The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-29
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BEGIN HERE TO-DAY LANE BARRETT, IS and beau. tiful, tries in vain to forget VAN ROBARD. wealthy polo player when his engagement is an. nounccd to MURIEL LADD. popu. lar debutantc. Lianc's mother CASS BARRETT, is m actrcs. and 1t Is during Cass' engage. mcnt in stock at fashiOnab blt Long Island colony that the Bar. retts meet MRS CLEESPAUGH wealthy widow. When Cass goes on tour in the fall Lianc becomes Mrs Clecspaugh's secretary. CLIVF CLEESPAUGH, the widows onl, son, asks hanc to marry him Give canont inherit his fathers fortune unless he marrics before he is 25. Llanc accepts, agree. ing the ma arriagc is to bc a mat. ter of form only.
 TRESSA LORD and her sister MRS AMBERTON. come to visit the Clcespaughs and Trcssa, who wants to marry Give, begins to make trouble for Iianc. Trcssa cOninvcs unsucccssfully with q gang of bIackmailcrs. Later Li1nC is kidnapped to bc held for ran. som. She is rescued by McDER. MID and Give.
 The wedding takes place on their honeymoon in the south with CHUCK DESMOND, news. paper reporter. Give devOtcs him. self to business and IAanc trics not to he bored by social duties On n shopping trip she encounter. RObard. He bcgs her to go abroad with him. After quarrel witl Give, Lianc goes to sec Class ant tells her sh cis going away witt Robartl. Cass reveals Iianc is no her child but the daughter of hel sister, LUISA, and Robard's step father whose first wife I.uisa was Tho girl Is shaken by this news She start shOmc and hears news boys shouting extras. Robard has been killed in an accident.
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 Liane walked without knowing where her feet carried her. She was jostled in the crowds. She had sudden desire for refuge and sumoned a taxi. The driver thought she was i'll. her face was so white. She gave him the address of the Blecckman and stumbled Into the cab.
 Unfolding the paper she looked again at the dread words. The newspaper story smote her like a blow.
 "Mr James Van Dusen Robard of East G2nd street was fatally in- jured early to-day when the auto mobile in which he was riding skidded and struck a tree on the Jericho Turnpike near Willow Stream. Long Island, Mir Robard was returning from farewell din ner given in his honor at the home Of Mir and Mrs Richard Waite of Willow Stream. Police men who reached the scene of the accident shortly after the crash say the death car must have swervcd to avoid q smaller car driven by Pietro Lombardosi o1 Merrick. n truck gardener. Lom' bardosi was dazed and could make no statement
 There was more. Vans clubs his diplomatic appointment. the name of his college. Words, words words. ,Liane felt herself suffocat' | ing under the weight of them. She was bowed down by the pitN of 1t, the waste. Yesterday he hat been debonair and smiling; to-day | he lay broken. Noiceless. sn' stiffled the moan that rose 10 hel lips. The taxi driver looked at hel curiously as she alighted, ant fumbled in her bag for change There was none. She thrust a bill toward him and fled.
 She never knew how she reacnec her rooms. She found herself or the couch, face down. shaken pS fearless sobs. After an aeon she felt a hand on her shoulder. She opened hei cves Give stood over her. his race a mask of pity. Pm sorry, nc said. Uo brought hot tea and made her drink it, She looked with won. der at the lighted lamps. TwlhGh, had fallen. She remember anu moancd again. ., ,,,
 Give propped her np with pii- lows. He talked to her Tn low voice She looked at him with great brilliant eyes. :,
 "Mother told me today she said. poin. fully she explained. She toiu III, who my father was. She tnoueh' Van was my half brother, some, how she never had learned ne been adopted"
 Give held her hands, strokinf them as though she had been chnd Don't talk about It un' less you'd rather" he said.
 "I must. I need to talk. It hur.' hero" She touched her breast.
 "An right. then
 She said. 'I must tell you, "hei [ left here this morning ha. made up my mind. ] was goins t' leave with Van. I felt cou'oh endure 1t here" ,
 He drowned. That's all oNe' now. Forget it." ,. -, "No, 1t isn't. It was Jus. u<cked as If I'd done 1t. l was bad clean through. The nuns at .th' convent used to tell us that inten to ain is just as bad as the sir itself. couldn't see anytnins II life for me but Van. It didn't seen to make any difference that ! wa