Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-12
The
Marriage Trnler
.,rr DEyO BATCHELOR
HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR

poybara Knight, the doknopledged
,..ysr Of the younger set, dnd gut
EsSuss,,stoucd TO dduldttoh ron ohttd.
Sood, captures keith Grant Me n,oss %
elig'oa,yn e!gu anprove n. and the situation ts dp-
parenyatyy yypbri,, % %ging, tohich for the most
SSF oSra has been artificial, things ,ooutd
Pan.s came out all right. As u Is
naynp niNsn 40 on toith the stort-
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.,,rNDsHIP among the girls Of
narhora's set was not very deep. It
~ ~ the most part n surface OF emo
was ~ MOI any Of the girls knew the
tlon,trr tlon, of sacrifice, their lives were too
ms,aierisi msasii for that, and their ambitionss
wsre in each case to outdo the otner II
posSsu,ghtf II quite within her rights to an
tnvus nca the fact that she was certain
nUp iSst barbara Knight and Keith Grant
,"Ss were engaged, Whether or or not iS % she
would have done the same me 'nrs nna pisd@sd n
ssr" Ssr ~ secrecy is hard to tell, but Les
pe' U.s. was paued by the fact that she
Inn.,,v ne knew nothing definite, and that
ne as well as many Of the other girls.
liked Keith Grant more than ordinarily
%, +he very same afternoon of the
a.0 W when lie yiie had called Tor Barbara
and had driven about town with her
IN The little car, she announced at a tea
The fact that she was almost certain
thet barbara and Keith were engaged.
If IL was, therefore, an accepted fact long
before the engagement was announced
md no matter how many disappointed
Sasrts there were in the. small set OF
which Barbara was member. there was
moi girl who did not rally around her
IN terms of the utmost cordiality. From
naw ~ On Barbara was important. There
would be constant gaieties of which she
would be the center. There would be
affairs given tor , ner; ana h ,ar tre r,ather. as
n.law-that in itself was no small tri-
I'm, nh The wedding. too, would be a
notable one, and when Barbara as an es-
isblIshed young matron should be the
head of her own household, IL would De
more feasible TO cultivate her than 1t
my Yes in the parlance Of society, Bar
bara was a lucky girl. She was born
S ss silver rFPSf gPS9n and ID tf sns 0shs nat ass sSs
should have everything. And yet there
ware girls in the world just as beautiful
as Barbara, just as gifted mentally who
got along and were happy on far less.
1--we of his manhood In his mind she
was the most wonderful woman In the
world and he was the most fortunate OF
men to have won her for himself. There
was nothing that he did not. want to do
10 display 10 Tic WI III pr" ~ ''Si
and Barbara's ring. perfect stone set
IN a band of platinum, was exquisite
and quite correct. TO Keith the ring It.
self mattered very little, although ne
was very tender when he saw how much
It meant to Barbara
His moments alone with Barbara were
10 him precious, fraught with emotion.
almost sacred. They were the times
when he could take her in his arms, look
deep into her eyes, and kiss her. until
her arms crept up around his neck.
Once, In moment OF breathless ST.
lence, he had burst out passionately.
"Dont you want me as much as l want
YOU? Doesn't this waiting hurt you at
And Barbara had flushed scarlet. and
had said quickly. why Keith, of course
/ want to be married to you, love you,
but girls don't feel like that. 1t wouldn't
be right"
Keith's love for Barbara was so many
sided, that although he did not under
stand why little things seemed to mean
so much to her. he tried his best to
argued that It was because lie had not
known women well, and that Barbara
was the most feminine OF women. He
felt that he must not be selfish, that
he must wait for her to give him what
he wanted OF understanding and COM
panionshp. and that he must be salts
fed with the fact that she loved him
deeply, for he was sure OF that.
tTo be continued.)