Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-02-25

Tins innocently met. Resembling
We're the names that went down I'M
der her haunting and full-throated lit
tie laugh: older men all, wholly or
partly married, 1t hardly mattered so
long as they measured up to her new
standard of manhood and sportsman
ship.
While all the time Rusty looked
on with panied and punished eyes,
realizing the futility of protest, and
trying desperately to interest himself
in other and lesser lights. 1t was a
strange roundelay-Rusty suffering
over Hope and constantly wondering
and hoping, and Angel twho- had
been promoted from being Rusty's
secretary to that of the vice-presi-
dent-and she would have TAX
Ell the change so calmly If Ii didn't
mean twenty O week more for her
mother who was ailing), oh yes, AM
gel was suffereing over Hope, and
constantly wondering learning TO
hate the girl who could hurt Rusty
so deeply.
Yet Hope chung. as savage races
and reeds cling to superstitions, to
certain inexplicable habits and weak
nesses. No longer were there weep
ing spells for Sassy to watch sleepily.
Hope had passed the stage of weep
ms 1hl OiO Oi0 StGtCL IOuitlit per
sisted with her daily, nightly, and
weekly. In a light blue vellum hand
fooled volume, locked with a tiny
gold-filled key, Hope kept q scrap
book. A strange little scrapbook,
with strange little notations beneath
the items pasted therein. Every OPP
ening of every play that j. Hickson
Dale had produced in the past four
years. Every notice of his travels, of
his motion-picture activities, the an
nouncement of a time when he was
In a hospital with appendicitis (and
he could never guess who sent a
certain ~truckload of flowers), and an
other of an island he had bought off
the a of Maine as q summer place.
Other and ever dearer things were
pasted in that scrapbook too. A full
page picture of Dickey Dale in the
Year Book Of Yarmouth (wheedled
out of Betty Preston adroitly), the
picture that was published in a news
paper when he graduated with hon
ors, bits of gossip published by New
York columnists, and proving that
Dickey was a gadabout in the thea
trical world. an item announcing a
sketch written by Dickey and incor-
porated into a small but successful
revue, and finally the current pub
lefty of strange and exciting reports
that Dickey Dale was adapting an
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comedy libretto! Scheduled to APP
pear on Broadway in the fall.
Certain people knew, that year, of
Hopes Scat devotion to Charlie
Rand, Jr., y%orn on Hopes own twen-
tieth birthday, i'm September, nine
teen twenty-seven.
And certain folk knew Of Hopes
uneeasing concern over Judy, who
had been fighting desperately since
her debut to keep on in a world she
could no longer afford. Judy, who
should grab the opportunity at her
doorstep to marry into the wealth of
the Frisky Hall family. ana who was
fated to love a man even poorer than
herself. Tom Post, the faithful sax
ophone player, never saw Friskey's
seventeen-carat ring. Judy always
hid Il and wore Toms quarter carat
In his presence. She hated the ring
as much as Tom did. and she hated
Frisky more with each DAY that
dawned.
1t was growing harder. month by
month, to see Tom; and Tom In des-
peration sneaked off to Chicago. Tom
did wrong. He didn't explain to Judy
that he had a big chance in Chicago,
nor thai he couldn't stand not see
ing her. He just left-and then
wired her he'd be back when she
broke with Friskyi Poor Judy Hone
iAettt u INV titA Ahitdh III HtI fldtfA6
for wasn't Judy's sorrow as great as
her own? She knew how Judy felt
only too well-but she had the sense,
the money. the determination, and
love enough to trace Tom and find
the real reasons for his departure,
and make him write them to Judy.
But in the meantime Judy was
dizzy with GRIEF. For how could she
break with Fri5ky when both her
parents were 50 desperately adamant,
and so desperately in need? One can
run away under normal circumstan-
ces. but one can't u away from a
sick mother. Nor could one unbur-
den oneself Of the oversweet insis-
tence of ones fiance's family, who
were just as adamant az the Hunts
inasmuch as they needed family to
salt their money"
1t was the combination Of Hopes
interest in Judy ana in Goody's baby
| that gave Hope the brilliant idea
that sent Mama Ross pale, brought a
CLEAN of pride into Papa Ross's eyes.
an0 a buzz Of Joking gossip In the
town.
Far in November, Hope and Judy
went into business together.
In an enviable spot on the main
street of their home town, a unique
ly decorated shop was brought into
existence, and called the Punch and
judy Homogeneous Hope! Opening
& shop for children's dresses and
baby thingsi
Running papa's lawyer ragged with
papers and leases and concessions TO
be signed, ana disturbing the local
bank with a new and peculiar ac-
count. Here "a a way indeed for
Judy to make money and feel guar
anteed Of m income. Done in the
social manner, with an opening by
invitation (where tea was served),
the shop caused considerable inter-
est from the start.
Judy vas a demon for work, and
Hope had a head on her shoulders
even il it was blondi Most of the
decorations and half Of the children's
rompers II dresses h had design
ed herself.
Hope was wide-eyed with delight.
Here was a new thrill, a terrific gam
BILE, a vital interest. Here was COM
p%anionshtp with Judy that meant
something. Here was a new and sat
isfying way TO shock the surrounding
universe In to a fresh fillip OF Cos
sip. Here was work-and the dizzy
flavor of success.
Chapter 81
WEARING A RING