Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-03-13
CHAPTER discontinued.

CHAPTER Vt-Continued.
HeC SympathieS would ordinarily
nave been with her brother in any dis
quite between him and his wife. But
&hfS was a dispute between Bayard
and love. 1t was sacrilegious for him
20 go ON reading the Times when his
bride had SO much more important
things TO discuss. He heard her dis
CusS them as through a morning paper
darkiy, and he made the wrong an
$wers. and finally he snatched out his
watch, glared 1t In the face, gasped,
n attacked the last of his breakfast
alike a tr~ain-catcher at a lunch-counter.
It was thus that he heard Leila wall,
whats to become of me all morn
xngT'
Bayard stared at her sharply, but
epOke softly enough: "Why, I don't
asnow, honey. There ought to be plenty
For you to do. The Lord knows there's
enough for me at the Office"
"A{l right" sighed Leila. "Tll be
brave and worry through somehow, till
aaoon, with my sweet new sisters help.
KSut we'll come down and lunch with
you About what time do you go out
70 luncheon, By?"
Bayard's answer was discouraging:
%@This is one of the three days a week
when the heads of the firm always
yunch at Delmonico's in a private room.
Tm afraid / can't lunch with you to-
day"
SAnd you'll leave me this whole ter
asibie day? / can never exist so long
without you"
~Fm mighty sorry, honey. But men
must work, and-s0-forth- I've been
away too long. The Office needs me
and I've spent a lot of money, and I've
tgot to go down and earn some more to
Guy pretty things for my beauty"
T9his frightened her in a way he had
not expected. and a little too far be-
Y0EG his hopes. Gloom left her face
0Ike a cloud whipped from before the
sun She dazzled him with her smile.
. AOh, 1 know what to do! Daphne
'sud B@aar mother and 1 can go shop
g7nEBg."
BayardHs heart Topped. He won
&ered what on earth more there was
In the shops that she could want to
2sslS. She had come to the marriage
with her trousseau only partly COM
Dteted. On account of the haste of the
wedding. But she had bought and
&fougaf In Europe. She had made his
honeymoon anxious by her rapacity
dor beautiful things to wear. And now
THAT they had come to New York with
ssheir cid trunks bullying and new
trunks bought abroad bullying, and had
: 1aid q humping sum at the custom
SsOuse. now she was still eager to go
eshoppIngl
What he wanted to do was to quit
Suying for a while and sell something.
He did not say this. Love was Slip
-Erfng the bandage off one eye; but it
&lad not yet removed the sugar stick
chat stops the tongue from criticism.
Leila grew more cheerful at a ter
EAfwing rate: "Go on to your old
t~uncheUn, my dear child, and Daphne
ard your mother and 1 will 60 on q
spree in the shops. Then wen all
'H1aVSe q banquet tonight and a theater,
and II we're not too tired, a supper;
vtAnd n you're very good I'll take you to
assne OF those dancing places afterward.
HI buy the theater tickets myself. I'll
yet good ones. 1 want to save you as
Snuch trouble as I can, honey. So run
along to your Office and don't worry
shout us. But you must miss me-
4rightfullyl Will your"
He vowed that he would, and he
-Encant 1t. She was a most missable
creature.
He rose TO leave. but she stopped
sisim to say, what play shall we seeT
This was the occasion for elaborate
-E7ebate till Bayard gave signs of trum-
Reting his wrath and boiling.
Leila g~raciousIy released him only to
call him back to say that he had for
gotten his newspaper.
IL 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
PBg interesting In the papers. I'm Just
from Paris, and l know more about the
sGAstions than they do"