The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-17
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4MAN& BARRETT nus UcCu warned by her actress mother CAsS BARRETT, not to have any thing to do with the fascinating VAN ROBARD, who profcsscs to be in love with her. MURIEI IADD debutante, announces her engagement to Van and Liane tries to forget him. Cass is taken seriously i'll on tour and Iiane rushes to her side. Cass babbles in her deliriurn of some mystery concerning the girls birth.
 MRS CLEESPAUGH, Lanes rich patrOness, brings Cass hncIl to her Long Island home to re- cuperatc. Because she knows it will please her mother, Liane ace cepts CLINE CLEESPAUGH'S pro- posnl of marriage.
 TRESSA LORD, house guest at the Cleespaughs, dislikcs Nane and tries to break the engage nncnt. She connives with bl4ck- mailers but they fail to succeed through the intervcntotn of SHANE McDERMID, police officer who befriends Lianc. t
 At . hall for the PRINCE OF SLAVARIA Ldanc is kidp9ped. Give, McDcrmid and a rep6rter named CHUCK DESMOND, suitor of Muriel,s, start a search: At a lonely house on the shore she struggles with her captors, falls and cuts her head. The captors leave her with an old woman. Ldane escapes while the woman sleeps, but drops her p/.rl neck lace, which Give finds stained with blood. McDermid finds the girl just before Give rushes up. McDermid arrests the kidnapers who had planned to hold Lianc for ransom, ana Give takes .Liane home. NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER xxx.
 Cass persisted, "I don't like 1t, l tell you. It's queer" It was Q day or two after the Hunt Ball. Liane, still a little weak and spent after her great adventure, lay hud- died among the pillows of her da- mask chaise tongue.
 Cass repeated the words. T don't like it."
 Idane asked languidly. What ?'
 .Oh, the whole business. There's something ugly and Frightening about 1t. It looks as if someone particularly did not want you, to marry Give. As If you had an enemy"
 Liane sighed.
 "Mother, please don't worry, dear. I'm safe and it's all right and all those wretched people are safe ly behind bars. Fourth offense, 1t was, for the men and the girls been sent to reform school or some place like that. Give said they found cases of opium hidden away in the house"
 But she shuddered a little, in spite of her brave words. She did not like to think of that fetid house in the clearing.
 When I think of what might have happened to you," Cass went on, shaking her head.
 Don't think of it. It's foolish. I'm out of their reach"
 "Oh, it's not those miserable people I'm afraid of" Cass said. They don't count. But what this man McDern1id said to Give makes me believe that you have an im- placable enemy some place."
 Liane shivered but she managed to laugh.
 How silly! Nuns. you're play ing . melodrama.
 "All right, child. But I'll be re- heyed when you're safely mar
 why. Liane wondered. did they all use that phrase, safely mar ried?"
 By the way" Cass went on, "as soon as you're able Mrs Cleespaueh wants you to look at some sam- ples for the wedding dress. Moire, satin, velvet. Oh, they're lovely! You'll never know which one to choose"
 "Lordy," Liane moaned, "I wish I might put on a dark blue suit and slip away somewhere and have it done. But I suppose that would be considered dreadful"
 "I know" Cass sympathized. "But you must remember your wedding is in the nature of a state function. It's of great importance"
 Liane looked at her mother curi- 04lO iid0 AASrCA pNNVa .AS~ to be so firmly set on anything as she was on this formal we'd ding. "But it's natural" the young girl thought. "She thinks of it as a pageant with me as the main figure. A drama with be in the leading part"
 "All the same" Liane insisted aloud. "I shall hate the display and all that fuss. wish I needn't be married quite this way"
 "You owe 1t to your new posi- tion, darling" Cass said quietly "That's something you mustn't forget"
 She was silent a minute. Then she murmured with apparent ir- releyance, Miss Lord hasn't gone south. I wonder why"
 Liane said, "Oh, she likes II here. She has such a gay time. So many beaus. l suppose she hatei to leave"
 Cass' eyes were on the ceiling "Mrs Cleespaugh Is rather an