The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-29
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 MONA TOWNSEND, married
 oix months and widowed, inherife
 her husbands millions providing she does ngt rewed. Her meEEingo
 arrnnge0 Dy T0Wngend's lawyer strunge affair, leaving her free at
 husbands wife fn nctuality or sec cure a divorce. Mona, in love
 with her husband's nephew,
 BARRY TOWNSEND, agreed to
 the marriage when she thought
 Barry was lost to her.
 Barry ts in South America
 where he and STEVE SACAR- ELLI arc partners in diamond mine, Mona's brother, BUD, wOrIS8 for them. LOTTIE CARR fashion model, is Mcna's closest friend.
 Mona feels Barry Is entitled to . share of his uncle's fortune but there is no legal way for her to arrange this. She employs Lottie as her secretary and cOm- panion and they sail for South America. Mona hopes for q rec cOnciliati0n with Barry and also to find sOl1I way to give him Q share of the Townsend fortune. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER xXXv
 There were 20 first-class passen- gers on the Miranda. The gov ernment official who had cancelled the stateroom occupied by Mona and Lottie was represented by ar- r,tt tzA <fH tAs fxn hA ond best stateroom. He was an att tractive young chap who said mod estly that he was "in textiles" When the Miranda reached his is- land it developed that he was quite 8 parsonage.
 A nice old couple taking be- lated honeymoon walked about the deck hand in hand. A younger cou- pie, not so amusing or interesting, permitted the entire ships com- pany to know that they were going south on an important mission. col- lecting tropical fish for a museum.
 The consul's nephew was return ing to one of the French islands after what (so a steward confded) had been fruitless search of New York for an earlier passenger with whom he had fallen in love.
 Two middle-aged women, seeking a home where the exchange would make their meager income ade- quate, were among the passengers. An enthusiastic auto salesman was en route to introduce a newly pat ented tire lock throughout the islands, a mission scoffed at pri- vately by teh ships officers. The natives, said the officers, would never arouse themselves to the labor of adjusting spare tire, much less the task of setaling one from another car.
 And then there was the ships doctor, to be found at almost any hour of the day or evening at Lot ties side.
 "Dr Allen isn't the regular ships doctor" Lottie told Mona the sec- ond day out. "This line doesn't use them. They distribute vacation trips to bright boys just out of hos- pitals. This keeps the ship doctor- ing business on it's toes. The doctors are likely to have a touch of sea- sickness themselves and have sym pathy for the rest of us."
 Dr Allen, it seemed, had much sympathy for Lottie. They strolled the deck, sat for hours over cool ing drinks, leaned at the rail in Joyous interchange of fiippancies. Mona, not quite escaping the, diff- culties of teh voyage, lay back in her deck chair. pale and smiling at them.
 Two days out. Cape Hateras. The Miranda pitched and rolled and pitched again. The gayeties of banjo and Hitting songs from the second cabin quieted.
 We haven't dropped them off, have we?' Lottie inquired of the physician, pointing aft where the quiet of the tomb reigned. At that moment bell announcing meal time in the second cabin rang briSkly. There was no answering shout. Eating was far from the program of the day.
 "All sick" the doctor observed sympathetically. "But by Saturday they'll be out"
 Lottie watched the second cabin quarters riding and falling with every pitching of the boat. It was like the swaying of a see-saw.
 How do they stand 1t" she mur- mured sympathetically. "It's cer- tainy terrible to be poor!"
 You are one of the few wealthy women I've ever heard say that" Dr Allen observed.
 "So you think I'm wealthy, do your" Lottie thought. Aloud she dod not say anything.