The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-30
Buying Barbara
by Julia Cleft-Addams AuMos f -You easgI

MT. Frere. Miss Roop saw him comin' down Upper Mallard lane. In a taxi, extravagant young de- will"
 T can't marry him on Thurs day"
 Mrs. Lodely's jerking movement sent vase slithering off what not.
 I've something I want to tell you" she said, about you and Mark. Something to do with = money"
 What money, Judy?"
 On many and many a night when her troubled thoughts had merged into troubled sleep, Mrs. Lodely had dreamed that Barbara Quentin refused, at the last, to marry Mark In the dream there had followed a sharp fear and then the decision to speak. 'Babs, i you'll marry him, there will be noney. A lot of money So fa- minar had the give and take of |the dream become that it had by it's very familiarity, betrayed her.
 Betrayed her, for, as Barbara's s eyes opened and fastened them selves upon her, she grasped her mistake. Barbara had not meant that she refused to marry Mark.
 What money, Judy?"
 My own m-money," she said, stuttering little as she often did when making a great effort to concentrate. Its precious little but I've bin thinkin' that it'd help you if Mark had it. Keepin' him in canvas and oils. He's always borrowed as much of it as he court, anyway" - her laugh was rueful-"beSt make it over to him entirely. Especially now we know he's blown his Aunt Alice'S leg acy"
 odb WlloO OAl OQl LII dO JOQ p4O" pose to live on yourself if you give your income to Mark?"
 T thought p'raps I could get job somewhere. Somethin to do with horses and dogs. Of course, suppose to you seem a pretty useless old hulk" she was slip ping into a whine-"but I've been told a dozen times I'd have made a wonderful kennel woman. I've had it in mind a long time. Give me somethin' to do when you've taken Mark away"
 T think you had better find your job before you part with your income" said Barbara lan- guidly.
 Thanks for the advice!" Mrs. Lodely retorted. But, y'know, your generation doesn't always get the quarrel, I'm sure"
 laugh on us old 'uns. I was out in the world before you were in your cradle and don't need teach in the alphabet just because you're a Twin as a dressmaker. She felt her face grow red and made a last clutch at her self control. However, there's no need for us to quarrel I don't want to me about it just as you and he
 She pumped herself by the hearth, and poked violently and unskilfully at the fire When she had reduced quiet pleasant flame to thiny plume of smoke, Bar bara took the poker from her and coaxed back life and light to the embers. Her lips remained clos ed.
 Whats the matter with you?" shot out Mrs. Lodely. "Sayin' nothin', Babs, and sulkin' is a trait I hate in anyone. For pitys sake, don't you start any moods Marks are more than enough for me" Her confidence in herself was by now re-established. I'm sorry if I was a bit hasty," she apologized. I'm upset myself with Marks shilly -shallyin.'
 If you haven't talked to Mark since last night asked Barbara, alter 8 pause, "how do you know that he is going to London on Thursday?"
 Mrs. Lodely found herself meek ly explaining
 Why he-Farrel Armitage-told me about it jujst as you and he were gettin' into his car! I thought it was a bit odd of him"
 T see. =. . think I hear Mark moving about upstairs"
 T don't. |. didn't you like our young millionaire, Babs?"
 Don't you think it is rather of fensive perpetually to refer to him in that way?"
 well, I'm dashed!"
 Barbara had sprang to her feet and only by a miracle did her chair, pushed violently back, miss the rickety china closet behind her The wild-rose flush had gone from her cheeks. She looked white