Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-08-14

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tcopywrite 1857: b. Frederick jackson,
IN TWO PARTS-PART TWO
There's a boy In BROOKLYN sh,
went on presently. HE makes S25 (
r week. paid my colored maid S35. Bul
ne manages 70 save little Of it. And
nights I'm over there, he takes me n
the movies, and buys me a soda anc
, holos my hand in the dark. And M,
Iunny but that's the biggest kick I've
ever got IN hfe-when he holds nv
nand. Hes never tried to kiss me. j
LINK ne respects me too much. He's q
KIND and Serious-minded fellow. Thints
a lot about everything and talks to ms
by the hour. And don't know-bl,f. #
seems TO me that just about everything
ne says is right
Wen, I've got it all figured out
Wnen l 90 home tomorrow. I'm going
10 tell my mother I've lost nv ioh
again. She won't be surprised. She's
/ got used to my losing my Jobs. And
N the evening, when Steve drops ia.
III be depressed and blue and maybe
cry rev tearS-and he'll ask me TO
marry him. And I will.T
srs 1lln aItgs.l9al sat gazing at her in
you'll marry him-?" he repeated.
And live on his SIS a week?"
II l have to-" said she. ct won't
pc Tor long. He's bound to make good. .
But viii he want to marry you when
you tell him the truth about yourself?"
asked Cunningham.
On" she said, sitting up to stare
az MN. You don't suppose for a min
ute I'm going to tell him. do you?"
1T isn't honest-not to-" he said.
But he wouldn't respect me any
longer" said she. And he's the kind
OF Fellow that has got to respect and
look up TO his wife. It isn't that I'm
ashamed Of what Eve done. OF course,
I'm not proud Of it, either. BUTTS
just one Of those things that had to
happen. If it hadn't happened, I
wouldn't see things as I do now. If I
had really been working in an office
all this time for $40 a week-as thew
th1nk-I'd never be willing to marry
Steve, now. wouldn't be wise enough
to know that what he has to offer is
worth hundred times what any of
your Lew Westons can give a girl. So
well-even though he wouldn't ap-
prove of what I've done, if I hadn't
done it, his dreams would never have
come true. Do you see?"
He nodded slowly. But do you think
for moment they won't find you? Do
you really think you can keep this
secret for the rest of your life? Just
consider for an instant the modern |
police organization. They'll have police |
all over the country looking for Amber
Leigh. Your photograph viii be flashed |
on the screen In news reels"
"Oh, no it won't" she said, grinning, |
because there are no photographs of |
Amber Leigh. I never had snapshot |
taken"
Even then-theyn flash your de-
scription over the radio-print it in
the newspaper"
LET them"
They'll search your flat for evidence.
Cross question your maid"
They'll find out nothing about me-"
she said confidently.
But there must be hundreds Of men
who've met Amber Highland quite
sharp. Suppose you run into one of
these people in the street,"
They won't recognize me. You'll see"
she assured him.
AnlIy arrived, then, with a suitcase,
q rather disgruntled looking young
Milly was a type, the victim
type. People had taken advantage of
MiIly all her life and Milly was used
10 it. One could see that at glance.
Perhaps Milly had even come to like
u.
interests in her life if people didn't find ,
ner useful There are lot of Mlllys.
The two girls went off into Cunning (
lam'S bedroom with the suitcase. He {
mixed himself another drink and sat
thinking it all over. And presently two |
iris with a suitcase came back into
he room. But certainly not the same
wo girls. At least, Adilly was the same.
But Amber Leigh had disappeared. All
- In tho cfrff-
.ase. Grinning at Cunningham was an
Dther girl entirely, pretty girl, young,
Shrewd If not intelligent.
Ter clothes were like Milly'S, from her !
artificial stockings up. Her glamour mad
-aniShed. Gone were the roSy-ping nails
hat had matched her hpStick. The I
leek couture was no more. The eyes
o carefully made up before-were now
S God had made them. The eyebrows 8
we're untouched by artifice. she was
hewing gum. ,.
noes were in themselves SO slight. Yet, S
lere was a pretty young Stenographer =
rom BROOKLYN No possible doubt about
hat And the ravishing Amber Leigh '
vas gone without leaving trace.
She read his establishment IN ms '
YES and laughed joyishly, accepting II
S a tribute. And then, she thanked 1
nm ana SHOOK UdlllSs f14lA yAAC 6AAS
nth their suitcase-declining his es- a
ort or assistance-departed into the I
light. t
Chiefly because she had vanished so t
nysteriously, the police made every S
fort to trace Amber Leigh. thinking n
o doubt, that she possessed knowledge h
1ost discriminating concerning Lew n
weston. And Cunningham watched the a
apers, but the days passed, and no
Inple clue to her whereabouts was q
7 And Srs on the fifth day, while the il
olnds were sti1l hot on the scent,
fletcher came in softly while Cum h
inpham was tying his white tie and Il
that Miss Dorothy Shoe 81
l,,..,ar was waiting to see him II
aAnd who" cried Cunningham mn 81
atiently, sis Miss Dorothy Shoe K
laker?" +,
IT don't know, sir" responded
fletcher. 1--WE never seen the young
oman before, sir. She says she mas 10
message for you and it's important, "a
, she'll wait. I told her you were t.
ressing" ... q