The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-27


 love with TOMMY WILSON, knows that he would never be hap py with her half-sister, IRENE EVERETT, and tries to prevent their marriage.
 Irene is jealous when she fails and Beryl secures a radio contract. BeryPs voice wins her new friends but she canont forget her hopeless love though she goes to parties with PRENTISS GAYLORD. Irene learns that Prentiss is rich and tries to win him from eBryl.
 Tommy's aunt dies and he loses both job and money thruogh her husband. Tommy tells Irene his bad luck and she breaks the engage ment. When Prentiss asks her to marry him she accepts. In despair, Tommy drinks heavily and Beryl finds him. She tries to cheer him up and tells Irene she must go back to Tommy or inform Prentiss how heartlessly she has acted. Irene promises. then slips away and mar ries Prentiss tclephoning the news home.
 Next morning Beryl's throat is in a serious condition and noted specialist is called. He advises cx- trcmc caution which Beryl disre- gards when she hears Tommy is in bad company. She slips out Of the house and goes to a boot lcgger's rendezvous where she finds Tommy. He is affected by her plcad- from the gang.
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 CHAPTER XXXv. Among the cards Beryl held in her game with Tommy there was hoped it would trump anything had cost her enough to impress anyone with the slightest sense of honor. And she could not believe that Tommy's character had become completely undermined.
 tonight (she did not often drive near the Larkin place at night was marked. She had not seen Tommy for three weeks. The avalanche she feared had descended upon her only the day before and she was certain Tommy had not heard about 1t. lHS nlSHl was IL "io early fall. Beryl had not brought a wrap and the sweater she was wearing was scarcely warm enough. She shivered slightly. I'm always either too hot or too cold" she thought impatiently.
 But impatience was such a slight burden compared with the black despair she had known. She hoped never again to feel as she had when pr Auguston told her, Your voice is gone, Miss Borden"
 They had left her alone. She had asked them to. And what she had thought and what she had suffered had blocked out her youth-left her a woman.
 She was a woman tonight as she went to find Tommy. She felt charitable toward him. She might have lost her voice anyway without tramping in the dew and being out when she should have been in bed. Tommy hadn't asked her to do that. She couldn't blame him. Besides Tommy had helped her. His need was the price of her misfortune. Her future should not be sacrificed for nothing.
 Ever since the thought had come to her that now she could make an appeal which Tommy must listen to Beryl had been resigned to the hopelessness of her situation. She even found it a relief not to have to worry about the inadequacy of her sweater. It wouldn't matter now if she caught cold. Her voice was gone. Something in her throat had hardened. The voice wasn't coming back.
 Her face was a little white but in her eyes there was a vision of Tommy-tall and slim and brown and gay. Tommy as he had been, not the unkempt loafer he had be- come. How she hated those blood shot streaks in his eyes.
 He had even talked roughly to her when she had dogged him until he was exasperated.
 It had happened the night Pol had got into trouble. Pol had got out of it. but Tommy wouldn't have. He'd have been made the goat.
 Beryl had parked her car in front of Pol's house when he and Tommy came out to get into a truck which stood in the driveway. BeryI went over to them and in- sisted she would follow the truck IT IomIny went "ith oi' .
 Pol looked at Tommy. All right" he said sharply. well settle this later. Tom"
 1T guess you know what that means" Tommy exclaimed to Beryl as Pol drove away. I'm in bad. Polls had about enough of you!"
 'Then quit him." Beryl returned coolly, "and save yourself from be- ing kicked out of his gang"
 Tommy had sworn angrily and walked away,
 Pol was arrested that night. It didn't come to anything but he blamed Tommy and thereafter Tommy had evaded Beryi with com plete success except for one aeci' dental meeting,
 That was three weeks ago. Irene hadn't written and Beryl had no excuse Co tempt Tommy into q talk. After tonight she would have no difficulty in seeing him or she would not want to see him. For I'm not going to crawl Co him if he Isn't worth e." nhe told herself.
 Hhe wouldn't nave planned a test for him but this one that had been