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True Heart Susie: The Story of a Plain Girl 1 Is real life interesting?

  Every incident
  of this story
  is taken from
  real life.

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    Do men look for 
    the true heart in
    women? Or are

most of them caught by the net of paint, powder and suggestive clothes?

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         To the Women

of the World, enslaved by Civilization -

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       Woman is supposed
       to be allowed her 

choice - and yet, not one in ten ever has a chance to marry any but one man.

5 To these Women, and their pitiful hours of waiting for the love that never comes, we dedicate our story.

6 William's father.

7 The aunt of Susie.

8 At the school house - The Friday afternoon

 spelling class.

9 William - and Susie,

 the plain girl.

10 "Cry."

11 "Anonymous."

12 "Wrong - Next!"

13 Susie, like the girl in the verse:

"'I'm sorry that I spelt the word,

I hate to go above you,
Because', The brown eyes lower fell,
'Because, you see, I love you'."

14 Of course they don't know what poor simple idiots they are - and we, who have never been so foolish, can hardly hope to understand - but -

15 The undying proof.

16 "He walked home

with me, Mother."

17 "College! We can hardly

make a living - let alone
college! A good farmer is
better than a poor lawyer
     or preacher."

18 She manages to be along on his trip to the village.

19 William has no explana- tion of the evident fact that he's a devil among

    the ladies.

20 The Gent from the great outside world - four-flush- ing - even for no greater audience than a pair of

 brown country eyes.

21 "My Boy, in your face

I see the makings of
   a great man!"

22 "Many a famous

man owes his posi-
tion to my aid -
You will doubtless
 hear from me."

23 Passing days bring no letters or results of any kind to the simple-

 hearted dreamers.

24 Susie confides her sorrows

    to sister Daisy.

25 "- and I want him

to go to school -
I MUST marry a 
 smart man."

26 She tells aunty her purpose to sell the cow and other things and send William to the country college.

27 "We won't have to wait

long for milk and butter
- the calf will grow up
  in a few years."

28 The various stepping stones upon which William is to rise

  to fame.

29 As everything was left to Susie by her mother, she has her way.

30 After getting a written promise that Daisy will be treated as one of

   the family.

31 In Brightville some twenty miles away, they mail the letter that conveys the idea the tuition and extra sum for expenses comes from the self-styled philanthropist.

32 The glad news.

33 William's faith in the strange gentle-

 man restored.

34 "A great man is going

to fix it so I can go
    to college."

35 After due ceremony William leaves for

    college.

36 William, working to help pay his way through college, earns the unwelcome nick-

name, "Butter."

37 Susie receives this somewhat noncom- mittal message with great enthusiasm.

38 "Deport yourself!"

39 "What's the three apples

for? Expectin' company?"

40 "Auntie - -"

41 "Susie - -"

42 "- - William."

43 "Hey, Butter!

It's on your vest!"

44 William resents the un-knightly name of Butter, and battles up- on the field of honor.

45 Thoughtful Susie prepares herself to be a fitting mate

for her hero.

46 "My name's Bill -

 not Butter!"

47 So Bill it is, until gradu- ation, when he returns in a blaze of glory - - also a mustache, imitating his supposed benefactor.

48 "Let's go to the store

  and get a sody."

49 "Going to get a sody

  with William."

50 Sir William and lady advance before the admiring court.

51 SQUEAK-SQUEAK!

52 "Chocolate."

53 Two visitors from

 Brightville.

54 "You see those two,

painted and powdered? -
Men flirt with that kind,
but they marry the plain 
  and simple ones."

55 Susie, dimly conscious she is both plain and simple, takes this entirely too seriously.

56 The little milliner from Chicago, who believes thoroughly in paint, powder, tight skirts and silk stockings, - bestowing a few new

steps on the little fast set
      of Brightville.

57 Including in her visits a relative at Pine Grove -

58 - Sporty having consented to drive her over.

59 William practicing a trial sermon with which he expects to impress the elders at the next Conference.

60 Susie's diary.

61 The ice cream festi- val in honor of the departing minister, whose place William

  is to take.

62 The aunt confides that reckless Susie has had two plates

 of ice cream.

63 "He doesn't like that kind."

64 Going home.

65 "We were just going home

- are you going our way,
    Mr. William?"

66 "Oh, he had to

be polite to
the stranger."

67 Home.

68 William's great, simple heart cannot believe that all are not like

     himself.

69 "Oh, he's only a punk

country minister - -"

70 "- - but I'm tired

working - haven't a
cent left. I've got to
marry somebody!"

71 "He writes, too!"

72 The complexion William admired.

73 "Don't use that brush!"

74 Susie wants new clothes, but her sacrifice for William forces her to make over old ones.

75 So - -

76 Susie preparing for battle against the paint and powder brigade.

77 Managing, however, to get silk stockings

  - her first.

78 "Powder! Do you think

you can improve on the
   Lord's work?"

79 "And that dress!

You look like a
   Jezebel!"

80 Susie - remembering how William SAID men marry the plain

ones - - makes a
 dangerous move.

81 The Sunday afternoon

     parade.

82 "Susie, don't you think

I should get married?"

83 "Oh, yes. They have

more respect for a
married minister."

84 Sunday evening - William is going to play the organ.

85 "Now's your chance!"

86 Bettina impressed.

87 "Will you marry me?"

88 "This is so sudden! -

I - I'm so flustered!"

89 "Just give me fifteen

  minutes to think
     it over."

90 "Sporty!"

91 "No, Sporty, I can't go

   this evening."

92 Believing Bettina has found her real mate, Susie re-determines on an overwhelming

    assault.

93 "I've thought it over."

94 "Headache? Nonsense!"

95 "I've taken your advice,

       Susie."

96 The merry wedding bells.

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   Some time
   afterwards -

As he thought it was going to be -

98 - and - as it occurs.

99 "Darling, we have had

nothing but cold meat
for the last month.
Don't you think - -"

100 "Eat it and like it!"

101 "I hate this damn place!"

102 "I called it by its

  right name!"

103 Trying to make the

 best of a bad
    bargain.

104 "Some cook, Susie."

105 Sporty and company, knowing the minister is away, bring a little pep into a lonely life.

106 Then - -

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          Susie decides 
          to destroy the 

five letters she received from William while he was away.

108 "Love letters, Susie?

Well, I suppose
you'll be getting
  married - -"

109 "Be sure you get

the right one."

110 "The saddest are these;

'It might have been!'"

111 William almost certain he saw a kiss bestowed

  upon his wife.

112 "Did that man kiss you?"

113 "How can you say

such a thing! - Of
course he didn't!"

114 "You don't trust me at all!"

115

     He is finally
     persuaded that

these great eyes can hold only truth.

116 After all, there are single-track hearts.

117 William starts to get a needed reference book from a neighbor, but decides to wait

  until later.

118 Bettina having arranged to sleep alone in the spare room on a pretext of being indisposed -

119 Making sure.

120 Thoughtfully stop- ping on the way

for the book.

121 Restless - he -

122 Swearing all to eternal silence.

123 Follow the leader.

124 Bettina drops her key.

125 Caught in the rain storm.

126 Forced to trust her

 fate to Susie.

127 "Susie, I stole out - went

to a party - and lost my
key! I'll have to stay
with you - and you must
     lie for me!"

128 But True Heart Susie -

129 "Your wife was

nervous - and -
and she stayed 
all night with me."

130 "I was so worried about

things - came over to
see Susie - took a walk,
and - and I got your
book! - Then, the rain
    caught us."

131 Again William believes.

132 "Where's your dress?"

133 Results of the ride in the rain prove serious.

134 William, moved by the belief that his wife's ser- vice to him resulted in her fatal illness, resolves that no other love shall

 ever enter his life.

135 "The book - I want

to speak about the
    book - -"

136 "Don't mention it -

don't speak, Dearie.
I can never forget
that service to me."

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     So she dies,

as she has lived - a little unfaithful.

138 Susie would never

break his faith.

139 Later, the aunt, not knowing of his vow,

  takes a hand.

140 "That's the receipt for

your tuition at college.
Susie sacrificed much
 to get the money."

141 But his vow -

142 "My conscience has

troubled me so!"

143 "How could I - ever

dream - all this would
come of your wife's
going to our little
      party!"

144 "Can you ever forgive me?"

145 Freed at last from his mistaken vow.

146 "I've learned the truth."

147 "Is it too late, Susie?

I know now I have
loved you all my life."

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        And we may believe 

they walk again as they did long years ago.

T-H-E E-N-D

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