Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-27

season and we don't want n fuss.
do we7"
"You corld have ~telegraphed for
rooms" she protested. puzzled.
Roth began to pace the floor
nervously- His color waS high and
the impatlence she was beginning
10 know came into his eyes.
Now look here. Linda. They've
kept you In cotton wool too long.
l wanted you because you're diff
ferent from other women. You've
rot an air that makes everything
YOU do seem right. Even this Sec
ond-rate hotel would seem smart IL
you made a habit of coming here"
Linda was b%ewildered. She knew
he was trying 10 tell her something
without committing himself. but
she could not guess what II was.
She felt annoyed and a little
cheated.
But when there II no reason for
second-rate hGtelsf' she muir
INJURED.
He flushed a deeper crimson and
screwed up his eyes In a way she
particularly disliked.
"Reaseng There's Jolly well rea-
sons enough He clapped his
hands on his pockets with an odd
boyish gesture that touched her
through her bewilderment and
dawnIng fear. Ii reminded her az
Jim Haverhill. Then he grinned az
her sheepishly.
Fact Is. dearest, I'm stony. Oh.
I know you're shocked. but you'll
get used TO shocks. It's rather a
lark, n YOU look mt It from the
right angle. Married 70 q beautiful
luxurious creature and hardly a
bean in your pocket. Cad. Ii makes
a fellow sit up. Linda, don't look
like that,
why did you marry me? Why
didn't you tell me-"
"Why-do you think I'm n cad7
Leave you sitting on the church
stoop? I'd say not. Besides, I
didn't plan IL. / cabled for money
and expected plenty, but the old
wire came back like a knock be-
hind your ear. No more money.
I'D spent IL all"
Linda's head whirled. "How
could you have spent all your
money without knowing it," she
managed to say. She had never
known until that moment how
much she had counted On Roth's
fortune. He had seemed secure rs
a stone wall. She felt him staring
at her. and suddenly she saw he
hind the high lights OF his dom
inant gray eyes merely a boyish
boastful something hat broH-fm
contempt stronger than fear into
her being.
"All my money! Roth burst out
laughing. so that's it.r and she
felt ashamed.
II eve had very much" he went
on indifferently. Lord love YOU.
child, you can't u about as I've
done without spending a pile. That
African expedition, when the other
fellows didn't pay up. put the final
crimp in me- And then he added
blithely. IT'S d good thing YOU
don't have TO depend entirely on
me-"
Linda was enveloped in q blaze
OF swift indignation. You mar
ried me believing I had money IN
! she accused. and writhed IN shame
and self-disgust. Its Just that Old
joke about the bitter bit"
But ne shook his head. mo,
Linda, / knew all about you. I
looked you up, OF course. You're
taking TOO tragic n view or IL all.
IL doesn't require actual money 70
get along. There's ways OF getting
everything YOU want. You possess
something that's worth more than
money, and I've a little Of the same
thing IL got over with you and
your people. which proves Il. we
don't need money. you and 7. we
2 have everything without it.'
She was struggling with a sensa-
ton OF utter collapse. Certain
phrases he used Inundated as facts
appalled, her. His Il looked you
UP, Of course" filed her with
loathing for him and for herself
He had looked her up. but she lad
been a fool and taken him. on trust
Worse than "a fOOl--a failure.
Why, you are just an adyentur'
err she cried scornfully.
Perhaps" he shrugged. "but MOI
bourgeois. I am afraid. my dear.
you have more IN learn than !
thought You haven't found Ult
that it's not what you are but What
people think you are that counts.
All clever persons know thar, or
they're not 1T 10 meet the world.
! Go BE CONTINUEDl