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 or which she paid
a two-dollar fee. and to the other
Of which She promised her first
weeks salary III any position she
accepted through them. Chatty re-
turned home, disspirited and blue
She found a note waiting for
her: Call me. six-thirty. Bryant"
She sighed In relief. just a little
ride. Oh. yes, David and his smllel
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 n
wise drinks Of gin. not mixed In a
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 al 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 n lit
tie private dance and another lii
drink"
Chatty missed the flash In Bry-
ants eyes. He was all attention IN
the driving lesson; and Chatty,
keyed IT'D by her excitement and
the poisonous liquor. responded well
to his efforts. When she finally
succeeded In shifting gears without
q clash. not once. but again and
again, Bryant applauded wildly. His
words were punctuated with kisses.
Nov let's 90 homel" he suggest
ed. Il can show you something
there too, about steering-in a
dancci"
~All 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 go to Bryants-
But fat. IN the form of a police
officer. interfcred with Bryant'5
plans. If any. In a great hurry to
get home. Bryant stepped on her"
20 hard that he did not hear the
gatling gun explosions OF a motor
cycle. Only when a khaki-clad arm
waved him over 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 II you're wise
you'll do it at twenty an hour or
ltssl Ill be right with YOU
"Aw, officer. Have a heart ana
give me a ticket. Don't you see l
gOt the little lady with me?"
Sure / seel You can put her
IN the first taxi we pass. for all I
carel But we don't give tickets
for forty miles an hour driving! On
your way"
Bryant pleaded and begged, but
the officer was adamant. TO the
station he drove. Chatty refused
20 leave him and 90 home in a tax
AZ wasn't sporting. But she found
the station rough and uncouth, and
the men who stood around in il
eyed her impersonally as If she had
been an insect.
LUCKILY, Bryant had the collateral
they ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS dollars.
You were a decent sport ID stick
around" Bryant said, as they
started home. Let's forget 1t now
and
But Chatty had changed her
mind.
liz don't feel like III now. BRYANT.
and neither do YOU. Take me home
please"
It was after two In the morning
when his car drove I'D in front VI
her home. Knowing that her eve
ming was innocent more by chance
and good luck than firmness on her
part. Chatty kissed the boy
friend" good night very soberly, and
crept into the apartment on tip
toe. hoping her mother would not
hear.
Being jObless and "a good sport III
the same time was not as easy Is
she had thought.
ITO BE CONTINUED