Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-23
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CHAPTER IS
Elanda stood gasping for q mo-
nent when Whoopee went out
Greg Du Pont had been engaged
last year to the girl she was 70
share the room with Why had
Carmel done this? Was 1t an acct
dent-or had she done 1t deliberat-
ely? II she was acting she had
done il very well indeed.
She had tried to give Elanda the
impression that she had told her Of
Greg's broken engagement and
heartbreak in the incest sort OF
confiding way. As n girl TO an
other. dishing a little of last years
dirt.
She put her bathing suit on SLOW
ly and pulled her beach outfit on
over il. Somehow, she didn't Like
the idea of going out on the porch
before all those strange men IN a
bathing suit. The beach pajamas
were quite proper-and she wouldn't
have TO apologize for her modesty,
Well, there was only one thing 70
do. Face the whole thing as though
IL didn't make a bit Of difference
TO her-and 60 out there and act
as If nothing had occurred to spoil
her week end. She looked at her
self in the mirror. and saw that she
had never looked more charming IN
her life.
The bathing suit added q touch
of green to her big. gray eyes, and
contrasted with her auburn hair
ravishingly. The paiamas made her
look little and boyish and slender.
With a sudden throwing back OF her
sleek. queenly head she smiled and
gritted her teeth, to go forth to bat
tie.
When she appeared on the porch
there was a flattering "ah-hh" from
the boys. Greg, sitting beside Tin
ME, jumped up and moved over 70
give her room:
Il told you she was the prettiest
girl I ever had seen. Am I right,
boys?" he took her hand. And no
one disagreed.
You ought TO see me with my
hair curled," Elanda smiled up at
him.
She was sitting beside zinnie, and
was therefore doubly glad that Greg
held her hand. She turned to the
dark curly-haired girl and asked
her then:
You're Zlnnie. aren't you? We're
in the same room"
Zinnis smiled winningly:
THAT Is what Whoopee told ne
/ hope o don't snore or walk In
your sleep. II interrupts my con-
cert"
Elanda liked her at once. She
seemed like a very nice girl. She
wondered how much Greg really die
like her. Maybe he was holding hel
hand Just to show Zinnie he hao
another girl friend and that she
was nothing in his young life. Ir
that case-it was bad taste. So she
pulled her hand away.
I'm not scared any more. Yot
don't have to hold my hand, Greg
He shrugged and leaned over to-
ward Zinnie:
"zinnie. are you afraid Of tn.
dark7"
Scared TO death. darling" sh.
reached across Elanda and tool
his hand.
Just then Tommy came out Of tn
house with a cocktail shaker:
II like thatI Get away from n.
woman. Or move over and I'll 81
down beside yours. Ill stand for
trade-nothing more"
Carmel came out Of the cottage:
"You can do your fighting owe
these vampS down at the beach
We're going to serve down Their
after we've had q dip. The mocl
Is bright now"
Tommy walked along beside FL
anda, and Greg with Zinnie. In tn
moonlight Whoopee smiled TO her
self. She whispered judiciously y
Bid:
Have you ever heard Of the new
axiom: off with the new love ant
on with the old?-"
Bid waved the matter aside:
Don't kid yourself, Whoopee, m,
love. Zinnie and Greg never did carr
anything about each other. She
wild about Tommy-and Greg is II
UP to his heart over this new red
head
who said-what are you talking
about, Bid?"
BE yourself. whoopee! I know
what you've got on your mind. Anc
it's not hair oil"
She was so angry she could have