The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne

on the top porch step with an air of being entirely at hom

d the newcomer. "What'

id Mrs. Carew in return, smiling to soften the comma

s clever, or, at least, everyone believed him to be so; and he had charm-a charm of sheer sweetness, for he never seemed to be particularly anxious to please. Barry was very gallant, in an impersonal sort of way: he took a keen, elder-brotherly sort of interest in every pretty girl in the village, and liked to discuss their own love affairs with them, with a seriousness quite paternal. He n

way, playing with his small, chubby son, foraging the woods with a dozen small boys at his heels, working patiently over a broken gopher-trap or a rusty shotgun, for some small admirer. Worst of

s, a little town some twelve miles away, and had prophesied a triumphant progress for him, to the newspapers of San Francisco, of Chicago, of New York! But Barry had not been long in Plumas when he suddenly marri

r, and began to talk of the stage. After that, Santa Paloma heard only occasional rumors: Barry had a position on a New York paper, and Hetty was studying in a dramatic school; there was a baby; there were financial troubles, and Barry was drinking agai

nks' on for to-night, haven't you? I brought up those hinges for your mixing table, Jen,"

le; so go right ahead. I'll take you out in a second. I have been on the GO," she added wearily, "since seven this mornin

g?" asked the man

en the bathrooms, and our room, and the spare room-the children do ge

oesn't she do

rning, we moved things about so last night, and there

ese orgies of cleaning the minute anybody comes in? I never knew such a house for women to open windows, and t

e annoyed. "It's largely supper; and I'm not giving any

xpand an argument comfortably. "It takes them an hour to settle down and see how everyone else looks, and whether there happens to be a streak of dust under the piano; and then when the game is just well star

sin impatiently implored. "I'm too tire

; and as a further attempt to soothe her ruffled feelings, he added

dear to get them," said M

spirited discussion of equal suffrage, to the intense amusement of the others, who kept him supplied with sandwiches, cake and various other dainties. The little piece of work

osing the door behind

said Barry, as the lady cast a

id excitedly; "he thinks he

" said Bar

o children, and she looks so sweet. She knows the Hollys. Oh, Barry, if she only takes it; such a dandy com

e'd she come from

on, I think she said, and she wants to live quietly so

aid Mr. Valentine, grinnin

office to see Tilden. You know he's going to sign for a whole floor of the Pratt Building to-day. George can't keep Tilden waiting, and it

he would like to go upstairs and brush up a little, he accepted the delic