Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-21
CHAPTER q

Terribly angry, she said, her
brown eyes sparkling. I'm almost
as mad as q wet henl However,
I'll forgive you this time for I'm
Just q little mite worried about
you, my dear. I'm just q little
afraid that Marge is q wee bit
daffy--that she is having hallucin-
atoms. She sees what no one else
Seesl How Rex ballard would
laugh If some one told him that
Pat Blair was breaking his poor
Irish heart! And Doctor Frank,
tool Where do you get that stuff.
dear Marg?"
Margery, her momentary fear
dispelled. was again her old self.
stuff" she said. But II I ever
in my life saw a man 'gpofy' over
a girl that nan Is Rex ballard
and you're the grill Doctor Frank
has a bad case, too. but he has
more restraint than Rex. Rex
shows 1t every time he looks at
YOU and every time you speak to
him DIRECTLY"
What a pity. what q plty!" said
Pat in a dolorous tone. such
nice sensible men. too. apparently"
The other girl looked at her with
a mixture Of curiosity and wonder
well seasoned with doubt. It oc-
CURED TO Margery that Pats at
titude might be assumed for special
reasons Of her own.
A possibility. as II happened, that
was not so far from the truth. Pat
had her reasons, as all omen be-
lieve they have, both for thinking
and for acting as she did.
It had been decided, 40 the earn
estly expressed wish OF Pat. that
besides her three friends, ballard,
Gordon and Margery and the law
yer engaged by Rex, her morale for
the coming ordeal should be fur
Their strengthened by the addition
Of Charlotte Lynne. Pat felt that
her morale-or to use the old
fashioned word. nerve-needed all
the stiffening that could be in
jected into it.
The prospect OF meeting a man
who was TO h presented as her
twin brother. the man she. herself,
had once designated as her brother
and knowing she was going to
deny the relationship-was a pros
pect sufficient to worry any woman.
The additional fact that IL was up
on her ability or failure to prove
the man to be other than James K.
Blair that depended the gain or loss
10 her brother Of a fortune OF ten
million dollars and more. might
worry any woman. If the fore
fixture Of that ten million dollars
would have given Patricia Blair the
wish OF her heart that morning
the safe return to her OF her twin
b~rother-It is safe in saying the
ten million would have been for
feited.
Coincident with the meeting OF
the three women and the three men
on the morning of January first IN
the reception room of a Broadway
hotel and following the introduction
Of the lawyer Rex ballard asked
Pat If she had sent the night mes
sage to her family doctor as he
had suggested At the question
Mareery began to laugh.
whats the idea?" asked Rex
when the laughter had finally sub
sided.
NIargery explained. Pat looked on
and grinned ~tolerantly.
you suggested last night that
she send a night message OF fifty
words" said the former.
yes" agreed the tattler, Pat
filled out the message 10 the limit
and filed ii. Then she filled out
another and filed that. Still an
other. And yet one more. while I
stood by waiting-patiently, as
usual. But don't imagine that fifth
was the last. The rest is yet to
come; three more-eight altogether
-four hundred words!'
"And I didn't tell him the half !
wanted 10, at thatl' cut III Pat III
her own defense. Doctor Gardner
IS the oldest friend I have in the
world He knew me when I weighed
a zee bit less than three pounds!
He was the first 20 see and greet
me! I remember 1t Welt He said:
Hello. little folks!' Just like that.
said: 'Howdy. Doc!' Now do you
wonder that l used eight sheets in
telling him thingsP"
And she said II all with the facial
expression of a wooden Indian.
The lawyer, Otto Marks. laughed
delightfully."-. Rex ballard grinned.
The doctor coughed.
II wouldn't wonder at anything
after that. Pat" he told her with
tears in his eyes.
Then followed a review OF their