Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-02

| young heirs, in this fast-stepping
day and age, to wealth exceeding
twenty million dollars, Jimmy and
Patricia Blair were strangely lack
ing In friends OF the influential
type. The average person doubtless,
would question the probability that
a brother and sister. sole heirs TO
such a fortune, would ever act a.
Jimmy and Patricia are said to have
acted.
There might be some skepticiSm.
also, regarding the seeming ease by
which Herbert Maxwell came into
possession Of fourteen million dol
lars in securities. AS a matter of
fact, the transfer OF twenty million
in securities would be conducted in
precisely the same way as that OF
two thousand in securities. The diff
ficult part to understand is how a
hardheaded business man like James
&. Blair, ST., could leave such a vast
sum for two inexperienced children
to take the responsibility OF hand
ling. But men are dying every day
and leaving just such legacies. This
is no isolated case.
In rebuttal TO questions, or to
the specifically inclined, it may be
pointed out that the twins, from the
hour Of their birth had been fed up
on the subject Of money. II came
to be looked upon in their child
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Of life. Both we're Of warm, af-
fectionate natures, impulsive. but
inherently honest. The hearts OF
both craved love, but she only love
they had ever known, save for the
undemonstrative reserved affection
rendered them by their father, had
been their love for each other. That
love had grown, by reason OF its very
loneliness, into something beautiful
and exceedingly rare, ever for twins.
1t was owing, also. TO their great
love for each other that neither
Jimmy nor Patricia. after their
fathers death, had sought the COM
panionship Of outsiders. This ten
dency to avoid the advances OF the
social set was given added impetus
BY their own innate hatred OF snob-
berry, the true meaning OF when
they came TO know and recognize
early in life. 1t was because they
recognized the true value or the
p~rotestations of friendship showered
upon them after the publication Oh
their fathers will that Jimmy ana
packed up and went 10 New
York to live.
And II was in New York where
they were entirely unknown ana
therefore unsought because OF their
wealth, that the twins began, as
they were pleased TO express 1t, TO
live their own lives" making rev
acquaintance and no close friends.
They were. it might accurately be
said. quite sufficient unto them
So far as the social world was
concerned. the only times Pat ever
came close TO crossing its borders
was on commencement day at CO.
lumbia. On one OF these occasions,
the one celebrating both Jimmy's
and her graduation, a correspond
ent Of the college paper sent a
photograph she had taken OF Pat
TO a New York newspaper with cut
lines explaining the subject was
zone OF the Blair twins who would
inherit twenty million dollars on
their twenty-fifth birthday. It was
this picture that Margery had seen
and of which she had spoken 10
Rex ballard in her reference 10
the Twenty Million Dollar Twins:
Il should be plain. therefore, why
Pat at the outset Of this st.ry was
very close to being a "friendless
young woman Regarding this some
what obvious truth. Pat. herself. had
of late been giving more or less
thought. ~,
DO you know. Marge?" she said
to her one girl friend on the same
afternoon Of the day on which she
had called up Mr.. Grierson and
learned the procrastination Is not
only the thief Of time but IS other
wise dangerous. do you know that
outside OF yourself and Aunt Lottier
of my own sex. and Rex ballard, Dr..
Gordon and DR.. Gardner. ! haven't
another real, true friend in the
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