Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-21
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Jill Justin, ultra-modern and as
l~ambently lovely at 20 as the saga
lily. starts out on a moon-drenched
night in August to attend a harvest
festival with her brother, Tony, one
year her junior, as her escort.
Just as their flivver rounds the
foot Of a mountain on the outskirts
Of their home town of Elliston, VI.
Va, the two hear pistol shots. The
next instant their car is halted on
the scene Of an automobile hold-up,
in which they witness two bandits in
the act of throwing the body of a
young nan from his car to the road
side. Before they can move, Tony
is black-iacked, the girl grabbed and
hurled into the roadster, where she is
held while the car speeds away to-
ward the hills.
Unknown TO the bandits, however,
the al is carrying an extra passen-
ger in the person of Jack Stuart, its
owner, who Is supposed to be dead.
Jack has caught the tail end. when
n moon goes under a cloud he
climbs across to the running board,
knocks out the driver with the butt
Of his gun, and gains control Of the
situation. Leaving the bandits bound
by the roadside, he takes Jill back
home.
1t is the old story retold. Jack
stays for a visit and remains to wed.
Jill and he are married two months
later, after he accepts an offer to
learn the glass blowing trade.
Life Is kind to Jack and Jill. Two
years and three months later they
are the proud parents Of twin boys
and a girl.
And nov transpires an event des-
tined to bring about radical changes
in the lives of these people. In the
hills back OF the Justin home Jack
discovers a mine which proves even
tually 70 be not only a money-maker,
but a great surprise 70 everybody.
Jack has been thrown out of en-
p!oyment, and with all his savings
tied up in the new venture, Jack and
Jill find the going temporarily hard.
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CHAPTER VII
IL was late in February when, ow-
ing three months rent, and with
creditors bounding him from all
sides, Jack Stuart very humbly ac-
cepted Peter Justin's lonE-standing
offer, and moved his family into the
home Of his father-in-law.
Much of the freightage of the more
fragile glass products Of the Elliston
Glass company, an independent con-
Germ, was carried on by truck 60
Pittsburgh. Peter Justin's influence
finally secured work for Jack and
Tony as drivers of a couple Of these
big seventeen trucks. It was a bit
ter come-down for the two young
men, but it kept that hungry wolf
away from the door. For this Jack
was thankful. although il necessi.at-
ed his absence from home two nights
in the week.
Leaving Elliston al 8 o'clock In the
morning, they would reach Pitts
burgh at 4 in the afternoon. deliver
their loads. and go to q hotel for the
night, their expenses being paid BY
the company. On the return trip
they usually brought back supplies
Of various kinds.
IL was on a warm, balmy day late
in April that the big event trans
pired-the event that opened the way
to an entirely new manner Of living
for the Stuart-Justin combine. Both
Jack ard Tony would have been
greatly surprised had they been told
that plans eliminating in that days
happenings had been maturing for
several weeks. After that day, how
ever, nothing surprised them.
II was Saturday. their one day OF
rest. To Jack this meant concilia-
tory calls on numerous creditors
small payments to the more import
tunate and-promises. Paying for
dead horses" ever a thankless task
and an irksome one, especially il
ones income scarcely enabled one to
meet current expenses as in Jacks
case. Thus did opportunity find one
eustomer-anxious and needy.
Tony Justin was sitting on the
front veranda, with a magazine and a
cigarette. when he heard the grinding
creak Of an auto brake. He