Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-05
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Ry ROE FuLkERSON xr
By ROE FuLkERSON


spent on il, I'm not heartlessI
I'm doing this to keep from think
ing Of less pleasant ~things!"
Trying to forget your poor faith
err" sobbed Mrs. Brown.
II am remembering my nice faith
or a. he was. We must 60 on liv-
inE. Nothing would make father hap
pier than to know that I I'M living
as he wanted me to-"
"You blame me for being sorry
he ~ gone. Poor dear. up IN
heaven. He knows | cannot help
but cry while you dance'"
Mother, Tin not going II dance
IN public. No one will know | am
dancing unless you tell them. I
shall keep in practice, though. for
! may need Il dance for our living,
II you don't let me work at some
thing elsei'
Your father dead and YOU away
from home with some wicked show.r
Mrs. Browns emotion and sorrow
for herself overcame her. She left
the room hystcricai.
II took her months 70 get over
" and become normal again. AL
though Betty cried less than hrr
mother, she was more depressed.
One Sunday some eight or nine
months later, she went Tor 4 ride
with Harry Ford. lie asked her
what she was going % do.
Harry. ] don't know how An AZ
anything she answered. Mother
will net let me work. and cries ev-
cry time ! suggest getting a Job
How much money have you Eot-H
h. asked. bluntly.
Only fathers life insurance
five thousand dollars
Bad stuff ~ u in your nar,s
or your mcthsr's7-
NY mothers o. course. why did
you ask"
Better keen Ar EYE IN her. Some
| body will gyp her out or It'll"
III guess there IA no danger.
Mother knows nothing Of money. and
always asks at the bank about ev-
crything.p
Home from her ride, Betty found
. middle-aged man nj her house
talking with her mother. She intro
duced him as Mr.. Brainard. a friend
q her fathers, who had called TO see
how she was getting along.
Betty did not remember hearing
her father speak or Mr.. Brainard,
and she did not like his looks. II
seemed incredible that her father
had liked a man nf his tyre. He
was nieticulously dressed. and his
manners were 80 perfect AZ to seem
affected; but he showed such A
genuine interest In them. and seem
Cd - kind. that she was uncertain.
HIS call was soo over. but be-
Tore he left he assured them that
ne was glad to BE- or service 10 them,
and left his card with her mother.
ne also insisted that Mrs. Brown
rot rtv herself over IL rrievinr
she was . young woman and must
20 on with her life. He was sure
Mr. Brown would not approve OF her
crying 70 much.
BETTY locked at his card. He was
an investment banker. wharh re-
assured her Of his standing In tae
community. Her mother was criti-
cal ~ her fathers lodge members,
11 4@A A1A CAAA~l ~ r11Nn S~ Mr@
thought they should. Mr. Brainard
told her he would come around
some afternoon and take them out
for a drive.
During the next week Mr. Brain
ard tslephoned and did come in his
car and take them for d ride In the
country He toak them past n pref
~ subdivision two niles out. He
saic he had bought q farm there
and cut IL " into city lots and sold
u thrcush tbs real estate firm
vhcse name appeared cn TIE fer
unstid lots.
He had already made almost
hundred thousand dollars cut Of the
transaction and had many lots left.
All he had invested was twenty
thousand dollars, and hid scld lotH
long before the mortgage On the
farm had come due.
Mrs. Brown and Betty were both
very much impressed with hts story
or the transaction and the fact
Father had such q wealthy and In
flusntisl friend. BETTY thought cf
asking hiin fer n position In his Ct
flee bat decided e. wait until her
neither wsB ret present.
"A week later Betty cane horre CO
find Mr. Brainsrd had taksn her