Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11
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LANE BARRETT. Is and beau
tiful. tries I'm vain TO forget VAN
RBARD, wealthy polo player.
when his engagement In an
nounced "a MURIEL LADD. popu-
lar debutante. Lanes mother.
CAss BARRETT. II an actress and
% fs during CaSs-s engagement I'm
stock mt n fashionable Long
Island summer colony that the
Barretts meet MRS. CLEEs-
PAUGH. wealthy widow. when
Cass goes on tour In the fall Lame
becomes Mrs. CleeSpaugh's secre-
tnry. Give CLEESPAUGH. N
widows only son, asks Lame 60
marry him. Give cannot inherit
his fathers fortune unless he
marries before he Il -. Lame nc
ccpts. agreeing the marriage In 20
be n matter Of fern only.
TRESSA LORD md her sister.
MRS. AMBERTON, come TO visit
the Cleespaugh- and TresSa. who
wants 90 arr Give. begins 90
make trouble for Lame. TreEsa
connives u~nsucccsxfully with n
gang OF blackmaIiers. Later Lame
and Give spend their honeymoon
I'm the south. then return north.
Muriei elopes with CHUCK DIES
mOND. newspaper reporter. Give
devotes himself 90 business n
Lame tries not 90 he bored by So
cial duties On n shopping trip she
encounters Robard. Tie beZS her
20 20 abroad with him. After n
quarrel with Give. Lame goes 20
Eee Cass and tells her she q going
away with RoSard. Cass reveals
LANE ~ not her child hut the
daughter Of her sister. Luiza. and
Robard's stepfather whose first
wife Luisa was. The girl ~ shakrn
by this news. She starts home and
hears newsboys shouting extras.
Robnrd has been killed In nm acct
dent. Weeks pass I'm which Lame
IL miserable. overwhelmed ny "a
sense OF guilt. Their she dIsap-
pears. going TO n city I'm New Jcr-
sey and finding work In n store.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XIII
n lanes days resolved them
- selves into a pattern. She rose
before seven. and dressed hur-
riedly. She stopped at a tiled
lunchroom for breakfast. An
orange, a piece OF toast, a cup OF
coffee. That was 25 cents. She
rushed to the store. She had TO
be there at a quarter past eight.
There she arranged her stock.
tipped open her ~salesbook. and
when the doors lei opened stood
waiting and ready, one OF IN army
OF workers expected 10 be court
eous and efficient
For the first time IN her life
Lame began to realize what sort
OF lifo the workers OF the world
lead. She discovered that life
could become a treadmill in which
the only really important things
we're n hot cup or tea and a good
rest.
She learned to keep a box or
crackers in her room and a bit OF
cheese carefully rolled In brown
paper. Apples could be had for
little or nothing. Sometimes she
thought of the state dinners at
the Willow Stream house, OF her
own plate being carried away
scarcely touched. She thought or
tea parties where the table over
flowed with cakes and tiny. deli
cious sandwiches. She tortured
herself with memories Of the
dishes she had refused.
One day Lane realized with
that a man was shadowing
her. He was a well-dressed man
with tell-tale blunt toed shoes and
4 DERBY hat. Since he did not
modest her she decided not 10
10 anything about ID. II she COM
planned to the store manager he
would think she had something
hide. She did not want 70 lose
her job. She had no idea where
ihe might find another.
The man disappeared and the
yirl's leart ~lightened. One night
The took the train and then the
10 the city where she mailed