The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-17

on me, please. refuse TO go on the
waiting llst--it Is too long already"
Barclay flushed vlslbly. Il hate rid
dies. Please explain he entreated
plaintiyely.
Ada alughed softly. "Actually--you
bear conscience In spite OF every
thing she said "Or rather half a
onscience-your face admits what
your lips deny
Il don't in the least understand"
Barclay murmured, then tried adroit-
ly to talk of something else
Ada shook her head at him. Little
| pitchers have big ears she said.
they was in the library while you
talked with her big brother-she came
to me with eyes of wonder to ask
what a waiting list was
"What did you tell hery' Barclay
interrupted with sickly grin.
"0hl That 1t was 4 charm string.
but made up OF girls not buttons,
Ada expounded airily. you must
know about charm-strings-,we all had
them back in the dark ages when
was a brat"
"You forget that boy is another
name for ignorance" Barclay answer
ed. THANK you, though, for enlight-
enment--"
mo need,r Ada interrupted. going
on remOrselessly. Instead, tell me
all about this waiting list. AS I,un-
derstand now, It is made up of half
a dozen girls you mean to make love
to, after you finish the affair with
Mabel Brough."
Il am ignorant, still too wise 10
! contradict a lady. II her mind ~
made Up to anything accept It as a
fact--for the time being Barclay said
with his grandest air.
There was mockery in the granduer
lit made ada angrier than all that
had gone before. Ont Of her anger
was born a purpose-to captivate this
self-satisfied, vain creature, whom
therefore she had disdained. SO she
masked rner wrath under her bright
est smile and began to talk, gayly
brightly, of affairs in their summer
I'worh
Barclay was grateful-he hated any
cloud in the emotional sky. And real
4 ly il Miss Ada Noon had CHOSEN to
4 do II she might have made him un-
comfortable. She had attracted him
In way, from the very first, but
/ .here was Mable on his hands, beau
ty. belle, past mistress also Of the
fine art of flirting, and there were
the others-Allce Ewell, Jenny Ware
Cora Linton--several more-or had
thought and even said, they would
have their turn.
He was connoisseur In beauty. in
fascination. Marrying was for him
out of the question-he had never
cared for any one woman to make him
proof against the charms OF another
-and still others A temperament OF
that sort was the dynamite for mar
rie dhappiness. Women had spoiled
him from the era of roundabouts, yet
he had somehow sense that there
were those OF the sex who would not
put up with philanderings. A sixth
4 sense had told him early In the game
that Ada Noon was that sort.
Notwithstanding, he had not been
able TO resist the temptation OF maxi
lHE Udll-tOAt W Hti--tutN WtlG OuA
in the Breton's adorable garcen, gay
with September's riot Of colors, sweet
with September's wonderful roses
Ada In her leaf-green frock. touch
ed with gold and shaded with dull
scarlet, fitted into the picture. He
had told her so adding something OF
his desire to keep the picture forever
She had promptly taken him up and
shown him where he stood with her.
Barclay was not conceited beyond
the masculine normal-bnt II is not
in the sense to rest under misappre
hension. What wonder then that he
set to work. delicately but unmistak
ably, to show this Lady Disdain how
little ground her dlsdain had? He
no longer made love to her with his
eyes--in fact he no longer made love
TO anybody save Mrs. Breton, Tiny
and Bob's grandmother grandt
dame, adorably young at 20.
Mabel Brough was plainly piqueC
as plainly puzzled. As the others
the waiting list-they went their hap
py ways blandly unconscious of tbeil
sometime designation. B0b's clas.
came and went in procession o.
the perfect, also the imperfect, bu
are Chat made the house gay every
minute. Barclay was older than Tho
others by five years-Bob had beer
his adoring fag at school, and no la
ter friend had ever superseded.
He had placed Ada Noon as Mrs
Breton's protege. In spite of the fac
that her frocks had always toucl
OF distinction. She wore the simples
ornaments, but they always becarn'
her wondeffully-he string of big COZ
al beads, for example. accented won
derfully the soft curves OF her neck
Looking at the beads, Barclay ha'
caught himself wondering how eel
tain red rubies in his family stronl
box, would look IN their place. TIL
speculation startled hint was who
ly new. Could he be really falling i
loveg And with girl 10 whom h
was evidently no more than part 6
the landscape. He asked himself IN
question, wrathfully. Then he wen
off for a long day alone. At the en-
OF 1t he knew. Ada Noon had com
to mean something more than III
rest of the world to him. He near
to marry her, whether or no
pieassa i..l.. 70 li.l.k Ael face gas X
fortune--rather her pretty wit, hs
poised and charming personality. II
mother would make 4 scene Of cours
-now for years she had been impfe
sing It upon him that, being rich,