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Unfortunately, they loved too well rather than wisely?with the usual consequences. So Guy burgled a local store for the money to send Bee away to her Aunt Grace's in Kansas City and discovered that he wasn't quite such a noble character as he had thought he was. When Bee returned with the consequences ?a red little infant named Cecil? the trouble began. And the scandal and finger-pointing was much increased by the fact that Adrian Plummer, Guy's highly Old Testament father, proclaimed his son's sin from the pulpit and confessed that...
...simply baffled by the way things were turning out. He offered to marry Bee, but she wouldn't accept?she wasn't asking for charity. He knew he ought to be devoted to Cecil?but he just didn't feel that way. The child estranged them. To cap the climax, he found himself arrested and convicted for theft?out on the rock-pile making big ones into little ones. Life had knocked him out in the first round...
...natural accidents?a sudden " crush " of Laurel's on the widowed first-love?the revival of an ancient and baseless scandal about Stella herself?made the issue plain. Stella saw that Laurel wasn't her kind? that she herself was the handicap on Laurel's becoming "nice." So she gave Laurel up in the only way that could bring a definite breach between them?let Stephen divorce her and married the wreck of an ex-society-riding-master, a worthy whom Laurel couldn't bear. She smashed Laurel's faith in her, and told her she was going to South...
Edward of Wales: " In strict incognito I attended the Alhambra Music Hall at Lille, France. The orchestra struck up God Save the King-but I wasn't noticed. The honor was for the British Consul, also present...
...what did little daughter do but feel strangely drawn at once to the elegant waiter who reminded her so of the papa she loved? And then, of course, there were two more acts, all full of complications. The Duc lied about himself like a French gentleman, and said he wasn't the Duc-and the millionaire's relatives cried: " Aha, our boy must not marry the child of a waiter, Duc though he be! "-and there were scenes and lalas and all sorts of complications-and everything was about to come out on the front page...