Nogales international., 1933-01-25
Second IrlstaIlnlent

fIil, sincere and loving love, bccameS epRaEe9
and narries Dennis O'HaIa IN the belief
1hat their blissful happiness will continue I'M
changed thru all the years. On her weoolhs
morning she awakens with a strange pre-
snonition that maybe love does change,
thought buried III her mind by letter from
her closest friend. Barbara the nignt neloae
pauline adored Barbara who bad been mar
ried, was heomothcr of child which oled,
but now divorced and living life winch some
of her friends could not understand. Between
Dennis and Barbara is seeming wall OF
personal dislike by both. Sm moasns aL.s. -.
stay =. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
Pauline hung up the receiver
slowly and turned away from the
telephone. =,
Dennis isn't coming home till
late" she said.
Barbara Stark blew cloud OF
cigarette smoke into the air, turned
a page of the magazine she was
reading, then glanced UP.
"OhI Business?" she asked cast
ally.
"He didn't say"
There was little silence. Pauline
went back to her chair and took up
the work she had been engaged upon
so happily moment ago.
II should give that up if / were
you," Barbara said in her lazy, musi-
cal voice. How long have you been
at it?"
ever since was engaged"
Pauline spread the cloth across her
knee and regarded it critically
Time flies, doesn't it? You've
been married - how long? - Six
snonths?" asked Barbara, musingly.
Nearly" Pauline's blue eyes
sought her friends face rather
sombre1y. "It seems longer-some-
times" she admitted.
Barbara laughed mot very COM
plimentary to Dennis"
Dennis is a darling" Pauline
gathered up the elaborate cloth.
Hes a perfect darling" she said,
with enthusiasm.
Barbara stifed another yawn and
turned another page of the magazine.
"And they lived happily ever
AFTER" she quoted rather cynically.
Pauline leaned forward, her chin
resting in the cup of her hand.
II want to ask you something"
she said, suddenly. May II"
4 "My lamb. why not7" Barbafa's
dark brows lifted in mild amaze
1nent. What is it? / promise to
answer to the best of my limited
eloquence." Pauline slipped to her
knees beside her friend.
Il think I'm just beginning to
understand that life isn't the simple
thing thought it was" she said
slowly.
IF it were we should find it dull
and uninteresting," Barbara de-
clared. "It's the uncertainty that
keeps us going at all. What is the
important question:"
Pauline looked down at her new
wedding ring and twisted it thought
fully; then suddenly she raised her
eyes.
why don't you like Dennis?" she
asked.
Barbara was lighting yet another
cigarette her white slender fingers
paused in their task; then she an
swered evenly: "But l do like him.
like him immensely"
Pauline shook her fair head. ITS
nice of you to say SO, but somehow
/ don't quite believe you. There's a
sort of feeling of antagonism when
ever you and ne are in the same
room"
Barbara interrupted calmly:
Isn't it rather he who doesn't like
me. don't you think? And isn't it per-
haps because am here that he has
suddenly decided not to come in to
dinner tonight" ~ !,
Pauline sat back on her heels and
looked up at her friend. She admired
Barbara immensely, and yet nobody
had ever called Barbara beautiful
Striking looking" had been Dennis
s O'Hara's reluctant admission. The
sort of woman man looks at be-
cause he's not quite sure what she is.
1t was a true if not very lucid de-
scription. Barbara was tall and slim
but she rather affected droop, 2nt
she had queer nondescript eyes thai
were sometimes dark and sometime:
pale, and beautiful mouth, and hail
of a real leaf brown. She wore clothe:
+. that were like nobody else's. Geo
g. knows where she gets EN-" Denni!
grumbled. She seemed to be per
{. petual source of grievance to him
"She gets them at quite ordinar,
Shops" Pauline said, ever on th'
defensive for her friend. But yo,
see she designs them herself, ant
she's so original"
Barbara certainly looked '"origi
nal" enough now, as she stood~witl
one hand on her hip looking down a
Pauline with an indulgent smile. Sh
wore frock of the brightest jad
green girdled with a band of dul
orange, and her long dropping ear
rings were jade, and her cigarett
holder was jade also.
why should he disapprove o
you?" Pauline asked, realizing why
even as she asked the question
Dennis liked "womanly women
the description was his own. Bar
hara looks like cross between al