The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-20
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| DGSAN IlLNE ASNHA
Molly Milford, rich and popular,
has received proposals of marriage
from three suitots, but Brent
Stuart, whom she loves, has not
asked her to marry him.
Bored with parties, Molly asks
Brent to take her to The Red
Poppy" a questionable night club
He refuses. Molly, annoyed, goes
wit hWick Ross, another admlrer.
The lights 60 out suddenly and
when they come on again Molly
finds herself dancing with hand
some stranger. He is, in reality,
nelson ferguson, bank robber and
he is one of a GROUP planning to
spirit Molly away and hold her for
ransom.
ferguson tells Molly his name
is Nelson Whitaker" A few
days later he asks her to have
dinner with him, and she agrees.
Waiting for him at a downtown
store, Molly encounters a girl Tho
appears to be her exact double.
Inprlsively Molly exchanges her
u ~ :ous costume for the other
girls shabby one.
She and ''Hhittakcr" go to a
place called "Frenchy's." Police
srrive and there is shooting in
which "Whittakcr' is Totally in
jured. Molly is forced into car
and taken to deserted fam
house.
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CHAPTER VII
Sun streamed through small,
BARRED window into the room in
20 which Molly had been uncere-
moniously thrust the night before.
tut it was not the sun, but loud,
angry voices that awakened her.
"Of all the dirty rotten tricks!
So he thought he could pull joke
like that on us and get by with
it. Bringing a cheap little nobody
while that Milford girl" The
mans voice died in an angry rum
bic.
Molly could not distinguish the
est of the sentence, but she had
heard enough.
FOR some reason the kidnapers
were confused about her identity.
They believed she was that other
yirl - the one she had changed
dresses with. Molly did not even
know the other girls name.
She reached for the small
brown purse, her heart fluttering
wildly. Inside were q handker-
chief, compact, a smaller coin
purse with some loose change, and
a letter.
The letter was postmarked the
morning before and was address
ed to Miss Leola Barlow. Molly
hesitated for q moment. 1t was
necessary for her to know some
thing about this girl. Immediately.
At any moment now the door
might open and they would begin
questioning her.
Honey" the letter, written in
a mans careless hand, began, I'm
sorry to break it like this, but
Mae and | got married yesterday.
1t was something we couldn't
help. Don't feel too bad about it.
Somebody else will be coming
along soon. Anybody as pretty as
you shouldn't worry about one
man.
"You were kind of off your
head about me, but You'll get over
it. You could have Joe back if
you crooked your finger. He's
worth two of me, and you're a
.etter kid than Mae. You've got
her skinned 40 ways in looks. She
don't look like any millionaire
daughter. But she got me. l
didn't bat an eye toward her,
honey. She came all the way.
"We're going to be fighting and
making up all the time. You were
too easy for me, Leola. Maybe if
you had treated me rough |
wouldn't have handed you raw
deal. So long and good luck.
You've been pretty swell. Now
buck and forget-Jimmy."
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Molly put the letter backeinto
the envelope soberly. In the next
room the verbal warfare was con-
tinuing, punctuated frequently by
furious oath.
1T beats me. What did he eX-
pect, to get out of a job like
that"
ga good laugh. He was going
back to Chicago, laughed up his
sleeves at you and Louis" the
woman said. "He told you he
wasn't goin' to do no kidnapin'
for you, and you wouldn't believe
he meant it. Nelse wasn't no
body's fool. He knew you and
Louis loved him like raj poison,
Steve, and would have turned him
up long ago if you hadn't been
scared"
"Well, l did turn him up, didn't