Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-03-07
CHAPTER vI-continued.

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have been with her brother in any dis
oute between him and his wife. But
his was a dispute between Bayard
md love. 1t was sacrilegious for MIN
O go on reading the Times when MS
bride had so much more important
hings to discuss. He heard her dis
uss them as through morning paper
larkly. and he made the wrong an
wers, and finally he snatched out his
watch, glared it in the face, gasped,
nd attacked the last Of his breakfast
Ire q train-catcher at a lunch-counter.
It was thus that he heard Leila wall
What's to become of me all morn
ng?''
Bayard stared at her sharply, but
poke softly enough: "Why, I don't
now, honey. There ought to be plenty
or you to do The Lord knows there's
nough for me at the Office"
"All right" sighed Leila. I'll De
rave and worry through somehow, TIL
loon, with my sweet new sisters help.
But well come down and lunch with
,ou. About what time do you go out
% luncheon, Byg"
Bayard's answer was discouraging
This is one of the three days q week
When the heads of the firm always
unch at Delmonico's in a private room.
I'm afraid 1 can't lunch with you to-
1ay."
"And you'll leave me this whole ter
.ihie day2 can never exist so long
without you"
Elm mighty sorry, honey. But men
must work, and-so-forth. I've been
away too long. The Office needs me.
And I've spent lot of money, and I've
got to go down and earn some more to
buy pretty things for my beauty"
This frightened her in a way he had
not expected, and little too far be-
yond his hopes. Gloom left her face
like cloud whipped from before the
sun. She dazzled him with her smile.
"Oh, / know what to do Daphne
and your mother and can go shop
ping"
Bayard's heart Topped. He won
dered what on earth more there was
in the shops that she could want to
buN She had come to the marriage
with her trousseau only partly COM
pIeted, on account of the haste of the
wedding. But she had bought and
bought in Europe She had made his
honeymoon anxious by her rapacity
for beautiful things to wear. And now
that they had come to New York with
their old trunks bullying and new
trunks bought abroad bullying, and had
paid humping sum at the custom
house, now she was still eager to go
shopping
What he wanted to do was to quit
buying for while and sell something.
He did not say this. Love was slip
ping the bandage off one eye; but 1t
had not yet removed the sugar stick
that stops the tongue from criticism.
Leila grew more cheerful at a ter
rifying rate: Go on to your old
luncheon, my dear child, and Daphne
and your mother and will go on
spree in the shops Then wen all
have banquet tonight and theater,
ard if we're not too tired, supper
ard If you're very good I'll take you to
one of those dancing places afterward.
TIL buy the theater tickets myself. I'll
get good ones I want to save you as
much trouble as / can, honey. So run
along to your Office and don't worry
about us. But you must miss me
faghtfully! Will your"
He vowed that he would, and he
meant it. She was most missable
creature.
He rose, to leave, but. she stopped
him to say, "What play shall we seer"
This was the occasion for elaborate
debate till Bayard gave signs of trum-
reting his wrath and boiling.
Leila graciously released him only to
call him back to say that he had for
gotten his newspaper.
~I left it for you. Don't you want to
read it?" he asked. II can get another
at the subway station"
She shook her head: There's moth
ing interesting in the papers. I'm just
from Paris, and know more about the
fashions than they do"
Bayard shuddered little, inly. The
times were epic. immortal progress
was being made as never before: an
cient despotisms were turning into re-
publics, replblics were at war with
one another; constitutions, labor prob
lens, life problems, all social institu-
lions, were being ripped up and re-
made, all the relations of masters and
men, mistresses, children, wives, ami
mails.
Yet Leila said there was nothing in
the papers Revolutionary news meant
to her a change in the fashion in
sleeves, the shift of the equatorial
wa istIina q frifle nearer the bust Or a