Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13
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LANE BARRETT, Is and beau
tifui, trie. I'm vain 90 forget VAN
RoBARD. wealthy polo player.
when his engagement q. nm
uounced 20 MURIEL LADD, popu-
lar debutnnte. Lanes mother,
CAss BARRETT. f. nm actress
and IL IL during Cnss's engage
ment in stock ne N fashionable
Long Island summer colony that
the Barretts meet MRS. CLEEs-
PAUGH. wealthy widow. when
Cnss goes ON tour I'm the fall Lame
becomes Mra. CieespauEh's secre-
tnry. Give CLEEsPAUGH, the
widows only son. asks Lame 10
mnrry him. Give cannot Inherit
his fathers fortune unless he
marries before he fs Is. Lame nc-
cepts. agreeing the marriage In
20 he n matter of form only.
TREssA LORD and her sister,
MRS. AMBERTON. come TO visit
the CieespnuEhs. Tressn wants "a
marry Give, begins 10 make trou
BILE for Lame. Tressa ~c0nnives
unsuceessfully with n gang OF
blRckmailers. Later Lame T. kid
mapped but rescued by McDERMID
nn1 Give.
Lame md Give nre married,
spend n honeymoon In the south
md hen return north. Muriel
eiopes with CHUCK DESMOND,
newspaper reporter. On N shop
ping trip Lime encounters Ro-
bard She ~ unhappy md he begs
her 20 20 abroad with him. She
conndes In Cass who reveals that
Lame Is not her own daughter
but the child of Cnss's sister,
Lu1sA, and Richards stepfather
whose first wife Tulsa was. Ro-
bard f. killed In an automobile
accident. Einne brood over this,
In overwhelmed by n of guilt
md finally runs AWAY. In n New
Jersey town she finds work I'm n
store, hnlf-stnrves herself. md
becomes Ill. Give and Cnss To-
cate her and doctors make n grim
fight for the girls life. She recov-
ers and with health comes the
knowledge of n deep. abiding love
Tor Give. She believes Give cares
for Tre.sa and, considering his
happiness above her own, aug
gests N divorce. Give sny4 the
matter shall be NJ she wishes.
tNow GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER Xiv
THE next day Lame went Int
Gives room and shut tn,
door. The new, very inexperienced
housemaid was giving the plac,
its weekly turning out" anC
Lame had passed her on the stair,
only a moment before with al
armful OF Clive's tennis flannel
which she was taking into tn,
kitchen garden to air.
Lame stood for a breathless in
slant quite alone In the big, sun
shiny room. She had never be
fore entered its sacred masculin,
portals. Gives big, ebony backed
brushes lay on the linen scarf y
the high boy, a row OF his boot
ranged on a low shelf, glimpseC
through the closet door. BeyonC
could be seen the white bathroom
with the huge British towels b,
loved, the bottle OF lavendel
lotion OF which his linen faintl,
SmelleQ.
Lame touched the brushes will
a tentative finger. There was I
definite objective OF her visit. Ger
tain that the housemaid was chat
ting downstairs she tiptoed to tn,
small secretary that stood In TIT
corner and began hastily to riff,
the papers there.
The object she sought wa
shortly at hand. She held It VI
triumphantly to the light. 1t wa
a snapshot OF a tall. fair-haireC
young man In riding kit. She said
What luck!" and stuffed Il int
her blouse. As she turned to fe,
an open letter on stif cream
colored paper with a modernisti
monogram in silver caught he