Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-30
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Pretty NORMA KENT. 20-yenr-
old secretary In n law Office. sees
MARK TRAVERS for the FIRST
time when together they rescue n
puppy from downtown traffic In
Marlboro, middle-w estern metrop-
oils. Norma declines Ia tell Trnv-
ers her name Or where he can see
her again.
ROB FARRELL, young lawyer,
asks Norma 20 marry him and she
refuses. though h ~ fond ~ him
ms a friend. Norma X the
puppy 10 the shabby apartment
she shares with CHRISTINE
SAUNDERS. She fears Chris q
falling In love with her married
employer. BRADLEY HART. pro-
prIetor OF m advertising agency.
Next day Norma inserts an adNer-
tisement shout the puppy in the
lost and found column Of the
Marlboro Press. The first person
20 answer this advertisement j.
Mark Travers. lie tries 10 make
n date but Norma declines his in
yttatfons. Travera departs q
later goes with NATALIE PRICE,
wealthy debutnnte. ON "a Eny round
Of the night clubs.
Next evening n small hoy comes
20 see Norma. claims the puppy
and takes % home. Chris goes
20 aid MINNIE BAKER m Inn
roverished friend whose .-yenr-
old son has been badly hurncd
Norma receives telephone calls
from Trayers and ignores them.
She goes for n drive with Bob
Farrell and he tells her he a. Eo-
Inr 10 leave Marlboro. days
later she meets Trnvcrs on the
street and goes To lunch with him.
80 - - -aw.- " wHnANE
Of whirlvind courtship. Norma
nnds herself head-0yer-heeiS fn
love hut thinks she must send
TraverS away when he asks her
To marry him because OF some
secret Of the past. Chris knows
his secret. and declares that "
Norma loves Travers NIL else -
unimrortant. Mark ~ invited 20
dinner Mt the apartment.
NOW GO on WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER X
THE vegetable trays looked
Il fresh and inviting with crisp.
curling lettuce. crimson radishes
and iv0rv-white heads ~ cabbage.
Peas and spinach added grada-
tions OF green to the picture and
a mound of oranges on the shelf
above proved that the grocer's
boy who arranged these wares
each morning had an eye for color.
Norma Kent lifted a head Of
lettuce 10 see il it was solid. She
made her selections briskly and
the white-coated clerk wrapped
the packages. Norma was en-
gagged in mental arithmetic, at the
same time trying TO list the tasks
before her and the order in which
to attack them.
She paid her bill and left the
store with arms bullying with bags
and bundles. There was no time
TO wait for the grocer's unreli-
able delivery system TO function.
Letting herself into the apart
ment building required almost a
vaudeville balancing act. She
shifted the packages 50 as 70 free
her right hand and foraged in her
purse for the key. Another shift
the door was opened and
Norma started up the stairs.
The two flights had never
seemed longer. At last, breath
less, the girl reached the third
floor front. She turned the key
and the door swung open.
Thank goodness Helga had
done the eleaningl Norma put
down her packages, threw of her
hat and coat and tucked them out
OF sight In the clothes closet. She
thrust an enveloping apron over
her head and set TO work.
She began with the least conse-
quentIal-flOwers for the table.
All the way from a cut-rate florist
shop down town she had carried
25-cent bunch OF blue asters.
seeing a basket OF such
blossoms in a shop window a few
before, had declared that
no flowers on earth could equal
the glorious azure or Norma's
eyes. The asters. he said. only
showed how foolish 1t was for
them to try. Thereby In the secret
treasure place OF Norma's heart
blue asters had become enshrined.