Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-12

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Lieutenant Rex ballard, DR.. Frank
Gordon. and Nurse Margery Lynne,
suspecting a plot to rob their new
friend. Patricia Blair. Red Cross
driver and heiress. and her twin
brother, Jimmy. Of their fortune,
unite forces in Paris at the close OF
the World war. Patricia has been
kidnapped, Jimmy disappears. and a
fake Jimmy" Is taken back TO New
York by Herbert Maxwell. the twins
guardian, who is plotting to make
away with the estate. Patricia is
discovered, reveals the story OF the
Blair fortune and. with her friends.
starts for New York when they
learn that Maxwell has also taken
the real Jimmy with him.
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CHAPTER is
The first great sorrow Of their
lives. or the first since they had
been old enough to understand,
came in the twins sixteenth year.
with the death Of their father,
James Kenilworth Blair. His passing
left them entirely alone in sole pos
session Of the family home. and, in
cidentally to their own devices.
The twins were attending school
at the time of their fathers death,
and considering the circumstances,
the wording of the Blair will and all.
(the will provided that Herbert +.
Maxwell should act as guardian Of
the twins only as that duty affected
the executorship Of the Blair finan-
ces, applying in no respect to their
personal conduct everybody-which
means the public-sald their behav-
Tor was quite proper, entirely above
reproach.
The will provided that all expen5-
es Of the households upkeep be paid
by the administrator and one thous-
and dollars a month be paid each
Of the twins until their twenty-fifth
birthday. when they were to be
made sole administrators Of their
holdings, estimated then at twenty
million dollars. What the ~legacies
would represent in January OF 1919
remained to be seen.
From the day when the provisions
Of James X. Blair's will were pub
lished life for James x. Jr., and
Patricia Blair, two poor little rich
kids" became a fight TO be human,
remain decent and play the game.
The final outcome, after two years
OF battling TO obtain even a second
airy school diploma. was the decision,
mutually arrived at and agreed
upon. 70 just quietly disappear from
the old home city and take up the
game of living where they were alb
solutely unknown. The old home was
left in charge Of a housekeeper.
New York received them-took
them in just as they wanted 10 DC
taken. without any publicity. Both
Jimmy and his twin sister, Patricia.
had been graduated from Columbia
university by the time the United
States entered the World war. And.
like many other young men and
women with plenty Of money, Jimmy
and Pat yer among the first 10 VOL
unteer. Jimmy enlisted In the air
corps. Pat offered her services as
an ambulance driver. since She knew
more about motors than the average
auto mechanic.
All Of which doesn't help LieuteE-
ant Rex ballard any In his troubles.
The lieutenant. it will be recalled.
had Just been TO a funeral" SO he
had told himself. "of his last hopes
Oddly enough. as ID happened, the
lieutenant was not the only male Of
the quartet around which this story
has been revolving who was nursing
gloom IN his breast that wintry
morning. d.. Frank Gordon was the
other.
They were in the crowded ships
dining cabin, which had been con-
verted into a cabaret for the occa5-
ion. Among these hundreds return
ing to America after many long
months of varied var experiences,
the spirit of ~convivialty was high.
A string orchestra in the middle al
he long room played appropriate
airs.
At a table built for two, but
around which four couples were
seated in close formation, sat Da.-
lard, Gordon, Pat and Margery. One
Of the two other couples had been
married aboard ship on a license
obtained in Paris just before sailing
time. The bride had been q war
nurse. The bridegroom was a cap