Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-11

answered her six advertisements
with no success, and having listed
her name with two employment
agencies, to one Of which she paid
a twc-dollar fee. and to the other
Of which she promised her first
weeks salary in any position she
accepted through them, Chatty re-
turned home. disspirited and blue.
She found q note waiting for
her: Call me, six-thirty. Bryant"
She sighed in relief. Just a little
ride. Oh, yes, David and his smilel
But a girl must have some funl
And Chatty wanted sympathy.
She got it-and many kisses
from Bryant. when she went riding
with him. She also had several I'M
wise drinks Of gin. not mixed in q
cocktail. but straight from the hip
flask. BY ten o'clock Chatty had
forgotten her blue day. her jobless
stahte. her longing for David. her
shame at her discharge, her trOu-
blesome tongue.
Give me another driving lesson.
Bryant. darin'!" she begged. And
then-Oh. then take me home to
your diggings and let's have a lit
tie private dance and another III
drink"
Chatty missed the flash in Bry-
ants eyes. He was all attention III
the driving lesson: and Chatty,
keyed UP by her excitement and
the poisonous liquor. responded well
to his efforts. When she finally
succeeded in shifting gears without
a clash. not once. but again and
again. Bryant applauded wildly. His
words were punctuated with kisses.
Now let's 90 homel" he suggest
ed. IL car show YOU something
there, too, about steering-in a
dancel"
"An right" agreed Chatty. She
had sobered a little, and rather re-
GREETED her offer. She remembered
she had agreed with herself that
she had better not 40 To Bryants-
But fat. In the form OF n police
officer, interfered with Bryant's
plans, If any. In a great hurry Ia
get home. Bryant stepped on her.
so hard that he did not hear the
Calling gun explosions Of a motor
cycle. Only when a khaki-clad arm
waved him owe to the curb did he
realize that he was arrested.
What do you think YOU are, an
express train?" demanded the Off
Ger. Drive to the second precinct,
young fellow. and If you're wise
you'll do it at twenty an hour or
lesSl Ill be right with you"
law. officer. Have a heart ana
give me a ticket. Don't you see I
got the little lady with me?"
Sure / Seel You can put her
in the first taxi We pass, for all !
carel But VI don't give tickets
for forty miles an hour drivingl On
your way"
Bryant pleaded and begged, but
the officer was adamant. TO the
station he drove. Chatty refused
TO leave him and 20 home in a taxi
IL wasn't sporting. But she found
the station rough and uncouth, and
the men who stood around in /:
eyed her impersonally as II she had
been an insect.
Luckily. Bryant had the collateral
they Notwithstanding dollars.
You were a decent sport to stick
aroundl" Bryant said, as they
started home. Let's forget It now
and"
But chatty had changed hel
mind.
X don't feel like IL now. Bryant
and neither do you. Take me home
please"
Tt waS after two In the morninf
when his a drove up in front o.
her home. Knowing that her eve.
ming was innocent more by chanc.
and good luck than firmness on he
part, Chatty kissed the ~bo,
friend" good night very s0berIy, AMI
crept into the apartment on tin
toe. hoping her mother would no
hear.
Being jobless and a good sport a
the same time was not as easy a
she had thought.
II TO BE CONTINUED