Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-05
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Charlotte Chatterton. nicknamed
Chatty, is a born gossip and busy
body. She loses her job in Mrs.
Mayberry's hat shop for talking too
much about Mrs. MaybeTry's bust
ness.
Her mother. Mrs. Harriet Chat
terton, earns her living by doing
plain sewing. And through her old
friend and customer. Mrs. Van
Mugs. Chatty gets !. position in Mr.
Van Nuys' bond house down town.
There Chatty meets and falls in
love with David Jordan, a hand
some, young. red-headed salesman,
who she once saw buying flowers for
a pretty girl in a shop across the
street from Mrs. M~ayberry's shop.
Billy Langcnau, head Of the fiji
- 1tpai tme... wnere Chatty works.
tells her that the only girl in the
office whom Jordan eve notices Is
MI. Van Mugs quiet secretary. Ag-
mes Herlord. But Chatty does not
worry much about this. for she and
Winnie Talcott, a Stenographer in
the office, saw Agnes slipping out
TO have lunch with Mr.. Van Nuys,
himself. one noonl Chatty thinks
that Mrs. Van" ought to know
about 1t, but her mother makes her
promise TO say nothir- about 1t.
Then Chatty unearths another Of
flee scandal. Billie Langenau and
her sister, Sara. come to live across
the hall. Their apartment is filled
with beautiful furniture and silver.
and Sara tells Chatty they we're
bought for Billie by her husband, a
man named Brewster. Later Billie
tells Chatty at she Is separated
from Brewster and that George
Mayhem, another Of the bond
statesmen, who Is a great friend Of
Billie's, knows nothing about her
having been married. Chatty PROM
ises not TO tell him.
One night she sees George with
another girl in a movie and she
keeps that fact a secret from Bill
lie, upon advice from her mother.
But she longs to tell her. Billie
gives a Sunday night party, serv-
ing plain orange juice instead OF
cocktails. ana Chatty Is Mortified
when Winnie Talcott suggec-5 to
Jim Bowen, a young salesman. that
they get gin. She says .ne know ]
"a kid in Tomlinson's drug store at
the corner" who will sell them al
cohol. For Pud. Chatty's young
brother, is the kid" o works
therel
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CHAPTER *
Il must stop mimi Chatty was
thinking, wildly, desperately. as she
watched Jim Bowen make his way
across the crowded room to Billie.
Il just mustn't let them telephone
down TO Ben Tomlinson's for that
alcohol!"
How would she ever hold her head
up among them all again. after they
knew that her brother worked for
a bootlegger?-for she knew now
that that was what Ben Tomlinson
was. beyond all doubtl
IF they phone for that alcohol.
it'll be Pud who will bring i'll" she
told herself, sick now, with shame
and fear. And I'll have to own up
to 1t that he's my brother-they1l
all know IL. Dave Jordan. too"
OF course. she could get up and
leave. Say she haC a sudden head
ache. and 60 back across the hall
to her own apartment OF bet
ter still. why couldn't she run over
there for a r mute or two and tel
ephone Pud herself? Forbid
him to bring any alcohol to Billie's
that night. 0 matter who asked
him to!
That's what I'll dot" she made
up her mind in a flash.
And like a flash she was across
the room and out into the fall. She
knocked on the thin panels of her
own door ......There was no an
swer. No sound of Mrs. Chatter
toms light, quick footSter- from
within.
Chatty tried the { + It was
locked Locked And Mrs.
Cnattertcn had gone to st. Martins
church. of course. just as ihe did
every Sunday night Of her life. rain
or shine. year In and year out.
Chatty groaned aloud.
But maybe shes left the back