New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1928, Page 18

THIS HAS HAPPENED Virginia Brewster, upon the sud- den death of her father, goes to live with a friend, Claricsa Dean, and her father. Her fiance, Nathanicl Dann, objects to this for he mis- | trusts Dean’s motives. Upon phoning | Niel's studio late one night, Virginia | is surprised when his model, Chiri, | answers. This causes a quarrel which is later mended. Hoping to get Niel away, Dean arranges to have him offered a po- sition in San Francisco. Niel begs Virginia to marry him and go west, but she refuses to let him sacrifice his art study. Clarissa becomes jealous of Vir- ginia, and the latter resolves to leave but Dean opposes her depar- ture and asks her to marry him. When she refuses, he threatens to reveal the fact that r father cheated him out of $100,000. Reck- lessly, Virginia promises to earn the meney to pay him is one vear or marry him if ahe fails. Then she leaves his house and pawns one of her rings before seeking a cheap hotel, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | CHAPTER XVIII There was a rush of feet, a crash and a grunt, followed by a scream. Virginia was petrified with a new kind of terror. Physical violence of any kind had never touched her life and she felt sickened For a few horrible moments a si- lence fraught with dreadful specula- | tion replaced the quickly-ended | sounds of struggle. A door | slammed, and then came the sound of low sobs. Without a’ thonght of danger to herself Virginia turned her key and threw op=n the door. As she atepped into the hall she almost ran | into a rat-faced man on his way to | the elevator. “Hello, haby," and siyiled, Virginia brushed past him with- | out answering or even deigning a second glace. His eyes glinted at | her from under the drooping brim of his soiled grey hat and he half | turned as if to follow her, but| seemed to change his mind and went on down the hall and around the turn to the elevator, Virginia ran back to the door she | had passed to deceive him. It was his door, or rather the door of the | room adjoining here. She could still hear those convulsive sobs that had | drawn her to offer aid. Softly at first and then louder as no one an- ewered, she rapped on the mahog- any-painted panel. The sobs con- tinued without abating, -as if the oc- cupant of the room had not heard the knocking. Virginia hesitated a moment and then tried the knob. | The latch turned and she pushed open the door reluctantly, hating to intrude, but urged on by the thought | that here was somcone who might e in need of help and was unable | to summon it except by loud shriek- ing. 8he experienced a strong desire to withdraw when she saw the fig- ure on the bed. Over the edge dangled a pair of well-shaped legs in the shcerest of silk stockings, but the rest of the body was sprawled across the white cotton spread in an attitude of complete abandonment to a spell of weeping. It was the face that repelled and shocked Virginia. Under stiff, bleached curls she saw a highly colored group of features that were both hard and weakly feminine, The face was partly bur- ied in a pillow but Virginia saw, on the exposed cheek, a dark red spot that appeared purple against the | orange rouge. The owne sessing head and glared ginia from swollen, smudged eyes. “What she asked ficreely. Nothing, unless 1 can be of some service to you,” Virginia an- swered quickly, stifling an impulse to leave without bothering further With the troubles of such a person. “I ain't askin’ nobody to butt he greeted her, | lifted the unprepos- at Vir- mascara- do you| [ with a into my business, see!” the other girls told her snappishly. “I've had | girls help me before and they was | never after nuthin' | grab off my John, “Oh, you're perfectly horrid.” Vir. ginia cried out hefore she could stop | Well, if you don't like it. get out; | I ain't no welcomin' committee.” “I'm sorry 1 said that,” Virginia told b “I know you're hurt Isn't there something I can do for | you? And you needn’t worry about | your friend. I saw him in the hall | and I don't think we would care for cach other.” he girl on the hed Jrew her fiimsy black close ahout her. “Say ®et in here? Off your own p ground, ain’t vou”" & said slo and looked Virginia up and do with a new interest “I'm immediately," sat up and Iressing gown how did vou leaving ut a chance to | | cold shower to follow. ginia replied. “Shall I tell them downstairs to send up a doctor? The girl laughed harshly, couple of drinks would be better. Virginia did not answer until she reached the door. There she looked back and id quietly, “Would you mind telling me what kind of place this hotel is” | “So that's what you're after! Think I'm a snitch, eh? Well, say, | listen buttins I'm a clam, see?| Me and th management are | friends.” | “1 only wishe own information, “but I'm quite shouldn't care to stop here doesn’t matter whether yo anything or not.” “Wait a minute," headed girl cried as her hand on the doorknob. “There's something phony about you,” she added threateningly, “ang I'm gon- tip the office so you won't get ¥ with anything; but if you're the and want a decent what'd yuh come here for to know for my Virginia declared. convinced 1| it Il me so0 the frowsy- Virginia put ause 1 didn't know anything sbout it, and I'm not interested in anything you may say to the man- ger.,” Virginia retorted with warmth, and flod precipitately, The pseudo-blond jumped up and | followed her into the hall, saw her | enter the room next door and bold- | ly walked in “Repayin’ mockingly upon her, “I'm shortly irg bag. “Well, take my hunch and get the real low-down on a joint before you vegister.” the other girl remarked touch of concilfation. I ain't sure yet that you're not after some kind of dirty info for some hull, but it vou honestly want a reapectable hotel, vou're in the | wrong place.” “Thank you," she said wheeled call,” Virginia vour when leaving." Virginia said | and reached for her travel- | Virginia returned stiffly. “I ehall make careful in- quiries a second time.” She gath- ered up her gloves and handbag in cne hand and, taking the traveling | hag in the other, walked hurriedly | out of the room, leaving her guest holding the door open. The elevator hoy carried the heavier bag to the desk and put it down at her feet. “I wish to pay for my room.” she said icily to the | clerk when he came to her. “Why, is there anything wrong." he asked in astonishment. Nothing that you can rectify,” Virginia answered with a positive emphasis. The clerk looked at her a moment and then turned away with perfect comprehension, to get | her bill. | “Try the Ritz or the Biltmore,” he suggested when he handed her the change and summoned a bell- boy to carry her bag. Virginia di- rected him to show her to a tele- phone and in a few minutes she | was talking with Mr. Gardiner. She had thought of calling Natganiel but she didn’t want to tell him by telephone that she was no longer at the Deans. Gardiner gave her the name of a respectable but obscure hotel, and very soon Virginia was being shown to another room. It was not a more pretentious hotel than the first, but the atmosphere was inexpressibly different. Virginia felt she would be reasonably safe here | from contact with sordidness. She unpacked her traveling bag | and hung up her peach silk paja- mas and negligee. Their fresh love- liness made her wish she had a lighter, cooler dress to change to, | and she remembered that she had | told Colette she would send for her things that morning She called the office and gave Mr. Dean’s address. They promised they would have the things that after-| noon. It was after one o'clock when Virginia decided to wait in for them before going to Mr, Gardincr's office with the pearls. She tired and hot and thought grate- fully of a bath. rom her bag she got her bath Its and soap and went in to pre- pare the tub. The water ran rusty nd lukewarm. Virginia shuddered fastidiously and turned it off. Gin- gerly taking a cloth by one corner, she forced the last drop of it down the drain pipe and then turned on the cold water to rinse the tub. She tried hard not to regret the spa- cious, sunken tub she had been ac- customed to, with a shower of per- fumed water, and thick, flaecy tow- , cach as large as four of these that hung in this bathroom. It wouldn't have been such a miserable contrast if there'd Leen a shower of any sort, she thought. She wouldn't plunge her immaculate body into that rusty staff and Virginia liked a hot bath even in immer, and the tingle of rosy skin after the clear THE DAILY POOR PA EY CLAUDE CALLAN ‘It don’t make much dif- ference what Ma beging fussin’ about, she winds up by tellin® what an easy tin.e her sisters have, due to the kind of husbands they got 1228, Publishes LIt (Copsright ater ARGUMENT AUNT HET BY QUILLE “I ain’t never kicked any- | rangement drew a smile even as she She went back to the bedroom | and took off her clothes. A mo- ment later she was standing in the | tub pouring cold water over her- | self from the drinking glass inadequacy of her makeshift ar-|sa forced back taste, a taste the tears of offended | that had been care- | at fully cultivated to appreciate quisite perfection {in every detail | — of her surroundings. | fastidiousness, the cold water freshed her and stirred a hunger. re pang of And the gay chiffon neg- ligee laintiness. blew in The | and drank ex- | Deans [ the numbing grip of But even if the hath outraged her roncentrate | fore her, her Dainty and delicate as one soothed her with its aheer She sat in the faint breeze that | through her open window ate the melon and chicken ndwich she ordered sent up, and two cups of orange pekoe. | Her mind was calmer now than ! any time since she had left the The priceless gift of youth huoyancy-—helped her-to break | fear and to on the prohlems bha- while adaptability saved from succumbing to despair of the #Her mind was calmer now than at any time since she had left the Deans. dew-covered cobwebs outspread in country lawns in early summer mornings, she was like them in other ways as well. There was in her the sirenzth and resilience of those masterpieces of Nature. "Il find A way." she vowed courageously. “Other people, my own ancest , have made fortunes, why not I Her self-communing was inter- rupted at this point by a call from the office, (TO BE CONTINUED) GREENE RAPS RACE AND CHURGH HATES Congregational Minister Flays3 Narrowness and Prejudice Class hatred, religious and racial prejudice in America, were classed | among the outstanding failing of al- leged “hundred per cent Americans"” and were laid at the doors of na- | tive Americans who were dominat- ed by “The insolence of wealth,” by the Rev. Theodore Ainsworth Greene at the First Congregational church yesterday morning. Rev. Mr. Greene opened his ser-| mon with the statement that there | is a true and false sense of patriot- ism in America. He said: “I believe it is no exaggeration of as Christians and Americans! “If we would be true patriots, however, we can not stop here with simply naming our principles. We must not only recognize them as such, We must likewize make and ‘kapp them sacred in our little cor- ner of America. If this declaration lof rights to life liberty and the pur- | REV. T. A. GREENE, | the truth and no refiection upon | false sense gressive, energetic, typically hundred per cent American.’ one We | realist, in the material sense at first man tells us that he believes firmly in ‘America for the Ame cans,’ and it is frequently the case, | ents emigrated here from across the seas, the more noise he makes about his ‘Americanism.’ The sccond man tells us that he helicves: ‘Not in America for the Americans, but in |st America for and with all the other | JUST KIDS true Americans to say that we have |NAtions of God's earth. in this country today a true and a| tremist of this datter type ,of course of patriotism. On the |¢alls himself one hand, we meet the strong, ag-|°F ©ven a ‘Universalist’ litical and not theological sense of the latter term. If he is ver recognize his type at once, He is a | cal In his statements, he may even inwist that he can admit least! And. on the other hand, we 30Nal loyalty to the United Stat have the absolute idealist, the vis. But the fact ionary—some would call him. The that probably these two extremes true patriotism lies.” that the more recently his own par- | great part of it ple should be your temple. And so. it should. God is to he seen at its sum- mit. A people of ecquals are to con- The ex nationalist’ in the po- an ‘Inte radi- no per- friends. between remains, my somewhere Continuing, the minister said: “A appealed to his peo- in these words: ‘Your country itute its hase. No other formula. No other moral ideal will be for us, (less there snit of happiness is to mean any. thing at all, it must mean every- thing! No half-hearted allegiance will do! No Janus-headed loyalty, facing two ways at once, can be- come us as a united, self;respecting people! No Room for Race Prejudice “Our Declaration of Independence to the contrary notwithstanding, we face a type of so-called patriotism in America, which belies the very principles to which we claim alle- giance. To mention two examples of the sort, of thing I mean, let me point out to you that there is no room in our American Temple for race prejudice or class rivalry. And vet, God forgive us, both these bominations exist in the United |States today! And the true Ameri- cans will and must do everything in his power to drive out both. “It is fundamental to real Amer- nism to believe that all men are cretated equal and thus to throw out of account all distinctions of | a| race. This does not mean for moment that we are to disrcgard all differences of training, heredit ideals. Neither does it mean that we count every sort of man or woman capable of becoming a good American at once, without change! I believe we ought to make citizen- ship even harder than we made it! The right to cast one's ballot ought to be an honor and an achicvement! But, remember, |vou and I are not really worship- 'g in the temple of America, un- is in us a deep-scated have | faith that race distinctions do not count here! We are not true Amer. icans, unless we believe and live as though we believed, that men and women from anywhere and from any race have it in them to qualify for American citizenship! Always providing of course, that they are loyal and honorable men and women! “The true American spirit utterly casts out race prejudice as a demon of the worst sort! Yet, it is a serious fact, that there are news- {papers and organizations in this free land of ours committed to de- tinite policies of prejudice against the Mexicans, the Japanese and even the British! It is a distress- ing fact also, that race riots have sprung up, right along with the movement for ‘Americanism’. Oh, my friends, let us remember, that we do not exalt America, when we depreciate other nations! No gentleman abuses his neighbors since by his own yardstick he is measured himself! The Real Cause of Trouble “Let me tell you, who are today doing most to cultivate class antag- onism here in America. They are not the agents of Soviet Russia, nor vet the radical leaders of our social thinking, nor even the “Parlor Bol- sheviki” of our great cities. Far more serious is the influence of those who flaunt their wealth and social standing—as tokens of class distinc- tion. 1 have seen a Manhattan “Dowager Empress” alight from her great limousine and cross the side- walk of Fifth Avenue with such a manifest air of conscious disdain for all mankind that the very sight of her would make a revolutionist of me, unless I remembered to exercise my God-given sense of humor at the moment. Sometimes men and women speak to their servants in a way to cause the blood of a true American patriot to boil! No! The sort of thing which we describe as ‘the unconscious insolence of con- scious wealth’ has mno place in America today or any day. we can rid onr country’s temple of 1his class-conscious menace by put- ting in its place a Epirit worthy of our American ideals, we shall have proved true patriots indeed! Churches Should Be Good, Also “There is a right and a wrong way to show loyalty and learn patriotism in ecertain social organizations out- side the home—the church, for example. FEvery good citizen should helong to and support a chunch! But. he need never be a blind de- nominationalist. One of our pre- clous boasts in America is the fact that we will not and do not permit any one ‘established church’. There is no room in America for denom- inational rivalry. Ande yet — alas— we find it in our very midst. At the close of the last war, two ministers of different denominations gations by the necessities of coal in 1919 to break up company. And one minister said to the other: " war is over, T think that you and vour people had better go back to worshipping God in yvour way, while my people and I will go back to worshipping Him in His wa “That would be funny, if it were not so serious! Let me say in all earnestness, that as the sons of Pilgrim Fathers, who established American Ideals of religious free- wartime decided true churchmen in this intolerant and bizoted fashion. may and do draw men together and malke them feel themselves a part of the nation and the world. Our churches generated loyalty in war. Let them but even more |days of peace, “Finally, loyalty exalted loyalty in to political | American life, Practical men will tell you that. Idealists will admit ft, jtoo! But, remember, parties were formed in the beginning to serve the people’s will. A man may learn loyalty by working for a party. But, my friends, he is neither a good democrat nor a good republican un- lis to principles America, and American American insti- || WANT 7O | THiS BOY [-MRs ISTEBRING 7 body but once, an’ that was when 1 seen tha* (nbaceo- chawin’ Len Hardy stoopin’ over an’ Kissin' Jane's baby right smack in the mouth.” 10 (Copyright Pubiishers Syndicare) OH=~DEAR . TELLME THAT HAD TO ARREST - = DON'T NOTRIN YOu £ BOY THAT TRUCK AN' STEBBINS SAFETY — A BOY vYou HAVE ~ MRS LIWE THAT= | WANT To TE| YOU THAT YOU HAVE A EINE, BRAVE YOU CAN BE VERY PROUD OF~-| AND | WANT TO TELL YOU THAT | SAW HIM RUSH IN FRONT OF A DRIVERLESS) PULL A UTTLE BovY To i/, THAT'S THE KIND OF And if | brought together with their congre- | | and light and the exigencies of the | Now that the | dom, we cannot be Americans and | Churches | the | generate ne less. | party likewise has its place in our | {less all the time his chief loyalty | tutions. Sometimes, I think, that of late we have sacrificed far too much precious time and moral in- | fluence and money on the altar—or worse over the counter — of par- tisan party loyalty. And come what may, we cannot afford in America to be loyal to anything less than the best! There never was more need in political life than right now in maintaining our loyalty to loyalty itself. There never was a time in our national history, when we need- | ed more to stand fast in our faith in | good faith and the broad principles of representative government {in which this nation was conceived and carry these principles out into the whole wide world!"” 1Miss Stempien Surprised On Anniversary of Birth| A surprise birthday party was held yesterday evening in honer of Miss Helen Stempien, at the home of her brother, Andrew Stempien, 301 Farmington avenue. Miss Stem- pien was presented with numerous gifts by her brother, Martin F. Stempien, and friends. 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