The Forney Messenger (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 18, 1924 Page: 7 of 8
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THE FORNEY MESSENGER, THURSDAY. SEPT. IS, 1021.
HELD IN TRUST
SYNOPSIS
CHATTKR 1—Jasper 11 a* I *r and Haa-
tiromk Hiilhfrfurd ware a-aivhlnr Tor
* young wontsn—-a girl who I'eaenihted
Adelaide Rnl herfoi d rnniiali l» aeri e
a« her double for )latg waa manager
of the great ality-mtlllon-dollar Gor-
gam truat-oanaflt, created by old Dan-
iel Gorgam In lila will for the hernM
of hla daughter Adelaide during her
lifetime; Rutherford, the hnsliand of
Adelaide, abated her great wealth.
And.—Adelaide Rutherford was dying.
WAS already unoottacloua.
CHAI’TKR II—They found the young
woman—Mary Manclteater, a work-
weary but atill beautiful young shop
girl who wan thoroughly digeotiraged
with life, and arranged for a meeting
with her to present their proposition.
CHAPTER III
Turn rust Marti from l lie- nliit**-
vuullt-il |miiii|i ami clrctimsiainT of the
tiraml t.'ential at at loti lull two *ln>ri
blinks, ami you come al mice into all-
ot her lime amt general Ion l lie lime (
of retl bricka. of Muffed and Mufly I
furniture.
II wua here, in Ibis qilit-l backu u- l
ter of III* great town, tlml Mary Mao- I
eheater* mother anti fatiier, nil It
Uieti leakOblng forluueg, hail fliialli
lodged- drifling eaeiward from more
liroaptroua aliens, mi near In di»
tame, .1 at toeially so far away. Amt
With Ihetii, nalurglty, nine llie girl
barself.
Nbe reviewed it again-- at oue doe*
unpleasant uiatiera toward llie weary
end of day-—while abe wag paaatag
eaalward llirougti ibr humid henl. She
aaw again her mother in her gradual
fading Sealed delicate and wtatfal-
faeetl. old faahiotied aa a roar gera-
nium. al tlie aaittb window of a hack
tenement above I he cluttered, sordid*
partitioned uglineae between iwo
block*, a crenlure reared in more pro-
teeletl ways, and Incapahle of «elf de-
fense agaltiai her elreumalance* a* a
pigeon in a net. She had been gone
for nearly a year now struggling no
more with llie biological problem. »«
we might cull it, offered by hostile
city life to a delicate ami |ierbapM
over rettned woman. Mary Munches-I
ter herself was like her, it wna said— J
aw abe recalled nitti more ili-pressimi. j
II Maw not an especially hopeful I
witmitlon, wbe udmitled, from tiny |
angle. Why wbe should remain in it <
ill all Mas not clear lo her, now that ,
a wuddeu possible jar in her dally ;
routine bad resulted in her asking j
herself the quest ion. Why should she |
tonight, exhausted, he going home lo ]
prepare the evening meal in that ,
dingy place, for that man -no relative |
of Iters—t hat Indolent, good-looking
scamp, as one Mould say in llie lun
gauge of the eighties, who had mar-
ried her young widowed mother, and
whose only present tie to her was
through llie painful downward pus es*
of indolence and self indulgence and
Idleness, and latterly much worse,
which had converted llie dandy of I hr
earlier lime to the dissipated old
drunken ruin of a hack street of to-
day ?
By
George KibbeTurner
IUuiiroiioni by
Irwin Myers
MahvwMUa Urnwm spar lervRaa.
house of old family furniture, of old
memories.
| It wan now ten minutes of eight.
She had Jugt about time enough to
I reach the Meeting place by the hour.
She did not see—aa It was intended
j that she should not—llie large man
wlio bad been waiting down and
across tlie street from her door for
(he past half-hour, and who followed
her now al a distance as site went
through Forty second street toward
the west.
"Here,” announced a clear voice she
recognized, and she turned and saw
file turn she was lo meet at tlie li-
brary entrance.
“Slipposis we go up," lie suggested,
“into tlie art museum. It will lie both
quiet and public there. We can talk
at any length, entirely tiudiaiurbed.”
“Very well." she answered him, and
was soon there listening to him, in-
side llie quiet, sleepy, half-deserted
art museum, as lie told her his ex-
traordinary business.
"You are not eontented now exact-
ly, in your position?" he asked.
"I'm not, no," said Mary M a belies- 1
ter sharply.
"And how ia it at your home—your |
tie* at home?" he asked tier now —a I
rather peculiar question, she tbonglit. !
And as she lotd him. she had again I
that feeling (hat she was telling biia
a thing that he already knew.
“You might he willing," he suggest-
“ Willing!” the
cried. “To change!
I’ll do anything at
all that’* decent.”
ed next with that meaning smile, "to
have an entirely different life?"
"Willing!" she cried. “To eliange!
I'll (t<> anything al all that's decent.”
He smiled again.
And then he made her—with proper
reservations, naturally lit* extraor-
dinary' offer.
"I am a lawyer, Mias Main-heater.”
he said with lliat cold, oblique, but
.. , i always luoal inielllgeul smile of bis.
Home, she thought bitterly—was .... . . , ,
, “One chief business that
there anything to lie called borne hill |
dead memories in Ihul place which
she was now entering al llie beginning
of another weary night? Not one. she
thought and then a warmth of feel
)ng and a light of a til lei pa l Ion in her
eyes contradicted tier. There still was
ul least lings.
A dog, of course, lias always been
tlie poor man's proverbial extra's
ganee.
She passed exhausledly up Mie
at airs of the old "walk-up" tint house,
so-called, to ihelr four Miami I rooms iu
tlie rear, at I plied In the key aud
passed Into llie shiftiness of tlie small
place, crowded lo distraction with the
long-kept furniture of larger rooms.
The opposite of what she had hoped
was (rue. The man was there; llie
dog was gone.
"Where ia lie?" she demanded, wor-
ried as always by the chance of bis
escaping Into city street".
"Where whalT' he returned hastily, j
"Itags?" she said, her face thinner !
aud wearier as she watched him.
‘Tie sold him," lie said, straighten j
lug up with dignity the derby mean- ‘
while geing lo the floor.
“And now," she said, standing mis
tlonless before him, “you are drinking j
up ihe price of him."
“Thas right." lie *aid to her, “—he j
disagreeable! Tha s right- he <lis- |
agreeable!" he said, moving his right I
baud with weary oratorical effect'
“After all I've done fur you!"
The gitl went nut Into the small
kitchen. In her black dress, to as
sm i le but not to cook the even ng
meal.
"Whatever (Id* may tie," she said j
her mind of course always upon the !
odd and challenging avenue of es-apv
which she was shout te hear of ")'m
through here, absolutely through.”
Aud she passed out sod cloned fo'
the last time though naturally she
did not herself extiect quite Hat-the
door of the place, tha‘ ,-tuffy wart-
have is
littlldlng up III advsuee a theory of a
case. Suppose," he went on to Mary
Manchester. "I do this now, In our
conversation. It might he one way of
approaching our subject which would
lie of advantage lo both of us.
“I.et us suppose, then," tie said
when she assented, "llial on our
theory of a possible esse, there are
two women who leak exceedingly alike
—so much so that the resemblance is
more than striking. Is really deceiv-
ing. There are, of course, such cases
in the world."
“The woman of ihe photograph!"
The girl could not help exclaiming.
"This Is one of them, we will say,"
the lawyer went on with his theory —
not answering her. "Now. let us as-
sume that one of these women I* quite
poor in clreuinslames that make her
most unhappy, let us «ay."
"Say desperate. If you like!" retort-
ed Mary Manchester
He smiled. 'Tut It as you like," he
said deferentially. She could not help
noticing Uls uniform politeness, "lies
peraie, let us say!" And he went on
with hi* artful argument, framed with
that last art that conceals art. "Itut
Ihe other notusu. on the other hand,
has everything lit the world to live for
-•u Immense wealth held for her
alone, renleied on her. And yet in a
way she Is more unhappy much more
unfortunate than the one she »o much
resemble*."
"How?" usked the girl sharply.
"Kleklieis," said llie lawyer briefly,
"And now death!"
"She l« dead?" asked Mary Man
Chester, shrinking involuntary,
"No dying," replied the loan hold
lug her eyes with ids, now apparently
without resist nine on her part.
“Well?" she asked, frightened In
spite of herself and her surroundings
“Suppose," he said, "ill the circum-
stances some one- a lawyer, let us
say came to the girl who was so pool
said: How wou'd you like to lice
your life u* u woman Immensely r.cli,
cared for day amt night by servants,
In one of the most pulaiitil houses lu
America?"
“How how could she?" breathed
Mary Manchester from dry lip*.
"Kusily enough," Mild tlie lawyer
smoothly, "by our theory of tlie ease
She would only need to change her
name It is no harder, properly ar
ranged." he said, regarding her, "limn
a change of dresses.
“Hut there are other matt era." In
went on fluently. “I will he frank:
Matters which the pouter wtiutui
would have to face. w‘hlch are not si
pleasant or so easy ! Site would be-
enme. by necessity, an entirely differ-
ent woman. She tnusl learn and act
an entirely new life. Slie would be
for a long lime, monlhs. possibly
years, a chronic invalid, secluded
from every one by ill. health. Hut
Hint, perhaps.” he sell?, and *he felt
Again the sense that lu some way he
must ktmw of Iter, "might he borne
by tlie oilier poorer woman for a time
at leH»t. She might even welcome for
a time the chance to rest."
“But what," site replied, turning at
the last moment from the question
she most desired to know, “is all this
for?”
He explained it to her—most plaus-
ibly, tbe business reasons wliy the
Trust must not be dissolved—to the
disadvantage, among other things, of
thousands to whom it gave employment
and living, fo long as it was intact. It
seemed convincing to her, very, as he
told it—tlie more so, no doubt, because
her mind was preoccupied with another
question—the question that she did
not yet dare to ask.
“What Is It?” Jasper Haig Inquired,
encouraging her. "What else do you
wish to know—about this cuse we sre
supposing?”
"The oilier woman," she ventured,
"the rich one—"
“Yes.”
And she swerved aside again—ask-
ing still another question. "I suppose,
of course, ilia: site is not married7" she
said.
“Yes,” said Ihe lawyer gravely. “She
is married. Hut that would not be In
any way so difficult a matter to bar
Mitistituie as many others."
“Not difficult7”
“No," returned tbe lawyer slow)?,
“—cot when she has lived separated
from her husband—in a different
dwelling for years—by mutual agree-
ment."
“The other—the other woman," she
asked at length, “what would beeouie
of her?"
“She will die,” he said.
“Die!” cried Mary Manchester,
standing, her eyes diluted.
Hut the man soothed her with a
quiet motion of tlie hand. ‘Thin't he
slartned.” he said. "No .slightest
harm will lie done her—or can he."
"Whitt do you menu?" demanded the
excited girl.
"I mean that she is dead now—prac-
tically dead already. She has passed
all possible harm—or even sensation.
But the other woman." lie added, "flic
real Mary Manchester, let us cull her,
would, if she entered Into such an ar-
rangement us we suppose, naturally
not wish to take all this from the state-
ment of u lawyer. Site must lie shown
this positively — so there could he no
possible mistake."
“She must lie!" tlie girl cried vehe-
mently.
"She will be—very simply,” repeat-
ed Jasper Haig: and he explained to
her at more length the other woman's
situation.
“I must see ail I Ids," suid Mary Man-
Chester, getting up, “with my own
eyes."
"Naturally," said Jaaper Haig. And
going out with her. lie hailed a taxi.
(Continued Next Week)
OVER TAKE IT
some of which it is absolutely
necessary for every young man
or young woman to have- With-
out them they are not prepared
to overtake success. By care-
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he has shortened the time of
preparation by just one half.
Listen young friend—would
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—certainly not. Then investi-
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we claim and more. It costs
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What fairer proposition can you
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and mail for full particulars,
Byrne Commercial College, H.
E. Byrne, President, 1924 1-2
Main Street, Dallas, Texas.
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A FAIR DANCER FROM BELGIUM
BRISCOE HOLDS FIRST
COMMUNITY SING SONG
Oiiartet From Wills Point W*'“
The Winners In The Contest
___ Section.
Briscoe’.' community sing-
ing held last Sunday at the
Briscoe schoolhouse proved to
be a great success. The resi-
dents of the community gather-
ed shortly before noon ar.d
spread an old fashioned ba*kt t
lunch on the pasture of the T ,1.
Briscoe farm.
The singing c. intest started
at 1 o clock in th; school build-
ing. Mr. Joraon of Wills Point
and his Vaughn quartet proved
to be the most popular numbers
on the program and v.ere the
winners of the prizes offered.
Allen McMahan ar.d Ed F"is-
coe were the promoters ot the
affair, and to them most of ihe
credit for the success of the
undertaking is given. Tlie at-
tendents were so satisfied with
the undertaking that efforts
are being made to hold enter-
tainments of this nature at le-
gular intervals.
A good attendance of pimple
out of the community was
—
This 1. MU* Hurd?. «f Ihe sensational dam-in* ®f,
nvi I* an Importation aad an helrlouiu el *reat value.
reported, Dallas County. For-j The reason for the large en-
ney, Rockwall, Royce City, rollment, a total of 513 as com-
Heath, Crandall, Kemp, and pared with the enumeration of
Valley View being represented, j 424. is explained by the fact
__ , that there arc a large number
i of children from adjacent dis-
tricts tranferred to Kaufman
for improved educational oppor-
tunities not offered in smaller
Kaufman Schools
.Monday, September 8, the
Kaufman schools began work
with an enrollment of approxi-! tools'.'
mately 200 in the high school I ‘
There are twent#-eight mem-1
bers of the senior class. Tlie !
and 313 in the grammar school-1
scholastic enumeration of Kauf- j
man is 424 white and 114 col-
ored children, a total of 538. (
FOUND—A black-bay mare
mule sometime last week by
Alan/.o Warren, on the Leon-
ard Reagin farm, seven miles
south of Foruey. Owner ap-
ply there. __
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success never comes it is always
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jonly way in the world to over-
take it is to prepare.
Anyone of the ten popular
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you are ready for our Employ-
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on the high road to future ac-
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There is no other school in
the country that can give vou
any ways near the training you
get here. We use our own texts I
and systems, copyrighted by our
president, H. E. Byrne, who has
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them on the road to succe**,
than any other educator in tiic
Southwest. For more than
twenty years he has studied
the requirements of the you eg
people and the links in the chain
that connet them with business,
professional and social life. This
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Now would be a good time to buy a
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Rohde, W. L. The Forney Messenger (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 18, 1924, newspaper, September 18, 1924; Forney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth988283/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .