| Show I BEGIN HEBE HERE TODAY lODAY Julie Brett has fallen in love lo with Donn Dona Farrell a young ayoung artist She first met net him bim at the Golden Slipper Dance halL ball Julie is Js the granddaughter of SIlas Sias Silas Si- Si las as Brett multimillionaire but she hu has las promised Max Sherwood that for three months she C ran be a ncr ner In the daytime she works at Newmans Newman's Ten Cent Store and Is Is' a hostess at night at the Golden Slip- Slip per One Sunday Donn takes her to the he Westchester home of oC Angela Wells for tor tea Julie is humiliated and embarrassed ed because because- of her shabby clothes She learns from front Angelas Angela's brother Peyton that she was she was invited lust just out of pf curiosity to see how a pubic pub pub- lie Hc ic dance hall hostess would act in soCiety Donn drives her home borne later NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER SIXTEEN Nice night Farrell was obviously trying to make conversation Julie tad had been waiting for tor J Kim in to speak Miles had gone silence nce You hadn't any right taking me inc there here tonight Peyton Wells told me rae mel why I was asked The shame the humiliation still with her And the vision ision of or Angela in inthe the long black trailing railing dress Oh Oh Oh- Oha a quick catch In his voice and md the car car swerved a little HUle He hadn't cou counted ted on that He thought she he didn't know Im sorry Anela Angela An- An Ilela gela ela wanted wanted- wanted wanted-n To see how Id I'd behave bitterly How could ow could she she love love him after he had this done one this I 1 didn't want to really I didn't but ut she and Peyton urged me me and then wen well I asked you You'll forgive forgive for tor- give me me More miles and more silence then ther his lis hand touching hers a a quiver through her body body- and she was telling tell tell- in ing hi hUn him th that she would o ld Thanks I wouldn wouldn't t hurt you for anything Youre You're to to hurt I I found th that t out that night I 1 tried to to- kiss kiss' you at atthe the Golden Slipper when the lights went out Friends again gain All AU right And she was happy for tor or a moment until she thought of Angela A SECRET ENGAGEMENT What about Angela Wells Are you ou engaged to her Th The words trembling on her on-her her lips her fi fingers gers cold colds as s she clasped them together We ar arc secretly arc secretly but Angela isn't announcing it yet on account of her mother mother- They were then Going to be mar- mar ned ried Donn and Angela His voice going on Some of the rest est she heard he-3rd some she didn't Nothing Noth Noth- Ing ng much mattered anyway after what he had told her doesn't Her mother doesn't like me espe espe- espe dont don't don't dont know why except that I haven't bavent any money and Angela has pots pots' of it it- itIn in her own name Came Into nto it when she was 21 Peyton Peylon has the same same amount Of course I haven't I-haven't anything but what I 1 earn at the Mid- Mid wick vick Advertising agency seventy agency five ive dollars dollars-a a week weck s sHow How long have you been engaged engaged en- en aged Since Friday night Friday he had come to the Golden Slipper danced with her then gone to o Angela Friday night Angela will get around her mother mothr moth- moth er r eventually eventually besides besides she's of age and nd she has her own money to do what she wants with Rather a feather featner In his bis cap Farrell thought marrying Angela Wells Knowing she loved oved him and wanted to marry him She had fascinated him from the first DONNS DONN'S AMBITIONS Five years ago he had come to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York with witha a portfolio of drawings enough nough money to last him two months and high hopes In Lincoln Neb the drawings had been praised and nd he thought they would be praised In n New Y York rk They weren't and the money that was to last him two months vanished in one with the highest hopes He He hated to think of ot oftie the tie months that followed the miserable miserable miser- miser able ble mean months when he tried to get et a job and c couldn't Anything that would give him enough to live on Five years ago ngo when he had been eighteen He had learned a lot In that five ive years year After the first he had burned the original drawings s Infantile Infantile tile ile he saw them nowr now untrained Talent yes but nothing more He had hado to o work to study A boy from Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln coin dreaming drawing all his early years How long had it taken him to earn and save that two hundred dollars dollars dol- dol lars ars to come to New York on Two years Fame didn't leap on him as he had expected it to and when at the end of his second year In New York the Advertising agency had of- of ered him a job in the art department depart depart- ment meat he had hild snatched at it eagerly Better than he had hoped after his first discouraging failure At least he could draw and learn and perhaps put enough mone money by to go to Europe Europe Eu- Eu rope ope and stud study So much he wanted to o see sec to do Then AngelaT Angela Angela- T TT H was wn out hI his Story ston to J Julie He telli telling g her oC of the boyhood he had had of the struggle to work and draw too or Of those first frantic maddening years in New York Of the peace that he ic felt now Angela says well we'll go abroad and andI I can study as long as I want She Shel wants to live U there anyway She hasa has has' hasa a lot of faith in me Anyone would have faith In him Julie thought when he talked like this this EO so o pa passionately so intently hi his face tense in the d darkness his jaws set his long artistic fingers quivering on the wheel Money loney means so much much although much although you know of course It means you youcan youcan youcan can do as s you OU choose Ive I've been han- han all aU my life ille by not having it t. t No art training when I t was a a. a kid except in public school It was wu a y year after afler I came cameto to New York that I could afford offord to g go to art school here Im I'm I still till going two nights a week week but but I vc l' wasted so much time Ume 23 3 and not starting yet what I 1 want to toi do At the agency I draw the most inane nanc things a child could draw them hem Fly paper Ice box boxes s cans of fruit ruit factory buildings A different Donn from the young man who had danced so well at the Golden Slipper a different Donn from the young man who had kissed her on the darkened dance floor a different Donn Donri from the he boy with the teasing young oung smile new a-new new Donn Dont you ever worry w rry about money Three weeks ago Julie would have said no Now she he said yes Well you know what I mean then den I Imay may never have any more than tan talent talent that's that's all I Z have now They've told me rne ine ineat at my school but butI I I 1 want to find out Everybody out ut wants to find ind out if it he has genius I 1 think I have s somewhere have ave somewhere in me I certainly dont don't want to go on drawing fly paper paper pa- pa per er and ice boxes boxe all all' my my life If It I I thought hought Id I'd have to do that Id I'd Id I'd- what what what- Id stop now and find something else Ise to do I couldn't bear t to know that hat It w would break cak my heart REBELLION OF Ol YOUTH Th The rebellion of youth Julie Jilie badh had bad h heard card it before but it h had d never struck truck her as poignantly antly as it did now ow Her grandfather had bad felt it when he e left leet left his hI his job as asa a grocery to derk clerk to too go o into a bank and learn lear i the bank bank- Max Sherwood had felt feltt it t when he had taken his' his first first- trip into rito the jungles She was she feeling g it Jt No she was vas merely showing herself hersel what she could do I T told Angela Donn went on that I felt like a skunk marrying her when she tic could give me s so much and I could give her so little But she doesn't m mind mind nd And you l love ve her Or was young Farrell merely fascinated by her hermon mon money y by what she could do for tor forim him im Of course there he had said it Of Of course As if there wasn't wasn't- a doubt in the world ab about his love for or Angela Donn was wondering why he had he-had had told old this girl so much Things he never ever would have dreamed of con con- tiding iding to Angela That boyhood of ofIs f his hs- misunderstood Is terrible the constant contant con con- slant tant struggle to make someone be be- lieve In him Things he would be ashamed to let Angela know b because cause sh she had felt no hardships suffered nothing An even luxurious tenor tenar to her life Glorious to have that behind you yon Glorious The Wells house In Westchester al always always al i ways thrilled him when he entered it drooping willows on the lawn the smooth chaste symmetry of ot the colonial architecture the wide hall hail where a ma manservant met thet you and took your yoUr coat The garden at the atthe the back with Jt its prim rows of or hollyhocks holly hotly hocks in the summer pink and white and yellow The dining room the long table gleaming with silver the china so o fragile you ou hated to touch it A A. thrill and a little fear when he went In because he wasn't used to to op opulence What would An Angela ela think if he ever to took k her back to Lincoln and she saw the house where he had lived Not more than th n a shack on a b back ck street unpaved ved the house al almost almost almost al- al most tumbling down downA A few pots of geraniums on the porch tended by his mother who was dead now but who when she had been alive had been so unlike Mrs Wells A quarrelsome r nervous tired woman At times Donn nn had loved her because because be be- cauSe cause she was his mother At other times he didn't When she died and he had enough money to go to NewYork New NewYork York he had left Lincoln because he had no respect for tor his father who had married a month after Mrs Farrell was vas vas' buried Y You u could tell Julie things thIngs' you couldn't tell Ang Angela la Angela Aniela would ask asic questions In her curious way and then l laugh ugh an and Donn nn couldn't bear Ito to have anyone I laugh sh at the the childhood childhood child child- hood he didn't want to remember Not now anyway It was too real loo sordid for or mirth Too oo oo close ANOTHER KISS I Julie was was thinking king adventure adventure ad ad- I ad-I ve venture ture into N New w York must h have ve been like the the she h had d That Donn was the first generation gen I gen gen- her as her grandfather had been because he had risen out of ot his is natural natural nat nat nat- ural surroundings while she was the third And she loved him hun the more J for font it You think Im I'm mercenary Donn Dons asked finally although why he asked it t he he- e. e didn't know except that he be felt felta a a growing affection for the girl sitting sitting Sitting sit Sit- ting beside him When he looked around that first night first night at atthe the Golden Slipper for tor some ome girl to dance with at Angelas Angela's request he had been Instantly instantly in ifo In- In attracted to her Then the then n next time when the lights had gone out something out something had forced him to kiss her Something he couldn't tame something he couldn't quell He wanted to kiss her now again feel teel her lips Ups against his Tell me he repeated sliding his arm around her shoulders do qu think Im I'm ni mer mercenary r- r cenary I dont don't know know- see me mc now now and then then even if it I am going to tobe to-be be married Of course He wanted to see her He liked e liked her Im going to be e very cry polite and ask you to kiss me me inC this time His arm tightened back of her shoulders May Ma I 11 He wasn't smiling now The eyes that left the road and met hers Were very serious so serious they reminded remind remind- ed Cd Julie of Max Then her lips met his Farrell Farrell when his eyes turned back to the road after that brief se second ond wondered why the kisses Angela gave him didn't give him the the pleasure pleasure this one of Julies Julie's had When Angela was what she was and when Julie was only a girl who danced at the Gold Golden n Slipper tro To Be Continued t Copyright Register ReISter and Tribune Syndicate |
