New Britain herald., 1928-06-29
THIS HAS HAPPENED
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/ THIS HAS HAFPEN ED
Virginia Brewster Is in love with
Nathaniel Damn, but she is tricked
into promising to marry Frederick
Dean In one year If she fails to earn
100000 that he alleges her father
cheated him out of. Brewster had
tost his fortune before his death and
Virginia " left destitute.
She pawns her iewelry and Oliver
Cutter promises to invest the money
for her. She seeks work without
success, and discovers that Dean has
bribed the agency not to help her.
Oliver gains her confidence and
shows her attention which Mel re-
sents, but she does not like the way
his model. Chiri. treats him.
Finally Virginia obtains position
she likes. Shortly afterward she Is
charged by Cutters wife with try
ing to ALLEVIATE his affections.
She appeals to him to explain.
and demands an accounting of her
investments. He confesses that he
has not made any money for her.
but promises her any amount If she
will 30 away with him. She de-
nounces him and leaves his office.
Her firm requests her to 90 on a
voyage as ship hostess. This separa-
ton. together with the Cutter affair
and the misunderstanding about
Chiri, causes lovers quarrel
which IL not mended before Vir-
Einia sails.
She and Mel both suffer, but her
work and the hope of getting aid
from a friend of her father. Q. D.
Leigh, In Haiti, help her endure the
heartache.
Arriving at Haiti, she goes out to
the home of Leigh but finds the
plantation terribly run down. Leigh
~ quite Ill. and Virginia comes away
in despair when she realizes that he
il in no position to help her raise the
hundred thousand.
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CHAPTER XLVI
Virginia was sadly disappointed.
Nathaniel's letter had told her
nothing of his feeling for her {. B.
1t lacked tenderness.
1t was entirely in the nature OF
the depressed conversations that had
usurped their old, free exchange of
condolences after N.el's discovery of
her association with Oliver.
He hoped. and Virginia failed to
see, that it was ironical, that she
was having a fine time.
He spoke OF his work. nothing
definite. The bad weather she was
lucky enough to escape. The artists
ball and, near the end: s.. =.
Chris 4 peach. Been little off my
appetite but she keeps me going
with stuff she says l ought to have.
/ think I used to misjudge her.
Remember the time We talked
about the sawdust and the quick
sand? I'm beginning to believe We
were both wrong and that hte kids
full Of gold-dust."
Virginia finished the letter. folded
1t and put it away. There was dull,
heavy oppression in the region OF
her heart and a band seemed tight
ening round her head. Breathing
was difficult and painful.
Wisely she had chosen to read the
letter in the privacy of her state
room, but remembering the doctors
warning against letting herself go.
she closed her eyes, clenched her
hands and waited calmly for the
little horses that were stamping
their hoofs up and down her nerves
TO leave her.
She had told the medical man
that it felt like that and he had
replied that she might visualize her
nerve torture SO If she wished, If
she would promise to think OF the
horses as intruders that she must
Danish quietly. and never once feel
that they were beyond her control.
Virginia smiled them away,
willed herself not to suffer because
the thing she had set out to ac-
complish seemed done.
Mel was not unhappy. When
he heard of her marriage to Fred
erick Dean he would thank his stars
Sic ldu lOullu oul III tlillC tlldl ellC
wanted a rich husband.
Virginia had accepted the price
OF her fathers honor There was no
way to escape now. Before the end
of March she must become the wife
Of the man she despised.
The Agena would return to New
York early in January. Just few
short weeks after that day in which
to make 100000. 1t was hopeless.
Despair became her constant
companion during the remainder Of
the cruise. But no one on the ship,
excepting the doctor. knew that she
vas suffering. For her protection he
circulated carelessly- dropped re-
marks concerning her health-the
tropics did not agree with her .
touch of sun too much work
His campaign had a beneficial re-
suit. Thoughtful passengers relaxed
their demands upon Nirginias at
tentions and no one quizzed her
about her pallor and nervousness.
Virginia no longer felt herself
urging the ship to speed by nell
tally conceiving herself down in the
furnace room furiously feeding coal
to the fire as she had done on the
way from Havana to Port au Prince.