The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-24
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 meet in Memphis and fan in
 love.
 They become estrnnged
 fhrOueh the scheming of BAR
 KARA COURTNEY, who is tFy-
 ing to win Bob. PAT, J0an's
 younger sister, runs away to New
 York after am unhappy love af-
 fair. Joan follows and after Q
 long hunt finds Pat.
 Joan is hired as c singer in Q
 night ciub. Believing Bob lost to
 her, she becomes engaged to
 BARNEY BLAKE, owner of the
 night club
 I,mfer Pat becomes Barney's
 secretary nd he discovers that it
 is Pnt he loves instead of Joan.
 Joan sings at a private entertain
 ment and discovers she Is in
 BOb's home. She wears Q mask,
 but Bob recognizes her voice. He
 traces her to the luxurious apart
 meut she and Pat share with
 Barney's stepmother. Bob leaps
 to the conclusion that Joan is live
 ing there as "AIrs Blake" He
 filings her from him and rushes
 away.
 Joan tells Barney of her love
 for Bob and learns that he loves
 Pat. Next day Barney and Pat
 are married and sail on a honey-
 moon. Joan learns Bob has gone
 on a cruise. Desperately unhap-
 ny, she returns to Memphis. In
 Havana Bob Weston sees Pat ana
 Barney together.
 CHAPTER xXXV
 One thing marerd Mrs Waring's happiness during the days that fol- lowed loans return home. That was the way in which her daugh- ter refused to be paraded before their friends. :.
 Mrs Waring would have liked to walk along Main street and about the stores, having people stare. thinking of loans success and glamorous adventures In New York.
 The mothers triumphant man ner was like a banner proclaim ing. 'This is my daughter. She has been singing at the most pop ular night club in New York;" She could not have been prouder if Joan had sung at the Metropol- itan.
 But Joan refused to be shown off,' She had come home wearing the same suit sine had worn when she departed. There was an un- impressive array of frocks in the closet of her bedroom. The. beau- tiful costumes she had worn when she sang had been packed in heavier trunk to come later.
 There was nothing whatever about loans appearance to sug- gast the brilliance and glitter or the life which had so recently en- veloped her. She was content to sit at home, preferring to be there. She had drifted easily into the homely round of duties ana seemed to find pleasure in such mild excitement as challenging Benny to a game of croquet, going to the library with him, attend ing a movie or discussing house. hold plans with Mrs Warlng ana Sara, her sister-in-law.
 Happy as she was to have her daughter at home, Mrs Warlng unoonsciously sighed for little of the reflected glory she thought might rightfully have been hers.
 Then, too, Joan fiatly refused to capitalize her accomplish ments. She had declared her in tention of staying home "forever and eyer." she had said this fer yently, almost childishly. She would find some work here Tn Memnfis. she declared, perhaps teaching a class of vocal students.
 .sWeH. there's nothing like striking while the iron is hot" her mother counseled wisely. "You wouldn't have any trouble getting pupils now while every body is talking about you"
 aNo." Joan said. "I hate that, Mother. I don't want pupils who are just curious to see what l look like! In a month no one Will even remember that I've been away. Then I'll organize my class"
 This attitude was beyond Mrs Warnings comprehension. Thlngs were heard enough in this world without deliberately setting out to make them harder!
 But if Joan persisted in this course, Mrs Waring found viea. rious thrills in reading Pats first letter. It was filled with extrava- gant phrases. Pat sent a glowing account of the sea voyage, begin ming with the first night on the ship when the captain had invited Pat and Barney to sit at his table.
 There were interesting people on the boat-a fabulously rich ln- dian prince; gray-haired, dls- tinguished foreign consul; charming woman whose husband had developed the resources Of some of the more remote islands; some attractive English people; and a movie star who thought she was travelling incognito.
 Always and inevitably Pats lavish adjectives led up to Bar ney. who was simply perfect. Pat wrote that she loved the ship, the deck sports at which they spent their mornings, the lazy after moons on the cool, wind-sWept decks, and the glamorous nights when she wore pretty frocks and was sure that all the other women aboard envied her as they saw her dancing with Barney. The en- thusiasm that was so character istic of Pat colored every word of the incoherent but vivid account.
 One morning Joan and Benny finished game of tennis at Beau regard court and started home. .Let's stop for something cool to drink" said Benny, the victor. He was highly gratified over the outcome of the game because Joan had put up a good fight.
 She agreed, always eager to fall in with his plans. Benny was himself these days. If the long ynonths in New York had brought