Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-12
The
Marriage TrifIer
HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
Coptrf0hi. 1890. bv Public LEDGER Co.

barbara Knight before her mar
ridge TO Keith Grant looks upon mar.
rage as just a accessory step to a
U9mons success u, Hfe. That u means
adjusting oneself TO another persons
Wtshss, sacrifice Of oneself OCCASION
dHg, heucr occurs TO Barbara at all.
She IS simply accepting hfe as her set
accepts ". she is marriage trifer.
heHh Is real. and tcants real friends.
The cedsciess round of trivial pleas
nres bores him, he todnts a home and
toye. and he gets instead q beduti-
fut pondn Uhom he rarely. u ever,
sees alone. and showy apartment.
IN hts Office there Is a girl OF dit-
nhom ne becomes friendly. Keith iovcs
Bdrbdrd. out he likes katherine's
compdnionShip There Is nothing
Wrong about his feeling Joy her, eren
,chen ne takes her out TO lunch one
dap. but Eleanor Rnight. Barbara's
sister. sees them aud OF course mis-.
MterpretS the entire thing.
ElLEANoR looked at her sister sitting
- In the low chair opposite her and
hardened her young heart. There were
many reasons why Barbara ought to be
told. and not single good reason why
She. Eleanor. should keep still. with
quick determination she said suddenly,
Barbara. there's some thing I think you
ought to know"
With the words out Of her mouth,
words that she could not recall. she was
suddenly frightened. Barbara had
looked up quickly. a slight frown be-
tween her brows. Her first words We're:
Eleanor. darling. you're not In trouble
of any kind?"
Eleanor shook her young head impa-
tently. oh. no it's nothing about me !;
It's about Keith"
Barbara's look of amazement was very
real Keith ~ she gasped out. Hes not
i'll. oh. surely, Eleanor, you wouldn't wait
and tell me like this. You would have
Barbara. don't be foolish. Keith's all
right: at least I mean he's not III, but
there's something you ought to- know
about him. Perhaps you know already.
IN that case it's all right" Eleanor
stoned
You talk so .mystsriously please 60
| on. dear. what Is III"
Did you know that Keith was in
terested in another woman" Eleanor $
| tone was unconsciously melodramatic.
! Kendall and J saw them at lunch to-
Eether last Friday. and when Keith came
over to our table he was all fiustered."
Something seemed TO catch at Bar
| bara's heart. keen little pang Of fear,
| the first intlnation Of real suffering.
She was not narrow. II Keith had taken
| one Of her own friends to lunch she
would have thought nothing OF 1t, but
| there was something ominous about the
| way tIednOT lOlu lIllS lllllib SNihNtiiihS
! that made Barbara sure that there was
more to this than she knew. she sum
moned every bit of pride sne had to her
! aid. and smiled.
We'll. it isn't so strange that Keith
! took some one to lunch is it?' she said,
| lightly "I've had lunch with other
men, and I'm sure i didn't mean that
! I loved Keith any the less,
Yes, but you had lunch with one OF
Keith's friends; some one s,t,, VINO mos Tnew bawy
ing lunch with his private secretary.
There was a note of triumph in the way
Eleanor said this, as though 1t we're an an
| announcement that couldn't ran TO
arouse some emotion in her sister
A wave Of pure NAUSEA swept oyer
Barbara. and she felt suddenly faint
| That Keith, with his high ideals about
women, Keith who had loved her SO
well. could do anything OF TINS kind,
meant much more than II ne mad peen
! a man like Lawrence Benham: for In
stance, who thought nothing of having
| Irritation with any pretty woman nc nap
noned to meet. over all this SICK tesIrng'
however, was one other feellnR pCeuottL'-
nant, Eleanor must not know how she
felt Eleanor must not know! Whatever
there was between herself and keith
must be kept in that way, ana II ne
took her heart In his own two hanas an
broke It Into little pieces no one s'Iou'o
know how she suffered. -..
"Well, there's nothing so very strange
IN that, is there?" she heard her own
voice saying. Men have heen known 10
do such things. and Keith may nave
had good reasons for it.
Eleanor stared at her sister: I never never
knew but one eason." she said, NIUE
spitefully. Eleanor did not know II. out
underneath her surprise at Barbara
cool manner was a vague disappolnt-
ment. She had looked up TO barbara III III
spite Of herself. She had thought OF her
as loving Keith az she. Eleanor WAS not
capable of caring for any man.
Barbara rose and set her tea cup care
FULLY on the glass tray of the tea-wagon'
She felt tho need Of doing something
Hundreds of questions trembled on her
/ iina things that she wanted to ask Flea
nor hut she must be careful not 10 Iet
J Ler susneCt the real state OF her Zee,
! ings suddenly she knew that to ASK
light questions would be the bcSt way
Of masking her emotions. ...,u
. What vas she like was she prettf'
yho asked. and she actually laughed. ;,
well 7 must gay she Is not pam
| Eleanor admitted. And of course, she
! isn't the type Of girl wha would attrac!
! the ordinary man. because she isn DIV
| SNOWY, she is exactly your opposite.
! dark hair and eyes, and an ollVe sKih
| Sba and Keith were talking and laugh.
INC and having the best kind OF tlne
| T-he, seemed to know each other very
! we'll
(To be continued