New Britain herald., 1928-05-29
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THIS HAS HAPPENED

Virginia Brewster. upon the sud- den death of her father. goes to live with a friend. Clarissa Dean, and her father. Her 1ance, Nathaniel Damn. objects to this for he mls- trusts Deans motives. Upon phon- ing Niel's studio late one night, Nir- ginia, is surprised when his model, Chiri. answers. This causes quar- rel which is later mended.
 Hoping to get Mel away. Dean ar ranges to have him offered a posi- ton in San Francisco. Mel begs Virginia to marry him and so west, but she refuses to let him sacrifice his art.
 Clarissa becomes jealous Of Nir- glnia, and the latter resolves to leave, but Dean opposes her depar- ture and asks her to marry him. When she refuses. he threatens to reveal the fact that her father cheat d him out of $lo0.o0o in a boot logging deal. Recklessly Virginia pledges herself to marry him If she fails to earn the money to repay him in one years time. She then goes to . cheap hotel after pawning one of her rings. The sordidness of the place makes her realize her changed fortunes, but real panic comes when she hears brawl through the thin partition and then she knows that she has indeed made mistake Tn her choice. She checks out immedl- ately and consults her attorney who recommends small, quiet hostelry to which she goes.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER XIX
 virginia's things had arrived. she was told, and she asked to have them sent up imwediately. It gave her welcome activity to unpack and make list Of the pictures and the few objects dart she had in her suit cases. The trunks that should have been at the Deans were not there, she learned. She called her former home on Park avenue and directed the superintendent to send them to her new address. They contained nothing but clothing, very little of which she cared to wear now, so she was not impatient to re- ceive them.
 It was a different Virginia who presented herself at MT. Gardiner's office a second time that day. bit of the thrill of a good fight had rot through her despondency and melted her to a desire for action. She handed over the pearls with remarkable composure and MT. Gardiner hadn't the slightest sus- picion of the pain it gave her to part with them.
 'Call up in the morning and I'll let you know about these things he said, referring to the list she had made
 "I really think I have a right to them," Virginia said wistfully. "They were mother's.'
 Then Of course they're yours, but we'll just make sure that they are not on the unpaid bills, sos to avoid the possibility Of trouble"
 This time Virginia left the build ing with lighter heart. It meant something to be allowed to hope that she was not to be stripped Of the very last possession that linked her with the life that seemed now to have been a fairy tale of happi- ness.
 Eut she could not know beyond doubt until morning; and in the meantime she must communicate with Nathaniel He might have called the Deans and learned that she was gone. Virginia was shit ten with remorse that she had left the day so nearly go by with out calling him. He would want to come to her at the first hint of trouble and she had no place to re- ceive him in privacy. She thought of trying to tell him as much as she had planned to let him know, in the parlor Of her hotel. That wouldn't do at all.
 Virginia had slimpsed the cramped space of that room where every word spoken could be over heard. They might take a ride on bus top up Riverside Drive, but what . place for Nathaniel in a tempe~as he was sure to be.
 Well. why not go to his studio? IL was the best place in the world, Virginia thought, 10 tell him what had happened with Clarissa. That would be enough to explain why she was breaking with the Deans. Nathaniel would be sure to urge an early marriage, but she could find some reason for putting if off without telling him the whole truth.
 After ride down 10 Washington Square on bus Virginia walked to Nathaniel's studio and found him al work. Chiri was posing for him in 2 red bathing suit of decidedly hoyish cut. Nathaniel throw down his brush and knocked over 2 chair on his way 10 greet her when Nir- sinia entered Tn response 10 his call 10 come in.
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