THE OMAHA BEE: FRIDAY. AUGUST II. 1922.
Marriage of Barry Wicklow
By RUBY M. AYRES
Copyright, 1922.
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Barry controlled his voice with
difficult. "I only heard this if.
ter noon that, you bid left your eou
tin. I went therf at once to find
where you were. He looked round
kc room, it was expensively and
tastefully furnished. "Whose flat is
thi." he demanded. Her eyei wav
tred. t
"It's mine.' Whow do you sup
poke it if Delia and 1 quarrelled;
she told me that the did not want
me any longer; besides" ahe paused,
and shrugged her shoulders. "Any
way, I should not have stayed there,
a you were paying her to have
nic.
"She told you that J"
-Yea."
Ilis eyes wmdered over her
dainty little person; it seemed im
possible that this was the Hazel
whom he had watched making cakes
and pastries in the kitchen at Cleave
Farm the little girl in the blue pina
fore who had once loved him.
"And and who Is paying: for you
now?" he asked her. hoarsely.
She raised her head with a touch
of dignity.
"Mr. Greaves is paying me a sal
ary. I am quite independent. He is
going to send me on tour next
month "
She spoke quietly, but. there was
a faint look of anxiety in her eyes.
"He is not. said Barry.
She moved back a step.
"I don't know what you mean, but
it V am tiatr jAm hirj. trt kltllv me
again, it'a no use. I am going to live
my own life, I don't interfere with
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you, you are free to to where you
like and do what you like."
"And you are not," said Barry
again. "And I shall not leave this
flat till I take you with me."
She cried out in anger.
"You must be mad you've no
right to come here l all. I never
meant you to know where 'I was.
Hew dare you speak to me like this!"
He went and looked down at her
angry face with unhappy eyes.
"1 know vou hate the sight of
me," he said thickly. "But that
doesn't matter, I love you, whether
you believe it or not. I love vou in
spite of everything, as I did in the
past, and I shall always love you.
That's why I'm here, to prevent you
from ruing your life."
There was a tragic silence when
he had finished speaking; Hazel's
eyes were fixed on his face; ahe was
twisting her fingers together child
ishly; presently she tried to laugh.
"it all sounds very fine. but. . .
There was a tap at the door.
"Mr. Hulhert," the maid an
nounced, and the next moment Hul
bert walked into the room.
He came forward ith outstretched
hands.
"Well. Qiy dear." then he stopped
short, saw Barry and frowned. "You,
Wicklow 1"
Hazel came forward. -
"Mr. Wicklow is, just going he
onlv called to see my new flat."
Barry squared his shoulders.
"I am not going." he said obtinate
ly, "unless vou come with me."
Hulbert flushed dully; he looked
from one to the other in heavy
amazement. 1
"But good heavens!" he began
helplessly; Barry cut him short
"I am aure you will understand,
Hulbert. when I explain things a
little," he said, controlling hia voice
with an effort. "Possibly I owe you
an apology for not having told you
before that tbjs lady Hazel is
my wife." .
CHAPTER XXV.
After the first momenf of utter in
credulity. Hulbert burst out laugh
ing. "Oh. I say, Wicklow." he pro
tested. "You must think of one
better than thatl You and Hazel
married, that'a good, that'a . .
He broke off as Barry took a
threatening step forward; he was
crimson in the face, and the veins
stood out like cords on his fore
head. -.
"I tell you it's true," he said
savagely. ."And I'll thank you not
to call my wife, by her. Christian
name."
It was.no longer possible to dis
believe him. Hulbert fell back, he
looked at Hard. h half held hi
hand to her.
"It is true? Why don't you deny
It?" he stammered. "Is it true that
you are Wieklow'i wife?"
"Yes." The monosyllable seemed
forced from her. Suddenly she give
a little cry of rage, she. looked uo at
Barry with passionate eyes. "I never
wanted anyone to know, you knew
that. I'll never forgive you for this;
you seem to do all you can to make
me hate you. Why couldn't you
have let me alone, 1 was quite hap
py." Barry did not answer. He
stood with his hands thrust in his
pockets, his jaw set in forbidding
lines. There was moment's un
broken silence, then Hulbert turned
to the door.
"Well, I'll say good-bye," he said
constrainedly. "I can onlv apologise
for having intruded; had 1 known
the truth I should certainly have
stayed away." Haiel followed him.
"But it won't make any difference,
how can it make any difference? I'm
just the same I can't help being
married."
Barry laughed a grim aort of
laugh with no real mirth in it.
"You married me of your own free
will." he said. ' .
-"Yes," she flashed back at him.
"And you married me because you
were paid to. Why don't you tell
Mr. Hulbert the truth, that you did
your best to ruin my life. Surely
you might leave me alone now, and
give me a chance to do something
for myself."
Hulbert came back a steo. Then
he met Barry's eyes and atopped.
For a moment the two men looked
at one another silently; then Hul
bert shrugged his shoulders ana,
turning, walked out of the roomt
Barry crossed to the door, which
the other had left open, and shut it
with a little slam; then he came
back to Hazel. He took both, her
wrists, drawing her hands down from
her face.
. "Now we're going to have this out
between us," he said. "It's no use
going on like this any longer. You're
my wite; l ve been a iooi not to in
sist uoon everybody knowing it be
fore. Hulbert will take care that
everyone trears about this, and if you
leave this infernal place and come
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like She wrenched herself free.
'I'm not going anywhere with
you. I didn't want anyone to know
that I married you. I'm not proud of
it. I was just beginning to be
happy again. I know I should have
made a success with Mr, Greaves; he
won't want me if he knows about
you."
"Greaves is no food to you, and
you'd be sick to death of the stage
in a month. You're not meant for
that aort of life. You may think
you are, but I know better. You're
not the type of woman to be able
to stand the life. You'll be 1,000
times happier with roe."
Hazel stood quite still; and her
silence encouraged htm.
He went on with passionate eager
ness "Let us wipe out the past and Hart
again. These last weeks have iust
been a bad dream. I'll make you
forget them; I'll teach you what hap
piness really ' means. I love you so
much."
She raised her eyes to his face.
"And I don't think I ever really
loved you," she aaid, slowly.
"Hazel I" he cried out, as if she
had struck him. "You don't mean
that; yoa're just trying- to hurt me.
I won't believe it I know I deserve
that you should punish me, but surely
1 ve had enough.
"You were engaged to another
woman when you came to Bdmund
.
"I was not."
"You've been out with her since
you've been out with her many times
since."
"That's your fault. I've been near
ly mad; you wouldn't let me come
near you. Take me back, Hazel, give
me a chance."
"No." Her voice was hard. "It's
no use. I don't want you any more.
I want to live my own life' I want
to be free. Mr. Greaves thinks I
can make a name on the stage it'a
what I've wanted all my life."
"You said once that all you wanted
was to be my wife." She flushed
pamiuiiy, s
"I .jul a lot of silly things I didn't
im an. 1 didn't know what sort of a
man you were then."
''I'm the same n.an I was then;
I love the very ground you walk on,
Hazel if you re trying to break my
heart '
"I'm not; I only want you to leave
me alone."
He let her go violently.
"Leave you aloncP he echoed, pas
sionately. "Leave you atone so that
you can have Hulhert and that rotten
lot hanging round here. How dare
... t ..all vrt Kw vnnf ftirii-
tian name? How dare you have them
. ft V ..II. . m
lie re to visit your iuu iai
as if I were a cad and an outsider.
Wait till you get to know them bet
ter, and aee what they are. If it's
their money you like, they've got
plenty of that I know, and I haven t
hah in the world but you knew
that to start with."
"It would'have made no ainerenee
it it A .mMM rmrA fnr me. It
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wasn't money I wanted when 1 mar
ried you." .
II. ....nl ilnuin nn Vila kneel heside
her. encircling her with his rm'
"I do care tor you. ia give u
. .( ... Kf. if T raiiM nnda all
that has happened. I want nothing
in the world Dut yeu. nci . . .
Mazl . . . For God's take ... lei
me take you away It '
Hazel looked away irom mm: ,
was trembling all over. Something
in his voice and the touch of hie
. ...i. t,,tr farriMv to that
night when he first said he loved her
and just for an instant sne wavereo.
Then she broke out; .
"I can't, I can't forgive you give
me a little time leave me alone for
a little "
Barry lifted his white face.
y... .ur.u mm vnu for
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weeks, and it's done no good. You re
learning to do witnout me.
It -was tne truth, and she knew It.
Her life had been filled to overflow.
lug since she came to London. The
flattery and promise of Ureaves and
his friends had pleased and excited
her.
Ambition had crowded love out of
her life. A veneer of worldliness
seemed to have grown about her
heart.
She remembered the story of her
own mothers marriage, and she
dreaded that her life would echo it.
Barry would aoon tire of her, to
Delia declared; had done so al
ready.
Hazel was easily influenced;
though she had quarrelled with Delia,
she believed that Delia was right to
her worldly knowledge of men, She
believed that ahe herself waa only
one of the many women whom
Barry had loved in his life, and the
knowledge terrified her.
She broke out desperately:
"If you'lt give me a week, just an
other week,, that isn't asking very
much. I want to think it over, I
want a little time."
She looked at his white face and
quickly away again.
"I oromise you. if youll leave me
alone, just for a week, that I'll tell
you then if ... if I can . . .
ever do what you want."
"You dont mean to come tacx
to me," he said hoarsely.
She shivered.
"Oh, I don't know what I mean to
do. It's your fault I wanted to
marry you and be happy with you,
you Know 1 OIU. I can I nciy li
you've made me change." Her voice
broke. "Give me just this week,
Barry please) please!
He walked away trom her, and
stood looking down at the fire, then
he turned, and, coming back, took
her face in his hands.
"Very well if you II tell me somt
ing first" '
Yes."
"There isn't, there isn't any other
man?" ;
"Any other man?" ie echoed.
"Yes, anyone who's cut me out
Norman, or that brute Hulbert," he
asked hoarsely. "If 1 thought you
cared a damn for either of them
"Barry I"
"I'm sorry, but lately, somehow
4 But he could not tell her of
the greatest dread in his heart He
rushed on: "At the end of the week,
if I'm very patient, what will you
tell me then?',
But she only shook her head.
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