The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-11
ONE WAY OUT
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BY ELSIE SEE. i

Things do look dark" admitted |
Jerry. But I've seen you save the |
day too many times on q football field |
when things looked dark to doubt that |
you'll come out of this tangle with col |
ors flying and the lady in your arms" |
You get out-Tve got an idea ~ |
Dick almost yelled, and his glittering
eye told Jerry that prodigious plan
was forming in his mind.
For the next month, while anne
Morrison danced and motored and
golfed, and while Jerry Dayton did
likewise, Dick Stanford kept to his in
surance office by day and to his apart
ment by night until Jerry gave up try
ing to draw him into social life or to
draw from him the secret of his night
ly labors. At the end of a month, how
eye-, Jerry's curiosity and his vanity
were gratified by an invitation to
Dicks apartment to be the audience
of one to hear the first reading of
Dicks play entitled, "Out of the Tan
gle"
Bully for you, old boy!" and Rich
ard, you'll back the dramatized best
sellers off the boards" We're comments
that came from the delighted Jerry
during the first part of the reading,
but later he protested: "Oh, come now,
Dick, whoever heard of a rich uncle
from Alaska turning up to back an i'm
pecunicus nephew in a scheme to drive
his prospective father-in-law to the
wall as a means of making him sue
cumb gracefully to the relationships"
"And whoever heard of people going
to the theater to see something they've
heard all about every day of their
livesY retorted Dick.
II throw up my handsw said Jerry,
making an exaggerated demonstration
of his acceptance of defeat. ION with
the play!"
Dick did go on with the play, and
the play went on the boards almost i'm
mediatcly, bringing SO much money
into the box office and such fiattering
offers to its author that he was soon in
sight of affiuence Dick began to hope
that he dared approach Anne Morri-
sons hopelessly rich father as pros
pectiye Son-in-law, but it was Jerrys
unhappy lot TO knock those hopes fly
ing.
"Old man, I've got some rotten news
for you," said Jerry, as he rounded q
corner of a shady country lane, whittier
| he had taken Dick for spin in re-
markably new yellow car. Our COM
pany is closing a deal with Elibu Mon
tague for that big lot adjoining the
| Morrison home in Huntley place, which
| seems like confirmation of all those
| reports that Anne and old Montague
/ are engaged"
You're a regular storehouse for
! comforting thoughts, Jerry"
! The other cheek, please" said
! Jerry, with mock humility, but smiling
SO benignly that Dick laughed in spite
/ of his detection. I'm making myself
the bearer of unpleasant tidings to
give you q last chance to go In and
vim
"a great chance I've got to so In
and win now" muttered Dick.
The smaller your chances the big
ger your victory-if you win. ChirI
up, old man. Don't you know that
while there's life there's hope? If you
act like a dead one, of course there's
no hope for you. l might add, Incl
dentally, that this deal will keep Mon,
tague here until next week, and il
/ you're the poor but deserving lover
take you to be, you'll cut in ahead@oi
him by spending this very weekend VI
where the MorriSonS are Summerine
and where Montague has been hanging
out gOodly number of week-ends."
I'll let you and Anne, too, know
that I'm not dead one. VIII you gel
\ me back to town right away, Jerry?'
i With Jerrys aid Dick managed te
get the train, and the next morning
|. on the hotel piazza In an Adirondack
resort. as Anne appeared, all in sof
white corduroy, he had the joy of see
|. ing pleased surprise in her eyes as SHE
blushingly met his own rapturous gaze
She consented to show him the won
derS of the place, their first objectiv,
point being high point overlooking
a wonderful panorama of sturdy littl
. mountains
, Don't you love it?' exclaimed ANN
. blissfully.
Love it? No--I love you," sait
{ Dick in headlong recklessness. "Anne
is there any hope for me? Once l die
: hope little. Anne, but had nothing
! then but Il wealth of love to offer you
) l haven't great material wealth to offe
you now, but enough to begin on AM
promising prospects. People are say
ing that you are engaged to Elihl
Montague, but l can't give you u
without telling you that neither he no
, any other man could love you NOR
than l do
! ''Why, Dick, Mr.. Montague is goin
, to marry my mothe,s sister out il
: Denver" said Anne in surprise. The
she added. with pretty little pout
IF you hadn't been SO busy beconin
q famous playwright, you would hav
found out long ago that lurking in tn