The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-03
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BERYL BORDEN hopes q radio
career will help her forget her hope.
less love for TOMMY WILSON, who
Is engaged to her half SISTER, IRENE
EVERETT. Young PRENTIss
GAYLORD pays attention to Berry
until Irene learns he Is rich and tries
TO win him. She uses every vile ia
force speedy proposal as she has
promised TO marry Tommy.
Tommy loses his position and
Irene IL glad of the chance to break
their engagement for Prentiss has
just proposed. In despair Tommy
drinks heavily and Joins evil com.
panions. Fearing Beryl's anger al
her deceit, Irene slips away and mar.
ries Prentiss. Then she telephones
the news home.
Beryl develops throat trouble
and the doctor advises rest. She
catches cold while seeking Tommy
TO beg him to leave his bOOtleggine
gang. Her throat becomes worse
and she learns that her singing days
are over. When Tommy realizes she
has made this sacrifice to save him
ne reforms, gets another job and
starts night courses to finish college.
Beryl is happy until Irene quar-
rels with Prentiss and comes home
to get divorce. Bcryl's fears In
crease as she realizes that Irene is
trying to win back TOmmy's love.
MRS EVERETT questions Irene
about daily letters which she Is re-
ceiving from another man.
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CHAPTER XII
Mrs Everett was looking serious
as she handed the letter to Irene.
The girl took 1t and put 1t on the
stand by her bed without second
glance, waiting to be alone to read it.
Her mother assumed firm pose
and said heavily. you won't like
1t, but I've made up my mind to
ask who writes those letters to
you"
Irene was surprised, and showed
1t. WHAT" she said. sitting up in
bed and looking as though she
couldn't quite believe what she had
heard. Imagine her mother coming
at her Ike that!
cts a man, and I know 1t is"
her mother went on, with the blunt
ing assertive. "You may think
you're able to take care of yourself,
but I'm your mother and want
to know what's going on
well. of all things!' Irene
breathed, half-amused, half-angered.
"I'm willing to believe that Gay
lord is all to blame for your trou-
BILE with him." Mrs Everett con-
tinued, "but l know you're going to
be talked about If you start running
around with Tommy Wilson in that
car of his and you've no right to &C
ceDt attentions from him while
you're married to Gaylord. To say
nothing of this other mani"
She pointed a finger to the letetr
ON the stand. and Irene laughed, a
bit nervously.
"Oh-Derry!" she said casually
why, he's only a kid, and | guess
YOU know how kids are. They get
foolish ideas and imagine they're
going to feel the same for the rest
Of their lives, and all that, but it
doesn't amount to anything"
ut could amount to something to
girl whose husband is getting a di-
vorce from her" Mrs Everett said
oiNinously. The boy lives in Oak
dale. doesn't he?'
Irene lifted her eyebrows 1.-The
pOstmark?' she said with an inflec-
ton that brought flush to her
mothers face.
what If / did look at IL ?" she
challenged MANY "a mother would
have opened these letters and read
them!"
"Yes?" Irene returned. IF it
comes to that III leave
Mrs Everett was about to retort
in kind when her husbands voice
arose from below, calling for his
breakfast. The interruption pre-
vented what might have been a
serious quarrel between mother and
daughter.
When she was gone Irene seized
the letter and tore it into bits
without reading 1t. why couldn't
Derry have some sense! She'd
asked him time and again not to
write to her every day. For half
n cent she'd not answer one of his
letters again. But then. she told
herself. 1.-The young idiot would hot
foot 1t from Oakdale and spoil
everything"
Everything" was Tommy. Just
Ine Otner evening DeIOre ne
started for school. Tommyd said
that flirts Fought to be shot" or
course she hadn't meant to encour-
age Derry but Oakdale hadn't been
very entertaining. There were. a
lot of girls who were jealous be-
cause their most eligible young
man had married outside of the
town. They wouldn't let her feel
at home. Some of them had at
tended boarding school in the east
and thought if you hadn't done
the same you couldn't amount to
much. They let you kno wwhat
they thought, too.
Worst of all had been the ma
irons who must have heard from
the debutantes that Irene had never
attended a finishing school. They
tried patronizingly to induct her
into their society for Gaylord's
sake. These and the "stuffy old