The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
GUILT LTY@lIpN.ll'. LAURA LOU BROOKAN AuthS, sf MAP "A 5 MARRIAeE S
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 Pretty NORMA KENT, 2O-year- old secretary, Imarries MARK uBAVERS, mtlli0naire's son, in spite of the opposition of Marks Rather. F. M. TRAVERS.
 The story opens in Marlboro, z11ddle-western metropolis. After m xtravagant honeymoon at Fashionable Blue Springs the weeks before the young man can lind work and he loses his first job. Then he becomes a floor walker in Q department store. In spite of poverty he and Norma .afe happy until his father sends for him. The elder Travers offers fO take Mark into his business Organization if the son will prove he can make goo0. Marks first task involves a business trip to France. Norma must remain at home. She tries to persuade Mark not to go but is unable to do so.
 Norma, rudely treated at her father-in-1aw's home, slips away, leaving no trace of her where abOuts. CHRIS SAUNDERS, her former roommate, helps her find a job.
 Marks father employees detec- tiyes to trail the girl. They pro- diuce records to show Norma three years earlier had been convicted on . vice charge. In spite of evi- dence that this charge was framed and the girl innocent, Travers sends his lawyer to Paris. Weeks Inter Norma receives letter tell ing her Mark has secured a di- vorce. Next day in the office she fafnts. She learns she is to have a child. Chris befriends her and loans her money.
 The summer months pass drear- fly and in August Norma's son is born. Chris arrives one day at the apartment to find Norma star ing at a newspaper.
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 Chris Saunders tried to make her voice sound casual. We'll" she said, anything startling in the news to-day? Any murders, any banks robbed"
 The words broke off as Norma raised her head. Almost black those blue eyes looked. There were angry, flashing lights in them.
 "I hate them" Norma said tensely. "Oh, how I hate them! Look!' She held up the newspa- per, pointing to the paragraphs she had been reading.
 The heading was not in large type. VASE BRINGS $15,O0O AT SAMUELS AUCTION" Browning, Chris read what followed:
 "A Ming vase purchased by F. M. Travers for $15,000 brought the highest single price at the auc- ton of the George K. Samuels col lection of porcelains and glassware yesterday. Receipts from the entire collection totaled SS7,436.5O.
 Bidding on the vase brought on a spirited contest between Travers and Miss Eloise Walters. The vase is aaid to be a remarkable ex- ample"
 There was more but Chris did not bother to read it. She said, sThat's a lot of money for a vase, 1t seems to me. Now that they've got it what do you suppose they'll do with it?"
 '.It isn't the money" Norma in- terrupted hotly. Its just reading the name all the time. F. M. Ira vers-why, you'd think he was some sort of god! You'd think everything Mir and Mrs Travers do is just perfect. Newspapers are always telling how much they give to charity. Telling about the parties they go to. MT and Mrs F. M. Travers were among those in box seats.' 'Patronesses include MT and Mrs Travers.' Why don't they print the truth? Why don't they print that this wonderful F. M. Travers Is deceitful and unfair and cruel? And his wife just as