Richmond planet., 1930-12-13

IM eel a world OF at
AVA tention and found
herself in the glare of the
spotlight almost before she
knew it, and this was exact
ly what she wasn't looking
for, didn't crave, wouldn't
have had at all, if she could
have escaped it.
But fate is tickle, and poor little
Molly could do nothing to ward off
the cr;..l blows that Kismet land.
ed against her frail physique.
Molly could have purchased, had
she wished, anything that pleased
her fancy and given a check for it
''on the spot" whether it amounted
to one dollar or thirty thousand.
Money problems did not faze her.
In her life love and romance were
everything.
Her father had made a fortune
overnight in oil, and Molly came
into possession of his vast estate
upon his death. In fact, this noble
colored girl had more money than
she knew how to spend. And all
her life she had been pampered and
spoiled by loving parents who
wouldn't let her soil her delicate
brown hands.
Therefore, it was strange when
she performed with amazing dey-
terity the stunt that placed her IN
the limelight. 1t wouldn't have
been so extraordinary if she hadn't
been the wealthiest girl in town.
But love is known to make fools of
both women and men who feel its
strong currents.
In another part of the northwest
Missouri town where she resided,
lived a prominent novelist who was
steadily gaining a place at the top
of the ladder of success. He was
forty and single, rather good look
ing, and certainly brilliant Of mind.
Molly Cage met him in society but
she knew that he had forgotten her
almost as soon as he took her slim
hand upon introduction. There was
something quite old-fashioned about
Roy De Horne. That waS his name
in private life. His writings appear
under a nom de plume.
Molly Cage recognized love when
it came to her. She had been
starved for it; that is, the sort of
idealistic love that she wanted. She
might have married a hundred men
in her town and all of them mad
with admiration for her, but she
love in return.
She was chic and demure. She
possessed certain manneriSmS and
certain charm that made men sit
UP and take notice. Albeit she was
shy; she had her way with men, as
she had with her parents.
But this story concerns her sacrl-
ficing desire to win response to her
frantic love for the writer-gentle-
man. When she found that she
could not be e him in any other
way, she accepted a position in his
Small cottage near the water tower
as a scrub girl.
Can you picture pampered and
petted Molly Cage scrubbing floors
with her bejeweled fingers and her
silken ultra-modern styles? But
love-Aye, love enslaves them all;
there are few, if any, who car with
stand its irrational demands.
OF course, De Horne did not know
that she was crazy about him, and
perhaps did not care. He simply
thought that she was a poor girl in
need of employment and he told
her when she presented herself at
his house that he would give her
five dollars a week to keep the
floors of his small cottage clean.
Because he vas somewhat of a
recluse, he avoided the social life
of the city as much as possible. He
worked necessarily. Sometimes he
worked day and night. Therefore,
it is perfectly natural that he for
got about having met Molly Cage
before, that he had shaken her
hand, that he had bestowed upon
her one of his winning smiles in the
drawing room of her fashionable
house in an exclusive residential
district. He had too many other
matters to occupy his mind to re-
member such commonplace Incl
dents