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Forgotten Sweetheart ↳ MARY RAYMOND
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BOD WESTON, son of a millionaire, and JOAN WARING,Memphis, Attracted to each other on the train. route to Memphis. Joan has taft college be- forexualion to set her family in Anancial emergency. Bob
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Memphis in connection with construction of
Boulbern branch of be father's mille. Bob paska to Joan but, thinking he le him. lie slaving a filiation, the robufte
soles the Initize "3. W on her travelling case and at the station bears members of her furally call her "Joan." He lost sight of ber but is n friend, DUKE TURNER, that hd is determined to Dad her....
Because of the family's dimculties Jen's sister, PAT, 18 years old, has gone to work. BENNY, the 15-year-old brusher, la an ins valid and BILL, the older brother, works in
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I'Leasure-loving Pat declares her intention of marrying for money to Decape the privations and hardship of her mother's lit She sake down if she has met any men who Interest bar, Joan, remembering theat inactive young man on the train. answers,
"Well, one!"
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bridges and helped build them."' ¡ mother's letter had come, revealing for. her. calldren. It was all wrong. walked along Madison. The im- Mru. Waring Mother had had so little happi- portant thing, looning larger than "Imagino!" scoffed. Pat. "A the difficulties.
had written: "Bill and Sara lava ness. Marrying father had been away ng else. just taun, was find- superman [**
"No-noro like a knight come Jecided to be married in June, mistake. Aunt Mnude had tolding a job,
The woman at the business ex- riding," Joan said slowly. And lear, which means Bill must save Joan all about it when she was
Au pivary Ther had been, change listened to Joan's brief re- then, youthfully, "Oh, Pat, Philpennies. He is 28 now, you know, never be bim again!"
tund Bura la 26. And they're wait-and happy, in the little Misissip citat of accomplishments with
the speculative look in her "Well, don't "lose any sleeped a long time, Bill is afraid he'll pi town where she sang in
choir. Father, passing then shoved an application blank over it!" Pat was out of bed now, lase her if he waits any longer, church
" that out in the waiting hastily sorting out ngerlo from He's helped so long and It's omy through the town, had come to the in front of her,
right that he should have his church. One of the fow times in a burent drawer,
Joan was dressed now, looking happiness now. The pluce isn't his fie, Aunt Maude had guessed. room, please," she said erioply. very start in hor tweed suit with rented yet-of course it will be fle fell in love with mother and "And leave it with the girl at the a small, dark hat hugging her eventually. We had to take what they were very happy for a short desk." She added slowly, "I'm we could get for the cotton becaure while until he began drinking going to be frank, Miss Waring. cloudy air.
"Now," she said, "I'm going out we couldn't wait. Pat has finished again. Mother had known about think you're wasting your time her business course and found a father's drinking and gambling, looking for clerical work. There to get a job."
but had thought she could reformare so many others trained for it Titia
carried her small job, typing." confidence
and there are so many places through the morning, but by noon When she inished the next him.
No girl, now, would ever think you'd fit better." much of her assurance was gone: paragraph Joan had put the let that Girl who married auch men Her tone was firm, but friend- At lunch time she sat in the Litter aside for a moment and walked tle Tea Shop. It had been a dis-to the window. Without really to-day did it because they expectedly, and there was a smile in her
to change things. couraging morning. Professor seeing it, she stared at the campus,
"You'll find something, I'm Pat cried, "Oh, Joan, tell me Jayne was spoaking at a principale white with snow.
They had lived in the big, old sure," she said. both Professor Her mother had written "Ben- Waring place ufter father's
Joan had understood what she about him! Are we going to conference and have a wedding it, our family?" Haraton and Professor Wilson ny a trouble, whatever it is, doesn't parents died. The older Warings meant when she stared down at get any better. I'm afraid he had never been very cordial to the questions on the blank form: "Not if you're waiting for me?" were attending it,
needs treatment, He la looking mother, but she hadn't talked "State experience, comptometer l'at, he was one of those concolted
Joan had driven downtown, very thin and the doctor advised about it. And their pictures, in machine. bookkeeping machine, men. Well, maybe not conceited
just handsome and inipudent Parked the battered old family taking him out of school in massive, old frames, were still adding machine. Have you ever hanging in the gloomy old room been bonded " They went on and used to having his own way. car near Cossitt library and walked definitely."
over to a business exchange,
It was then Joan decided to re-which had once been the family down the length of two pages. You know the kind."
Just as well have several irons turn home. She had packed that library. "What are you trying to tell in the fire. Any kind of work night.
Joan could scarcely remember Jonn had come to the ten room, me? Have you really met some would be preferable to going back Things must have been hard for the time when they had not lived more expensive than some places body?"
home and reporting failure. Of mother ever to write that letter, in the old house. And she had she could have chosen, because met him on the train. That course, they wouldn't expect her. She had been doing things for only a dim recollection of the she felt weary and discouraged. ts-I didn't really meet him. We to find work immediately. But them all their lives, sacrificing to tragic, terrible time when father It helped to see smart, prosper just talked and I ran away from how much nicer it would be to go make the two years at Miss Bar- was brought home to them dead. him when I saw you all coming home with a job tucked away in rington's possible for Joan. She He had shot himself, but it
ous people. Mude you forget for
he had attached me. But he was and see the anxious look leave people. And
as you personally were concerned. worrying through earned about the money he had had turned topsy-turvy. really wonderful. Pat! Handsome her mother's eyen, if only tempor somehow while Joan was at Hol- taken.
She finished hor sandwich and and sort of rugged, like he had arily.
brook Hall. Mother's face had After that the faw people in played football or planned big Only a few days before her grown old and tired, sacrificing the neighbourhood who had been hot tex and drew on her gloves.. People were coming in larger friendly stopped coming. Then the numbers now that the noon hour "best families" wern moving off had arrived, She recognized the street and building beautifal group in one corner of the room. homes in suburban sections. Now, Marion Conner, Lillian West. Va- with the exception of the Warings,lerle Robertson. Two young men the entire block was filled with entered and look a table not far hoarding houses..
from her. The man facing her
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But her mother had managed, was Duke Turner. She had been somehow, to give them music and in his class years ago in Bruto. dancing lessons and they had school. He couldn't have been kept up an appearance o! com- more than 12 then. Of course, he fortable living on the rental from had long since forgotten. The the farm. People had forgotten other man
about father after a while and No, it couldn't be! Yes, it was they had had some happy times at the audacious young man of the school,
train. He was not five feet away, "I'm going to make up to his back turned to her. Joan mother for everything as much As I can," Joan. thought as shc
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