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THE OMINECA HERALD, NEW HA ZELTON, B. C., WEDNESDAY

MARCH 30, 1938

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een some one else, Deborah. Some-
‘ody you. might hare paid for his name

nd loss of a Fear.” .

’ Deborah looked up again, but didn’t

@epeak. Pilar was watching her, Af-
er a moment she said, “Of course, it’s

il very romantic, and you are really
quite pretty.’ Any man wonld like to
Ye the prince who awakens the sleep-
ng beauty.”

Deborah's eyes flew ta the long oval
of Pilar’s face Her cheeks crimsgoned |.
furiously, and her eyes flashed.

“I don’t know quite what you are
suggesting,” she said icily, “but I think

ou are being insulting.”

“Not at all,” Pilar replied. “I am
Tierely trying to discover Bryn's ren-
mm for this quixotic gesture.. It .cer-
thinly cannot be that he is willing to
pend a year with you for platonic
conpinionship, You are. not suited

Vara

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Mu $ORvece

Continued from last week completely. bewildered: iby “Bryn‘s gay rot the sophistication, the knowledge
world. Bryn travels ‘pretty fast, dear" f this world. Yon scarcely speak his
Deborah sat down: slowly,. ‘with the | anguage. You say he does not lore
Italian embroiedry in her hand. She you; I think that would be impossible
fingered it absently, “Hasn't Bryn ex too, There must be companionship in
Wlained it all to you, Piiar?’ she asked real love, an equality. But I think I
at last, lifting her dark eyes, do begin to see his reason, There you
“Explained what?” Pilar asked af- were, beauty in distress and Bryn
ter a minute. was always fond of a new adventure,
“I know he hasn't told the others, Something new, something nobody has
Sally and Madeline, I don't think ev- ‘ever, done before. Yes, it becomes
en Tubby knows. I'm not quite sure “quite clear to me. And he would get
why he hasn't. For a time I thought ‘considerable enjoyment out of this
it was on his own account, but now I y‘ay acting to your grandmother, this
think he has been doing it for me, so pretense of being simple and: bucolic,
that I wouldu't feel so queer’ and left this pretense of loving you. It is ra-
out.” ther an interesting situation as I must
ar “T don’t now what you mean,” ‘admit.”
murmured, and begged to be excused, Deborah lovked at her. |} Deboruh was staring at her. “I don’t
ud went out through the door. “You kuow that Bryn eouldn’t be ein think I care to discuss it any further,”
There was a Hitle silence when Pil- love with me,” she said.- she said quietly, “if you don’t mind,
av was gone. Deborah looked up from Tilar did not move. Not by a Pilar,”
the puppy to find Grandmother stitch? flicker did she change expressin, Her! “There isn’t much more to say, is
ing away: placidly again, her eyes on ey es were black and fathomless. ‘there? Except that I suppose I ought

her mnterial, and Sally and Madeline “Not in love with you?” she repeat- to thank you for explaining it to me,
looking at each other with steady mean ed, Deborah. I have been troubled, ‘Xou

ing. Sally and Madeline didn’t under- “Surely you knew, Pilar?” enn understand,”
stand. They didu’t know what it must “bren if 1 did,” Pilar said softiy, | “Deborrah folded her linen. “Yes,”
hare been like for Pilar to love Bryn, “you Wouldn’t expect me to men- She said.
to have loved him for years, and then tion it, Deborah.” “Bryn is very difficult,” Pilar sighed
fo bave him suddenly marry another = “wo,” Deborah said after a’ moment’ ‘I think this has been the worst fright
xivl, They didn't know what it meant At Pilar’s’ words her heart had fallen he ha given me, But once, ‘two years
to have Bryn, Simon and Tubby, of like Jend. So Pilar’ aid ‘know. Bryn ago, I. was nearly’ mad, too. He was
course, Were alright, perfect darlings. bad told. her. ' da Thibet, and I didn’t hear from him
Int they weren't Bryn. Deborah's “No,” Deborah said again. “But I fv nearly six months, It was report-
eves burned, and the bad lump ‘came can tell you, Pilar. I can explain to el that he was dead. Of course he
back in her throat. you.” was'nt, nor lost either. He was just
There was a knock at the door. It. “1 wag ‘hoping yon would.” | iving in a native tribe, living like a
was one of the maids, wanting Debor- “I don’t want to go into detail,” De- native, to get the atmosphere, he said.
th. The cook would like her orders, borah said, “1 think I can tell you ig He’s wildly interested in people, dlt-
the maid said respectfully. Deborah just a few words. It was like this) j f2rent kinds of people, the farther
Went out and shut the door behind her. had to be married by my 21st birthday | rom his own kind the better. But he
Deborah stumbled down the hell to- of else my grandfather’s estate would! ways comes back in the end, I baye
wird the Kitchen, In her mind’s eye be lost to me. I went down to San discovered that. And when lie .came

Tilat's eyes narrowed the faintest
trifle against the light a3 she looked at
Grandmother. Grandmother was sit-
ting np a little straighter than Debor-
ab had seen her sit for some time, and
there’ was a little pink in her cheeks.
But her eyes as they met Pilar’s were
calm and kind and Deborah pushed
away the thought that Grandmother
suspected something and was taking
her own way to combat the. hint of
danger,

Pilar rose and stood for a moment,
tall and. lithesome ond full of grace
beside the door. She was smiling.
“(Customs are very different now," she

jt be a- companion to him. You have|

| nent and smiled at him; the flashing;
brilliant smilejthat was pecularly. her
own, that no ‘ote else could duplicate;
“You know,” she said, “I don’t ‘blame

you for burying yourself away up here
Bryn. It's 50 far back in- nature that
I don’t suppose you've ever had quite
the same experience before, hare you?”
Bryn glanced down at her. Her black
eyes, liquid and melting, -inet- his, - Her
lips were very red.

There was a. little silence. |
stood together,’ elbows touching:

They

jter a moment Pilar said softly, “Debor-

ah told me her story todry.”
_ “Deborah?” he repeated.

- “She seemed to think I ought to be
teld, Eryn.” a
“Oh! oo: .

The black eres opened wide agin.
“Had you - talked’ to her about me?”
. “Never,” Bryn said promptly. _

“Ob,” Pilar murniured. * “I had on
dadea yon had, perhaps, She certainly
knew we had been friends for a ‘long
time. Of course that may be obvious.
Whatever she knew, she wanted me to
know Just what the situation was be-
tween you. Deay, quaint lithe thing. ad
‘She.js such a child.

“So naive.. I was quite touched."

“Ts she?”

“What did she say the situation was
between us, then?’

-“Why sinply thet this was not as
all of us thought, a love match after
all.’ That it was simply a- marriage
de convenience, I don’t quite know
why, you, of all people, Bryn, had to
tangle yourself in it. You may have
difficulty in getting free again.”

So she told you we weren't in love
«With cach other?”

“Yos, quite withont restraint. . It
seems rather queer that a girl. could
be so absolutely coul aud businesslike
about her murriage even if it were
this kind of a-marringe. But of course
it is not in the least romantic to her
and does not effect her emotions at all,
so why -should she be anything but
businesslike? Do you really mean to
stay here for a whole year?” she asked
With on sigh, “Is it really necessary 2”
8 Yes"

“Grandmother's no fool. l
good deal sharper than you think,
Bryn.”

“What do you mean,”

“T don’t think yon're fooling her for
a minute. She knows you and the
girl aren’t living together as man and
wife. She must know it. Anybody
tan see it with half.un ere.”

“Can they? How?"

“Ry that child's face, o£ course,”

“L seo.” Bryn said ‘quietly.

She's. a’

she could see herself siting on the wall Francisco to meet the man I was to
the other night, with Bryn leaning marry. He was I couldn't pos-
close beside her, She remembered Jus sibly marry ° him. And Bryn came
what she wanted todo. . ‘Bryn’s face along by accident, and saw that I was:
was so close, and he. was such o dear, frightened, and I told him about it,
she had wanted to take his face be- and he offered to marry ine, instead.
tween her own. two hands and bend That's nu i

down and put her cheek against his Pilay straightened, “T see,” she suid

‘Pilur put her hand on his arm, “Tell
her.” she hegged. “Go and have a
talk with the old. Indy, Bryn, and -tell
her the truth.”

Why? ait .

ack from’ Thibet,” she sald with a
mile, “he brought me my ring. This
uby, Isa't it a beauty?”

‘The yuby flushed and glowed on her
‘nger as she held it. out for Deborah

t see “It is very - lovely,” Deborah “I do think it too much of them to
shid gently. ask you to sacrifice your Hfe for a
‘Gayr tapped on the door casing,| Whole year to an old ‘lady's whim.

forehead. She had almost done it and then, “The day I came, Tubby
when he sald—Deborah, do you like dragged me away. and: thréatenea me:
Iné.-: at: all?” : But now she was glad with Anurder if I called Bryn by any:
she hadn't done it; because’he ‘wouldn’t thing but Grahpm. The man you were
have wanted her to. It was Pilar he to Inarry is named Grabam?”"
loved. He.had ‘said so, He had told” “Yes.”
her how deatly:. -he loved'this ether girl’
if she -hadn’t been so blind she
would have seen instantly that his tell
ing her of the other girl was sure proof
that he didn’t love her, Deborah. -
And, if ‘he; did'love Pilar. ‘30 dearly
then Pilar. was a very lovely person,
+ Mudeline and Sally didn’t like her, but
they didn’t: understand, And Bryn’s
heayt must ache, now, to think that he
"was shut ‘away from: Pilar fot sd long:
and: Pilarsmust'bé ‘suffering dreadfully
When she was finished in the kltch-
en, Deborah went up the back strixs'
swiftly and along the hall to her room
Someone. came. lightly -along the hall, of course,”
“and she caught ber breath lest it be (“you entinot wet the
> Bryn} But it was, instead, Pilar; and: 9 year?” .
* she vas in search. ‘6£ Deborah ‘for her! “Tg the inure
- own room was: down the the other’ that fie marge ot sucentu wo |
. wing with Grandmother's. She zlane- fully, “I'do not get Sé‘at all." care:
, ed in through the open door. * “Your grahdmother
Ab, there tyou are, sweetie,” ‘she of Bryn. we
‘ suid, “T: wondered ‘if you'd: ron away.|: ““Shie loves | ‘him: oe ‘Deborah
Where've you been?” . ey little cateh in her’ reati,’'
“Twas down in te'klichen” Debor« (Wowdértal to her,’ ziven
_ ah explained, praying:.that:. ‘he - voice (Were not, 80 tied, 1.don't:'s
sounded a8 usnal.” “Then I came up. toé ul be ‘divorced. befa }
ket -some embroidery. I find mygelf-n6¢'' break Granaiio ito
with:.o work fo do ‘at: all these days: -" Hat ti F een
9 “Pilar was "-watehing” het""You' are: ‘Jong btowhed’ fingers,
_.Pegtestting ‘she flghed. “But, zeally,” er:@ long tine ‘out of
Deborah, you mast: begin to- make some sald. “ year!
_ changes, in your, atte, or you: “will “be |

the man?”

“What happens next? | ~:

There was a queer note In her yoice
and Deborrah looked’ up quickly, But
Pilar's . face had not changed and De-.
orah’y eyes fell again, “Nothing, * she.
said. “We have to £0 on until the end
of a year, or
The marriage must last‘'a: year. And
it must go on for Grandmother's sake,
anyway, for that long. ‘After that | I}.
don't know what we sliall do to ex-.
plain to Grandmother, | but’ there will
be’ something, ‘Bryn’ will be free, then,

money within

seems, Very fond.

a

‘said. yt f
‘Ha
othe, estate
ee HOW wa.

a

“Your | grandmother’ thinks Bryn ig) eft. He pushed it: back and left it

Ido not get the money, I.

She wouldi’t diz, Bryn. 1 tell you she
is a lot stronger then you think, and a
lot sharper” °

Bryn laughed.
exnetly on
Winehed 4

‘Miss Deborah, please,” he said, "Mr,
Iryn would like to try a paty of shoes,
Might. I go through ‘and- ‘get them 2”.
“Certainly, Gary,”
With a little bow to Pilar he sidled
Pust her and opened the door on the

“To pilar it was not
Plensant laugh, and she}
little when she heart it.

“What do you mean? she. asked
sharply, . AF

“Lenving here would be snerificing
my life, Pilar.
i ‘cure “more ‘for ‘ Grandmother's left

opeu as he went in, and-Pilay glanced
fHireugh, and saw the arrow White
kel .agninst the. other. wall. She turn-
ed deliberately and. looked at. Debor-
ah’s closed bedroom door, | and then,
vith a deep ‘breath, : «she looked at De-
‘borah _and smiled. ‘

“It’s all very romantic, isn’t ike she
said, ‘and went swiftly acros to the hall
door, “Thank you for telling me, De-

botah, It makes ‘rather ue difference. "
. Bryn: bind ‘been’ over in. the stable
‘talking to Joe,-who ‘ came to. ‘milk every
evening punctually. at sunset. a
AS he approached the bridge his eye
caught the’ flutter of a skirt, and his
heart tuined a. complete ‘double. sum
mersault. If be had, been’ in any need
of. _Droof of his’ emotional gondition, he
ina: ake ‘then: But ‘jhe. skirt, did’ not, be.
Dnig’to. “Deborah's ‘ft, was ‘mich too: ‘8a-
" -histiea ted a ‘pkirt' for’ ‘that. as he saw
ft a ‘second ‘#adnce, and’ his heart’ Bet
5 bed: ‘down sadly. into ‘a. Fecumbent. po:
Bltion “again, ‘ind he: went fo ward with

ever knew before, and ns for Deborah"

“As for Deborah’: -

“Well,” Bryn, ‘gald “at Tast, “non
Packing my brains, T can’t think of any
thing in: the world that you could put
“in‘theseales to balance Deborah that |
would push ‘them down a fenther! s
weight, my
. “dre you ‘trying: ta toll me that you
are In love-with' her?"

“Thut's my general iden.”

Pilar was cold, motionless, * her |:
hands clenclied round ithe railing. . At
ter’ alone time’ ‘she sald, “Have” vou)
told hex?" | ahaa

“She: ‘doesn’t give: hie a hance.”

Bryn,” she said under breath, “Listen, | |
you're: bewitehed, “You're © ‘iad: « -You|-

aut. dniterest, to, ‘meet “Pitar. eis fant manty Dadorahs, You. can't do
She- Was atanding in ‘th middle -of lt Pe hea

the’ bridge’ ‘leaning over the rail to look | “r. can", Bryn sald. shay, “ity.

a tt "Sede as have." “s,

Pare ‘stopped , beside |,
8.9 the ailing, . and|
“bro ro ok, tao, “with |

“I'm not sacrificing my life,” he anit

Don’ t you understand? i’

eyvebraw thin “I do ° for everybody I|-

She came. a: step; closer, “sn

you “mad.” ‘What does she ‘know about
life, or the: “world. or:any kind of cul-
tiire? She* ‘has no sophistication, she
has. no pélish. She's nothing but an
ignorant "child, pretty, I grant you,
but as-insipid-as~-- - lrook-water.
In two years—in five years, what are
you going te have for a wife? There
is nothing there, Bryn. Don’t he’ cat-
ried. away by.2-pretty. face. . You need
intelligence, You need companionship, .
you need a- wife who is your . equal,
who understands your “position in the
world and can help you carry it off.”
Bryn was looking at her, uahappily,
compassionately. “I'm sorry Pilar,”
he said gently. “I’m afreid its not 1
Who am. muking the mistake about Ilfe.
You are not quite fair to Deborah, but
we: Will pass that over. You surest
that T-would be happy with sophisti-
cation and polish, : ‘and-a woman who
understands ‘ ‘my position and ean help
nie carty ‘it off. Those things mean

- Continued on Page 3

oN THE COUNTY COURT OF
PRINCE RUPERT
In the Matter’ of the Administration _
Act
and :
In the Matter of the Estate of William -
J. Sanders; Deceased

“Take Notice that. by order of His
Honor W. E.. Fisher, Tilge of the
County Court of Prince Rupert, holdén -
at Smithers, B. Ci dated the 15th of
March, 1988, I was appointed Admin-
istrator of the Estate of Willam J.
Sanders, decensed, and that all per-
SOT. havi ing clalms against the said
estate are hereby ‘vequested to furn-
inh particulars of same, properly veri-
fied. to me on or _hefore the 30th day
of April, 1938: and that all persons in-
debited ta the said estate ave required
to pay the amonnts af their indebied-
ness to me forthwith.

Dated nt Smithers, B,C.
this 21st aay. of Mareh, 1938,

_ HB Campbell,
ofticial Adininistrator

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