Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1934, Page 29

DAILY SHORT STORY-: LOVE CONTRACT Helen Was Alert to Save Her Fiance From Loss After He Signed Bert's Innocent-Looking Note. BY MARJORIE DEE. *LJELLO, baby!" Helen started as the office door flew open. “Here's your big Joy-hoy. How’s about dinner and & show tonight?” “Why—why, I'd love it, Mr..Can- non,” she smiled up at him. “Don't ‘Mister me, honey. I'm Bert to my speclal friends. Oh, inci- dentally, is your solemn old boss n?” Without waiting for an answer, he breezed past her desk into Jim’s in- ner office. They had som: sort of deal on and Helen felt that even though she disliked Bert Cannon, she wouldn't spoil things for Jim by refusing the date. She hoped it was something big at which Jim would make a lot of | money so they could get married soon. | His collection business had fallen off | to such a degree that they had almost | given up hope. The door opened and | both men came out. | “Stick a piece of paper in your| machine, beautiful, I want to do some | typing.” said Cannon, chuckling. | Automatically. Helen rolled in a sheet and one carbon. She stepped | aside and Bert sat down at her desk “I'm not so hot at this,” he said as | he clicked away with two fingers. He typed slowly and when he finished the three or four lines he studied the sheet carefully. At last, he pulled it out, not noticing that the carbon copy remained in the typewriter. “Here we are,” he said to Jim. "1','5‘ dated today and extends one month. o. K.2” “O. K.” Jim answered. After read- ing it over, he signed the paper and | gave it to Bert. “I'll be seeing you later on then?” “Yep,” said Bert. “And as for you, | hon he turned to Helen, “I'll be seeing you round about 5 o’clock.” He banged noisily out of the office. Jim turned to Helen. “You see,| dear, it's a chance to make some money on the side. That was a sales | contract I signed to sell $250 worth of wedding rings. I get $200 out of it | and pay him $50. I'll buy one myself for you,” he promised. When he had gone back into his office, Helen filed the carbon copy of | the contract. The terms seemed al- most too good to be true to her, but Jim knew what he was doing. The month passed quickly and Jim's business was in worse straits than ever. He hadn’t been able to sell the dia- mond rings, either. Helen knew that he had just managed to scrape to- | gether $50 to pay off his part of the contract. Bert was in the office now to collect. the money. Helen could hear his sharp voice raised angrily. Even as she wondered what was happening, he | burst out of the room. “You'll hear from my lawyer about | this,” he shouted back to Jim and slammed the outer door after him. ABOUT THIS," “YoU'tL, HIEAR FROM MY LAWYER | it slipped under another paper. | T promise to pay |a promissory note, | tionly at her. Helen jumped up from her desk. *What's the matter, Jim?"” “Lord knows,” he looked up, help- | lessly. “He's going to sue me. Says | I gave him a note for $250 that's due today.” “Why. it's a trick of some kind, Jim. You can't let him do that!” More trouble for poor Jim, Helen thought with a sigh. And their wedding would have to be post- poned indefinitely again. She winked quickly to keep her eyes from filling. “He's been show- ing you a pretty time lately, hasn't he, Helen?” Jim asked. “May- be” he hesitated, “maybe, you'd bet- ter forget about Pt She stared at him unbelievingly. “Well, he's made good and I'm not getting anywhere,” he tried to argue. His voice was hard with the effort to keep it on an even keel. “Oh!" Helen gasped. Suddenly she turned and ran from the room. She didn’t want Jim to see her cry. If he could give her up that easily after she had waited all this time— She didn't know that after she left his head sunk hopelessly to his desk. She thought only of her own broken heart. Stifling her tears, Helen de- cided to leave him as soon as she had seen him thrdugh his trouble. He was too tired and worried to think things out for himself. She determined that she would solve this trick of Bert Can- non’s and have him arrested, if pos- sible. Grimly, she went to the files and HE SHOUTED. | found the carbon copy of the sales contract. For a long time she stared | at it without finding any clew. Pinally tossing it aside she paced up and down the room racking her brain for an idea. There seemed to be no so- Iution. As she sat down at her desk her eyes fell on the contract again. When she had thrown it down a portion of Un- consciously Helen read the lines, leav- ing out the part she couldn't see. A frown gathered on her forehead. Sud- denly she straightened. “Jim! Jim!” she cried running to him. “Look at this!” Jim’s head jerked up. Bewildered he tried to grasp what she was saying. “See. here’s the carbon of the con- tract you signed.” She spread the sheet before him. It read: after above date $50.00_to order of when 1 have sold worth of rings | Oct. 1, 1934 3 Within one month Bert Cannon 250.00 at legal interest. James Blake. | what—" “Well, look!” Helen excitedly took a blotter and laid it over the right- hand side of the paper. “If you cover up this part of the contract it leaves which reads: Within one month I promise to pay Bert Cannon $250.00 at legal interest. grlt Just cut off that side of the orig- al!” “Helen, you're right!” Jim gasped. “You've saved me from a swind—" Suddenly he stopped and looked ques- This time Helen didn't try to stop the tears that flooded from ber eyes. Jim's arms went around her. “Oh, my dear,” he comforted. “I'd never have let him have you.” (Copyright. 1034.) 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LOS ANGELES, November 30.— Dis- crepancies in the story she told officers and her testimony on the witness stand were admitted yesterday by 16-year- old Mrs. Ramona Winegar Alexander of Charleston, W. Va., testifying in the trial of Edgar Dudley, 52, accused of attacking her. Mrs. Alexander, under cross-exami- nation, admitted she had told Federal officers a different story of Dudley's alleged misconduct toward her than she recited on the witness stand, say- ing she had told of only one attack. Dr. John P. Buckley, acting fore- man of the county grand jury, testi- fled Mrs. Alexander said Dudley, former investigator for the district at- torneys’ office here and in Chicago, had committed only one statutory of- fense against her. During the trial she declared Dudley had attacked her more than once. 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