss Hemmingway wants you to conne up. Mr. Stafford has gone"

(To Re Continued)

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fill in a moment, dear, Elinor, if I can make you happy for the rest of the time we must spend together and if by the end of that time you have gained some trust in me, there is nothing in the world that would claimed make me so happy as to help you to Reuter a life worth while-open, without ovasion

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London, Jan. 22. King Edward VIII was proclaimed "I haven't forgotten," she said, King of Great Britain and Ireland wiping her eyes, "what you did for and of the British Dominions beyond

E/Canada July 24 July as all when you married me but it's the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Em- been so hard! You don't know how peror of Indin, with time-honoured hard! When I thought you cared a

ceremony. The balcony from which little and then you-you-

the proclamation was delivered was He drew her into his arms and held adorned with crimson cloth and other. her else. She had not spoken the colourful hangings, associated with truth, he was sure. She had gone the ceremony from ancient times. zonewhere with Bob Telfare that afternoon when he wanted to tell her

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he loved her. But she had had little were installed to enable the proclama- from life to help her in building ation to be heard all over the world. strong, decent code. Perhaps love- his live-offered honestly would help to do this. Perhaps she could learn the satisfaction of living honestly and

straightforwardly.

The ceremony began with thousand Officers of Arms, habited, with tabards, attended by the Sor geant at Arms, proceeding up to the balcony. Tho trumpets sounded throo times. Then Sir Gerald Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms, ac- companied the Duke of Norfolk, the Enri Marshal, to read the proclama- 1tion to great crowds assembled from

She was shaking from her soba. He felt his own eyes sting. Stoop- ing, he pressed his cheek against her hair.

"To-morrow," she She drew away. said. "you'll scarcely, speak to me! know you'll change!"

"No" he contradicted sharply,

considered

early morning.

It was something you were ashamed Indness to her faults, a greater Arms, and Royal carriages moved :

of

Immediately afterwards the nation- al anthem was sung, while forty- She smiled wanly and turned from one minute guns, corresponding with to boom through the still wintry him to hurry to the ball and up the the age of the new. monarch, began stairs. Alone he

the atmosphere, situation. She was pitiably dependent The proclamation procesalon then

Arm, and alone. He had not helped her formed, and the Kings of

he had hindered her. Aeralds, Pursuivants, Sergeants at Her ehin raised. She turned eyes appreciation of the good that was through the Mall to Charing Cross, ninde hostile by pride to meet his hers-perhaps with a few years of where the proclamation was rend a gaze.

this her leaning to "affairs" would second time. Thence they preceeded

temporary "I don't want love like that, be lessened and they could have ato Temple Bar, whero don't want anyone to love me and bededent sort of life together. ..barrier marked the boundary of the nahamed of " she stated after a After all, he thought, all life seems City of London. stretel of silence that became more to be a compromise. "Never the The Blue Mantle Pursuivant ad- tense with each moment

whole, eternal quietule." He loved unneed between two trumpetera, and, "I have hurt you badly," he said her. It was love he fell-love that preceded by two horse guards de half-aloud.

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and the Recorder. weak people who can't help being de his bad that day. "One of the bad aldermen, pendent. When I know I've dis days." he panted to Barrett who Sheriffs, pleased you I feel perfectly miserable, wandered to his room to visit him. After the reading at Temple Bar

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't afraid to speak and quite certain The nurse, Barrett noticed, kept at the procession escorted the dignitaries that I'll say or do the wrong thing. tentive Engers on his wrist. Elinor to the Royal Exchange, in the heart I'm never sure of myself: I've alremained in her own rooms. The rain of the City, where, under the shadow ways been aware of my shortcomings. fell slowly, dismally. A wire came of the Mansion House and the Bank They've been pointed out to me from Lida to announce that she was of England it was read for the inst many people. It isn't kind or fair to

time from the steps.

The Lord Mayor led the huge ретзон advantage of a

camlight settled early and the night stumbles habitually-"

"Elinor,"

that followed was velvet black, fins crowds in three cheers for the King, Union Jacks were flown at full mast telephoned for the Hemmingway "Before our marriage and since, physician who was attending Bentwell to-day but will again be lowered to

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accusations, was conselence-stricken later the proclamation was read by He could not take his eyes from her. the Chief Justice from Government. so badly Touso before a incge gathering. She reemed so weary and shaken by her father's loss of con- Including many Spaniards, who came

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