Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-26
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Charlotte Chatterton. nicknamed
Chatty. is a born gossip. Her moth
er. a widowed dresSmaker. has N
wealthy customer, Mrs. Van Mugs,
and through her Chatty gets a Job
as switchboard operator in the Ven
Mugs bond house. There she meets
and falls in love with David Jordan.
handsome young bond salesman. and
becomes jealous of his friendship
with Agnes HEREFORD. Mr.. Van Mugs
secretary.
Billie Langenau, who works in the
office, comes to live in the flat
across the hall from where Chatty
lives. Chatty's brother. Pud, goes to
high school and works evenings in
Ben Tomlinson's drugstore. Chatty
learns that he delivers gin for Ben.
and begs him to stop before he is
arrested. but Pud refuses to do II.
One day Chattv secs David hand
a note to Agnes Herford. Jealous she
goes through Agnes desk 10 look
Tor 1t. 1t IS a simple message about
some bonds. but in hunting for II
Chattv findg Agnes' diary. filled
with the story of her love for her
employer. Chattv tears some of the
nageS out. and sends them to Mrs.
Van. and Agnes Is discharged. Dave
Jordan. alone. knows that Chattv Is
responsible. and he drops her. Win
ME Talcott. the office "vamD." gets
Agnes position. Winnie gets quite
chummv with Chatty. and at a
oarty Chattv meets Bryant Dunning.
+ new bond salesman. Winnie shows
Chatty how 70 paint her face end
doll M" Bryant Il married. but
tells Chattv he hes left his wife.
Agnes calls at Chattv's house and
tells Chattv that Mr.. Van had never
Tuspected she was In love with him
until the diary turned no. Agnes
saws she has seen Mr.. Van at his
office. and Chattv promises not t.
tell a soul. Chattv decides to tell
Mrs. Van about AGNES.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XVII
In the bottom of Chatty's little
bag was a stub of a pencil. and on
the wav out to the roadhouse she
asked Bryant to stop at a drug store.
1t was a little neichborhood drug
store. and on the sidewalk in front
of its lighted windows stood a mail
box.
What could be simpler?" Chatty
asked herself. getting out of the car.
I'll be back in a fifty. Don't
bother to come with me-" she said
to Bryant. Il just have to get some
thing"
The something" that she just had
to get was a two-cent stamp. She
got it from the stamp machine on
the counter.
Then she went into the telephone
booth at the back OF the store.
And there. on Bryant's note paper.
she. wrote an unsigned letter. II was
very short-only q few words, but
every one Of them was tipped with
poison.
Dear Mrs. Van Nuvs: Why don't
YOU ask your husband why Miss
HEREFORD. his former secretary. spent
this afternoon closed up In his Of
flee with him?"
She put it into the envelope she
had taken from Bryant's desk.
stamped the envelope and dropped It
into the mail box on her wav back
70 the car. where Bryant was wait
inc for her.
"Now we'll see what happensl"
she thought. settling back against
the cushions OF the car. MAYBE
nothing much will happen-but you
never can tell"
She was exactly like a child who
strikes a match tn a firecracker.
losses 1t awav, and then waits to
hear 1t 20 off.
The LoIlypou INN had changed
its name TO The Wayside House.
The new name was painted above
the door.
But. aside from that. 1t was the
same quaint. neat little place that
1t always had been. It nestled be-
hind its white picket fence. small
and low and white as some cozy
FERN house tucked avrv in a cnun-
try lane all its white ~curtsined
windows golden with the light from
wyffhir