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CHAPTER 70

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me go through with this!" Barbara
reproved the woman who had in
vited her to a house party at which
Garry Page and Wenda Aver were
to be fellow guests. "You
wouldn't!"
Eyes, l would. Listen, nitWit,
if you see those two together a
few times you'll get adjusted to it,
and you might as well make up
your mind it is something that has
to be faced. Clean wounds heal.
I know. I stubbed my toe once"
Half a dozen times that week
Barbara made up her mind that
she would not go to the lodge. She
telephoned Natalie, only to be
laughed into a receptive mood.
She wrote Natalie q note one
night. But in the end she re-
Tented.
It was a few nights before the
weekend of the house party that
Julia came to see her. She was
thinner than ever, so thin that she
frightened Barbara who was
sturdy, though slim.
1--WE can help each other" Julia
said when she had slipped out of
her coat, revealing a trim black
dress. IF you'll be sensible, Well
both get what we want"
Meaning 2" queried Bar
bara, and wished that she had
started a fire tonight. The living
room seemed cold and not friendly.
Meaning this! Wenda Aver
set out to get the man you
wanted, or she got him anyway.
And now she's after the one I'm
wanting. You guessed it-Jimmy
Minton. He's giving her a chase,
but he's keeping still about it.
Maybe afraid I'll sue for breach of
promise. And Wenda isn't telling
it about, either. But I followed
him one evening. Then I hired a
detective and learned thing or
two"
Against her better judgment
Barbara was listening. She
loathed Julia's tactics and her con-
fdence. But this concerned Gar
nv, and therefore it concerned her.
Garry must not be caught up in a
Broadway brawl that would drag
through the heart-balm courts. It
would ruin his career-then, with
a sickening sense of loss, she real
lied that it might increase box
Office receipts.
But Garry was splendid and
fine and it would hurt him, inter-
nally, so deeply that he would
never be quite well again. Garry
trusted Wenda with her golden
bang of hair and her dark, liquid
eyes. If he lost faith in women,
he would not trust again.
Something that was old and ma
ternal stirred in Barbara's heart,
and she flung her head up proudly
to meet Julia's sharp eyes.
"I'll help you get Jimmy back,
if that is what you want, and if I
can do anything" she said stead
lily.
you aren't just doing it for
me. It's for yourself, as WELL"
Julia's drawing voice went on.
Everyone knows you want
Garry"
II don't want anythingw
Eyes, you do. You want Garry
Page. Put him wise to this Aver
person and he'll come crying back
to you. Men are that way. They
want somebody to bandage their
hurts-somebody sweet and guilt
BILE who wouldn't think of so much
as scolding them for playing with
matches. And Jimmy won't want
the lady, when she isn't being
sought by the brilliant young play
wright. I know the lad fairly
well. Well, what about it?"
mo, Julia, think you're con-
temptible!" The green eyes were
flashing angrily.
you're not very appreciative."
Julia flushed, though.
"You want me to do the-the
dirty work. And you think I'd
accept a man who came to me be-
cause he couldn't have the girl he
wanted-because she failed him +?
Get this straight, julia stood
up and looked down at her cousin
81 am not in love with Garry
Page, l haven't the slightest inten-
ton of marrying him. I wouldn't
accept him if he were the last man
on the North American continent
and you can tell it to the world"
AZ y "Suit YOURSELF Julia stood up.
,HWomen are strange. You love
man and you won't move to save
him from the wrong woman, and
only want an interest in the pock-
Iefbook of another and it makes me
%green-eyed if he lunches with her.
All Of which shows that money is
more irnnOrta nf than Iowa P,,+