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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1925
Page
3
Jim Hennepin, a reckless young man in Dallas, returns from a ranch vacation and courts Brena Selcoss with grand gestures. He boasts of money, pledges romance, and catalogs a reckless, intoxicating influence over the seventeen year old. Their tense bond grows as he proclaims himself knight and sets a path toward an uncertain, scandalous future.
In a tense scene Jim Hennepin reveals a plan to marry Brena, handing her money and directing her to a St Louis hotel on a Friday. Brena fears exposure and questions the wager of love as Jim hints at a troubling call that shapes their dangerous rendezvous. She travels to St Louis without marking the calendar date.
Brena Selcoss arrives back from St Louis after a hurried departure and buys time with Mrs Wilkie as she contemplates her future. The landlady notes the mystery around Jim Hennepin and the diary hints at a wary, solitary young woman who balances hope with fear while a caller approaches.
Major Peter DeWolfe, a wealthy American, is urged by English comrade Eversley Benham to visit the Benham family where Muriel Benham warns of danger tied to Brena Selcoss. Peter meets Brena in a tea room, forms a strong friendship, then falls in love. She reveals she is married and her husband has vanished.
The present year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the organization of the University of Virginia.
A brief aphorism notes that a man capable of doing anything at all should pursue excellence in that effort, implying talent and effort justify high standards and strong self-regard in a sly, pragmatic tone.
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