BRENTWOOD
By Grace Livingston Hill
FOURTEENTH INSTALLMENT
Synopsis
When the wealthy foster par
ents of Marjorie Wetherill both
die she finds a letter telling
that she has a twin sister, that
she was adopted when her own
parents couldn't afford to sup
port both of them and that her
real name i 3 Dorothy Gay.
Alone in the world, but with a
fortune of her own, she con
siders looking up her own fam
ily whom she has never seen.
A neighbor, Evan Bower, tries
to argue her out of it and tells
her he loves her and asks her
to marry him. She promises to
think it over but decides first
to see her family. She goes to
their address, finds that they
are destitute and gradually per
suades them to accept things
they need. When the doctor
calls to see her mother she no
tices that he seems particular
ly interested in her sister.
Marjorie goes to church in
Brentwood, where her family
used to live, and becomes very
much interested in the young
minister there. While at Brent
wood she sees the home her
family formerly owned, buys it
back for them and gives the
deed to it to her father on
Christmas morning. The whole
family is very joyful. Mean
while Betty meets Ellery Aiken,
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a man she used to know, who
asks her and Marjorie to go to
a night club. Marjorie refuses,
but Betty agrees to go and
starts out with him.
Betty was disappointed too in
the car he had brought. He had
told her he had the use of a new
car. but this one sounded like an
old tin pan as it rattled along.
Somehow she began to suspect
that the evening was going to be
as cheap as the car.
It had never seemed to her be
fore that Ellery was coarse. She
had always thought him extreme
ly amusing, but tonight he seem
ed to select the most questionable
stories on his list to fcell her, and
when she did not respond warm
ly to his mirth he looked at her
sharply.
"What's the matter, Baby?
Getting high-hat with your glad
rags? You better get warmed up
or you won't go down a little bit
where I'm taking you. I've got
a fella wants to meet ya, some
swell! Got millions!"
Betty was suddenly a little
frightened.
"I thought I was going with
you, Ellery. I didn't know there
were other men along. Perhaps
I wouldn't care to meet them!"
"Wouldn't care to meet 'em!
What's gettin' ya? Whatcha go
in' for, then? You didn't suppose
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we were just goin' ta sit around
and hold hands all the evening
together, did ya? I can't just
stay with you, ya know."
Ellery didn't state that he was
paid by the club to dance with
ether girls, but that was really
the case.
"I think perhaps you'd better
take me home again, Ellery. I
don't think I care to go, after
all."
"Aw, you gettin' cold feet, are
you? But you don't get out of it
now. Baby."
"But I don't care to go with a
stranger, Ellery!" she cried
aghast. "I had no idea —"
Ellery saw that he was going to
have trouble and he had no tifne
for that, so he set himself to
soothe her.
"Now, Baby, don't you worry!
It's going to be marvelous! You
said you wanted ta see the night
clubs and I've arranged to give
you an eyeful."
Betty felt a strange cold draft
about her heart. She was grow
ing more and more frightened.
Ellery strung his long arm around
her shoulders and drew her up
close to him, but she drew away
again and sat up very straight.
"'S the matter, Babe? Ain't
sore, are ya?" he said as he
brought the car up in front of a
sordid looking place. Betty had
expected to see glitter in a night
club, but this place looked fairly
grubby, the more so as they en
tered. It was blue with smoke.
This was a different world, right
enough. She shrank back at the
door, but he pushed her forward.
"Right over here. Baby! Got a
table reserved for four. Nice
party! Other girl's real refined.
You'll like her. Sit down. We'll
have a little cocktail to start
things going and get us warmed
up."
Betty sat down fearfully and
looked about her. She didn't care
for the look of the men in the
place. Surely this could not be
one of the nicer places. She met
bold intimate glances appraising
her, and shrank in her soul. The
women wore more make-up than
she liked. It gave them a hard
look. Perhaps the haze of smoke
that hung over everything em
phasized it.
Ellery ordered cocktails, and
when they came Betty tried to
keep her hand from trembling as
she raised*the glass to her lips.
She must not let Ellery see that
this was her first taste of liquor.
But Ellery was not himself. He
must have been drinking before
he came for her. His loud excit
ed voice seemed to rasp through
her sensitive nerves.
Then the other two of the
party arrived. A small dark girl
with no back to her dress.
The man with her was over
weight with a bulging stomach
and heavy bags under his small
eyes. But the eyes twinkled when
they saw Betty. He kept them
on her for a full minute and she
felt as if he had seen into her
soul. She barely kept herself
from shuddering. She loathed
him. He wore an enormous dia
mond on his little finger. An
other in his tie. His lips were
thick and fulsome.
The floor show that was pres
ently put on was almost a relief
to Betty, though in spite of its'
glitter she was soon disgusted
with the girls.
After the show Ellery asked the
other girl if she would like to
dance.
Left alone with the other man
Betty was terribly frightened. But
she mustn't let him see it, of
course. She must try to think of
something to talk about until
Ellery came back, and then she
would demnd that he take her
home at once. But she couldn't
think of a thing to say, and the
man was looking at her. She
hated that.
The man asked her to dance,
but she shook her head.
"Thank you, no, I don't feel
like dancing," she said languidly.
He offered her cigarettes but
she shook her head.
He looked at her puzzled.
"What are you, anyway? Don't
wanta dance, don't wantta smoke,
don't wantta drink. Guess you're
kind of a frost, aren't you?"
"Yes," said Betty trying to keep
her lips from trembling, "that's
what I am, a frost! That's what
I'm trying to be—a frost!"
He gave her another puzzled
look.
"You're deep! That's what you
are, you're deep!" he decided.
"Yes," said Betty quickly. "I'm
deep. I'm deep water frozen
over!"
"Well," said the man lifting his
weight and moving his chair
nearer to her, "I've got to look
into this."
"I'll tell you what you can do,"
she said with a shaky little voice
that was trying to be gay, "you
go and find Ellery Aiken for me
and tell him I've been taken
sick. Tell him I want him right
away!"
He stared at her a minute and
laughed.
"Is thish some joke?" he asked.
He wasn't exceedingly keen or he
would have seen that she was
frightened. But then he had been
drinking freely and he was some
what foggy in his perceptions.
"No!" she said sharply. "It's
true! I'm sick! Get Ellery for
me quick!"
He studied her stupidly an
other minute and then he said:
"All rightie, darling, if you
shay it's sho it musht be sho! I'll
do my besht!" He got up and
tottered off, but then to her hor
ror he turned back again and
leaning over her chair said:
"You wouldn't razyer I'd take
you home, m'shelf?"
"No, thank you!" she said
drawing a deep breath and feel
ing suddenly faint. The world
seemed whirling under her.
But he went off and was lost
among the dancers.
Her estimate of Ellery had
gone down a good deal, yet she
was glad to see his familiar form
wending its way toward her, even
though unsteadily.
"Wha's the -matter, Baby?
Didn'ya like the millionaire I got
for ya, darling? Poor fish been
taking too many drinks. I'll get
ya 'nuther fella!"
"No, no! Ellery. I want to go
home! I'm sick!" she shuddered
and certainly did look sick.
"Aw, Baby! Don't get harsh
with me! I'm you own dear El
lery! You wouldn't do that to
me! Come on, Baby! Have it
your own way then. We'll go
home!"
Ellery was really drunk. She
wasn't used to drunken men. She
didn't know what strange things
they could do. But when she
saw the car start off with a leap
and a shock she was more fright
ened than she had ever been in
her life.
They were going at such a
wild pace now that Betty felt
that every moment might be her
last. Past red lights they dashed
on and the tears rolled down
Betty's cheeks as she gripped the
seat and tried to keep her bal
ance.
Here! Here! Isn't this Aster
Street? Yes, let's stop here!
This will do nicely."
"This it? Okay by me! Let's
just park awhile an' get a little
sleep. Baby!" said the gallant
knight bringing his car up to the
curb with such a flourish that
he mounted the curb and headed
right into the pole that held the
street sign.
Betty thought the end was
coming and she had a wild
thought of her mother, wonder
ing who would tell her. The next
second came the shock and she
was thrown to her knees with her
head against the dashboard of
the car, stunned for the minute.
Then her senses returned and- she
could hear Ellery talking, apolo
gizing over and over to the sign
post.
Frightened and bruised and
trembling, Betty managed to get
the car door open and stumble
out to the street.
She looked wildly back at El
lery, but he was unconscious of
her presence. Already he was
drawing long loud breaths in a
drunken sleep. Then she fled up
the dark street.
Keith Sheridan coming home
that evening from a hard drive
which had taken him into the
country on a road that had a
long rough detour, turned into
the city at last with a sigh of re
lief. He was tired out and needed
a good night's rest.
As he turned a corner he no
ticed a car ahead of him being
crazily driven, turning a corner
on two wheels and tearing madly
away. A block farther on the
same car came around another
corner straight at him, and he
barely avoided a collision. He
swerved away from the catastro
phe, and looked ahead to where
the car was dashing up on the
sidewalk. He heard the crash of
the pole and the splintered glass
of a windshield, heard a girl's
voice cry out in fear, and then
silence!
Quickly he drove to the spot to
see if anyone was hurt. He stop
ped his car and listened. He
heard a man talking, but there
seemed to be no girl, and he was
about to drive on, when suddenly
he saw a stealthy form like a
shadow slip out the other door of
the car and topple up the street
in the shadow of the houses.
He started his car slowly again
and followed, watching.
And now Betty was aware of a
car, and tried to hurry faster.
Blindly she ran, then caught her
toe in a brick of the pavement
and fell prostrate.
For a minute the breath was
knocked from her body so that
she thought she was dying, and
then she felt someone lift her,
and she froze with horror again.
Had Ellery run after her and
caught her? Oh, she wished that
she had died! Rather anything
than to be in his power again.
The doctor lifted her very ten
derly and looked into her face,
gently lifted one of her eyelids,
and in the flare of a street light
Betty suddenly recognized him.
"Oh, Doctor, Doctor, you won't
tell Mother, will you?" she gasp
ed. "It would kill Mother to
know I had done this!" And sud
denly Betty burst into a flood of
tears and buried her face in the
breast of the doctor's big fur
lined overcoat.
"Betty! Is it you, dear child!"
The doctor's voice was very ten
der, and he held her close in his
arms an instant looking quickly
up and down the street.
He quickly strode with her in
his arms to his car, and put her
in.
"You won't tell Mother!"
pleaded Betty between the sobs.
"No, of course not, dear child!
Now tell me all about it!"
"Oh—l went out—with a young
man from the office —I thought
he was all right—He was going to
take me to a night club!" Betty
was talking very fast, trying to
get her breath and tell a coherent
story, but her sobs interrupted
her.
"He took me—to a dreadful
place! It was awful! Everybody
was drunk! —I was frightened. I
made him bring me home. But I
found he was drunk too! He
wouldn't stop—and let me out —"
She gave way in another burst
of tears, and he put both arms
about her and held her close
again, as if he were comforting
a little child.
"Oh, I'm so so glad you
came! I thought he was—chas
ing—me!"
(Continued Next Week)
UNION HILL
The community is invited to
meet at Union Hill cemetery on
Thursday before the first Sunday
in June to prepare the graves for
the annual decoration day, which
will be held the first Sunday in
June.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Britton and
family, of Greensboro, spent the
week-end here with friends.
Mrs. George Draughan and lit
tle daughter have returned to
their home in Mt. Airy after a
visit with her mother, Mrs.
Rachel Wolfe.
Mrs. Garvey Glaspie and little
daughter, Patsy, have returned to
their home following a visit with
her sister on Fish River.
Chevy Chase, Md„ was named
by the original owner, Joseph
Belt, who received it by grant in
1860. He was a Scotsman.
ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED That no
person, persons, firm, partnership
or corporation shall hereafter
store, house, keep, mix or manu
facture Fertilizer, Guano or other
like material or materials for
sale; or store, house or keep pro
duce, such as live poultry or other
like products that give off offen
sive odors, for sale, within one
hundred and fifty (150) feet of
any building or house occupied
exclusively as a home or dwelling
house, or any church, School
house, City, State or Federal pub
lic building within the corporate
limits of the Town of Elkin and
that the doing of the same is
hereby declared to be a nuisance
and offensive to the general pub
lic, and the same is hereby pro
hibited.
And that any person, persons,
firm, partnership or corporation
violating the provisions of this
Ordinance shall, on conviction, be
fined not less than $5.00 nor
more than $25.00, and that each
day shall constitute a separate
offence.
J. R. POINDEXTER,
Mayor.
Published by order of the Board
of Town Commissioners. This
15th day of IVlay, 1939.
PAUL GWYN, Clerk. 6-8 c
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
WHEREAS, on the Bth day qf
November, 1933, L. F. Hudson
and Julia Ann Hudson executed
and delivered unto W. O. McGib
ony. Trustee for Land Bank Com
missioner, a certain deed of trust
which is recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds for Surry
County, North Carolina, in Book
108 at Page 228; and
WHEREAS, default has been
made in the payment of the in
debtedness thereby secured as
therein provided, and the trustee
has been requested by the owner
and holder thereof to exercise the
power of sale therein contained:
NOW, THEREFORE, under
and by virtue of the authority
conferred by the said deed of
trust the undersigned Trustee
will on the 19th day of June,
1939, at the court house door of
Surry County, North Carolina, at
twelve o'clock noon offer for sale
to the highest bidder for cash,
the following real estate:
All that certain tract of land
containing One Hundred Twenty
(120) acres, known as the L. F.
Hudson Home Place, in Elkin
Township, County of Surry, State
of North Carolina, located on the
old Dobson public road, three
miles North from Elkin, bounded
on the North by the lands of Fan
nie Jackson and L. E. Cass, on
the East by the lands of L. E.
Cass and R. P. Collins, on the
South by the lands of J. T. Ring
and of Prank Cooper, and on the
West by the lands of Lizzie and
Guy Collins. The property is
more fully described by metes
and bounds in the deed of trust
above mentioned to which refer
ence is made.
This property is being sold sub*
ject to an outstanding deed of
trust executed by L. P. Hudson
and Julia Ann Hudson to The
Federal Land Bank of Columbia,
Insurance
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recorded in Book 108, Page 227,
in the office of the Register of
Deeds of Surry County, North
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