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The Jingoes at Work
It was just a brief story the one carried in the news
(Columns of The Brownsville Herald recently telling of the
ten minutes of silent prayer dedicated by students at the
University of Mexico to the furtherance of better relations
and understanding between Mexico and the United States.
Just a brief mention and yet—how vividly and how
emphatically that little item contradicts the jingoes of the
press especially the jingoes north of the Mason and Dixon
line who like to feature Mexico as panting for revenge
because of the killing of those two Mexican students in
the United States at Ardmore. #
Twenty students ten natives of Mexico and ten United
States citizens studying at the University of Mexico stood
with their heads bared and bowed praying earnestly that
their respective countries might be enabled by the grace
of divine wisdom to enjoy amicable relations.
And while they were so praying there was being
distributed throughout the United States in the rotogravure
section of one of our large metropolitan dailies a picture
portraying students at the University of Mexico as crying
out for vengeance against citizens of the United States
because of the deaths of those two innocent boys.
There seems to be nothing that can he done about
It—this constant misrepresentation of Mexico and her
citizens in the press of the U nited States. Even in Texas
we find some of our newspapers the managing heads of
which should really know better guilty of much the same
sort of thing. .
Resulting harm from such practices has a practical
effect on border communities.
The Texas border suffers when an injustice is done
Mexico in the press of the state or of the nation.
We know how untrue are the great majority of news
stories of such nature. The trouble is that Mexican
authorities the Mexican people in general do not know
that we know.
Just as long as our United States press continues to
•*pin.V up” sensational dispatches from Mexico the publish-
ing of which tends to create suspicion and ill will just that
long will we find the path to firmer and more cordial
relations between the two neighbors strewn with diffi-.
culties.
The Two Bills of Oklahoma
Oklahoma furnished to the American world the two
leading humorists of the period. First the pride of Clare-
mont known to the international world as Will Rogers.
Col. Arthur Brisbane in a short biography of the pride of
Claremont let it be known that after pushing his way out
of the schools in the old Indian territory Will was polish-
ed off by English professors at Oxford and Eton.
Rill Murrav is just as remarkable in many ways as
Will Rogers. He h as a history that is rich and romantic
as well as poverty stricken. He is in' the pictures all the
time and in the press headlines daily.
France Blocks Disarmament
France has notified the League of Nations that dis-
armament is a political rather than a technical question
that French armaments have been reduced to the lowest
possible point and the declaration is considered in the
capitals of the worjd that France would find it necessary
to make increase in armaments in case any actions were
taken relieving Germany of the limitations imposed by
the Versailles treaty. France is willing to trade. France
advises the League of Nations to adopt the plan of a
world military and naval force to bring about universal
peace hefore the arms conference shall declare for a policy
of world disarmament. France has a magnificent army.
New York
Letter
NEW YORK. July Cn —Having
witnessed at least a dozen of those
gangster films recently so popular
and haring read any number of
novels on the subject I am now
convinced that life has been giving
the novelist playwright and scen-
arist impossible competition.
What Hollywood gagman for
instance would have dared to use
a situation such as the St. Valen-
tine’s Day massacre in Chicago
when gunmen dressed as police
and using a police siren on their
auto turned their machine-guns
on a dozen rivals?
Or take those scenes at gang ban-
quets and funerals where in-the-
money boys appear in evening
clothes and high hats while carry-
ing a couple of handy gats—
Or take one of those incidents In
the daily routine of New York. A
paragraph in recent newspapers
announced that a lovely young
woman had leaped to her death
from a window.
She had been a cigaret girl in
one of the snappier night resorts.
She was good looking and gents
who were traveling alone tried to
! slip her notes with the large tips
; they gave her.
At the time her mother was liv-
ing in a smaller city out of town.
One of the most important items
in this girls life was the contact
with her mother through letters.
As is common in many of the
late-»t-night spots a gang-lad who
liad been spending his money here
and there dropped in. According
to the girl “he was nice to her.’’
Her mother died suddenly.
The cigam girl felt that she had
lest her only friend—save possibly
one.
There was this young man. He
“didn't amount to a great deal'’
she admitted. Still he was “nice to
her.’’
Three days later the young man
was found at the wheel of his car.
slumped over—dead! He had mixed
with the oops once too often!
Two days later the cigaret girl
lay in the New York morgue. She
had leaped from a window.
• • •
Another little tragedy of the city:
. Just a couple of years ago. or
| less the stocking manufacturers of
j America started out to find the
most beautiful less in the land.
The award went to a young and
beautiful dancer.an Indian
girl known as Dorothy Deer-Horn.
A brief biography credited her
with being the daughter of Leona
Deer-Hom Matawaka Weaver an
Indian songstress who traced har
line to the Matowakas and thus t»
the historic Chief Powhatan. They
could check back to the Jamestown
colony and 1607.
But this is another world and
the predatory enemies are now
more social and economic.
She came to New York from
Princeton. N. J. and St. Cather-
ine's convent in particular. Her
prize award gave her a chance on
the 6tage. She attended private
schools and dramatic schools. She
started her stage carreer in Phila-
delphia. She became a director of
stock Companies in Oklahoma and
Washington. -
Now there Is a great legend about
the stoic duality of the Indian—
but Dorothy Deer-Hom grew up in
a modern world. She dreamed of
| things besides beautiful leg prizes
and dancing. She aimed for dramat-
tic heights. She had made money
and saved it. One day. not long ugo
she appeared in New York with her
own troop. The critics laughed and
jested. Three days later she swal-
lowed poison in her dressing room
—bat dii’ not die!
Quotations
The autogyro is the sort of a ship
you can get careless in without
serious results.
—Amelia Earhart.
* • •
The history of the progress of the
United States is but the history of
the Republican party.
—Senator Simeon D. Fess.
• * •
Women generally do the most
competent gold digging of their
lives somewhere around the age of
eight.
—Elsie McCormick.
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By H. Z. PHILLIPS
A One'Year Plan for American
Russia has a five-year plan A-
merican leaders are talking of a ten
year plan and President Hoover
recently spoke of a twenty-year
plan. We propose the following
ONE-YEAR plan for the improve-
ment of efficiency in business the
betterment of industry and the re-
turn of prosperity:
I. —A 50 per cent cut In office
“conferences. ’ Anything that can ]
be accomplished in conference in
an hour can be accomplished in a
/town other ways in fifteen min-
utes.
2.—Fewer interview's and mere '
work.
3.—Immediate minimization of I
golf and adherence to the follow'- j
r< program.
(a)—No discussion of the lighter
| ball during business hours.
tb>—The number of golf fanatics I
cm any board of directors to be
limited to 2 per cent.
<c>— A pledge by all business !
executives never to bring their j
clubs to the office.
id>—A clause in all contracts :
I requiring that important executives j
; who find that golf interferes with J
the jobs give up their jobs.
I 4.—A definite and final discon-
tinuance of the custom of settling
business matters at luncheon. (The
average luncheon takes about three
hours and nobody ever gets to the
i point anyhow.)
j 5.—A return to the old-fashioned
i business office that suggested work
| concentration and performance
instead of indolence opium dreams
and Oriental splendors.
6 — Plainer looking stenographers
including a reasonable number
with hair on the upper lips.
7.—An understanding among
young women in business
! cfiices that they are dressing for
| business and not for the “Follies’'
j 8.—Immediate recognition of the
fact that nothing has slowed up
business more than the modern
theory that stenographers in busi-
I ness offices should be chosen ex-
I clusively from the standpoint of
the ornamental.
9. —Fewtr yachts among exec-
} utives who can’t afford them.
10. —Less singing of “The Gang's
i All Here” and more singing of
“I’ve Been Working on the Rail-
road.'*
II. —A revival of the slogan “The
(customer Is always right!"
12. —Less faith in the theory that
a string of flashy billboards a good
| slogan a milllor.-dollar electric
j sign over Broadway a radio quartet
and six vice-presidents with il-
lustrious names are the chief es-
sentials to business success.
13. —F*wer charts showing what
caused it and more action to pre- i
vent its happening again.
14—A law prohibiting the sale
or possession of blue or smoked
glasses.
15. —The dungeon for chronic
pessimists calamity howlers and j
the-forst-is-vet-to-clme-boys.
16. —Restoration of the lost A-
merican capacity for indignation j
over wrongdoing and a more gen-
eral feeling that the bank pres- *
ident business executive and in-1
dustrial leader who allows his name
to be used on the literature or |
questionable stock promotion
schemes should be boiled in oil.
17 — Bhooting at sunrise for busi-
ness figures some of them direc-
tors of great corporations who sell
i securities short contribute to the j
stock market collapse and prolong 1
business depression while posing'
as upstanding Americans good fel-
lows and "best minds.*’
18 —A more general acceptance
of the idea that honesty is not
something you may consider your-
i self possessing as long as there has
been no grand jury indictment.
19 —A return to plain home cook-
ing and more simple living. »Half
the business men of America have
been out of condition lor the last
ten years as a result of high living
and excessive whoopee.
20 — More regard for the brother-
hood of man bv business men out-
side of the Kiwanis club luncheons
the annual Chamber of Commerce
banquet and the week before Christ-
mas.
21. —Underemphacis of the apple
in American commercial life. I
22. —A little more courage all
along the line.
23— Less faith in fairy god-
mothers wizards magicians and
more faith in hard work a com-
plete understanding of the job and
an occasional night sweat due to
overwork.
A KINDLY THOUGHT
Granting Germany a moratorium
was evidently like shouting to a
man. sinking for the third time
that he needn’t worry about the
time-payments on his automobile
for a year or so.
• • •
Let's hope it will not be said that |
the moratorium was a success but j
the patient died.
Several cases of whiskey were
stolen recently from the cellar of
the German embassy in Washing-
ton. Stolen is a harsh word. Very
likely somebody took it as a loan
and will return it if allowed a;
year's moratorium. %
Daily Health
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BY DR. MORRIS FSSlIUcIN
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Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hntu
the Health Magazine
In making a diagnosis of heart j
disease the modern physician de-
pends as did the physicians of tne
past first of all upon the history
of the patient. He asks innumer-
able questions as to the conduct of
life sensation of oppression or pain j
shortness of bream laugue and
the other symptoms that have been
mentioned. Then he carefully maps
out the size and position of the
heart by using the methods of
physical examination called per-
cussion and auscultation. He locates
the position of the heart beat and
the position of each of the borders
of the heart Then he uses the X-
ray to confirm his observations
made by physical studies.
Much importance has been at-
tached in the past to the hearing j
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sidered significant it is now re-
alised that murmurs may be pres-
ent without serious disturbances
of the heart. On the other hand
a murmur may be of the greatest
significance when all the other ob-
servations confirm the interpreta-
tion that they may be based on
the murmur. The modern physician
is likely to attach much import-
ance to the rhythm of the heart
beat to it* force and to the things
that can be seen in the electro-
cardiograph tracing.
The treatment of the beginning
of weakness of the heart after 50
years of age involves special em-
phasis on all of the good rules of
hygiene. It is. of course under-
stood that any infections anywhere
about the body will be found and
removed. If there is the slightest
indication of some beginning
break-down of the heart the pa-
tient is put immediately at abso
lute rest. And that means he must
be flat on his back in bed for at
least four weeks during which time
he does not even get up to attend
| to his ordinary physical necessities
but is given help by members of
the family or by a nurse. Tobacco
is usually forbidden but in case a
patient has too much nervous*!?*
ritabiiity it is permitted only with
the freatest of moderation.
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Anniversary
BRITISH WAR REVIEW T
On July 31. 1917 (HR »ir Win*
Robertson chief of the H1tl»h 1-
perial General Staff reviews* i l»e
previous three years of the1 w*.. H #
summed up the situationjn Pa -i
f0“W!*at is the 'position today? Wd
are far north and faeinf ^rlb. We
no longer have our backs to the
Oermsns and we are millions where
before we were thousand* . . . Our
Kns uv hammering toe® now &f
ey have never been hammered be*
• Do not let us underrata &•(!•**
mans because their mutt* ii bad be*
cause they are guilty of provoking
war and because their material re*
sources are less then ours. The
whole German nation t» as dtsctpljn*
ed as an army.Germana have dls*
dpline In their Wood . * •
-What could be more magnificent
than the spectacle which Americs
now presents to mankind" It R not
for me even to pronounce an opin-
ion on America's preparations but
I should sav that throughout the
world freedom breathes mm* free*
ly and democracy i» more confident
for the mere imposing upon itself
the restraints and rigor* of disci*
plir.e”
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L Bark J
A New York magistrate sudoata
that gangsters tie hanged from tamp
posts. That would be letting them
off lightly.
If there were anything to a nama
authors of anonymous book' at*
tacking reputations would prlmbly
use it.
Freckles says a doctor protect ths
skin from the sun’s rays. And also
the lotion manufacturer from bank*
ruptcy.
A Texas physician says that be*
cause of light clothing bobbed hr*
and the “new freedom.’'’ women u
living longer. He might have atm
them greater cause to rejoice l? Mb
had said these things make them
look younger longer.
• • •
A cubic inch of air a scientist de*
clare*. mar contain a billion ml*
rrobes. It is statistics such as the 4
that take your breath away.
• * •
Then thew s the neurotic %ha
claimed he was lilt by a repression.
' * bu MABEL
McELUOTT
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' ner.iv limn today
Wheu HAVE BARRETT IS an*
lovely falls la love with VAX
ROB ART. her mother CASS urges
her to have nothing to do with
Robard. MRS. CLKKSI* %1'GII axks
l.inne to stay with her at her
Insurious Long Island home whll*
Casa who Is on actress goes on
tour. Bollard's engagement to
Ml RIEL LAUD a debutante la
announced and l.inne tries to for-
get him. Cass lx taken seriously
III and In her delirium babbles of
some mystery about Linne** birth.
Cass convalesces at Mra. Clees-
T>n inch's home. When CLIVE
t'LEKSPAL’GH nska Mane to mar-
ry him—n marriage of ronveo-
Irnre—she egreex partly for her
mother's sake and tn pique Kn-
hard. Blackmailer* threaten
Mane but SHARK MeDERMID. a
police nfitrer who had helped her
out of an Innocent scrape arttlra
them. TRESS A LORD an old
friend of the t'leeapooghs. dislikes
Liane and plots against her.
l.inne Is seised by kidnapers at
a hall and Clive rushes after her.
>o do Mettrrmid and f 111 I K DES-
MOXIt. newspaper reporter who I*
Interested In Muriel I add. The
girl is re xeurd. unharmed hut
f'a*n is alarmed and urge* an
early marriage. One day when
l.lane is driving Into Yew York
•« r a fitting of her wedding gown
the ear breaks down and ftnbnrd
drivrs by. She neeept* hi* offer
of a lift Into the elty and lanrhea
with him. He makes love to hrr.
Later Mane discover* that Tres-
sa arranged this render*oas. hop-
ing to break off Mane's engage-
ment to Clive. Clive receive* an
anonymous letter telling him his
flaner's love belongs to another.
ROAV GO OV WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XXXIII
rpHERE was a great stir In the
house. The smell of pine of
long-stemmed roses of magnolia
blossoms from far away hothouses
filled the ah.
Maids rushed to and fro with
caps slightly awry. The library
was given over to wedding gifts.
They made a brave array. Silver
and rook crystal Ming and hand-
tooled leather carved jade and thin-
nest porcelain.
The center of all this confusion
was Liane who sat pale as a dove
in a big chair in her rose-tinted
room.
Clive was at the club. He had
gone there the week before to live.
His mother thought it proper.
Liane had begged to return to her
shabby little apartment and to he
married from there. But the dow-
ager as usual had overridden her
objections.
“Nonsense" Mrs. Cleespangh had
said. And that ruling went unchal-
lenged.
So now Lime's wedding day had
arrived. Her gown was waiting on
its scented hanger. Her cobwebby
underthings with their traceries of
priceless lace. Her frail exquisite
vail and shining narrow slippers.
Cass fluttered back and forth be-
tween the two rooms youthful and
smart In her biscuit colored frock.
‘Time to dress now sweet." she
said after a Anal nervous glance at
the clock. “It’s a quarter past i
three.’* The wedding was set for
four.
Liane rose obediently. Nora and
Eileen who had been waiting for
this very moment appeared front
the hall and begged to be allowed
to assist. Among them all they
arrayed her. Like a lay figure
Liane submitted docilely to their
ministrations.
“Darling your hands are cold as
Ice” Casa murmured.
**Al she’s nervous” Nora broke
In volubly. "All girl* are nervous 1
on their wedding day. My lifter
Katie-"
Liane listened to their chatter
laughed wtth them. They were so
gay. They helped her to forget I
herself. Mademoiselle who had
fitted the gown at Christine’s ar
rived to see to the train. Made-
moiselle intended personally to su- <
pervise this wedding.
It was like a dream through
which some strange girl moved
automatically. Liane stood docile
and quiescent for the draping of
her veil. Dimly in the glass she
saw her own reflection.
At last they left her alone with
her mother.
"You’re not nervous darling”]
Cass whispered. "You’re wonder-
ful. So calm and poised.”
Liane smiled back. She did not
trust herself to apeak.
• • •
VTAP sounded at the door and
Case opening it. found Mrs.
Cleespaugh standing there with a
white fur wrap over her arm. “A !
wedding present for you child” (
the old lady beamed. They folded
it around her. They led her down-
stairs.
“We're a few minutes early"
Cass murmured. She left Liane
alone in the small sitting room.
She had forgotten her gloves.
Tressa carat in. She wore a dove
gray dress that fitted as though she
had been poured into It She said j
“I should have left for the church ;
ages ago hut I wanted to see you.” j
Liane regarded her calmly.
“I have a message for you."
Tressa said. She held out her j
hand. Liane** fingers closed over
a thick envelope.
“You were to read it before you
left” Tressa said. Her voice had j
a strange compelling urgency.
“Quick before anybody comes!"
She darted to the door and stood i
her back to Liane. guarding her.
Liane tore open the envelope
with trembling fingers.
“I shall wait for you always" i
she read “Wait for me. I am
free. Muriel has eloped with Des- ]
mond.” !
Liane crumpled the note. With j
steady steps she walked to the fire-
place. In an Instant that note
flared up melted into ashes.
She turned. Tressa watched her
her breath coming quicker with ex-
citement
“I can help you to get away" |
Tressa told her. "Eva Is upstairs. I
It’s not too late to back out of this." I!
Liane looked at her as if at a j
stranger. “I'm not backing out" j
she said in a lifeless voice. "What!
made you think I was?"
The other girl laughed shrilly.
"You're a fool" she said harshly.
"You'll be sorry for this. Don’t
forget I warned yon."
Liane said "You’ve been my I
enemy from the first. Why I don’t
know. I’ve never dons anything to
harm you. Now you want ms to be
* traitor to break ay word. I’m
not golnf to. Do you bear ms?"
Tressa stamped her foot "Haven't
harmed me? Yon took away the
man I wanted that’s alt Little
sneak! And yon don’t car* that
for him!" She snapped her long
fingers. "Eva’s a fooL She can’t
see through yon. You’ll be cheat
ing tn a year!"
"I don’t know what you mean”
.....—....
Llano Raid. "Let me pass. My
mother Is watting."
'T'HE other girl stood staring at
A her a long minute with baleful
CjfR. Then her manner changed
Coaxing!? she said “You’re quite;
wrong about m? being an enem? of
yours. Actually I’ve tried to help
you. You won’t let me. This Is
your chance for happiness. Think
what it means! Oh yes there
would be talk for a little while If
you ran off with Van. You see. I)
know what’a in the note. lie told
me. But it would blow over soon
all of it. And you’d have your life
before you.”
Llano stood stony faced tugg.ng
at her gloves.
“It’s no use I tel! you. No usa
to talk. I’ve made up my mind.” j
She was a curiously appealing
figure in her swirling robe of Ivory
velvet Tressa hated her at that
moment as she never bad before.
Still she kept her vioce sweet and
wheedling. “You haven’t any word |
for me to give Van? No answer?”
A little tremor ran through |
Llano's slender body. She thought
of that strong brown hand closing
over hers.
She said to herself. In utter con-
fusion "Perhaps I’m wrong in deny-
ing myself this chance. Perhaps
it’s fate—” For an instant she
wavered her indecision manifest in
every curve of her Innocently re-
vealing face.
Tressa seised her opportunity.
Already she heard the voices on the
stairs the sound of the tires of |
the wedding car as Kelly swept it
around the corner of the drive.
•This la a sort of eleventh hour
reprieve” she said hurriedly. "He’a 1
mad about you. He can make life
heaven or you yourself can make It
hell. Think fast.”
"Oh God help me!” prayed the
young girl wildly. “Help me to do
what's best!"
Mile. Denise fluttered ta. "I
myself will carry the train. Miss
Barrett. Nothing shall harm It.”
Tressa Interposed skillfully.
"Never mind Maro’selle. “I’ll ride
with Miss Barrett. We ll rush on
ahead. “You needn’t mind.”
With a sudden movement Llane
was at tha door. She wrapped the
voluminous folds of ermine around j
her. She signaled the Frenchwo-1
man to follow her. Like a princess
of the blood she took charge of the
situation. Her voice was cool
steady. Her hand no longer trem-
bled.
"You needn’t bother Miss Lord"
•be said. “We shall manage. You’d
better hurry or you’ll be lata for
my wedding.”
Tressa laughed but there was no
mirth la the sound. "1 wouldn't
miss that for anything.” the
sneered. Defeated with aw-'Ber-
ing eyes aha watched them drive
away.
As tha big car swept out of sight
sha said fiercely. “I hope she never
ratchet there alln."
• • e
OLD ladles turned their heads to
watch her as she passed. The
whisper ran from mouth to mouth
••Lovely! Lovely!"
Liane heard non* of It She
moved like a somnambulist along
the aisle her arms Just resting on
Clives black sleevu The ceremony [
....•... . ..
was ended. On the third finger of
her left hand where the glove wee
■tripped away a platinum hand
studded with diamonds rested be*
side the glittering headlight of *
■tone that was her eng-ng«ae«|
symbol. The choir played ths ms>
sic softly triumphantly. Thera
was an insidious quality about that
music. Ths Mendelssonn march.
Sentimental wedding guests wiped
their eyes openly with their cob*
webby handkerchiefs.
There was something ethereal
something not quite of the world
about thia particular bride. A
transparency of skin perhaps s
luminosity of the eye. Whatever
it was the wedding gueeta decided
she was charming.
**A nobody my dear hut quits
lovely. Clive has money and post*
tion enough for twa What doss tt
matter V*
It was all over. It was real. Shs
had her mother's blessing. Now in
the car with her husband shs face!
the reality at last.
He stooped to her brushed her
Ups with his own. "Sorry but
they'll think It queer If I don't'*
he had muttered softly.
She had later a hasy recollection
of s long table glittering with sib
ver and crystal. Of someone pout*
ing champagne into s graceful
glass. Of her own lips touching ft.
She heard the polite toasts. Shi
flung her bouquet of white orcht Is
from the top of the stairs. Tie
dreamlike quality of the oceagiJh
persisted although she knew In lif?
heart that alt this was real.
Then ahe was In her own room
again and the maids were a -dating
her out of her finery laying out tbs
pale beige frock and ths sable cost
for her going away.
At the last the girl had a word
for Cass. "I didn’t want to worry
you" sha said brokenly. "I never
meant to no matter what I did.**
Cass was troubled at this obscurf
apology.
"You never did In all your life1*
she cried. She smiled putting It
all down to the child's natural mo-
tion at lea retaking.
"You wero always tho best ttw
sweetest—'* she muttered. Sira
turned up the corners of her lipo
resolutely. What a fool she wgr
letting the child go away weepinn
“Dry your eyes" sho command!
with mock severity. "What wt:
Clive think It we send him off with
h red-eyed bride?" ^
Case reflected with some sati»>
faction that she was glad that
dreadful man Kobard had not com*
to the church. She had been afraid
he would. She had seen fata name
on the list of weddMg guests. Well
she had been wrong to think Llano
waa interested in him. She had
not wanted her to have anyth inf
to do with that clan. How silly sho
had been to worry! There had bee*
nothing to It
"This day is a climax in my life**
Casa thought thankfully. **Brerjol
thing I hoped for has coma to Liana
Lora security happtnaea. "Oh It
was more than she had hoped for
really. Yet how ehauged the child
seemed. How quiet and repressed.
Cass shrugged away her momentary
anxiety. She would not lot herself
be fanciful. Everything waa splen*
did. Everything waa as It should W
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