Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-11-28
Dundee lowered the paper anc

a "Forsyte" girl! Was That the rea-
sen. perhaps. why she had been so
thorny with him. a mere dick?
Well. he wasn't just a dick" any
longer. He was a Special Investi-
gator....A society girl" playing at
work..
But there vas more. and he read
on: las Is well known, the girls
have their 'hen-fight' bridge-lun-
cheon every Saturday afternoon
from the first Of october to the
first OF June, and a bridge dinner,
IN which mere men are g~raciousiy
included. every Wednesday evening
during the season. Mr.. and Mrs.
Tracy A. Miles are scheduled as
next Wednesdays host and hostess"
I take eff my hat TO your So
ciety editress," Dundee commented
with false cheerfulnesS. when he
had laid the paper back upon PEN
ny's desk. She makes half column
of this one item alone in what
must be a meager Saturday bunch
OF Society Note then writes 1t all
over again, in the past tense. for
an equally meager Monday column
... Like bridge. Miss Grain"
Penny snatched up the paper and
crushed 1t into her waStebasket. Il
90! And ! like my old friends. even
If ] am not able. financially. to
keep up with them If that's why
you've suddenly decided to stop be-
irg-comrades.
Please forgive me again. pennvr
he begged gently.
You thought I was a society
girl playing at work she accused
him as accurately as il she had
read his mind. I'm not! l was born
into that crowd. and / still belong
10 It, because all Of them are my
real friends. but get this into your
thick Scotch-Irish head. Mr..
Dundeel-Itm working because I
have to. and-and because / love il.
too, and because I want to learn
to make enough before I'm many
years Older to give mother some
Of her things she's missing so
dreadfully Since-since my father
failed and-and ran away
Ran away?" Dundee echoed in
credulously. How could any man
desert a daughter like thisl
Eyes. ran awayl" she repeated
fiercely. II might ar well tell you
myself. Plenty of others will be
willing to. as soon as they know
you are-my friend. As I told
you. my father-I used 10 call him
Dad"-and her voice broke-"my
father went bankrupt. but before
the courts knew 1t he had sent
some securities to a-to a woman
in New York. and when he-left us.
he went to her, because he left
mother a note saying SO. His de-
frauded creditors here have tried
to-to catch him, but they haven't
vet"
Very gently Bonnie Dundee took
the small hand that was distractedlv
rumpling the brown waves which
swept back from the widow's-peak
which made her forehead 50 IRE
slstible. II Law fluttering in his big
ger palm for a moment. then
snatched itself away.
Il won't have YOU feeling sorry
for mei' she cried angrily.
Who WINS your-the Primrose
Meadows-house now? Mrs. Seiim?r
he asked.
1.-The lovely Nita'?" Her voice
was cornful. mo. She rents II from
Judge Hugo Marshall-or Is sup
posed TO pay him rent" she added
with a trace of malice. Hugo is an
old darling. but he is fearfullv weak
where pretty women are concerned
Mia Selim had known Hugo in
New Observation-Disclosures as soon
as Lois-MrS. Dunlap. / mean-had
got Mia off the train, the stranger
In our midst hied herself to Hugo's
office and he's been tagging after
her ever since. Though most or
the men in our crowd are as bad
or worse than poor old Hugo. How
Karen keeps on looking so blissfully
happy
"Karen?" Dundee interrupted.
Mrs. Hugo Marshall she ex-
planned impatiently. Karen made
her debut a year ago this last
winter-a darling Of a girl. Judge
Marshall-rctired Judge. you know
had been proposing TO the pref
TEST girl in each seasons crop OF
debs for the past 20 years. and
Hugo must have been the most
nonplussed perennial bachelor who
lever led a grand march when
Karen snapped him up. Loved him
actually And they've been bliss
fully happy ever since-A baby
boy three months Old she conclud-
ed in her laconic style. Then.
ashamed; II don't know why I'm
gossiping like thisl"
Because you can't find another
blessed scrap OF work 10 do. YOU
little efficiency friend" Dundee
laughed. Come on Gossip some
more. My Magnify use will wait
till afternoon, 70 be mulled over
while you're losing your hard
earned salary at bridge with rich
women
I'VE don't play for high stakes, =
she corrected him. Just a TWEEN
tieth OF a cent a point. though
contract can run into money even
at that. The WINNINGS al 90 70 the
ForSyte Scholarship Fund. On We'd
nesday evenings the crowd PLAYS
for higher stakes-a tenth-and
winners keepers. Therefore I cam:
afford to go. unless I SIM: SO low
as to let my escort a my losses
which I sometimes do" she confess
sed. her brown head low for a
moment.
is this Mrs. Peter Dunlap a
deep-bosomed club woman. who
starts Movements?" he asked, more
to bring her out OF her depression
than ANYTHING else. Bigger and
Better Babies Movements. and
Homes for Fallen Girls. and Little
Theater Movements"
The brown head flung itself III
sharply. and the brown eyes hard