Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-06
PARADE
BY
EVELYN CAMPBELL
wNU Service Copyright BY Evelyn camphenO
Copyright BY Evelyn camphell.D

She smiled as his eyes ques-
toned her. How little he knew.
Converse's voice took on a note
Of evaporation. "Good Cd
women can be idiots when they
choose. ! believe you'd marry the
young fool"
She opened her eyes widely and
closed them again. The room. the
world was full Of rosy light. She
had sensed that glow a long way
on but she had not known ii for
what IL was. But now she was az
the top Of the mountain and could
look over into the valley beyond
and she knew.
"Yes. l am going to marry him."
she said.
There was the secret between
them. In the gay hurry Of crowds,
across the dinner table where
Daisy. prettiest Of ~hostesses. made
her futile bid for what never could
be hers, their eyes spoke 10 enc
another. There was no opportunity
for more than u handclasp or a
swift word without beginning or
end, but carrying with III the yibra-
ton or his heart 10 hers. They
stood upon the brink OF this tre-
mendous experience, h~esitating to
grasp what was theirs. Sometimes
she read doubt in Brian's eyes and
this was sweeter than assurance.
She was jealous Of her power
only she could dissipate that doubt
make him happy.
She did nothing 10 avoid what
must come but still she prevented
ii with that resistless force which
women bring TO bear upon their ul-
timatums. She could not under
stand her W passivity. Hanni-
less lay in her hand but she would
not clasp her fingers and make ii
her own. She was like q sleeper
shielding her eyes from the first
rays Of the sun. Morning was hers
the long perfect day was ahead
of her, yet she chung 10 oblivion.
She watched Brian and Daisy
together. Their companionship
seemed ideal but now she knew.
and Simon Fentress knew, that ii
would never h. more than IL was.
You are a happy woman" the
millionaire said 10 her one day.
And you have never been happy
before. What T. itf"
II have learned 10 look at life
differently" she told him.
He shook his head. "A pity. You
were so perfect as you yer Are
you certain that you can changer"
He had wondered more than
once II there could be anything in
the talk that connected her name
with Converse. Surely not. for IL
she had been such a woman he
could have offered her more than
these other two. And she had not
been tempted BY his obvious pref
erence.
She had her moments OF panic.
What was she about to do? The
step was a tremendous one II ways
and means were 20 be considered.
There was money 70 be thought
OF. but Linda was in that exalted
state when poverty Is hung with
the sparkle OF day dreams. She
began to be ambitious. Her mind.
clear and alert. sprang TO meet the
future and searched excitedly
among its possibilities. She knew
every one. The Haverhlll connec-
ton reached far. As Linda Roth I'm
her self-chosen isolation they had
avoided her with that Icy acknowl-
edgment or her existance more cut
ting than actual exclusion. But she
know very well thar as Brian
Anstey's wife their influence would
belong TO her. They did not know
Brian; his name meant nothing,
but it stood for all that such peo-
pie hold dear-respectability, solid
ity. They would make him.
Then she remembered how much
he had resented influence. He had
hated 70 know that his appoint
ment came through Simon Fentress
because he sensed through 10 the
power az wealth. Bur she dis
missed this thought quickly. Brian
was not WORLDLY and she loved him