The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-01-25


breakfast obsequies Of the honeymoon
chilled Daphne's hope of marriage
bliss like frost ravenlng among peucl
blossoms.
Her sympathles would ordinarily
have been with her brother IN cny dis
pute between MIN and his wife. Blu
this was dispute between Bayurt
and love. II was sucrileglous for him
to 20 On reading the Times when his
bride had so much more inpOrtnn;
things TO discuss. lie heard her dis
cuss them as through a morning paper
darkly, ana he made the wrong an.
swers, and finally he snatched out his
watch, glared 1t in the face, gasped,
and attacked the last of his breakfas,
ike traln-catcher at luach-counteI.
IT was thus that he heard Leila wall,
"Whats to become of me all morn.
ingg"
Bayard stared at her sharply, but
spoke softly enough: "Why, 1 don't
know, honey. There ought to be plenty
for you to do. The Lord knows there's
enough for me at the Office"
"All right" sighed Leila. "rl be
brave and worry through somehow, till
noon, with my sweet new sisters help.
But We'll come down and lunch with
you. About what time do you go out
to luncheon, ByP
Bayard's answer was dlscouraglng {:
"This is one of the three days week
when the heads of the firm always
lunch at Delmonlco's In a private room
I'm afraid / can't lunch with you to-
day"
"And you'll leave me this whole ter
ribe day? can never exist so long
without you"
SIN mighty sorry, honey. But men
must work, and-so-forth. I've been
away too long. The office needs me.
And I've spent not 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-
You'd his hopes. Gloom left her face
like a cloud whipped from before the
sun. She dazzled him with her smile.
"Oh, / know what to dol Daphne
and your mother and l 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
buy. She had come to the marriage
with her rousseau only partly COM
pleted, 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 bulglng, 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 Mt a ter
rifylng rate: go on to your old
luncheon, my dear child, and Daphne
and your mother and 1 will go on a
spree in the shops. Then well all
have banquet tonight and theater,
and If we're not too tired, supper |;
and if you're very good I'll take you to
one of those dancing places afterward.
I'll buy the theater tickets myself. I'll
get good ones. wantto 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-
frlghtfully! viii your
meant II. 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-
peting his wrath and boiling.
Leila graciousiy released him only to
call him back to say that he had for
gotten his newspaper.
81 left it for you. Don't you want to
read it?" he asked. 81 can get another
&C 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 heng made as never before: an
cient despotisms were turning into re
publics, republics We're at war with
one another; constitutions, labor Prob
lens, life problems, all social institu-
tons, were being ripped up and re-
made, all the relations OF masters and
men, mlstresses, children, wives, ami
mals.
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
walstline tribe nearer the bust or a
trife nearer the hips, the release of
the ankles from tight skirts. The great