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...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 he, too, had done likewise in his young, irreligious days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bludgeonings of Love | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bludgeonings of Love | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

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