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Show L, Bv VERA BROWN ously low, but Lynn was quite unable to go to Mr. Mortimer's office. Lynn hunted through Rene's pockets pock-ets and found all the money she could. He had paid the rent for a month on that first day before he got so ill, but they had only $10 left. There were medicines to buy. Mr. Arthur, the manager of the camp, had got his family doctor for Rene. Lynn paid him for his two visits and the money disappeared. On the sixth day Rene was much better. Lynn was still hardly able to walk, but they had only 50 cents left. "I'll eo downtown tomorrow. I'll x XUE STORY TIIVS FAR ( ivnn Morrow, beautiful blonde New WlTElrl Is stranded In Palm Ueach In fl .Ynolovrr, Ms- Helen Warren, dis- Jnvs with- car and trailer from a mn where she. Buddy, her son. and ? Jin had been livinK. A note from Mrs. Srea advises Uvnn to call at her New 5rk attorney's ollice for her clothes and V?es i She "Is rescued by Terry Me-X; Me-X; whom she met at the beach. She ?0 to his home, where he has a maid Provide her with some of his sister s Ken InK clothes. They then Ro to a beach -iifh His sister appears and a quarrel ?uca i Lynn accepts the help of a dancer to escape. He takes her to his tome where he identities himself as Ray-h Ray-h (Wild) Austin. He accuses her of SvTn to blackmail him. Greatly In-Snscd In-Snscd Lynn flees. Stopping at a cof-w cof-w shop she meets a young arUst, Hpne Bouchier. who Is returning to New vrk by trailer and offers to take her ihJre thev enjoy roughing It along the Sad She finds Rene to be a decent sort a( a fellow. Lynn tells Rene her story. knows McNair and Austin as moneyed Savbovs. The car breaks down They Ke forced to stay at the Lovell farm-during farm-during repairs, the Lovells be-Kng be-Kng them newly weds. The Lovells arJmver they are not. married and in-s in-s it a marriage take place. There being do way out. Lynn and Rene agree. They a-ide their marriage is to be one in nfnVe only, with a divorce to follow. The wedding takes place. She should marry some nice guy i who'd be kind to her, give her a fine ' home. It was while Rene so dreamed along that a late comer, hurrying into the city, pushed Rene off on to the icy shoulder of the road. Rene acted quickly. There was a squeak of brakes, a clatter of dishes and away they went. The other driver was far down the road. He did not stop. The rear end of the trailer was in the ditch and the car at right angles an-gles across the road. Rene, swearing swear-ing softly, struggled out of the car and rushed back to the trailer to rescue Lynn. He found her in a pile of blankets, dishes and loose oranges, or-anges, struggling to sit up and rubbing rub-bing a bump on her head. "Oh! Oh!" Lynn was a bit dazed. "What happened?" "I don't know. But we're in the ditch. Are you all right?" "I guess so. I bumped my head." "Thank the Lord it's no worse!" Rene tried to see whether any damage had been done to the trailer, but tlie deep snow hid the rear wheels. Then he heard Lynn call out to him: "Rene! Rene!" have to," she said as she gave Rene I an accounting of how she'd spent the last $10. "I've got a surprise for you, Lynn. Go get my belt." Lynn brought it to him. "See this?" he said as he opened up a little pocket on the under un-der side. There were two $1 bills. He tossed them to Lynn. "You've been a brick. Don't try to go until you feel equal to it. Or better yet, take a taxi." Lynn was horrified at such wild extravagance. "You could drive my car down but you'd have to pay the garage rent to get it out. The next day Lynn was able to 1 get down to a drug store and she telephoned tel-ephoned Mr. Mortimer's office. His CHAPTER VII Continued Rene went out to settle up with the garage man and Mrs. Lovell began bustling about. "Now, my dear, since you're not staying for dinner, I've got some things together for you to take along. There's pie and plenty of fresh eggs and take along some of this canned fruit, and there's homemade bread." Mrs. Lovell carried the food down to the trailer, while Rene hitched CHAPTER VIII Rene put his head into the trailer door. "All right, Lynn? There's a car coming. I'm going to see if I can get help." A truck came along, and tie driver driv-er got out. Together the two men looked over the situation. Finally the truck driv- secretary made an appointment for the next day. Lynn came home and began to check over the clothes available. Mrs. Lovell had given her a dark gingham dress, and she decided to wear that, one of Rene's heavy ,fr !h A As v j sweaters and a blue beret. "I look like a ragamuffin," she said as she dressed behind the gingham ging-ham screen. "You'd look all right in anything," Rene assured her. "I've got to hur- , ry and get well so I can get down to some of the magazines and peddle ped-dle some of this stuff." Rene was still very weak and sick. The doctor spoke to Lynn about it. "You should take your brother back down South," he told her. To go back to Florida was impossible, Lynn told the doctor. If that was the case, he warned, Rene must be very careful for a long time. "He should stay in bed for another an-other two weeks," was the ultimatum. ultima-tum. "If I can get that money and my clothes, we won't have to worry," Lynn said as she put the finishing touches on her scant costume. The whole place smelled of shoe blacking, for Lynn had tried to black the white sandals she wore in Wild Austin's Palm Beach house, what seemed to her, ages ago. "They look pretty bad," she said in a discouraged voice as she brought them for Rene to see. "I don't care how they look," Rene remarked, eyeing her handiwork, handi-work, "but I hope you don't get pneumonia. There's nothing to the things." When Lynn was finally dressed, she pulled aside the gingham cur- on the rejuvenated automobile. They said their good-bys, and with deep relief the newly weds started on up the road north. i. Hardly were they on to the road '.; when Rene grabbed her hand, took eff the wedding ring and threw it out into the ditch. "Damn them!" I He pounded the wheel of the car with his fists. "How could they be 1 such fools!" He kept his eyes straight ahead. "They should have I known by looking at you, you're not I that kind of person!" g Lynn felt sorry for Rene, for she knew he blamed himself for their ;. difficult position. "You're a swell kid, Lynn. If I ; have to steal the money, I'll see you get a divorce. There isn't any- j i body you want to marry now, is : i there? It may take a little time for ; ' me to get the cash together." ! "No, there isn't anybody, Rene." I It was while they were eating their "wedding dinner" that they talked, for the last time in many a day, about the forced marriage, j "I haven't an idea of one word that old parson said, Lynn," Rene said suddenly, his mouth full of Mrs. ! Lovell's homemade bread. "But I'm making a vow to you right now." He held up his right hand: "Never will I tell anybody about this whole silly thing! It's between you and me. H you find a chap you want to marry, step out and marry him. He'll never know from me that you and I were virtually stood up at the point of a gun and married!" "I promise the same to you, Rene." "It might break some boy's heart i if he fell in love with you and then ' learned about all this. How'd you make anybody understand? We do, ' but nobody else could!" "I don't suppose so. I'm a little vague about it myself," and they went off into gales of laughter. "If I'd only had sense enough to say that you were my brother!" r Rene laughed. "Yes, we look so j much alike!" f They were moving north rapidly 1 and both of them found they were , 1 suffering from the sudden cold after weeks of warm sunshine. They dug up all the clothes which the trailer ffered and wore most of them, but, - i even so, they found it cold. ! i "Well, we've got a little cash lelt, 1 I enough for ground rent for the trail-I trail-I I er. I'm going to stay in a new : I camp at the edge of the Bronx for ;; : the time being." Rene explained his ' whole financial difficulties. "I fig-i fig-i t ure if I have rent paid, I can go and ' try to peddle some of my pictures, i' There's a lot of food aboard, thanks to the Lovells. Although that's all I we have to thank them for." Suddenly Lynn gasped. The check was for $200. er got out a chain from his tool box, hooked it on to the front of Rene's car. There was much pulling pull-ing and struggling. Finally, with a big plunge, up came the trailer on to the road. It was not until then that he stopped and went back to see how Lynn fared in the trailer. He found her sitting on the couch, rubbing her ankle. "I think I hurt it," she said, sticking stick-ing out her ankle. It was already puffed up to twice its size. "Why didn't you tell me?" Rene demanded in dismay. "I didn't realize I'd hurt it until I tried to stand on it," she said apologetically. She also had a big lump on her forehead. As they came nearer New York, he stopped at a drug store, bought some two-inch bandage and took it back to Lynn. tain. "How do I look?" she demanded. "Fine," said Rene, but his throat contracted as he saw her in the too-large too-large blue sweater, the thin Summer Sum-mer dress and the makeshift shoes. "Well, anyway, I'm respectable. Now for Mr. Mortimer." "Be sure and take the bus over from the subway at Thirty-fourth Street. Don't try and walk in those so-called shoes and buy yourself some when, you get the money." There was a long wait for a bus at Thirty-fourth Street, but soon she was being shot up to the fortieth floor of the Empire State Building Build-ing When she came into the reception recep-tion room of Mr. Mortimer's big office, she was almost overcome at its grandeur. A gorgeously dressed woman in silver foxes was sitting there. Rene, chilled to the bone, his trousers trou-sers wet with snow to his knees, set his jaws grimly and drove on. It was a sadly bedragged couple who limped into the almost deserted desert-ed tourist camp up in the Bronx about 2 o'clock that morning. Rene unhooked the car and took it over to a nearby garage, for he was afraid the car would freeze in the bitter cold. , ... Lynn managed to get a fire built Lynn asked for Mr. Mortimer and Save her name to the pretty girl receptionist. She was ushered into a high ceil-Lnged ceil-Lnged office with many windows, and deep chairs. A man sat at a mahogany ma-hogany desk. "Here is Miss Morrow, Mr. Mortimer." Mor-timer." "How do you do?" Mr. Mortimer held out his hand, took in Lynn's shabby, inadequate clothing. His conscience smote him, but there was nothing else he could do. "Sit down. Miss Morrow. My secretary sec-retary will bring your suit case. I'm sorry I had to put you to all this inconvenience, but at the time you wired I was not sure Mrs. Warren owed you any money. I bad not had her letter." Lynn nodded. None of this seemed strange to her. "Where are you living?" he asked. "In a trailer up at a Bronx tourist tour-ist camp." "Will you remain in town? Mr. Mortimer handed her a check. Lynn Lynn managed to get a fire bunt in the little stove, and the trailer was cozy and warm. But -the ankle was painful, and there was no more sleep for her that night. It must have been 9 o'clock when Rene finally roused. When he opened his eyes his head felt heavy and his throat sore. He was burning up. But he called to Lynn: "How's your ankle7" "It's pretty sore. But I can hobble hob-ble around here." . "Then find me some aspirin. Are you sick?" she asked in terror. ter-ror. , "I've got a terrible cold. It was not a cold, but a severe attack at-tack of influenza that Rene had The next week was difficult 'or Lynn. She herself, could hardly walk but she had to care for Rene somehow. S The second day he was delirious and she tried to arrange to get him fntothe city hospital, but the wards were full and they refused him ad- mittance. trailer The man who operated the trailer camp was kind, and his wife helped Lynn all she could. They ran er- S money was running danger- "You'll sell your things, I know! Lynn said positively. "They're fine." "Wish I had your optimism. But, " ' at least, there'll be a roof over my Jte head and yours, too until you get M on your feet, if you need it." er. i "Thanks, Rene. You're kind. I'll 1 see Mr. Mortimer the first thing. Then when I get clothes, I'll go job hunting." "You've got a place to live as long as I have one," Rene answered, i As they came closer to New York I hoth of them were excited and 1 thrilled. It was "home." That night they decided to drive n after dark. They were only 100 files from New York. "We'll push on. I want to get this over with!" Rene said. "There's no use our both freezing. You go back J and lie down. I'll drive through if I !j Can. Then we can pull ourselves together and start going places." !t must have been well on toward , Midnight when he could see the 1 8'are of the sky over Manhattan. filled his heart. This was his 1 f town, his life! Deep in his heart he 7 ! raew he had real talent. If he j could ever click. Maybe then he , could do something for the sleeping ;! glrl '"side the trailer. did not look at it at first. T am giving you this on one condition-that you keep me informed where you live. Mrs. Warren liked you and wants to get in touch with you when she comes back North. "Yes, but I hope to get something some-thing besides housework to do." Mortimer's face remained unchanging. un-changing. "Maybe I can help you to get a job." He was frankly surprised sur-prised at the girl's apparent beau-tv beau-tv and he had sudden misgivings Was everything as it seemed? Then suddenly Lynn gasped. She looked at the check. It was for $.00. (TO BE COXT1MED) |