New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-06-27
CHAPTER vl-Continued.

CHAPTER vi-continued.
Her sympathies would ordinarily
have been with her brother In any dis
pute between him and his wiie. nut
this was a dispute between Ba!aru
and love. II was s~acrilegious Tor nun
20 20 on reading the Times when his
bride had so much more important
things to discuss. He heard her us
russ them as through "A morning paper
darkly, and he made the wrong an
swers, and finally he snatched out MS
watch, glared IL in the face, gaspeu'
and attacked the last of his breakiast
like a train-catcher at "A lu~nch-couhier'
II was thus that he heard Leila wall
whats TO become of me all MORN
ing?"
Bayard stared at her sharply but
spoke softly enough: why l uoh'
know. honey. There ought to be plenty
for YOU to do. The Lord knows theres
enough for me ut the office
IAN right" sighed Leila. It'll be
brave and worry through somehow TN
noon, with my sweet new sisters heip'
But we'll come down and lunch win
you. About what time do you 20 OUT
10 luncheon. ByT"
Rayard's answer was discouraging'
."This is one of the three days n week
when the heads of the firin always
iunch nj Delmonico's in II private room
I'm afraid | can't lunch with you TO-
day"
And you'll leave me this whole ter
rible day? | can never exist so long
without you
I'm mighty sorry, honey. But men
must work, and-so-forth. I've been
away too long. The Office needs me-
And I've spent a 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 II way he had
not expected, and n little too far be-
You'd his hopes. Gloom left her race
like a cloud whipped from before the
sun. She dazzled him with her smile.
ooh. | know what 10 do! Daphne
and YOU mother and | can 90 shop
ping"
Bayaed's heart Topped. He won
dered what on earth more there was
ia the shops that she could want to
buy. She had come to he marriage
with her trousseau only partly com
pieted, on account of the haste Of he
wedding. But she had bought and
bought In Europe. She had made his
honeymoon anxious by her rapacity
for beautiful things 10 wear. And now
that they had come to New York with
their old trunks bulging and new
trunks bought abroad bullying, and had
paid a humping sum M the custom
house. now she was still eager TO go
shopping.
What he wanted to do was 10 quit
buying for n while and sell something
lie did not say this. Love was slip
ping the bandage off one eye; but u
Sad not yer removed the sugar stick
that stops the tongue from criticism.
Leila grew more cheerful at n te--
rifyinc rate: "Go on To your old
luncheon. my dear child, and Daphne
end YOUR mother and | will go on a
spree in the shops. Then well all
lllNF u fiillHfN ANiAAil dih 81 "'hh'
ald If were not too tired. a supper (;
ard If you're very good I'll take you TO
on. Of those dancing places afterward.
I'll bny the theater tickets myself. I'll
get good ones. | a 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
sNrHff VIII BON -
He vowed that he would. and he
meant T.. She was "a most missable
crpatyr-
He -,se TO leave, but she stopped
him to say. what play shall we seeT'
This was the occasion for elaborate
debate till Bayard rave signs of trum-
petIng his wrath and boiling.
Leila graciously released him only TO
call him hack TO say that he had for
gotten his newspaper.
Il left it for you. Don't you want to
read ity" 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 a little. inly. The
times were epic. Immortal progress
was being made as never before: an
Gent despotisms were turning into re-
publics, republics 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 q change In the fashion in
sleeves. the shift of the equatorial