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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
THE A OF TEXAS
TO the Sheriff Or any Constable OF
Cameron County, Texas-Greet-

70 the Sheriff Or any Constable OF
Cameron County, Texas-Greet-
ings:
You are hereby commanded to
summon o. b. Van WySk and Mrs.
3. B. Van Wyck. husband and wife,
who are non-residents Of the state
Of Texas. and 10. G. Elstner and
SalIie X. Elstner. husband and wife
who are now absent from the state
Of Texas. TO appear at the text reg
ular term of the district court Of
Cameron county. Texas, One Hun
dred Third Judicial District of
Texas, to be held at the court house
thereof in the city of Brownsville,
Cameron county. Texas, on the third
Monday in September, A. ID. 1928,
the same being the seventeenth day
Of September. A. D. 1928. then and
there to answer a petition filed in
said court on the fifteenth day OF
August, 1928, the file number OF
which is No. SOLO, in which suit C.
H. Colgin. trustee, and B. H. Frazier
arr. plaintiffs. and Jo- G. Elstner and
Sallie X. Elstner, O. u. Van Wyck and
Mrs. o. b. Van Wyck. j. l. Waters
and Jose Cortez are defendants; the
cause OF action alleged is substan-
tally as follows: That heretofore,
BY warranty deed, dated June 18th.
1926, and recorded in Vol. 154, pages
1876, Deed Records of Cameron
county. Texas, G. III. Colgin. trus-
tee. conveyed to 10. c. Elstner that
certain tract Of land containing
twenty t20) acres, more or less, sit
uated in Cameron coonty, Texas,
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Non Go On With The Story.

She ran to the hail window
md looked out. Carrie was sit.
ting iii the hammock couch Ia
side Pat, the starched pink shirt
Of her house dress ballooning out
around her. Her chestnut hair
MlaOne in the sunlight, and her
round cheeks were very pink.
Lily hated her, but she had to
own that she was a pretty L.tle
woman.
She threw the hall window up,
and called to Pat: s'WiIl you
please come up here, Pat, and
do some work for ne?''
Then she slammed down the
window.
Pat stood on the threshold or
the room, almost as IL he were
afraid to enter 1t.
Ny shoes are muddy he said,
his eyes going over the Powered
carpet, the white bearsIxin rig be-
side the bed. the big puffy cush-
ions Of rainbow silks that were
piled on the satin sofa drawn up
before the empty crate.
Never mind. I want
you to put those drawers into
the dressing table for me-" Lily
told him, and he stepped ginger1y
into the dainty. perfumed place
as Il he were walking on eggs or
thin ice.
He stopped for d minute before
the little powder table between
the north windows. 1t was lit
tered with powder puffs, with
perfume bottles. with scented hair
oil. with boxes Of powder, and
Jars Of cream.
Gosh, what do you do with
al that stuff" he asked. 1T
looks like the shelf in a barber
ghop-fhat little table, He laid
one Of his straight blunt fingers
on goId-topped bottle.
That's a powder table" Lily
told him, laughing. "And / use
all that stuff as you call it,
on my face, Mr.. Pat France!
Cream and perfume and powder
and Iipstick. The oil in that
bottle you're touching is for my
hair. 1t smells like q
lemon grove"
She pulled out the gold stop
per and shifted at 1t. That's
what makes my hair so nice and
sweet" she said, smiling up at
him. And all the rest OF this
makes me nice to look at---fOr my
Pat to look at"
Pat groaned aloud. He had
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see It as my mother and Stephen
Marsh saw it-as it Was-beau-
tiful! inevitable. They'll see it as
a wrong. Branding Stephanie.
Money isn't worth that
''There need be no publicity.
Miss King, wire your mother that
III see her in her home tomor.
row at o'clock.
He swung his shoulders and
again gave that peculiar, hum
ming laugh: "And make her know
that I'm determined to carry out
the wishes OF my late partner"
Dizzy with excitement, her head
light and the whole world flowing
about her in a thrilling, golden
glow, Jerry went flying to tele-
phone. Wire? Whoever heard of
such a thing! She was almost
bursting to talk-about it to them
hear their astonished, no, their
aghast: What! What in the
World!'
She called for Maria. In a
hushed intensity told of the sur
prising meeting.
MARIA, see him! Listen and do
what he says!'
From the moment that she hung
up the phone until Friday morn
ing when Lloyd O'Connor sum-
moned her to his office, Jerry
went about in a state of delirious
excitement.
there now-going up the steps
q
Oh, how were they acting? What
were they saying!
She couldn't concentrate on her
work. She could scarcely breathe.
All day her cheeks burned with a
scarlet unrest.
At A o'clock she phoned. Steph-
anie answered and became so
choky, so bewildered and incoher.
ent that finally Maria came.
Even Maria was unnerved.
Even Maria repeated huskily:
Eyes, my pet. Yes, darling girl.
No, we're not coming down. We
don't need to. 1 won't talk over
the phone. The lawyer will tell
you"
But is it settled? Is it proved
tight?"
"Yes-it seems So
"And how much?"
What, pet?''
How much for Stephanie?"
81 don't know. I didn't ask"
Lloyd O'Connor was much more
satisfactory. Friday noon he sum-
moned Jerry to his office. He
came swinging to meet her and
grasped her hand.
Are they o. KIP" she asked
gaily.
"They are o. X. Wen settle it
up as quickly as possible"
MY mother and Stephanie won't
have to come down at all?"
mo. I'll name an attorney for
your sister. They have complete
proofs dispositions, a birth
certificate, pictures, letters from
Ste phen Marsha convincing
array"
when will it be settled?" asked
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when Stephanie was born. But /
don't remember that. We were
there while my father was in the
Ural Mountains, and for about
three years after his return"
Where was your father?"
''Ln Russia. He was a mining
engineer"
did he know Of the birth of
this child to your mother? Have
you ever heard her say"
HE never learned OF it. But
he knew Of Stephen and was
jealous Of him. And he forced
my mother to leave New York.
She had to go with him and she
had to leave Stephanie there.
For two whole years she didn't
see her. She was broken-hearted."
And then?"
"Then Stephen was transferred
to Chicago, and their child was
left all alone in New York. MY
mother was wild with despair.
She was powerless. So Stephen
sent for the baby, had her Brought
to Chicago. She was put in
convent. She was years old. and
she lived there till she was 10
O'Connor watched Jerry with
sharp, brilliant eyes, drinking up
her phrases. He interrupted with
a quick: when did your mother
tell you all this?"
Last year when she thought
Stephanie dying"
$50 you brought her back with
you? And how have you ex-
planned her?"
"She is known as Stephanie
King-my cousin. 1t was either
that or brand her to the world"
He nodded: But your sister
was eager to come down here and
visit her grandfather"
''She was on fire about it. We
pictured him magnificent like
Stephen. We thought of the fun
to dash down here and surprise
him with a CALI
"Would that you had! He lived
Is years hoping for that. Waiting
for it. These last four years he
was a lonely man."
"Stephanie will be grieved. She'll
feel terribly cheated"
"And she'll certainly want her
grandfather's last wishes carried
out. Miss King? Why should
your mother wish to keep her
from benefits this revelation may
bring? What motive can she now
have?"
"The publicity. Going into court
and telling everyone. People won't
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By ElenOre Mehe1in

} Jerry, wondering dreamily IL she
might cash a huge check tomor-
row morning and bring it back
to Stephanie.
Quickly, hope. Depends on
the court. I'm driving you out to
Stephen Marsh's house. You can
show me the things you wish to
keep. The rest. will be sold and
the money sent to your sister
when the case is settled. He has
treasures there that he valued
highly"
They drove through the con-
gested streets to the wide Will
shire boulevard. Sunny, exhiliar-
ating November noon they stopped
before quiet almost a small
bungalow.
"You are an artist, Miss King,
and will appreciate the Whistler,
the Rubens and the Valesquez
that Stephen so loved. He in
vested much Of his money in
pictures and books. And he
especially stipulated that these
may not be sold.
eff you do not care for them
they are to be given to the uni
Versity here"
wen care for them" answered
Jerry promptly, but wondering
with sinking heart il this small
place that surely was not worth
more than $4,000 was all the
real million Stephanie's grand
father beQueathed.
Pictures and books-they loved
these. But you can't eat pictures
and books!
Then she was in the living room
and startled to find it so spacious
"a marvellous room with an old
world charm about it. On little
table was a miniature OF stephen
"a copy Of the one Maria owned.
And on the wall an oil of Ste
phanie-a surprising thing. Any
one would recognize Stephanle
from it.
The old grandfather had had
her picture copied nao
given it to some young artist.
And he had brought Stephanle 10
IT wish I knew that Stephen
Marshr said Jerry suddenly
pausing before an oil Of Piazzonl-
there were four Of these. he
must have been rare soul.
"He was"
"Does he leave my sister any
thing besides the house?"
Enough to keep her com1or-
tablv as long as she lives. The
money is all invested and Is to
remain so. She will have $500 a
month or better. The money
from the sale of this she can
use as she pleases."
"Three hundred dollars all
clear each month";"
"All clear!
well, that's nice" said Jerry.
beaming, 1--WE haven't liked
living on SIS"
But you have liked having
your sister with you?"
TO Be Continued Tomorrow
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In This Story Of Girl Torn Betwx Two Great Desires
Beatrice Burton Has Woven Vibrant Serial
Pulsatng With Romance

ssT can make Pat marry mel
can cry and coax until ne does
III" she said to herself. her face
SINK in her hands, her eyes on
her lovely reflections In the
toilet mirror before her. But
if do. It means the Roy letter
sons. the grocery store, the wash
fIIb probably. and vanilla for per
fume the rest of my life. She
laughed for q second, remember
ing Pats face when he saw the
price mark on the bottom Of
the black perfume bottle.
Then her face grew grave once
more. "And IL ] marry Staley
as I probably shall-lM have
everything ] want in the world
except Pat"
She remembered how she had
said to Pat that morning: I'm
going to marry you or know
the reason why.
But now, when she was all
alone with her thoughts, she be-
gan to wonder II she would have
the courage to do ito give M
the life she was used to for life
In the neighborhood Of the
France family's grocery store
and Roy Jetterson's. garage. All
her black doubts and misgiyings
came back to settle over her
like storm clouds.
After all, 1t was very pleasant
to live in a world Of big we'll
furnished rooms, high-powered
automobiles, nicely-served meals,
breakfasts on q tray, card parties
and luncheons and dances.
TO have nothing to do but
enjoy herself had seemed the
simplest and most natural thing
in the world to Lily, always. It
was impossible to think Of life
with poverty and hard work in
it.
Al knock sounded on the panels
OF the door, and Mrs. Lexington
put her head into the room for
an instant like a cuckoo suddenly
popping out Of q cuckoo clock.
''Staley's downstairs to see you"
she said, and popped out again
fTo Be Continued Tomorrow
~ =
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the sewing woman coming on
Friday to make over some things
for me-"
She read Carries note-or
rather, the note that Lily had
written and signed with Carries
name.
Then she tore it up. ''The I'M
grateful grip she sighed. plying
herself, ito walk out of the
house like that, after all I've done
for her! taught her everything
she knows about housework, and
even paid her expenses at the
hospital two years ago when she
had her tonsils out-and this is
the thanks ] getp'
She was in fine rage by the
time she had changed her dress,
put on a pair OF big comfortable
shoes, and knocked on the locked
door Of her daughters room.
Lily had been making up the
sleep she had lost that morning
by getting up so early. One side
Of her face was rosy and crumpled
where she had pressed 1t into the
embroidered pillow. Her kimono-
q brilliant silk thing that had
cost more than the amount Of
Carries back wages-Was wrinkled
too, and she was rubbing her
dreamy, sleepy eyes.
Hello. Mother" she yawned.
Where were you and Mrs.
Cain going today when Pat and ]
passed you on the road?''
She knew perfectly well where
they had been going.
Pat and T. repeated Mrs.
Lexington, furfousIy. What do
you mean by sitting up in the
drivers seat with him? Your
head on his shoulder, too! Lily, !
could cry when I think Of it!
You. engaged to a man like Staley
Drummond and carrying on with
a chauffeur"
ooh, Mother, but he's so nice
and, anyway, are you awfully,
awfully sure that my head was
on his shoulder? You were going
pretty fast, you know, and so
were, we?" She laughed lightly
and put out a hand to wipe some
powder from her mothers large
and handsome nose.
But Mrs. Lexington pushed the
hand aside. Her eyelids glim.
mered. Her lips were pressed so
tight together that they almost
disappeared.
Aren't you ashamed to notice
that he's good looking. when
you're all but married to another
man, Lily Lexington?' Her voice
quivered with anger. you've a
common streak in you, my girl.
that's whatp'
And she shook her. But Lily
only went on laughing.
Don't take 1t so hard, Mother, "
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JERRY

check with information in my
possession. The identity can
readily be established by the true
person.
t'Need tell you that we had
hundreds Of responses to our
advertisements: hundreds of girls
trying to prove they were Ste
phanie Marsh? Truth is so open
and simple and dovetails at every
angle with known facts. It is
easy for the trained searcher to
recognize 1t.
1--WE know where the Stephanie
Marsh we seek was born: know
where and with whom the first
years Of her life were spent.
"The mother Of this girl also
knows these facts, and she is the
only person who knows all OF
them. No impostor can furnish
such data as the real mother Of
Stephanie Marsh possesses-such
as the circumstances OF her ch1ld's
birth and the whereabouts OF her
husband at this period.
ST shall know at the first meet
ing whether or not I have the
party I seek"
"How did you know Oh me? I
don't understand that" said Jerry,
naiveIy interested in her own
part Of it.
'In a letter written to young
stephen Marsh there is a glowing
description of a child named
Jerry. I have a packet Of such
letters. the contents Of which will
be remembered by the party who
wrote them.
you see, Miss King, we had
little trouble unmasking impostors.
We have some very intimate In
formation. Do you, for instance,
remember your father?"
Clearly"
"You did not, of course, as q
child know anything Of Stephen
Marsh?"
Eyes, remember a visit he paid
at Los Gatos. That was the sum-
mer Just before he was killed.
He brought me a silver bracelet
with bangles. I was nine and I
liked him and I knew my mother
did. My father was dying Of
tuberculosis"
O'Connor stopped his walking.
He gave a peculiar humming
laugh-the flashing look in his
handsome eyes.
do you know If you had al
ways lived in California;"
mo. We were in New York
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picked up . scent bottle OF black
glass and was looking at the
price-mark pasted upon the bot
tom Of 1t.
Eighteen dollars! Whew!' He
whistled. st would take me
three days Of hard work to earn
that one bottle OF perfume for
you, Lily" He set It down, his
face drawn into lines OF discour-
agement and hopelessness.
But Lily laughed at him. ''Then
I'd have to get along without
perfume or use vanilla instead.
wouldn't / Pat?'' she asked. She
swayed toward him an inch or
two, and was where she wanted
to be--in his arms.
And thus 1t was that Carrie
came upon them, few minutes
later, as she passed the open
door on her way upstairs to her
own roomone figure, their arms
clasped around each other, their
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, lips locked, deaf and blind TO
everyone but themselves.
They did not see her or hear
her, and she went on up the
stairs. She locked her door ana
began to pack her yellow tin
trunk She had changed
her mind about staying with the
Lexingtons until Mrs. Lexington
discharged her, after ALL What vas
there in staying, she asked her.
self. when the only man she had
taken 8, fancy to in years had
fallen in love with the daughter
OF the house?
A half hour later she walked
out of the side door, leaving be-
hind her the tin trunk and the
six weeks back pay, together with
q note asking Mrs. Lexington to
send both Of them to her brothers
house in Appleton court, on the
west side OF town.
Pat saw her go from the win
dow Of his room above the garage
and thought nothing Of It.
Lily saw her. too, and knew
why she had tgone. She ran down
stairs and found the note she
had left for Mrs. Lexington. She
tore it open to find out IL Carrie
had written anything about her
self and Pat in it. She had.
She had written every.
thing she knew about thenl
Dear Mrs. Lexington" she
had written, in her neat, round
hand, Miss Lily has just told
me to leave the house, and I am
going. She is jealous OF me be-
cause Pat, the chauffeur, likes
me too well to suit her.
please send my trunk and the
$96 you owe me right away to
my brothers house, where / am
going. His name IL Charlie
Petrie, and his address is
Lily read no more.
She slipped the note into the
pocket OF her dress and carried ii
upstairs to her own room. She
locked the door and carefully
wrote another note In Carries
neat hand, leaving out the bit
about Pat and herself.
Then she sealed It and took Il
downstairs to her mothers desk.
~
was doing a dishonest thing com.
hitting a forgery-writing q. lie.
She smiled to herself at her
own cleverness as she laid it
down upon q pile OF bills for her
own wedding clothes--fOr princess
slips of APPLE blossom pink ala
robins egg blue for silk stock.
ings, satin slippers, paste buckles
for gloves and dresses and hats.
All of It raiment for Staley
Drummond's bride!
IF / marry Pat I'll have.
enough clothes for q while. any.
way" she said gaily to herself,
pausing at the hall window to
look at the garage in the back
yard. 1t had become a place Of
dreams and enchantment-that
plain and ugly little building-be.
cause it housed Pat.
- H. 4
Mrs. Lexington came home
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she said, cheerfuIly. 'I may as
well tell YOU that I've practically
proposed marriage to Pat, ana ne
wouldn't have me on q bet!
Don't talk like q little fool,
even IL you are one" her mother
told her.. "I'1l get rid Of that
fellow Just as soon as can with.
out starting any gossip"
He's going on Saturday In any
case" said Lily. cts killing me
to think OF it--but he is" She
said it in banter, light way. as
IL she were joking.
CHAPTER IL
when her mother left her alone
Lily sat down before her dressing
table and did some hard thinking.
She never had done very much
really hard thinking in her life.
1T had always made her tired
and nervous to think things out.
Even when she was a little girl
at school she had cried over prob
lens in Northumberland so Mrs.
Lexington had asked the head
Of the expensive private school
not to give her too many hard
problems to work out-and the
head Of the expensive private
school had agreed not to. She
knew which side her bread was
buttered on
Later Lily had stopped taking
French lessons because they were
too hard. And she had dropped
piano lessons for the same rea-
son.
For % years life had been made
soft and smooth and easy for
her.
she was like the Biblical lilies
of the field. She toiled
not, neither did she spin. But
Sheba, in all her glory, was not
arrayed-and served and sheltered
and coddled-like Lily Lexington.
She had been brought up in
rose-coIored cotton wool.
Now, suddenly, without any
warning, she was faced with q
real sprobIem-a problem that mo-
body but herself could solve for
her.
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from her luncheon at church at
5 o'clock.
She came home all primed and
ready to discharge France, the
chauffeur, and changed her mind
almost the minute she set foot
In the house.
For Agnes, the fat and placid
cook who had been with the Lex
ingtons for a long time, met her
at. the door with the bad news
that Carrie had left-and left for
good.
And what with a weddin' COM
in on and all, don't know
what we're going to do without
her." said Agnes. "She was 50
nice and handy for answering
the door and setting the table
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and keeping the downstairs busted
and the Iike-now, wasn't she;
Mrs. Lexington, mann
Mrs. Lexington collapsed in a
chair and kicked off the black
satin pumps that had been tor.
turing her all afternoon. She
was always taking off her slippers
in picture shows or theaters or
the minute she got into her own
house after parties and shopping
trips.
"Well, Agnes,s' she said, there's
nothing for us to do but to turn
Carries work over to Pat Tor
few days, is there? We've got
to have some help in the house
especially now, with wall paper
cleaners coming tomorrow and
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Love in d MiIIiOnaire's Mansion or In a
Poor Mans Flat Is Lily's
Problem of Future
Read This First !:

LILY LEXINGTON Is spoiled only daughter CYRUS
realized when becomes engaged to STALY DRUM
SUE CAIN and
into his
his cab In
ROY JEFFERSON However, intends
sell M, says, to d
Of
picture of him She realize
with him. But about the time
mother
herself to The wedding
tenth
Mrs. Lexington hires chauffeur
the minute him
he QUITO Door
morning
20
his wife
mother
wouldn't She
her life
81 has
been going around On their from the picnic they pass Mrs
find. Carrie her mothers maid looking the chauffegs card
with Pats picture She snatches
Carrie with Pat
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