New Britain herald., 1928-06-11
WHAT HAS HAPPENED
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 Virginia Brewster, after losing bother father and wealth. consents to make her home with Clarissa Dean and her father. Dean plots to separate her from her fiance. Ma thaniel Damn. but fails and later Is forced to pay blackmail 10 Mrs. Farley or face a scandal. Clarissa becomes jealous ot her and Virginia resolves to leave. but Dean insists that she marry him. When she re- fuses. he threatens 10 reveal the fact that her father cheated him out Of 31o0. .0Oo in a bootlegginz deal. Recklessly, she promises to earn enough to repay him in one year - or marry him.
 Virginia leaves but has to pawn ring to tide over until she can find q position. She goes 10 Niels studio but her joy at seeing him is clouded because she dare not reveal her promise to Dean, and also be- cause of the familiarity with which his model, Chiri, treats Mel. She seeks work through an agency but without success. One evening she finds orchids at her hotel from Dean and wonders how he learned her address. Coming home from dining out with Mel one night, Virginia notices man whom she has suspected of shadowing her for several days.
 A call from the agency brings hope, but when she goes there she is advised 10 accept help from friends or marry. Virginia believes that Dean has bribcd the agency not to help her get work. She goes to other agencies but word leaks out to the papers that the Brew ster girl" IS job seeking and she is besieged by reporters.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER xxx
 Virginia recognized the man ln- stantly. IL was the same figure she had seen step hastily back into the shadows when she and Nathaniel were taking a taXicab From the Rus sian restaurant, and now she knew where she had first seen him.
 He vas the man on the bus. The man whose behavior had puzzled her. She remembered how silently he had come down the steps in her wake on that occasion. how. he had slipped quickly away when she had chanced to turn and find him di- rectly behind her.
 And now here he was. Virginia was certain he had not been in- ,ited. Hes spying on me- she told herself furiously, back in her room. Her fury was not for the man who had shadowed her. how ever. It burned hot against the person she believed had employed him.
 50 that's how he knew where thinking of Frederick Dean. And he was the one who went to Mrs. Phelps. I'm sure of it.'
 She was glad that she had not at- tempted to find position under an assumed name. 1T Frederick Dear had set himself to hound her. oi interfere, he could have made II very unpleasant for her in tha' case. As it was she had an answer She vas fighting. face to the world and she vowed silently that never no matter what the outcome, should Frederick Dean hear her whmper
 Later she was to be even better pleased because the newspaper stories brought her many oppor- tunities that otherwise would not have to come to her.
 First Of all, old friends came forth with offers of home, and Virginia found great difficulty in refusing them. One by one they ceased to importune her as her perfectly insane" firmness made it. eelf felt and they were thus con- pelled to take her seriously.
 Then the offers of positions of all kinds began to pour in on her and Virginia soon learned how valuable her name was She could sell il for large sums if she wished, anG in regard 10 one or two proposal: she wondered if she should not ac- cept.
 But a consultation with Mir. Gard iner put an end 10 her interest 1T these. He warned her that On' scrupulous persons could make dis honest use of the prestige that at. tached to the name. Virginia. 1T fear of this. promptly turned do"r all offers to pay for the use of tht Brewster name.
 But the estate vas still unsettleG and investigation had shown tha' most of the offers Of employmen n' that were made to her were fig ments of some imaginative per. sons brain or else they requfreC experience such as she did not pos sess.
 Some of them she might hav' been tempted 70 take had they con' to Viola Browne, but she felt en- couraged 10 wait just q little long CT and see fl something more to he' liking would not turn up. She hat gone through the storm. !@quirmnf under the spotlight, and if anything good could cone from it Virginia felt entitled to hold back for i'. Sh' was pretty sure Of getting q 1oi now. and although she was stil