Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-02


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He frightened me 40 when / was I
little girl thar I've never rot over
being afraid or him. He was crue
70 my father and wanted to talk.
me away from him then. we rar
away so that he couldn't
4 was only sixteen when nv IA
Their died and I was afraid that Il
Uncle William heard about IT anC
knew where I was, he'd gpt me
theR- There wasn't any one else
you see. SO I changed nv name
and pretended I came TO Chicago
from Denver. and got a job on the
News.
And. Martin. I've loved II. I've
loved IL all. The whole two years
I've been happy. And 7 don't want
anything changed. You won't dc
anything to change things. viii
your"
She vas looking rather blurred
and he bllnked In order to see her
better. mo. ! won't do anything
you don't want ME. to-" he said
Then he did a little rudlmentary
arithmetic. III that was two years
ago you're only eighteen now"
DO you mindl" she asked hin
seriously.
NO." he said. Il don't mind al
all"
After a while she said. -You must
have worked awfullv hard today,
to have found out all that about
Max Lewis and the chorus girl
How did you do itT'
1T was all in the 'morgue,'- he
told her. 1T took about ten min.
utes."
She'd been working for the paper
two years and she didn't know
what the "morgue" was. Martin,
with a true reporters pride IN the
whole news-gathering side Of the
organization. told her all about it.
He was startled when a sudden
movement OF hers a sort OF shud-
der. aroused him TO look around
into her face whats the mat
teri" he gasped.
Il think it's horrible she said
shakily. at means that there's no
forgiveness at all. Anything
that anyone has ever done-or that
people think he has done-is kept
there, waiting TO be got out and
told Al over again. Anyone who
wants to 10 and open n drawer can
find It. And they call II the
'morgue.' Martin. I didn't know
anything could be as cruel as that -
But you've got II all wrong he
protested "A newspaper doesn't
keep q 'morgue' for the purpose or
intImidating people with their
pasts. Nine times In ten the files
used for writing handsome obitu-
airy articles. When a man dies
they want to be able 10 tell how i'm.
portant he's been
But nothing he could a on the
subject seemed to change her feel
Ing about t. Let's try To forget
about t." she said nj last.
On his agreeing TO fhat-and he'd
have agreed TO almost anything Just
then-she pushed her advantage a
little further. Let's forget about
everything THAT'S mysterious and
depressing. will yoRf VIII ycu
agree that the burglar was Just a
plain burglar who was perfectly
satisfied with my three hundred
dollars and that Mr.. Forster and
Dir. Lewis were only trying to End
me-to settle q bet. or for some
silly reason like thatf And then.
Martin. will you take me some
where for the rest OF thE@ evening
where we can dancer
You bet I WILL" he said I'll
agree to the whole program-for
the rest Of the evening-if You'll
LEI me say just one thing frst-
She considered this request n
little obviously, but finally said,
"All right; just one, though
III you're really eighteen years
7 really am she interrupted.
almost Ny birthdays In two
weeks-October thiTty-hrst: Hal
loveen, IT. is
"HurrahI- h said. Wen have
n partyi Wen then. ON Halloween
youu come OF are and y0uT have
no more reason to be afraid Of your
uncle than / have He'll have no
more authority over you than he'll
have over the king OF England And
even I'm the meantime I don't see
that he cogid 10 very much. That's
MI. Now let's 20 70 the AIhambra.
And heaven help Eeander Higgins,
or anyone else who tries to cut In
on rs tonight !"
Downstairs In the tiny vestibule
she noticed that there were some
letters In their mail-box- The post
man had come, she remembered
while they were DO excited about
the burglar that they both forgot to
20 down and get the mail She
didn't want to be bothered with Il
now, though AL ste wanted to do
was dance
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