New Britain herald., 1927-02-12

I wish there were some easie
 way, but I guess there isn't Drowning is so cold, and l haven the money for a gun"
 The letter broke off short, there Stella had evidently made up hel mind. at that instant, to take thu cork out of the bottle and drain 1t
 Poor thing" Robbie said to her. self. She was shivering in the cold wind that blew shreds of fog into the room, but she didn', know it.
 The letter painted picture .fter picture in her mind. as she knelt there. Gus in love with Stella six years before, when she had been pretty and young and full of pep and hope and ambition.
 And then Stella, writing letter after letter, as he began to slip away from her - trying to draw him back. Crying when he didn't answer them.
 Stella, standing at the, window of her bedroom. with her face pressed gainst the glass as she watched him drive Robbie away in the roadster. And, last of all, Stella unco king the little brown glass bottle.
 An hour later Robbie was awak- ened by the furious ringing of the front door-bell.
 As she started up and reached for her bedroom slippers, she heard Mrs. Mangan going down the stairs. Then there came the low sound of talking from the room below-Mrs. Mangans thin, high pitched voice and a mans deeper one.
 After fifteen or twenty minutes, the front door closed and Mrs. Mangan came up the stairs.
 Reporter from one of the pa pers," she told Robbie, coming into her room. He wanted a pie ture of Stella and a story. told him all l knew about her.
 Next morning there was ..ic- lure of Stella on the first page of his paper. Under it was the head line: GIRL FAILS IN PICTURES POISON"
 Robbie. who had just come in from a walk. read the story and carried it into the house to Mrs. Mangan.
 Good heavens Did you know that Stella had tried to kill herself once before" she asked, pointing to the picture and the piece.
 Mrs. Mangan's gay face went dead white. T did not.' she an- swered wildly, and read the article through to the last para graph
 This was not Miss Delroy's first attempt at suicide. In 1923 she tried to kill herself by opening the gas jets in her apartment in a hotel on Western avenue. Neigh bors discovered her while she was and rushed her to a l. hospital"
 She shook her head over it and sohbed aloud.
 Well, she's done it this time, poor thing." she said thickly. T guess she had what they call the suicidal mania
 But Robbie shook her head, She was thinking of a sentence in the letter that lay at the bottom of her handbag.
 Maybe you'll tear up this let ter the way you've torn up most of the others that I've written to you in the last three years Stella had written.
 And it was three years ago, in 1923, that she had tried 10 kill herself the first time. Gus must have broken with her about that imc.
 "I wonder how he'll feel when he sees this letter she wrote to him." she thought, bitterly, and while the thought was crossinfi her mind, she heard the loud honk- Ing of his automobile horn outside tie house.
 She ran to the front door.
 He was standing beside the car. still in his evening clothes. They were rumpled. and his tie was askew. His sandy hair stood up all over his head. and he was look ing up at the windows of Boobies room as he honked the horn. The morning sun, piercing through the fog. shone straight into his blue eyes.
 Holding the paper in her hand, Robbie went out to him.
 "So you're the fine young klepto who made off with my car last night"' he said, smiling down at her as she came up to him and stood beside him. "Darned if I didn't think it had been stolen, when I went out to look for it. Then, all of a sudden, 1t occurred to mo that you'd taken it to comN down here. How'd you find Stella? ?"
 For answer Robbie handed him the paper.
 She watched his handsome face as he read the story of Stella's death. It did not change. His eyes were as coldly blue as ever when he handed the sheet back to her.
 Hmm" he murmured, gravely. Poor kid She's been years try ing to make good. Ive told her a hundred times to get out of pie lures and go home. A girls got to have one of four things to make good in the movies. Stell didn't have any of the four"
 Robbie stared at him in open eyed amazement. He might have been reading a lecture from a sheaf of notes. for all the feeling he showed.
 "What are the four things, Gus?" she asked, and opened her hand bag as she spoke. She was going to let him know why Stella had