The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-16
SYNOPSIS

4 SYNOPSIS
EIaNOR STAFFORD. 20. falls
~ love with BARRETT COLVIN
-, but her jealous, schemnig
mother breaks up the romance
By convincing Barrett that Eli
nor is q heartless fiirt.
When ElinOr's aunt, wealthy
MISS ELLA SEXTON, dies she
Hevnes her fortune to Barrett.
Then drunken VANCE CARTER
shoots BENTWELL STAFFORD
EIinor's father. Barrett tells Eli
nor that II she VIII marry him
and live I'm his home as q guest
for . year he will give her the
entire Sexton fortune to divide
among her relatives. Knowing
the money may save her fathers
Mfe, E3inor agrees.
The marriage takes place. Bar
reft, I'm spite OF the lies Ida told
him, finds himself more in love
with Ellnor than ever. Barrett
has q ward, nine-year-oId GER
AID MOORE, who Is the SON of
his half-sister, MARCIA RAD
cha never to reveal the boys
true story. Ida Stafford discov-
ers the child's existence.
EinOr's father dies. Barrett
takes her to Cuba and the trip is
q happy one. After their return
Ida tells Elinor about Barrett's
ward, referring the boy is Bar
rett's son. Elinor asks him about
the boy but, because of his
promise to Marcia, Barrett can
mot explain.
Observation-Disclosures between the
two increase. Barrett decides to
Join an expedition to South
America. Elinor finds a house in
the country and plans to go there
and make a home for the boy
CHAPTER Xiv
Barrett took the key from the
lock of the door before he answer
ed. Then he said, II never have
tried to hide the boy, Elinor."
She moved one hand nervously,
1.-THE child has a right to live in
your home she said insistently.
"a real home such as Aunt Bes-
sizes boys have. It's horrible to
be shunted from place to place.
know all about that"
He said nothing, staring DULY
out at the Sound.
Hasn't he q right - a real
right - to live in your house ?"
Elinor demanded.
perhaps he conceded.
She flushed with anger. "How
can you doubt it?" she asked as
close to stridently as she could
speak.
Barrett made no reply to that.
After they were seated in the car
he asked, "Do you want to stop
at the Thropes?"
mot to-day unless you particu-
larly want to-"
NO" he answered. The neces-
sary pretending before Bessie
Thrope would be too difficult!
Elinor sat rigid. She drew
away from him on turns of the
road where, with the motion of
the car, her shoulder might have
brushed his. He felt this deeply.
But he had no notion of her
thoughts.
Eiinor was thinking of the
child to be born in that small
house they had just left. Bar
rett's child. She had not told him
about it. At first the secret had
made her wildly happy but now
all that was changed. 1t only
made the situation in which she
found herself more bitter, more
hopeless.
De %t,rna1 10 InA1y lou,v, ~
her and saw teras in her eyes.
my God, this is cruel, Elinor!"
he whispered.
More cruel than you know"
she answered.
He smiled grimly at that. IT
think not!" he said surely.
For miles they Travelled with
but speaking. When they reached
home Barrett went to the library.
alone and smoking hard, he
tried to decide what to do about
the expedition, whether 1t was best
For her to have him out Of the way.
That would determine his course.
Her feeling and her need. Nothing
else seemed of any Importance to
him.
They dined almost in silence.
Even before the servants they no
longer pretended devotion to each
other. The strain was too great.
oppressed and worried
by the atmosphere, moved defect
sdly. Something was very much
amiss and Higgins could not un-
derstand it. These two young
people should have been utterly
and completely ahppy together.
The other servants were aware
Of the situation also and this dis
tressed the butler.
In the midst of the dinner Hig-
gins answered the telephone and
hurried back to the. dining room.
He said to Barrett, 'Mr Radnor
says he must speak to you, sir"
Bring the telephone, please"
Barrett answered in a tone OF
disinterest.
Higgins brought the instru-
ment, plugged it in and set it at
hand.
eyes" Higgins heard. There
was a silence and then a shocked,
''Oh. no, Dick!"
After a few more words Barrett
stood up. Its the baby!" he
said. Something's wrong. They
brought him to town this morn
A. $1,000