Show e t. t TELEGRAM FICTION All A 11 That I Glitters I J G GARDNER By 1 ANNE ANNE- BEGIN HERE TODAY A world has changed for Jerr Jerry y Brock Brought up lip In a B well to d to-d to o home she has been spoiled and pam pored by an indulgent mother The Then she married G Gordon Brock who wa s se making far more money than anyon anyone e else his age in Huntington on He spoiled d and pampered her still more When the market crash came in 1929 sh she had iad never done a days day's work or borne born bornea borna a hardship That all changed rapidly Her fter husband lost his nerve and h he had already lost his mother mother-in mother law laws law's money Everything devolved now o on Jerl Jerry How would she meet the test Sometimes she wished she might g gor go for or advice to Ross Taylor a brilliant brillian young lawyer lawer She did not though because he was the man she would probably have married if it she had no not married narried G Got Gordon don Now go on with the stor story CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX TWENTY Through ironic circumstances a ns as other fortunes had fallen in Huntington Hunting Hunting- ton Ross Ros Taylors Taylor's had risen Not Nol No spectacularly but bul steadily The very ery failures and bankruptcies s which were decimating g the downtown district ought rought added business to him The way vay in which he had dIschar discharged ed his fathers father's obligations had won him the respect and confidence of the solid men of ot the town He had no financial financial finan finan- cial lal mistakes of ot his ills own to cover up or r explain away Most important of o f all 11 what he made was his own As he helped clients work out their difficulties he thought of ot that many times imes with saturnine enjoyment The persons who had incurred his envy by their easy winnin winnings s in the days ays of prosperity had had too much money to bother W with paying for things as they went along They had hac gone one in debt for houses and their heir automobiles for their business expansions for their stocks anc and bonds Kinds even It often happened that thai the ic more money a man had made themore the themore themore more deeply he found himself in debt debtor I for or that was the wa way the game had hac been een played placed Now all that such Unfortunates un- un f could get their hands upon must go 80 to maintain white elephants Thank God I was too poor to 10 oWe o anybody anything Ross said aid to himsel himself him him- self sel elf man many t times mes but these were I thoughts he never expressed to any any- one He was ambitious and he was intelligent and and he was not rubbing salt alt into an anyone's ones wounds He was a different Ross now quieter harder with a driving ng am- am In business he was always reliable often br brilliant and he was forging ahead rapidly In his private life lie he was seen with a succession of lovely ovely ladies Ross Walts Waits And Ross knew far more about G Gordon Brocks Brock's affairs than anyone knew that he knew He knew what Ward Yard Bishop the banker had said to Gordon ordon at al their last conference He knew before Gordon did what percentage per per- would be paid to those who had lad lost through Gordons Gordon's failure collected of informs He e ever every piece Lion tion ion he could get about Brock and his pretty wife And he waited Meanwhile Jerr Jerry was getting her second wind with Susan and the routine still was irksome to her spirit but ut she had mastered it and Susan was vas doing beautifully With this success had come a satisfaction and anda a deep contentment a pleasure in her child hild that was different from any other her pleasure she had ever known It t was fun to go marketing pushing Susan usan in her luxurious carriage Susan usan was a blooming bouncing lass lasswith lasswith with a dazzling smile which she bestowed bestowed be- be stowed owed upon all comers leaning far out ut of f her buggy to send it after some friendly passerby Jerr Jerry would leave her just outside o of the cash stores where she did most ost of her buying and Susan would sit t receiving the homage of all aU who went past Then Jerry would tuck her purchases purchases pur pur- chases around Susan in the buggy and continue their walk talking to the child as she went along telling her everything that had been happening expressing all the doub doubts and fears she dared reveal to no one else When Susan prattled back at her she felt somehow comforted and strengthened to go on In her daughter daugh daugh- ter she had found compensation for many things thing Ive got her eating out of ot my m hand now Babs was her frequent boast to Barbara I Jerry had a scrapbook bound leaflets leaflets leaf leaf- lets of ot a famous newspaper authority authority author author- ity on child care This book was never far tar from her hand and one oneo o could gauge the exact stage of Susan's Susans Su SUo o sans san's development by the fact that tha beyond that point there were no stains of cereal or strained vegetable This manual on child care was Jerry's Jerrys Jerrys Jerry's Jer Jer- rys ry's rs Bible to which she clung wi with h passionate fidelity after her one disastrous disastrous dis dJs experience of ot flouting the law lawas as laid down by Miss Ellis EUis Barbara Checks Check Up Barbara always examined the book too when she came to make sure 0 Jerry was doing everything properly I She never ceased to express her surprise sur ur- ur prise that she could rarely find an anything anything any any- thing to cr criticise Im always ls l.'s expecting to find Susan with a cup of coffee in one hand hanti and a It in the other she would de declare Youve You got us all wrong Jerr Jerry would reply Were a couple of or old old- fashioned gentlewomen Susan and I I. I Besides Mrs Eldred doesn't approve of coffee coHee for infants She comes right out and says so soe And its it's all right for tor you ou Babs Hilton to come bursting burst bursting ing in here like ike a government inspector tor checking up on me but I donl dont ever see you around here when its it's time tune to wash diapers Barbaras Barbara's head bent over the book Aha This child should not be wearing wearing wearing wear wear- ing diapers an any longer she announced announced announced an an- triumphantly I knew Id I'd find something if I looked long She should be in training panties And does th the book sa say where the mother of or the young woman under discussion is to get et the money to buy these same training panties Jerry demanded Rompers I have thank goodness but not training panties Why didn't anybody ever show me any back in the days ds's when I was a buying fool Barbara recollected the masses of things Jerr Jerry had bought before Susan was born three times as many as one child could possibly wear You must have scads of clothes youve you've never even unwrapped she said Why dont don't you jou OU exchange them for the things you OU need now I I gave them awa away away- Jerry replied To uTo poor families Poor families Isn't that a laugh Next day Barbara ran in on her herway herway herway way home from the store bearing the needed garments garment Babs dear you mustn't do things like ike this Jerry chided her You cant can't spare the money any better than I can cant I Gordon Finds Backer Jerry looked at the girl with com- com passion She knew that Barbara and Bob Hamish would have married o long ong ago if they had been able to finance a household Now it did not look as though that thal time would o ever come A part of Barbaras Barbara's small earnings was turned over to her par par- Bob had a job at last driving a delivery truck but his wages at athis this his would never support them Fate which otherwise had dealt heavily with Jerry had done her this one kindness that it had granted her her baby before sweeping ever everything thing else a away wa One noon Gordon came racing into the he house transfigured He caught Jerry and squeezed her breathless before the eyes of and Martha Our troubles are over sweetheart Everything is fixed up We open offices of- of ices as soon as we can make the arrangements ar- ar Gordon had found a backer who was vas willing to set him up once more morein morein moren in n the investment business Starting with a clean slate and on a sounder basis with all the experience he had gained from his difficulties it could not help but go in a big way Jerry closed her eyes and leaned against him for support It was hard to o realize that anything but evil could happen jappen to them Inured to calamity she he hardly knew how to take good Gordon stroked her hair tenderly Theres nothing to worry about any ny more dearest Now everything will vill be easy for you again Ill I'll make makeup makeup up ip for everything youve you've missed this l last ast year ear or so It was really true Within a month Gordon was established again with a beautiful suite of offices h had d engaged en en- en aged a staff of or salesmen was prepared prepared pre- pre pared ared to 10 go ahead at full steam He Hend and nd Jerry announced an open house housein housen in n the new rooms to which they invited invited invited in- in in in- everyone the they knew The two of them had dinner together first first first- not at the Huntington where their bill was not paid yet ct but at Joyces Joyce's and people came up to shake hands with Gordon and congratulate him Opposes Gordons Gordon's Plans Gordon was his old self again and once once more his quietness s seemed to speak of ot hidden strength It was this air of ot success about Gordon more than anything that had happened which convinced Jerry they had won through You know Gordon she said as they ate Im glad its it's over but just the same I wouldn't have miss missed d it Weve We've learned a lot from it H you OU and I. I Gordon looked at her serious seriously I hadn't thought of or that before but I believe joure youre right Well be kinder from now on Jerry pursued her thought Well know how it feels to be poor and we wont won't ever again rub peoples people's noses in our own good fortune Well We'll never live in a world again of ot just ourselves our our- selves Well We'll be thinking of or others o of what is u happening to them of what they arc are thinking She opposed all of ot G Gordons Gordon's suggestions suggestions sug for taking up life lile immediately immediate immediate- ly on the old scale They would wait she insisted until the money actually actual actual- ly did come in the cash mone money The experiences of or the past year that had been really hideous had all arisen because they owed mone money Never again she vowed would she he ever owe we anyone for as much as a aloa loa loaf of bread or a pocket chief chic They would pay payas as they went and then if catastrophe overtook them at least no one could harry them But precious Gordon patted her hand there arent aren't gO going ng to be any anymore anymore anymore more c You must get it into your our head that that's all over now I hope so Jerry answered but resolved stubbornly to go on just as she had been doing of late months at least until Gordon was making a It good deal of money Oh Oh theres there's Ross Taylor Taylor Taylor Tay Tay- lor ov over r there Hes uHe's alone Would you ou like to ask him to join us us I Not Tonight Dear Not tonight dear H However v Ross came to their table on on his way out of the tea tea- room To Be Continued d Tomorrow Copyright Register Reister and Tribune Syndicate |