The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-03-30
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THIS HAS HAPPENED

has her fox fur snatched from her
neck in . train platform crowd,
but STEPHEN ARM1TAGE
catches the thief and returns the
scarf. He asks to take her home,
and not wishing to seem ungratc-
full, she invites him TO dinner. He
praises her mothers home cooking
and gains favor with the flap
per sister, CONNIE, who secretly
hopes that tho d-fashioned MIL
drcd will mix enough pep with
her usual quiet manner to hold
his interest.
The evening Is spoiled when
PAMELA JUDSON, daughter of
Mildred's employer, phones and
insists on her returning to the
hotel where Pamela recognizes
him rs the salesman who has sold
her a car. She snubs Mildred as
q mental and asks him to dance
with her. She continues to lure
Stephen, pretending she intends
to buy another car from him.
But she becomes jealous 1t q
club dance and leaves him.
She just avoids q wreck when
the car crashes past danger sig
mails into some bad road. Before
she can give warning or get out
Of the way q second auto bears
down upon her and turns over in
the ditch. She runs to give as
sistance and faces = gun. But
she pcrsuades the man to believe
that she is not working with a
hold-up gang and he asks her to
give him a lift into town as his
car is ruined. He tells her that
he is HUCK Common and =
broker from Chicago. Arriving ut
the hotel Pamela introduces him
to her brother HAROLD.
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NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER W
Pamela was having breakfast in
bed. She almost always had break
fast In bed. A little earlier than usual
today, because last night, for the first
time in many days, she had retired
before dawn.
The maid who brought her break
fast stood off and waited for the Gus
tomary complaints, but Pamela lifted
the silver water kettle from the alco-
hol flame and poured the boiling
water over the pulverized mocha in
the French coffee pot without q
word.
She was thinking of Stephen and
wondering how he got back to the
club, or if he hitch linked to town.
The maid came over and lifted the
cover from the toast.
Never mind" Pamela said. II can
eat without your help. Get out.
Well, 1t would serve Stephen right,
she thought, whatever had happened
to him. Next time he would know
that he couldn't check her with his
hat.
She had finished her breakfast and
was dressed. ready to go out, when
Harold came in. She heard the maid
admit him to her sitting room and
called out to know who it was.
Harold came to the door.
"Oh, you," she said, and put on her
firmest expression. Nothing doing.
little boy. Sisters bwoke."
Don't be so mean," her brother
pleaded. "You get as much money as
I do and all you've got to spend it
on is clothes"
mot really?" Pamela Knocked.
Just because don't gamble. :"
"Oh, cut that, please. sis. Let me
have q hundred anyway. I gave an
I. Q. U. to Phil last night and he's
a pest"
phil Lavert?' saw him in West
chester last night. Danced with him. j"
well, we had little game after
the dance
"You weren't there" Pamela
sneered. why try to lie about it?"
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Harold's youthful face flushed. He
was genuinely fond of his sister and
1t hurt to be called a liar by her. .
Il was talking to Dale" he ex-
planned. "You know, the automobile
racer. Just back from South America,
II you don't believe me ask Stephen
Armttage. I saw him there getting
an earful. You were lunchin9 with
him yesterday, weren't you? Come
to think Of, 1t I heard someone say
you left early with some new man.
Was it Armitage?"
Pamela was staring at him with
wide, round eyes.
WAS he really talking to Dale?''
she asked. Dale was only q name ia
her, but his presence at the club
would bear out Stephens explanation
Of his neglect Of her.
"of course. Anything strange In
that?"
Nope. I just didn't believe him
that's all. BY the way, you didn'1
see him at the club again after we
left, did you?" she asked. II Ell
!. thought he might have returned
Harold frowned.
What happencd?" he asked
abruptly. did he get fresh? You
know, Pam, you ought to be more
careful about taking up With these
fellows we don't know, That mar
you were with last night, for in.
stance. Where did you pick him up?'
Il wrecked his car and had K
bring him IN" Pamela explained
lightly.
"But where was Armitage?"
well, II you must know I mad,
him walk. He disappeared at tn,
dance and when I saw him again HI
was with. Angela Perkins and III.
Il can guess the rest" Harold in.
terrupted quickly. "Your Jealousy
ran away with you. Better put {
curb on It, and stop making eas,
acquaintances. It's likely to land yol
In trouble. :"
"0h. for heavens sake. dom
preach" 49, 80.
i've got to look after you unit
Dad-gets back"
Pamela laughed? ...fJow abo,,