The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-28
CAST OF CHARACTERS
ALE AiENAInp TIL

brother.
SYLVIA SUTTON. oil heiress.
Yesterday: Alan declares his
love Tor Jill. The event is IN the
hands of Fate now.
CHAPTER VIII
Patty had dropped by Alan 5
studio for cheering word and
also with practical suggestion.
Had he ever done illustrating?
There was a chance her publisher
might DC interested in having
him submit some sketches.
Alan thanked her. But color
was his forte. He would feel as
helpless as an armleSS man trying
TO express himself through any
medium but paint.
1--WE had some good fortune
since ! saw YOU Alan saiv. "A
man haven't been able to dis
cover who ne waS-bought one of
my pictures through dealer. He
paid the unbelievable sum OF
$4,000 for it"
What break Patty cried.
She was genuinely pleased and
bewildered. Here. she had been
giving the old town Il black name
for GOODNESS and callouSneSs. And
straightway it had taken this new
conner TO its heart.
The bewildermert lasted all the
way round the corner 70 her
apartment, where she found Ar
oath Holm stretched out on one
of the cots, the lowered cover
in a wrinkled heap on the floor.
Patty lifted the cover, folded II
carefully and placed 1t on chalr.
Oh, well, YOU couldn't have a meas
room and half OF the rent paid.
Come 70 life she said TO Ar
OATH. Wonders do happen. That
painter fellow has just sold 4 pic
turr for $4,000. What do you
think of that for nice piece OF
luck"
Ardath sat up and stared at
Patty out of her strange eyes,
which now had an excited glow
Tel NE about it," she said in
her low, throaty voice.
Not much to tell" Patty re-
piled. Il done think he knows so
very much about it either. He
said someone -- he didn't know
the mans name - had bought a
picture through a dealer.
"He must have some big
friends" Ardath drawled. She
reached for a cigarct and began
70 smoke. lazily regarding the cir
cling Smo&e through ha!f-cIosed
eyes.
Patty was digesting the remark.
She rejected il ScOrnfully. He
doesn't know anybody. The seed
lest crew Of people you could
imagine have been coming IN 70
see his pictures. Except for a lot
of browsins down and outs, he
knows only you and me - and
Jill"
she stopped. There was a queer
smile in Ardath's eyes.
Her voice sounds rich, Ar
OATH drawlCd.
Patty stared. This Ardath was
not so dumb after all. JillS voice
did sound rich. Well-bred, beau
tifully modulated. The voice OF
a thoroughbred. who had had
thoroughbred training, What did
YOU know about that?
well, il should" Patty reph-
ed. Her fathers John II. Went
worth. the millionaire.
"Thcn. she's Jacqueline Went
WORTH" Ardath gaSped. =,
"Of course Her friends call
her Jill"
II thought her face seemed IA
miliar," Ardath Stammcred. i've
modelled dresses for her mother,
and once she came in. l didn't
think she was much interested IN
clothes. couldn't place her the
other day - it didn't occur TO
me-
Meeting her here, it wouldn't,
Patty supplied, drylv. I'VE were
friends at school, and Jill doesn't
forget her friends"
IF you think Jill had anything
10 do with this. you're mistaken
Patty continued, Grossly. Jill was
wild for him to sell something.
But even rich mans daughter
doesn't 20 around throwing mon
ey away on pictures.
"Maybe she wouldn't be throw
ing il away-on picture" Ar
dath's voice sounded wise.
Thinking it over, Patty came TO
the conclusion that Jill must have
interested some of her wealthy
friends in Alan'S pieture-if she
had not been, as Ardath had
limited, the actual purchaser. 1t
wasn't likely that q purchaser had
dropped out of the skies and left
such tangible evidence of his Wis
il. -,
But she would not tell Ardath
Holm this. She wished tiercely
that she had not said a word
about il. Though. she couldn't see
how Jill could be hurt by Ar
dath's sly inSinuations.
THAT French Swedc." Patty
said 10 herself. has nothing but
men on her mind"
The last of Alan'S pictures had
been boxed.
He had paid cash for a three
months lease of his new, fur
nishcd quarters. A location which
was very different from the
rooms ne was leaving.
The new place was not luxuri-