Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-06

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Charlotte Chatterton, whose nick
name is Chatty, is a born gossip
and busybody. She loses her job
in Mrs. Mayberry's hat shop be-
cause she talks too much.
Her widowed mother, Mrs. Har-
riett Chatterton, a drcssmaker. has
a wealthy friend and customer. Mr.,
Van Mugs. Through her Chatty
gets a Job in the filing department
of Mr.. Van Nuys' bond house down
town. There she meets and falls IN
1--we with David Jordan, a good
looking young salesman, whom she
once saw buying flowers for a pref
~ girl III a shop across the street
from Mrs. Mayberry's hat store.
Billie Langenau. head of the 81
ing department, tells her that the
only girl in the office whom Jordan
ever takes out is Agnes Herford. a
plain. quiet girl who is Mr.. Van
Mugs private secretary. But Chatty
doesn't worry about this. because
she knows Agnes sometimes lunches
with Mr., Van Mugs, and she sus-
poets her OF being in love with him
Her mother makes her promise nev-
CT TO speak OF this.
Chatty unearths another office
scandal. Billie. who goes around
with George Mayhem, another bond
salesman, has been married, but
does not let George know about 1t,
She tells Chatty she never has had
a divorce. but so long as she ami
George are only friends. she does
not intend to speak Of it to any
one. Billie and her sister. Sara,
come to live across the hall from
the Chattertons. and Billie gives q
Sunday night supper for the office
force there. Winnie Talcott, Mr..
Van Mugs ste~nographer, suggests
that they get some liquor from a
neighboring drug store where
Chatty's young brother. Pud. works
and Chatty discovers that Pud and
his employer, Ben Tomlinson, are
bootlegging. She keeps that fact
from the others.
That night David Jordan makes
love 10 her, and life suddenly be-
comes rosy and sunshiny. But the
next moor Chatty sees David Jor-
dan and Agnes Herford having
lunch together in the restaurant /; u
the building.
Now Go On With the Story
CHAPTER y
For weeks-ever since Dave Jor-
dan had firss begun TO take notice
Of her-Chatty had been gloriously
happy.
And because she had been happy,
she had been all sweetness and
brightness and goodness -. For q
is so easy to be good when you are
happy!
But now, as she sat at her table
in the Brown Betty" tearoom, with
her eyes fixed darkly on Dave and
Agnes Herford in their corner, all
her old bitterness and discomfort
came back to her.
It dripped into her mind and
heart like poison into a shining
white cup.
The nasty vamp!" she said to
herself, watching Agnes lean. across
the little table where she sat with
Dave, and smile UP at him. IN bet
she asked him to take her to lunchl
Ill bet she told him she wanted to
ask his advice on something, or
some such gag as that"
A waitress, pink checked and
smiling in her blue dress and white
cap and apron, came up to take
her order.
mo- guess ! don't want any
lunch after ALL" Chatty told her,
pushing her chair back from the
table. Il thought I did-but I'm
not hungry. I don't feel we'll"
That was the truth. She vas sick
all at once-actually sick with jeal-
ousy. Her head had begun TO ache
and she felt as If she would burst
If she couldn't have a good long
cry all ~ herself, somewhere.
She went upstairs and spent the
rest Of her lunch hour sitting idly
at her typewriter, staring at the
opposite wall and feeling unhappy
and bad tempered.
Last night I let him kiss me-
she scolded herself for her weak.
ness. And today he gives me the
go-by to take that dumb cluck o.