| Show TELEGRAM FICTION I IFOR FOR LOVE OR MONEY By ROB EDEN BEGIN HERE TODAY Brenda Fayre at 22 has been for years rs the sole support of her invalid sister Lally While Brenda has earn earned d their living Lally Lolly In her wheelchair has kept house with only her canary Peter for company After After After Af Af- Af- Af ter Brenda had been without work for several weeks sh she receives an offer from front Walter Jason promoter and mining stock salesman Jason offers to hire her to entertain prospective prospective pros pros- stock buyers buyers offers offers to buy the wardrobe she will need need offers offers to pay her 50 a a. week and give her hera a commission on sales I Though she suspects Jason of or selling worthless stock Brenda accepts accepts accepts ac ac- ac- ac his offer in order to support Lally She hopes hope to keep secret from Lally the type of work she is doing Her deceit is made possible possible possible pos pos- sible by the storing of her siren wardrobe In the apartment of Ethel Bush Ja Jar Jason's Jasons ns n's woman partner partner part part- ner ncr and by Lally's sudden Interest in Val Sargent writer who occupies occupies occupies pies the apartment above theirs NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Chapter G 6 Brenda's first job with the Jason Jason Jason Ja Ja- Ja- Ja son Enterprises came a day after tho the alterations were completed on her wardrobe Ethel was opposed to her starting 8 so soon but Walter Vial Val ter said she was r ready dy Her Instructions were detailed and she had to memorize them At 1 o'clock she w was to go to Willards Willard's Willards Willard's Wil- Wil lards lard's restaurant secure a table as near the door a. a as possible not a table for two but one for four or three She was to take her time about ordering At quarter after 1 Walter Vatter expected to bl be there with Louis Stokes She Sho was not to look toward the door while she sho was at atthe atthe atthe the table although she would be facing lacing the the thedoor door She Sho was not to recognize Walter until ho he came up to tho table himself and spoke and then she zhe was waa to invite him to sit down after she sho had been introduced introduced introduced intro intro- to Mr Stokes She Sho was to wear tho navy blue outfit Walter Waiter would take taka care of everything after he and Mr Stokes were seated at her table Really Easy EMY Sho was frightened of course when she went Into she Willards she thought the only time she had been moro more frightened was when Lally went into tho the operating room at tho the Orthopedic hospital and she he had had bad to wait walt outside for three hours counting off oft the minutes with the beating booting of at her own pulse But somehow somehow some some- how some somo way tho the terrible fear loft left as soon as Walter came up to tho the table accompanied by a stout heavy set Bet middle-aged middle man Themore Tho The moro more presence of Walter soothed her nerves and gave her confidence She couldn't account for tor the fear tear leaving her In any other way And It wasn't so 10 hard It was really easy Walter took charge of ot the thi conversation as soon loon as he sat down She Sho didn't have to do a athing athing athing thing but lI listen First to Walter Waiter who when they were In the midst of at their luncheon remembered an experience he had had with bandits bandits bandits ban ban- in Mexico Then to Louis Stokes who began telling about his last trip to Africa big game gamo hunter They sat at the table for two and anda a a. half halt hours just talking It was the first and 18 last t time Brenda saw Louis Stokes but the next day she got a a. check for her first commission Not so hard to take Walter laughed when he gave It to herAnd herAnd herAnd her And you did very well followed everything right to the tho letter Stokes called me about aboul you this morning but I told him you had left town for a little jaunt to Quebec Que Quo bec S Second Deal Dent Brenda put the In a savings sayIngs say sav ings account which she took out in Lally's name but was vas telling Lally nothing about Tho The second deal came off oct easily too Miles MUes Morris was the second man a a. big man from California with a good deal of ot money WaIters WaIter's Walters Walter's Walters Walter's Wal Wal- ter's prospects Brenda discovered always had money She interrupted Walter and Mr Morris this time timo in in Walters Walter's office on the pretense that Walter Waltr had a luncheon date with her Tho The three of them went off olf together to the I Rendezvous room of the Mayfair because Mr Morris liked to dance Brenda danced with both of them Walter Valter and Mr Morris and theman theman the man from California as they were dancing the last dance danco at 4 o'clock asked Brenda to go out that eve eve- ning Walter Valter had warned her to accept accept accept ac ac- aci ac- i nothing from Morris so sho said sho was sorry that she he was bus busy Another time perhaps But the following morning Walter told her she might go to dinner that evening with Mr Morris if h he called her hr He did did did-at at Ethels Ethel's and they went out dining and dancing There was another r commission commission com corn mission from the shares in the Gold Oak mine which Mr Morris bought and she never saw him again after the deal was closed and hi his check turned over to Walter Waiter Of ot the tho dining and the dancing she sho had had to give a a. full fuU verbal report to Ethel who took everything everything everything every every- thing she sho said down in shorthand These reports she discovered ered were made mado after every date on which she sho was alone alono with a prospect Down to the minutest detail Ethel had to know everything that was raid mid and everything that hap hap- David was waa the third Ho He was from New Orleans and had met Walter at the College club Luncheon was arranged In Inexactly Inexactly exactly the tho same samo way it had been arranged with Louis Stokes except except ex ex- that the tho place was different Same Some Story and Walter and Brenda ate In tho the big dining room of or the Marguery During luncheon Walter Walter Walter Wal Wal- ter told his story of ot his encounter with tho the Mexican bandits in exactly exactly ex ex- the tho same Bame words ho he had told It before Brenda Bronda was to get very familiar with this story for tor she abc was to hear It a good deal She Sho was beginning to understand understand understand under under- stand his methods too He was a master at handling conversation and a master at telling a long story He Ho maintained that every everyman everyman everyman man had a good story and that by his Mexican bandit a story tory he brought not the one story another man might have to toll tell i story was of at a treasure treas treas- ure uro hunt to a South Sea Island bland which he ho had financed a good story Brenda was v fascinated by I it Tho The luncheon lasted two anda and a a. half hours and the tho girl wont to to dinner tho the following night with and the next afternoon to lunch Then Walter told her to tolay tolay 18 lay off olt because had kicked In with worth of stock in the Gold Oak was told the next time he phoned Ethels Ethel's apartment for tor Miss Fayre that she had been called to Seattle by tho the illness of at an aunt and that there was wa-s a note fo for him in tho the mal mall mail There was WM a note written by Brenda but dictated dictated dictated dic dic- dic- dic by Ethel Definite Instruction Brenda's Instructions were definite definite nite nit too when she was alone with witha a prospect She was to say nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing of the tho mine unless the subject was brought up by the prospect and then she sho was to try and andI I chango change tho the subject If It the prospect prospect pros pros- poet persisted she ahe was to pretend a guileless Ignorance in tho the mine Any questions about Walter were to be bo parried too She Sho was to know him only as an old friend of the tho family her brothers brother's chum About his business sho she was to be noncommittal She Sho left the flat fIat at the tho Corwin promptly every morning at 20 minutes minutes min mm- utes to 10 for Ethels Ethel's flat fla which was only 10 minutes from tram town Sho She let herself in with her own key or Rose Roso was at the tho door to meet her Rose was Ethels Ethel's colored maid who had been with Ethel for three years jears Hero Here sho she waited until Ethel or Walter Waller called from the office of of- flee fice with orders for the day Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Some Some- times there thero were none Sometimes three or four tour days went by when there would bo be nothing Rose fixed her lunch on those days and the waiting was able She tried to read tried to just sit and relax but Beautiful Apartment Ethels Ethel's apartment was very beautiful It was rented furnished and although Miss Rush was wise enough to demand shabby gentilIty gentilIty gentility gentil gentil- ity in tho the office at home homo she sho wanted luxury The living Jiving room was a big formal room furnished in m French style with fragile hand-carved hand chairs and satin covered sofas Off the iho living room was a dining room decorated like the living room and at night when Ethel sat down t to dinner her place was set with crystal crystal crys crys- tal tai goblets china and fine old eld silver sUver The he table cloths were were hand drawn lace and the flowers in the center Dresden bowl wore were sent in every day by a florist There Thero were two bedrooms in the apartment besides a servants servant's room and bath for Rose Ethels Ethel's bedroom bedroom bedroom bed bed- room with Its pale yellow tufted taffeta upholstered bed and its Us paler yellow taffeta draperies adjoining tho the foyer The other bedroom Brenda Brenda Bren Bren- da de used for a dressing room This was a simpler smaller room than Ethels Ethel's and in the closet was the wardrobe Ethel and Walter Valter had bought for her f fROe Roe Helps If It she were going out on business business bustneS busi bust ness neS she dressed in the room with the help of Rose for Rose was a good maid and she knew exactly what her mistress wanted of Miss Brenda Often Otten after Ethel called Brenda she sho would ask to speak to Rose too and give Rose instructions instructions instructions as to whether Miss Brenda was to use perfume that day and whit kind of perfume it should be And she sho would tell Rose to be careful of Miss Brenda's Bendas hair and see that the polish on her nails was not too dark or not too light or that there should be very vary little lipstick that day and no rouge Her instructions depended on Walters Walter's Valters Vial Val ter's prospects whether prospects whether they thoy were wore conservative or whether they wore liberal For Louis Stokes the lipstick lipstick lip lip- stick sUck had been ordered pale palo and no rouge and no liquid polish for Brenda's nails For Mr Morris Morns a little of everything and a heavy perfume For Mr a lighter light light- er perfume and the same makeup as f for r Mr Stokes i It was Ross Rose who called Ethel I and told her that Brenda was ready I told in detail what had been done donel to he her Brenda often smiled when the she be I hoard heard the tho maid mald talking so seriously to her mistress t I tIt It was Rose too who called th the taxi and saw that Brenda got Into it and Rose Rosa who welcomed Brenda back and put away her clothes clotho Roso Rose who was up at night when Brenda let herself In Ethel was wai always in bed sound asleep Brenda liked the tho black woman liked her soft slurred voice liked the tender black hands Sho She WU the only person In the pay of ot the Jason enterprises that she did And at the end of ot the month mont the 1 was vas 1000 in Lally's savings account all all commissions J Continued Monday f Copyright Register and Tribune r Syndicate 5 |
