Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-03


JILL announced her intentions OF
considering the dancing offer. Jack
put his loot down." She laughed
81 him.
where do you thing you're get
ting of at she QUESTIONED him,
Observation-Disclosures, many per-
sons would have defined it--as sac
looked him up and down. What's
your big idea, telling ma what shall
or shall not do? 1 became a cipher
in your well-filled life when Mia Ha-
velle began to smile on you. Before
that it was Mike Sweeney-when she
had no one else. Maybe she would
have fallen for you II Nita hadn't
come along. ] don't know-nor
cnrel And now you assert yourself
about what / shall do. You put
your foot DOWN."
She laughed, a high-pitched, mirth-
less laugh, sardonic and bitter and
added:
II hope TO goodness, Jack Stuart,
that you won't have to ~hold your
foot down" until | meskly obey your
order. / wasn't perfectly sure
hadn't fully decided until you put
your foot down whether I'D accept
that cffer or not. Now I'm entirely
settled on tn matter. / shall take It."
"AIl rignt, JILL" said Jack, swallow
ing the bitter dose with difficulty,
and realizing again, when il was too
late, the folly OF trying to drive this
woman. "1ou seem determined TO
put tn devil and tn deep blue sea
between Us, SO 60 ahead! You've
accused me time and again OF inf
deity. I might as well have tn
game as tn name for all ] can see!"
Again the laugh, ~rnirthless, sar-
castle.
Go as far a. you ike, Jack" she
cried, on the verge OF Mysteries and
wanting TO hurt him. TO make his
heart J n proportion 80 the ache IN
Love! What strange and ron
Trajectory tactics IL sometimes
adopts to assert itself.
These two loved each other dearly,
and yet they were each trying his
and her best to say something TO
hurt the other. And both were or
that temperament that could easily
be hurt.
And 50 the winter passed. Every
two weeks Jill came home OF Sunday
morning and remained over until
Monday noon. And every other
monday morning, baf0re starting
back TO take up her dancing job, she
would give Jack a check for $1,000,
made payable TO him. All her ex-
penses were paid, including railroad
fare, 40 her salary was cellar. When
he hesitated on the first occasion,
about accepting the check, she said:
Bank 1t th1n, for tn hcildrer.
Our interests regarding them, nc
least. are onel" And 10 the account
grew at the rate OF $4,000 q month.
In May her engagements was termi-
mated until October
But before October there IL Sep
temper, and the latter part Of that
September witnessed an event in the
Stuart family-one of those events
which "cast their shadows before"
Had Jack and Jill been on perfectly
amiable terms, she would doubtless
have acquainted him at once with
the prospective coming Of this we'll
known bird.
Considering its nature, and every
thing, one would have thought the
coming event would have been the
one certain means of bringing about
d readjustment in the domestic re-
lations OF Jack and Jill.
Strangely enough, IL did nothing
Of the sort. Notwithstanding Jill's
tentative hints that she was ready
to declare an armistice. Since the
closing az her engagement she had
seen very little OF Professor lie
Ttarte. Jack may have seer Nita
occasionally. but they did not 20
around together, ss they had In the
winter. II was just that Jack seemed
to have acquired the habit Of eonsid-
ering himself m abused and injured
husband.
As the time approached for the
event 70 t~ranspire, Jack grew more
and more irritable and morose. II
seemed almost as IL he disliked the
very prospect It cane 90 pass on
the tw~enty-thirG on September. The
event." which proved to be Of femi-
nine gender, opened its dark brown
eyes on the world just ut dawn, in
the same room I'm the hospital where
It's brothers. Peter and Paul, and it's
sister Helen, had first see the light
Of day.