Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1923 — Page 10
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BEGIN HERE TODAY Ned Cornet, eon of wealthy Godfrey Cornet, drives his car homeward in the drizzling- rain and soes into a skid at a corner. A passing jitney is damaged and Bess Gilbert, a shopgirl, on her way home, is knock<d to tne pavement. Ned promises a policeman that he will settle with all injured parties. The young lady is taken hotnp In Comets ear. Ned tells his father of the accident. Godfrey Cornet reminds bis son that in his 29 years he has never done a man-size Job. The elder Cornet offers Ned two thousand silk and velvet gowns to take to northern Canada and Alaska to exchange with the Indians for fine furs. Godfrey offers to split the profits 75-25, the lim a share to Ned. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Almost trembling in his eagerness, the old man waited for his son’s reply. The latter took out a cigaret, lighted it, and gazed meditatively through the smoke. “Fifty thousand!" he whispered greedily. “And I suppose I could stand the hardship.” Then he looked up, faintly smiling. “Til go, If Lenore will let me,“ he pronounced at last. m SHE exact mom.nt that her name was on Ned’s lips, Lenore Hardenworth herself, in her apartment in a region of fashionable apartments eight blocks from the Cornet homes was also wondering at the perverse ways of parents. It was strange how their selfish interests could disarrange onefs happiest plans. All in all, Lenore was In a wretched mood, savagely angry at the world In general and her mother in particular. It was the way of the old. Lenore reflected to give too much of their thought and interest to their own fancied ills. Not even a daughter’s brilliant career could stand between. And who would have guessed that the “nervousness” her mother had complained of so long, pandered to by a fashionable quack and nursed like a baby by the woman herself, should ever lead to such disquieting results, the doctor had recommended a sea voyage to the woman, and the old fool had taken him at his word.
NED KISSED THE GIRL S INVITING LIPS. It was not that Lenore felt she could not spare, for some months! her mother's guiding influence. It was merely that sea voyages cost money, and money at that particular time was scarce and growing scarcer about the Hardenworth apartment. Seemingly the only course that remained was to move forward the date of her marriage to Ned, at present set for the following spring. She dried her eyes, powdered her noee; and for ail the late storm made a bewitching picture as she tripped to the door in answer to her fiance’s knock. Lenore Hardenworth was in all probability the most beautiful girl in her own stylish set and one of the most handsome women in her native city. She was really well known, remembered long anti in many places,* for her hair. It was simply shimmering gold, and it framed a face of flowerlike beauty—an even-featured, oval face, softly tinted and daintily piquant. Ned came in soberly, kissed the girl’s inviting lips, then sat beside her on the big divan. Studying his grave face, she waited for him to speak. “Bad news,” he said at last. “What is it?” She spoke almost breathlessly, and he turned toward her with wakened interest.
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“Nothing very important,” he told her casually. “I’m afraid I started you with my lugubrious tones. I’ve got to go away for three months.” “Ned! You can’t! After all our plans. I won’t hear of it ” “Wait, dearest!” the man pleaded. “Os course I won’t go if you say not ” “Os course I say not ” “But it’s a real opportunity—to make forty or fifty thousand. Wait till I tell you about it, anyway.” He told her simply: the exact plan that his father had proposed. Her interest quickened as he talked. The idea of trading obsolete gowns for beautiful furs was particularly attractive to her. “I've got some old things I could spare,” she told him eagerly. “Why couldn’t you take these with you and trade them to some old squaw for furs?” “I could! I don’t see why I shouldn’t bring you back some beauties.” “I’d like some silver fox—and enough sable for a great wrap. Oh, Ned — do you think you could get them for me?” His face seemed rather drawn and j mirthless as he returned her stare. ' It had been too complete a victory. ! It can be said for the man that he ‘ had come with the idea of persuading Lenore to let him go, to let him j leave her arms for the sake of the advantages to be accrued from the j expedition, but at least he wanted ! her to show some regret. “Ned, what kind of a trip wlil this be?” she asked him. He was more held by the undertone of excitement“ln her voice than by the question itself. “What it is?” -he asked. “What do you mean —?” “I mean—will it be a hard trip—one of danger and discomfort?” h* “I don’t think so. I’m going to get a comfortable yacht—it will be a launch, of course, but a big, comfortable one—have a good cook and pleasant surroundings. It’s all in my hands —hiring crew. schooner, itinerary-, and everything. Os course, father told a wild story about cold and hardship and danger, but I don’t believe there’s a thing in it.” “I don't either. It makes me laugh, those wild and woolly stories about the North! This hardship they talk about is all poppycock, and you know it —and the danger, too. To ! hear your father talk, and some of the others of the older generation, you’d think they had been through the infernal regions! They didn’t have the sporting instincts that've been developed in the last generation, Ned." She paused, and he stared at her blanityy. He knew perfectly well that some brilliant idea had occurred to her; he was simply waiting for her to tell it. She moved nearer and slipped her hand between his. “Ned, I've a wonderful plan,” she told him. “There’s no reason why we should be separated for three months. You say the hiring of the launch, itinerary, and everything is in your hands. Why not take mother and me with you?” “My dear—” “Why not? Tell me that! The J doctor has just recommended her a sea trip. Where could she get a better one? Os course you’d have to get a big, comfortable launch—” “Take you—l should say I will take you—and your mother, too,” he was exclaiming with the utmost enthusiasm and delight. "Lenore, it will be a regular party—a joy ride such as we never took before.” IV IED planned to rise early, but sleep was heavy upon him L_~—l when he tried to wakeu. It was after ten when he had finished breakfast and was ready to Degin actives preparations for the excursion. His first work, of course, was to see about hiring a launch. Ten minutes’ ride took him to the office of his friend, Rex Nard, vice president of a great marine-outfitting establishment, and five minutes’ con- j versation with this gentleman told him all he wanted to know. Yes, as It happened, Nard knew of a corking craft that was at that moment in need of a charterer, possibly just the thing that Cornet wanted. “This particular craft was built for a scientific expedition sent out by one of the great museums,” Nard explained "It isn't just a fisherman's scow. She has a nifty galley and a snug little dining saloon, and two foxy little staterooms for extra toney passengers. Quite an up-stage little boat. Comfortable as any yacht you ever saw.” “How about cargo space?” . “I don’t kpow exactly—but it was big enough for several tons of walrus and musk ox skeletons, so it ought to suit you.” “What do you think I could get her for?” “I don’t think —I know. I was talking to her owner yesterday noon. You can get her for ninety days for five thousand dollars —seventy-five per for a shorter time. That includes the services of four men, licensed pilot, first „ and second engineer, and a nigger cook: and gas and oil for the motor.” Ned stood up, his black eyes sparkling with elation, and put on his hat. “Where do I find her?” “Hunt up Ole Knutsen, at his address.” Nard wrote an instant on a strip of paper. "The name of the craft is the Charon.” Ned drove to the designated address. found the owner of the craft, and executed a charter after ten minutes of conversation. Knutsen was a big, good-natured man with a goudly share of Norse blood that had paled his eyes and hair. Together they drew up the list of supplies. “Os oourse, we might put In some of dls stuff at nordern ports," Knutsen told him in the unmistakable accent of the Norse. “You’d save money, though, by getting It here.” “All except one item—last but not least,” Ned assured him. “I've got to stop at Vancouver.” "Canadian territory-, eh —?” “Canadian whisky. Six cases of imperial quarts. We'Jl be gone a long time, and a sailor needs his grog.” There was really very little els? for Ned to do. The silk gowns and frraw that were to be his principal artiepP of trade would not be received
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for a few days at least; and seemingly he had arranged for everything. He started leisurely back toward h!s father’s office. But yes, there was one thing more. His father had said that his staft must include a fitter —a woman who could ply the needle and make minor alterations in the gowns. He knew where he could procure someone to do-the fitting. Had not Bess Gilbert, when he had left hei at the door the previous evening, told him that she knew all manner o! needlecraft? Her well-modeled, ath letic, though slender form could endure such hardships as the work in volved; and she had the temperament exactly needed; adventurous, uncom plaining, courageous. He turned at once out Madison where Bess lived. She was at work at that hour, a gray, sweet-faced woman told him but he was given directions where he might find her. Ten minutes later he was talking to the young lady herself. (Continued in Our Next Issue) Train Kills Man 8v 'Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., Sept. I.—Herschel Neimith, East Toledo, Ohio, was killed when struck by a New York Central flier at a crossing in Indiana Harbor. Baptists Close Meetings Hfr Times Special VERSAILI.ES, lnd., Sept. I—The Laughery Baptist Association, including thirteen churches of southeastern Indiana, closed a two-day convention Friday. There were 297 delegates registered.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
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THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY
Ollle Griffith won the city horseshoe pitching championship in a tourney at Brazil. Earl Mann, florist, was elected a member of the board of directors of the American Floral Society at the annual convention at Boston, Mas. It took 1,100 marks for a German friend to mall a letter to John Seigelin of Brazil. Wayne County Is said tombe in the only section of the* state where the death rate from tuberculosis is in- ( creasing. More than 300 children and mothers were the guests of the Richmond branch of the Salvation Army at the l?ifth annual picnic. Following a quarrel, H C. Bates, stockbuyer, fired at him and chased his former business partner, Fred Dobbs, through the streets of Crothersville with a shotgun. Dr. Harry Shields, Republican has been appointed postmaster at Brownstown to succeed J. Ross Robertson, Democrat. A $25,000 damage suit has been filed against The Peoples National Bank of Rushville, Earl H., and Ralph Payne, officials, In which the plantilf alleges conspiracy Jp defraud creditors. A Catholic school for the training of to be erected near
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Huntington. A fund of $60,000 has been donated by a California man for the purpose. When Beatrice Ernest was attacked by a man she found robbing her home It was the tenth time in three weeks hat an unknown man has tried to rob Petersburg homes where women were left alone. Salaries of all city employees in the poiice and fire department at Hunt- • ngton have been raised. The city council at Shelbyvllle has appropriated S6OO to pay its share in the fight against the increased rates in the Indiana Bell Telephone case. Property assessments in Decatur county for taxation purposes this year show an Increase of over a half million dollars. Marion city schools are to have a new athletic field. $300,000 Laundry Plant The Excelsior Laundry Company, 222 N. Alabama St., plans to erect a new $300,000 laundry plant on a site 127 feet on N. New Jersey St. and 65 feet on Ft. Wayne Ave. Three buildings will be built, Blaine H. Miller, president of the company said. Razing of ten dwelling houses and two business houses on the site has begun. The new plant will be oompleted about March 1.
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junction with the Riley Memorial Association exhibit. Treatment for diseases of the skelotal muscles, which are given dally at the Long Hospital, will be given at the fairground daily from 10 to 11 a. m. and from 3 to 4 p. m. The work will be In charge of Mrs. Beatrice O’Hara, in charge of corrective gymnastic work at the hospital. Other hospital attendants will give demonstrations during each day of the fair in the care and bathing of patients at the hospital. The demonstrations will be conducted at the side and on the porch of the Studebaker building.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 1,1923
—By BLOSSER
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