Show Alixe Van Elden Presents Interesting Picture Behind the Broad Desk Serial ial No Mr Brown by Gertrude Knevels Synopsis Gwenn Gwena Harding wealthy relief relief girl nef work a Junior I tat at r t the League a van Elden timer part m Memorial Memorial ng does i bureau headed by Alixe Van Elden to please her father one of the trustees She guesses that Bill Brown is the son Ion of a millionaire and has come to Fairmount Fair Fair- mount to study how best beet to use money his father has bequeathed to his native U state state- Sally fI f Candler executive I at iu the Memorial rl and D Bill BUI nu eJ discuss s Alixe daughter daugh daugh- ter of the w wealthy philanthropist t Mrs Van in Elden Miss 1 Candler explains explains i rif that i Allis AlIxe and Jerome King Kins now DOW head of the relief bureau were In la love before his deserted marriage m e hf him bim to Lorraine and r her children Roper n who running n has off with a a. a rich Cuban April Day attractive attractive at I S young worker loses her bet Job jab with the emergency emergency- relief bureau for showing too much sympathy with dIscontented discontented discontented dis dIs- contented relief recipients CHAPTER FOUR Alixe Van Elden rose to shake hands with Bill as he entered the inner office office office-a a tall young young woman in n unrelieved gray big gray gray boned boned big boned dignified dignified dignified dig dig- quietly gracious Alixe had lost ost the sparkle of first youth one could see but her madonna-fair madonna look ook had taken on something finer Here in this like business-like office behind her broad desk stacked with work she presented a more more interesting inter inter- sting eating picture Brown thought I than when acting the assiduous attendant attendant attendant at at- on an exacting parentI parent I hate to trouble you Bill began be- be began began be be- gan gan- but Ive I've been talking with Jay King about Miss Day Day Day- About Aprils April's dismissal I hope you feel the way I do about it Alixe sat down with an impatient sigh and folded her long fine hands upon the desk I di didn't nt at attend at- at tend that historic protest meeting myself she s said ld but I I wish ishI I had S Sally hy Candler r described d it to me It does seem as as s if we were all at fault that fault that between us we might have managed to keep that child from getting into trou trouble le Youre fond bf April Day I I am Alixes Alixe's smile answered Bills Bill's but she added And tl quite ite often I want to shake her Ive I've known since she was 12 and andall andall andall all th that t time Ive I've been watching her get into fixes jams fixes jams she calls them Ive I've telephoned the authorities authorities authorities author author- but th they y wont won't change their decision There are too ter traIned better controlled workers work work- ers seeking jobs I talked to Lucius Lucius Lucius Lu- Lu cius Adams an old friend of mine and one of our our trustees but he could not advise my taking April on he her considering we-considering e considering present cir cir cir- what 1 I came around to see you about Brown edged his chair closer to the desk King thought you might possibly find finda a place for her here He wondered wondered won won- dered dered- Alixe frowned Really Jerome King should kno know as well as I how limited our funds are We I shall shaU soon have only about two two- thirds of the income we have now due d to Shrinkage depression Bro Bron n asked No this is a family matter Alixe smiled But no secret secret secret-no no indeed The whole town talks about it My family as you may know has been interested for generations generations gen gen- in the social development of this town and my father endowed endowed endowed en en- dowed this bureau He treated it liberally according to the standards standards stand stand- ards of his day but very naturally he did not foresee such times as these In addition to our regular fund father allowed the bureau to use the income Income almost almost ten thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand a year year from from capital he willed to Ten Eyck Van Elden Parker my youngest cousin and fathers father's namesake The organization was to have this money till Ten came of age I see And the chaps chap's nearly nearly nearly near near- ly 21 Strictly speaking Alixe speaking Alixe looked uncomfortable uncomfortable Ten Ten Parker came of age last year We did not give up the money You see Mr Brown theres there's a string tied to his tance Ten has always been a handful and that is why father fathe r took the precaution of stating in his will that he was not to receive this money till tiU my mother felt h he hew het e I w was s capable of managing it wisely Certain lawyers have told us Te Ten n could fight us in the courts if it h he e wished and I think his mother mother- my aunt Celia Parker would Parker would like to have him hum try It My mother on the other hand sticks to her au au- She found plenty of reasons reasons reasons rea rea- sons for putting Ten on probation last December and Im I'm not sure she wont won't find others this year I see see Bill nodded A very Interesting situation Its a very exasperating situation situation situa situa- tion from a family point of view Alixe sighed Im fond of Ten trying though he is and I cant can't help sympathizing with him Theres There's another reason too why I suppose I ought not to consider April even if I could afford her She's not cut out for social work work work- so Miss Grice her supervisor tells teUs me She cannot understand Aprils April's lack of guile the way she lets herself herself her her- self be Imposed on April Im I'm sorry sorry sorry sor sor- ry to say often supplements relief re re- re relief lief allowance out of her small salary which salary which means of course that she must go without You dont don't mean that girl actually actu actu- actually ally lives Ilves on the miserable pittance they give the visitors Brown ex ex- claimed She must must Alixe nodded Aprils grandmother left lert her a Continued on the Following Pale Page |