The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-01
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in love with 3s-year.0.1 bAR- RE1T COLVIN. returned Co New York after years abroad. bars reff has n1nfle Q name for hilll- self as an nrche0lOgfst. He is about to ask EIinor to marry him when her. jealous, sclleming mo- ffler, LIDA STAFFORD, Inter. feres and succeeds in breaking up the romance.
 When Elinor's aunt, wealthy MISS ELLA SEXTON. dies she leaves her entire fortune to Bar. rett. Then drunken VANCE CARTER shoots BENTWELiL STAFFORD, Elinor's father, Bar ret, who does not want the Sex ton fortune, tells Ellnor that if she will marry him and live in his home as q guest for q year he will give the entire sum to her 60 divide among the rcla. tiycs.. EIin0r agrees, knowing the money. may save her father's life.
 The marriage takes place next day. Barrett finds himself fall- ing in love with EIinOr over again. Then one day he secs her with BOB TELFARE and be. lieves she has been meeting Tel. fare secretly. His suspicious of her are renewed.
 CHAPTER XXXI
 Coldly Barrett asked. "why did. mt you keep Hutten ?"
 Elinor flushed; her eyes way. cred. She had sent the chauffeur home because she didn't want anyone to. know about her going to see Philip. She had murmured something about uncertainty oi plans and dismissed Hutten.
 "I-I had some shopping tc do," she stammered, "and you know how difficult it is to park cars near"
 'I fear I quite understand" he responded levelly, crisply. She raised surprised eyes and, as she saw his face, her color receded.
 II must remind you," Barrett went on ihfiexibly, that I told you several weeks ago I would not have you indulging in fiirta- tions."
 'Why, Barett!" she stammer-
 "You were with Bobby Teifare all afternoon" he stated.
 But wasn't!" she was stune by the injustice.
 '.Did you have a pleasant time with Bessie? ?" he asked.
 II had a lovely afternoon," she answered. not quite evenly. She would have gone on to tell him that she had gone elsewhere but he looked at his watch, murmured an excuse and left the room.
 Alone. she stood with tears brimming in her eyes and teeth set on her lower lip. Such re- ception--after the morning!
 She drank her tea as gallantly as she could. hoping to hide hei emotions from the keen eyes oi Higgins. Then she went to hel room and let the tears come.
 Higgins tapped on her door al six to say that MT Barrett was dining out. Would she like her dinner served on little table near the library fire? He saw hel swallow cofyulsively before she resppnded.
 said. lifting her head.
 Obviously, she decided wher the door was closed on Higgins and she. was alone again, Barrett regretted his softening toward her that morning. She regretted it too. The moment of tender. ness had given her such higf hopes.
 She laughed bitterly at tn, been to think a kiss from hin :, cos,Is rnonr ooI,+hirr ,vtnn orn. before he had shown how lightl, he considered such a caress.
 At the end of the stipulated year she would work. She would not take a cent from him! She wished she could be working now Then she would have less time tc think, to imagine what life might have been for her if she had had the power to make him love hei and to hold that love.
 She did her best to eat. She didn't want the servants to know how utterly Barrett's chill, dis. approving eyes had crushed her In spite of determination she could do no more than daily with her food. It choked and sickened her.
 Having eaten, she went to the drawing room, sat down at the piano and played the gayest tunes Higgins. hearing her. guessed something of her mood. ""Pool young tfiing!" he thought. "An. other quarrel and her heart il breaking from it."
 But Higgins was not worried The couple had quarreled before and made up that quarrel almost immediately. ''To-morrow,' hs canton flannel beds, 'they'ii b. thick as thieves. calling eacl other hearts desire and thu like"
 On the morrow the butler con. cluded the quarrel had beer worse than he thought. Barrett and Elinor scarcely spoke at all The evening meal was the only one they ate together. ElinoI looked pitifplly unhappy and Barett's expression was griml, blank. He left the house almost immediately after the meal and she made no attempt to entertain herself. Instead she sat in hei dimly-lit sleeping room, starint ahead, realizing she had been z fool again and that love coule show the way to agony. "Nevel again!" she vowed to herself Never again."
 Toward the close of cold ant dismal April Doctor Morar, ordered Eliner's father to a milder climate Aiken was chosen and Bentwel Stafford with two nurses and Elinol departed.
 TO leave New York was a re lief to- the girl. She had suffered acutely since the afternoon Bobb: Telfare had picked her up on street corner where she waited for a taxicAb to take her home.
 ''TIappy?" Bobby had asked