Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-17

EQUALIZATION, Il proper Dalance OF
all things, either in the concrete or
the abstract.
Easy Money is often the medium
Of dissention that enters and wrecks
the happy, contented family.
THE psychology of the thing is
plain. . IL opens the doors 20
gilded evils that are locked against
the fellow with the puny purse.
"Some day." concluded Father Pat,
"the world will be educated up TO
a full understanding Of this truth
that normality is the basis Of all pre-
lection in life. Exoesses, the fruits
Of easy money, turn to bitterness
and decay. They are the dead husks
Of disillusionment,"
Father Pat was right" muttered
Jill Stuart, half aloud. 9TH crops
we reap from the. foIlies we SOW.
Like the flowers that bud and bloom,
then wither and blow away in the
cold ashes Of disillusionmenti"
She clenched her firsts and struck
her breast in a senseless. impotent
rage. She wanted 10 cry. to tear
something. But she didn't. She
got a grip on herself. and gradually
her anger passed. spent itself in the
melting-pot of normalcv.
She was sitting on the edge OF one
Of the two beds, CARRIED i'm white silk
pajamas. when Jack entered the
room. The gold hands Of her tiny
silver clock o nthe dresser pointed
TO the hour of two.
He grinned, a sheepish, guilty grin,
as she looked up at him. But IN her
eyes he read no anger, no irritable
ness even; only grief.
A little hurriedly. and with some
thing like apology in his manner
Jack rendered his alibi. lnasmuch as
il wss partly true. II was a fairly
good alihi-as alibis 20. They had
been-~hey" being Tony. the profess
sor au khimself-In Nita Ravelle's
room. Whey" had rolled dice, play
ed BlAek Jack-and talked. He
hadn't realized until he happened
TO glance at his watch, the ~lateness
Of the hour.
l offered no comment on his ex-
planation. She could have told him
that Tony had stopped on his way
from Nita Ravelle's room, where he
had left Jack and the professor. But
she didn't. Nor did she mention that
the professor had telephoned her
shortly afterward from his wi room
''just to assure her that Jack would
be right down" That was at j
o'clock, she might have told him.
But she didn't.
She Just slipped quietly beneath
the covers Of the bed on which she
had been sitting and clSvfl her eyes.
He spent some time Ger the show
err. took a brisk russ6wn, and then
SO as not to disturb her, presumably
-erawled into the other bed.
The members of Mikes party
with the exception, Of course, of Jill
and Tony-departed shortly after ~
o'clock luncheon on Sundayf or Ellis
ton. They bade goodbye to the two
~"noofers,' what watched the de-
parture through the plate-glass win
dow Of the hotel lobby as the big
limousine pulled away from the curb,
a moment later and il had disappear
ed in the motley traffic of the mar
row street in the city famous for Its
n-rrow streets
1t was a duly aching heart that
Jill Stuart carried back up to her
apartment on the second floor. She
had observed the studied air Of in
difference that had marked the atti-
tudes of Jack and Nita Ravelle to-
word each other. But they were poor
actors, both Of them, and overplayed
their parts.
Days passed-as days will do, ven
in a small town like Elliston. Came
Friday. and with il came Tony JUS
tin. back to the home Of his nativity.
back 10 the town Of tall smokestacks
and g~lass-baking ovens.
But he came alone, did Tony. The
partrer of his sporadic career" re-
manned in the city of narrow streets.
coal smoke and huge steel mills.
But you say your contract is can
celed." said Jack Stuart, who hid
been aroused from his beauty"
slumber at the early hour Of 10
a. m, and was feeling none too So
ciable. Tony had come straight from
the train to the Stuart apartments.
Jack looked him over specul; G~sly.
why didn't Jill come with you?"
he wanted TO know.
"Oh. I'm tn ono that's let out"
Unveiled Tony. his manner indicating
deep grievance. Jill has a new
contract. And he added, his voice
taking on an indigo tint-"a new
dancing partnerl on, yes-indeedi"
he went on quickly, in answer TO his
hrother-in-law's inluiring look. "and
I'M telling yuh plain, Jack. that I'm
good an sore at tn trick Jill turned.
1t looks a lot like tn thing was
fixed"
Be it noted, incidentally and here.
that when Tony Justin became en-
tirely sober and gave careful thought
to the words he had uttered under
the influence of drink and his "griev-
znce." he tried to smooth out their
effect on his sisters husband. He
realized he had played the part -
an utter cad.
"But her pa%rtneri" prompted
Jack, an angry look beginning TO
glow in his eyes, tell me-who is
this partner
"Why. it's that Professor lie Tarte
who else" answered Tony, feeding
his grievance with indignant recol-
lection Of the professors Geek
ad~aptability and skill in stepping H.
10 his place. II was silk Tuesday
night-unable to 60 y. Then what
does Jill do but up and as him to
let her get another partner and
that's what she did; called up lie
Tartel"
ITO BE CONTINUED