Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 110, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1925 — Page 12

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GLORIA

THE STORY SO FAR Gloria Gordon, beautiful flapper, marries Dick Gregory, struggling young lawyer. Her idea of marriage is good times, good clothe.. . . . ana no work or children! Dick borrows his mother’s maid. Maggie, to teach Gloria to cook. But she refuses to learn. Dick has ail attack of flu. While he is working at home with Miss Briggs, his secretary, Gloria plans a house-warming. She asks Stanley Wayburn, an actor with whom she was once in love, to be one of the guests. He accepts. When Dick meets Wayburn he is Instantly jealous. although the actor devotes himself to Mrs. Gail. Glory drinks too much, and faints away while dancing with Dr. John Seymour, whose wife. May. is in love with Jim Carewe. The party breaks up when Tola Hough scolds Bill, her husband, for petting. Maggie, disgusted, quits her job and returns to mother Gregory. Then Gloria hires Ranghtld Swanson. although Dick says they can't afford a maid. She buys S4OO worth of new' clothes, and Insists upon anew automobile. Dick sells his old car to pay for the new one. They go to Gloria's parents on her birthday, and while they are at dinner, Dick gives Glory a folded sheet of paper which he says, contains a birthday gift. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY By Beatrice Burton CHAPTER XVI r LORY took the folded sheet of G paper that Dick held out to _____ her. “Birthday present?” she repeated. “Why, I thought my darling litle car was all the birthday present I was going to get!” Dick laughed indulgently. “Well, I thought I'd better give you two presents this year. Next birthday I may be too poor to give you even one,” he said. “Aren't you going to take a look at my gift, Littlest?” Glory unfolded the thick crackling sheet. It was a certificate for ten shares of telephone stock. She handed it across the table to her father. “Isn’t that nice?” she asked. “The dividends from it ought to buy me a hat once in a while, don’t you think?” Mrb. Gordon looked ruefully at Dick. “That girl and her hats!” she exclaimed. “Do you know, Dick, after Glory was married, I was looking through her clothes closet. And I found eight hats that she’d left on the closet shelf. Eight of them! Not old hats, either, hut new fall ones! I fixed two of them over, for myself, and gave the rest of them to the neighbors. Half the street is wearing Glory’s castoff hats this winter!” “Well, now, mother,” Glory’s father interrupted, “that was all right. You can’t blame a girl for fixing herself up for her beau, can you? Dick thought he was courting Glory but she was really courting him. . . with her hats. She was like a bird preening its feathers in mating time, that’s all.” “She goes right on preening, sir,” Dick said humorously. “She’s bought a half dozen hats since we’ve been married.” “I have not!" Glory contradicted furiously. “I’ve had only three!” • * * ICK, you make me tired with I j all this talk of yours on __J economy, anyhow!” Glory reopened the subject ‘on the way home. “All you do is to preach to me that we’re too poor to afford a maid, or a machine, or a few decent clothes! . . . And then you turn right ’round and buy a thousand dollars’ worth of telephone stock that means absolutely nothing in my life! . . . What I want to know Is how you could afford to do it if we’re as poor as you say we are?”' Dick walked on In silence for several minutes. “Asa matter of fact, T couldn’t afford to do it. I nearly broke my neck trying to pay for that stock," he said at last. “I borrowed part of the money from Dad, and you know I had to sell my roadster to buy you your car . . “That’s right, rub it In! Make me feel like a selfish pig!" Glory interrupted, “just because I want a car like every other woman in town, your own precious mother included! .... I swear I’ll never ride In the thing! You can send it back . . * • • S* - HE stood still in the street and began to cry. v— “I don’t believe I deserve this outburst from you. Glory,” Dick said. "In fact, I know I don’t. And If you want to stand here and cry . . go ahead and do it! I’m going home. . . • • But he didn’t move. Glory knew he wouldn’t. She went on crying. Then she felt Dick’s arms around her. She put her head down on his shoulder. “You’re so mean to me,” she sobbed. They walked on. "I’m so sorry you think so, sweetheart,” Dick said quietly. “I suppose I shouldn’t w< rry you about money matters, but I’ve been running behind lately. . . . Gosh, I hadn't figured on married life helng as expensive as it is! . . , I wonder how people get along who have

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“Take a look at the stubs in that,” he said abruptly “They’ll give you an idea of what we re spending.”

two or three children to feed and clothe . . . ?” “Well, that's one thing you needn’t worry about babies," Glory said, “because we aren’t going to have any, ever!” “Not ever?” Dick asked gravely. His hand tightened on her arm. “What's the tig idea? Don't you really want children, Glory? Why, you’d be the sweetest little mother in the world!... .Why, .sure, you want babies, honey!” In the darkness Glory's eyes were hard, her lips set stubbornly. "Don’t kid yourself!” she said firmly. “Children are the very last things in the world that I want, i Dick.” “You'll feel differently about it | later 0n.... in a year or two,” he | assured her. "Every woman wants | a family.” “I never will!” Glory told herself, as they turned into their own street.' Aloud she said, “Let’s run out to the garage and see that my car is safe and all right, before we go into the house, will you?” She could hardly wait for Dick to open the garage doors and switch on the light. Glory walked all around the little blue car with its burnished brass trimmings shining in the electric light. "Oh, you cute thing! I never thought I’d own anything like you!” she cried, patting the mudguards with her little gloved hands, lovingly. * • • B*~ Y the end of the week Glory had learned to drive the car. u—J She went Christmas shopping in it, bringing it home loaded with beribboned packages. “You’ll Just perfectly kill me, Dick, when the bills come in!" Glory said one mornirg. “So don’t buy me a Christmas present .. . just pay my bills instead, like a good sport! They aren’t so awfully big.” But when the bills came in the first week in January, they were very big. .. .much larger than Glory had expected. She was sure that the stores had made a mistake in them, somewhere. She went over them again and again, with the same result. She owed exactly six hundred dollars . . two hundred of it for Christmas gifts! Glory kept the bills in the top drawer of her desk for two days. On the third day she screwed up her courage to show them to Dick. She would take them to him at his office. Miss Briggs would be there, of course. And Dick couldn't scold and

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rave about the bills in front of Miss Briggs! . . . Glory dressed herself with great rare. On the way downtown she stopped at the florist's and bought an orchid for her coat. The windshield mirror told her that she was looking unusually loreiy. . It would he much harder for D ck to quarrel with a beautiful wife who had run up S6OO worth of bills, than with a plain unattractive one. , . It was nice to lie beautiful. It made things so much simpler! • * * SHERE was no one at Miss Briggs' desk in Dick's outer office. e rom the inner room came the sound of voices. Glory sat down in Miss Briggs' swivel chair to wait. The office was warm. After a while Glory took off her coat, and then her hat. The tight crown had left a red band on her forehead. She rubbed it gently with her fingertips. . , . " —and I told him that Mother and I could take care of the two older children. But I guess it’s going to be too much for Mother. She's not so very well.’’ Miss Briggs’ voice! And what was she talking about? . . . Glory listened. Silence for a loog moment. Then Dick’s voice. “Would it help you any if I gave you a little raise say about $5 more a week?” he was saying. “Then you could hire a woman to help your mother out with the children.” “Os course, *t would help but I think you're paying me all I’m worth now, Mr. Gregory,” Miss Briggs’ soft voice answered. Her shadow appeared on the frosted glass pane of the door between the two offices. Glory rose. She gathered her bills In one hand and opend the door. Miss Briggs nodded at her, and slipped out. “Hello, there, Kikky-Tikky Tavy!” Glory greeted Dick cheerfully. She perched herself on the comer of Dick's desk. "You'll pardon me for breaking in on your interesting conversation with Miss Briggs but I got tired waiting while she vamped some more salary from you!” “Hush!” Dick said. He walked over and tried the handle of the door to see that it was shut tight. "She'll hear you.” “It's a good thing I caught you in this generous mood,” Gloria went on with sarcasm in her voice,/ “because I’m calling on money matters, myself!” She laid the bills down on Dick’s desk. He didn’t touch them. “I want to explain to you about Miss Briggs,” he said, taking both of his wife’s hands in his. “A month or two ago her sister died, leaving three little children... .and an invalid husband. Miss Briggs and her mother took two of the children to bring up. And Miss Briggs finds they can't do it on her present salary.... She’s a good woman, Glory ... a fine woman!” Glory laughed. She tossed back her bright hair. “All homely women are good,” she said. "It’s only the pretty ones like May Seymour and me who run up bills and gad all day, and worry their husbands into an early grave, isn’t it?....1 know that's what you’re thinking, so I’ll say It for you!” • • • ICK picked up the bills. “Gadzooks!” he exclaimed. “Six hundred smackers!” He opened the top drawer of his desk and took out his check book. “Take a look at the stubs in that!” he said abruptly. “They’ll give you an | idea of what we’re spending!” Glory flung the little book down on the desk. “Why should I look at your old checkbook?” she asked hotly. “Your job is to support me . . . not to everlastingly tell me that you can’t! ...” Two bright spots of color burned like danger signals in her cheeks. “Other women’s husbands’ buy them things that they want!” she \

Gloria Takes Her Bills to Dick’s Office and Asks Him to Pay Them.

stormed. “Are they so much smart- . er than you? Why is it that their wives can have clothes and things j without fighting for them the way I ; have to? And then you give that Briggs woman a big raise the min- i ute she asks you for it! . . . Oh, what’s the use talking about it? j There are the bills! And you’ll have j to pay them, that’s all!” Glory flung herself out of the office, slamming the door behind her so that Its t’ass pane rattled. She ; picked up her coat and hat from j Miss Briggs' desk, without so much as a look at her. Outside In the corridor Glory stopped and put them on. When she got into her car she adjusted her hat before the windshield mirror. The orchid on her coat was wilted. Viciously Glory threw it down into the gutter. | . . . She drove straight through the town, out into the bare, open country. Ahead of her on the lonely road a man was walking, head j down, against the high wind. As Glory approached she saw that it was Stan Wayburn. She put on the brakes. The car slowed to a standstill, just abreast of Stan. He I looked up. Glory opened the door of her car. ! “Well, of all things! To find you here just when I need you most! : Get in!” she rrled. (To Be Continued)

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