New Britain herald., 1930-04-23
"A JACQUELINE( |
 ON HER OWN

= Synopsis: Jacqueline's return to the ranks of the poor working girls is interrupted by the appearance of Teddy, who reveals his sudden turk of good fortune and asks Jacqueline to marry him. She admits her love for him but sees her poverty as d barrier. Teddy leaves intending to return on the morrow for his an- '-swer. Teddy meets Arthur Carew Tn ihe hotel lobby and invites him into the garden where he makes disparaging remarks about MT. Ca syews tie and administers a sound sthrashing for his impotence to Jacquelne. Jacqueline leaves the ,jtotel after writing Teddy, con- 6essing she is a poor girl and tell ing him to forget her. AS she Leaves she rccovers the 10000 spound diamond necklace from palm
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 @ A CALL REPAID
 : \ very humble lodging in the -heighborhood of Gray's Inn Road Sbecame Jaequeline's home. For the first time in her life she became very ill. She developed influenza.
 For four days the girl kept to the house, and they were four of the most awful days in her mem- ory. During that time she thought or nobody but Teddy. On the fifth e1, rt,r tp lnnl- for Tnr. and collapsed in the street.
 u After that she went to bed, and .remained there with a doctor in at Tendance for a fortnight
 AS time went on the bulky land slady began 70 lose some of her sympathy. In a long experience Of -1odgers she had met few who could support three weeks idleness. r It was a month after Jacqueline left the Majestic before she was fit 10 go out the second time. One little haven of rest she found. This was in Gray's Inn Square, where there were some huge spreading frees and an old-world quiet, and 8 few seats under the trees.
 Most Of the chambers and offices .fcrming the square were peopled, she discovered, by solicitors. 2. She found it more difficult to smile than in the old times at Bly, rams. Several things worried her. One was the state of her finances. Another was the possession of 1O,- .0o0 pounds worth of diamonds that sdid not belong to her.
 . Her purse was in a very bad .vay. The landlady had been board ssng her up to the present, and it ~had been an expensive process. She had 12 and siXpence left. and that would not be nearly enough to meet the weekend bill for bed and board. go She must get work and get 1t quickly. There was no soft side to the landlady, and it was useless to ask her for credit
 Might as well ask a jungle tiger not to eat me- she told herself. So she must get work at once, or be turned into the streets at the end Of the week.
 Either that or the alternative of going to prison.
 Jacquelne had made up her mind that she must take the stolen neck lace to Scotland Yard and deliver 1t up. She was convinced that when. she did so she>would imme- diately be seized by some burly policeman, prooably handcuffcd an1 hurled violently into prison.
 She started at length looking for work in her old business. and after teamping the west end for three days, eight hours a day, she was appalled, to discover that nobody wanted Ter.
 This tragic discovery was not altogether remarkable in the cir cumstances. She looked so desper- ately ill that no employer in his senses would have engaged her Two or three of them told her biuntly that she ought to be in a hospital.