Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-08
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Chatty, is a born gossip and busy
body. She loses her job in Mrs.
Mayberry's hat store because she
talks too much.
Her widowed mother, a dress
maker, has one wealthy customer,
Mrs. Van Nuys, an old friend.
Through her Chatty gets a position
in the filing department OF Mr. Van
Mugs bond house down town. There
she meets and falls in love with
David Jordan. a young bond sales
man. whom she onc saw buying
an Easter corsage bouquet for a
pretty girl in a shop near Mrs.
Mayberry's millinery.
Billie Langenau. head of the
files department, says that some
times Jordan lunches with Mr.. Van
Mugs secretary. Agnes HEREFORD, ard
Chatty becomes jealous of her as
well as the unknown girl for whom
Jordan bought the flowers. How
ever, Agnes sometimes has lunch
with Mr.. Van" too. Chatty decides
to tell Mrs. Van" about it. but her
mother forbids her to.
Billie Langenau and her sister,
Sara, come to live across the hall
from the C~hattertons, and Chatty
learns that Billie has been married
before but that no one, including
George Mayhem, a bond salesman.
who's in love with Billie, knows a
thing about it.
Billie Is kind and sweet to Chatty,
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herself more attractive, shows her
how to wear her hair becomingly,
etc. One night she gives a supper
party TO the office force in order
to help Chatty along in her effort
TO become friends with Jordan.
That night Winnie Talcott, Mr..
Vans" stenographer. sends out 10
a drug store for some alcohol for
the punch Billie makes, and Chatty
learns that her own young brother.
Pat. is selling it in Ben Tomliii-
sons store. She keeps the fact
that he is her brother hidden from
everyone.
Jordan begins to pay Chatty
much attention, and on a picnic
with Billie and George Mayhem he
makes love to her. The next day
Chatty goes out to lunch with Agnes
who tells her she had q date with q
man for lunch. but that ne broke
it. Chatty. sur that the man was
Jordan. tells Agnes that Billie has
told her that she and Jordan often
go to lunch together, and she leases
Agnes about being in love with Jor-
dan, and further tells her that Jor-
dan is In love with some girl out
side the office-the girl he bought
the flowers for.
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CHAPTER XII
Chatty could not eat her lunch
chat noon.
She knew that she had told a
downright lie about Billie Langenau.
And she was sick in soul and mind
as she sat with Agnes at their little
table in the Rose Tree restaurant
on Thirteenth street.
"Well, what do you think OF Billie
saying a thing like that about me
and Dave Jordan!" Agnes exclaimed
suddenly. when the dreary meal was
half over. She had been very quiet
and Thoughtful ever since they had
sat down together. Think OF her
daring to say that he and ! are
crazy about each other. Just be-
cause we eat lunch together once q
month or so. Why, ! wouldn't have
believed it of Billie Langenaul"
And don't believe it Of her nowi"
Chatty wanted to say to her. "All
she said was that you and he some
times lunched together. ! made UP
all the rest of il because I'm jealous
Of you, and ! wanted to find out II
you and he are crazy about each
other ... I told you a lie about
Billet"
She knew that she ought to say it,
too. She tried to screw up her cour-
age to say 1t.
But she wasn't brave enough. She
wasn't brave enough to take back
the lie she had told -. And so she
just sat there. trying to eat the
combination sandwich that she had
ordered. trying to swallow the hot