Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 114, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1925 — Page 24

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GLORIA

THE STORY SO FAR Gloria Gordon, beautiful flapper, marries Dick Gregory, a struggling lawyer Her idea of marraige is fun and fine clothes . . . but no work or children. When Dick suggests that she do her own ho usework, she has hysterics. Dick borrow* his mother's maid. Maggie. to teach Gloria to cook. But she refuses to learn. Gloria gives a gay housewarming, and invites Stan'ey Wayburti, an actor with whom she had once been in love, to be one of the guests. When Dick sees Wayburn. he is jealous of him, although the actor carefully confines his attention to Myra Gail a married friend of Gloria's. The party breaks up when Lola Hough scolds Bill, her husband, for “petting'' with May Seymour, wite of Dr. John Seymour. Maggie, disgusted. quits her job. Then Gloria hires Ranphild Swanson. anew maid, although Dick tells her they can't afford one. And she buys some new and expensive clothes, and insists upon having an automobde of her own. At this time she begins to be iealous of Dick's secretary. Miss Briggs. Gloria goes driving with Wayburn in the car, and is see.i by Mother Gregory. One day when Gloria believes D'ek tc be out of town on business she invites Wayburn. May Seymour and May's lover. Jim Carewe. to the house. Dick comes home unexpected!v. Furiously angry, he turns to Gloria to demand if she actually dared to ask Wayburn to his house. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY By Beatrice Burton CHAPTER XX LORY tossed her head wilfully. “Yes, I did ask Mr. Wayburn here!" she answered. “Was that such a terrible thing to d0?.... To have a few friends in to cheer me up? You hike off on a business trip, never suggesting that I go along! Never thinking that I might possibly be lonely here! And then you get sore because I don't spend my time crying over it!” She pulled herself away from Dick. He turned toward the hall. May and Jim stood there, still, waiting to see what was going to happen. “May, this is your doing,” Dick said, his voice trembling. He put one hand on the back of a tall Jacobean chair to steady himself. "You know that everybody in town is talking about you and Jim,” he went on, "so you want to drag my wife down to your own 1eve1.... Well, you're not going to do it! I forbid you ever to come here again! You, or your lover, either! Now get out... .both of you!” May burst into careless laughter. “Oh, we’re going, but not because you say so! We were just leaving when you came,” she cried gaily. “And don’t you be so sure that I framed this little party today. Ask your wife whose idea it was!.... Come along, Jimmie!” The pair of them went, leaving a dead silence in the house behind them. At last Dick broke it. “Glory, I wouldn’t have believed it of you,” he said, mopping his damp forehead. His eyes were fixed on his wife. Glory, with bent head, stood in the doorway. Both she and Dick seemed to have forgotten that Stanley Wayburn was still in the room. “I don’t see what there is to make such a fuss about,” GlOry said, poutting childishly. “There’s nothing so disgraceful about my having two or three people in to tea, i.i broad daylight, is there?” “Tea?” Dick gave a short laugh. "The house smells like a distillery, not a tearoom!... .Was it tea you were drinking from those highball glasses?” He indicated the two empty ones that stood on his smoking stand. "Oh, Jim brought that stuff along. You know how he thinks he has to drink every five minutes or he isn’t having a good time!” Glory said easily, “Stan and I really didn’t want any of it.” Stan and I!....Dick turned and looked intently at Wayburn as if he had just seen him for the first time in his life. Under the cold, steady gaze, Stan shifted uneasily in his chair. / ** * I eE put out one hand, and chose a fresh cigaret from the silver box beside nim. Wi h seeming carelessness, he struck a ma+ch to it. He leaned back, puffing idly. But his wary eyes never left Dick’s face. Glory felt as if time, itself, had stopped. She held her breath. Her eyes went first to one man, then to the other. She could see that each was tak ng the other’s measure... .like two prize fighters in the ring. Suddenly she remembered that Dick had once told her that he had a savage temper. He had said that the reason he never fought with people was because he was afraid of his own physical violence when his blood was up. .. .because he was afraid he might injure his adversary without fully knowing what he was doing! She had scarcely believed him then. She saw now that it was the truth that he had told her about himself. His hands were tensed so that they had whitened along the knuckles. Glory could tell from the set of his jaw that his teeth were tightclenched. His face was ashen. She saw that he was deaf, blind and numb to everything hut his own anger . . t that he was quite capable of killing Wayburn then and there! She could scarcely recognize in him the quite, self-contained Dick she had always known .. . the husband who had pampered and spoiled hes. With a kind of horror Glory watched him slowly cross the room and stand before his own arm-chair, where Wayburn sat smoking. Fascinated, she waited, not daring to move a muscle. What was he going to do? But Dick did nothing. He stood perfectly quiet, looking down at the actor. Glory saw that the hand that held Wayburn’s cigaret was shaking Finally Dick’s voice cut the stillness like a knife-edge. “Wayburn, you . . . wel 1 never mind what you are! But I know and so do you! And I know what you’re doing here!" Dick said. "I know what my wife’s doing here, with you! . . And that’s all ended!|’ * • • S r TAN’S mouth went up at one corner in his crooked smile. . He flicked the ash from his cigaret before he answered. But Glory could see that he- was terribly afraid . . . that he needed all his afcting ability to carrj: Ailm through this crisis.

“Very well, 111 go,” Wayburn said in a slow, leisurely way.

“Is that so?” Wayburn asked, carelessly. Dick turned to his wife. “Go upstairs while we settle this thing!” he ordered her. Glory braced herself. She shook her head slowly. “No, I won’t go upstairs!” she said. “All this concerns me as much as it does you . . . only you’re so silly to make a scene about such a trifle!, Why, I don’t begin to see as much of Stan as you do of your Miss Briggs every day! . . . How do I know you started away on a business trip at all? How do I know that you weren't somewhei-e with her all day? .... It looks pretty queer to me—your rushing back here when you were supposed to he out of town! Mighty queer!” Dick’s mouth tightened. “Get upstairs” he said savagely. His voice was like a whip. Without another word Glory went. She fairly flew up the long flight and stopped at the top to listen. There was no sound from the floor below. In sudden panic she flew into the room that she and Dick shared and locked the door behind her. There was high excitement in hen It was the sort of thrill that a cave-woman might have felt thousands of years ago as she watched two stone-age warriors fighting to the death over her. She laughed wildly and hysterically. “Oh, if he were only like that always!” she thought. She shivered at the memory of Dick’s righteous anger .... the cold fury in his eyes when he had ordered her upstairs. He had ne -r er seemed so splendid! And she had obeyed him! .... For the first time in her life she had obeyed him! . . . She was mortally afraid of him, too! *■ * * EHE telephone on the table be'side her bed rang sharply. "Hello, dear.” It was May’s voice, ‘I just called up to see if you were all right. Has your lord and master calmed down yet?” “No, he's still ranting around, downstairs,” Glory answered, "but I think awfully sick . . . really, I do. May. He looks it. I think that’s how he happened to come home ahead of time. He said this morning that he was going to be gone two or three days.” “Don’t kid me Birdie.... I'm simple," May answered in her cheerful slang. “I’ll bet ycu anew -wring hat that he had a hunch you’d throw a little party as soon as he was gone, Puzzle a Dav In the first flower of this wreath is the letter ”S.” If you place the correct lettters in the three remaining flowers you will be able to read four different words. Start with any one of the first three letters and read clockwise or start with the last letter and read counter clockwise. Hast puzzle ansker: In one week a party of hunters bagged 37 animals; 37 times 3 equals 111; 37 time 6 equals 222; 37 time 9 actuals 333; 37 times 12 equals 444; 37 times 15 equals 555; 37 times 18 equals 668. In each case the product contains the same digit repeated three times.

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;tnd he came home unexpectedly to find 0ut.... Well, you didn't disappoint him, did you, dear?” She laughed. Nothing in the world was serious to May but her clothes, her complexion, and her good times! “No, you’re wrong for once, May,” Glory gravely told her. “Dick wouldn’t spy on me. He's too honest and above-board, himself—.l’m sure he's sick. Will you please ask Dr. John to come over and have a look at him? Dick’s never been quite well since he had the flu before Christmas, you know.” “John’s not at home, although I expect him any minute.” May answered. ‘‘You might try to reach him at his office.” She rang off. Glory called Dr. John's office. He answered the phone, himself. ’’Will you stop in here to see Dick for a minute n your way home?” Glory asked h.m. “He came home sick a while ago.” There was a long silence. “I don’t understand. Glory.” Dr. John said at last. “I just saw Dick half an hour ago. He stopped 1n at my office on his way from the train, looking pretty shaky. I told him to go home and go to bed . . . and that I’d look in on him again, after dinner.” “Oh, I didn't know that.” Glory faltered. "Well, come now, anyway, will you? Please?" She was afraid to be alone in the house with Dick, after Wayburn had gone. She wished that she had not given Ranghild the afternoon off. “lil.be there inside of fifteen minutes." Dr. John promised. Glory could tell he was puzzled. Swiftly she took off her blue gown and slipped the silver band from her hair. She took a plain black dress from her closet and put it on. For she fervently hoped that Dick had not noticed how she had decorated herself for Wayburn’s visit! Glory picked a buffer up from her dressing table and ran it idly across her shining nails. She was thinking hard. She be-

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Dick Gregory Orders Stanley Wayburn to Leave His Home and Not Return.

gan to wonder if Stanley Wayburn was worth all the trouble that he brought into her life . . . the heartbreak, the Jealousy, and the lies. . . • • * —E had seemed a despicable coward downstairs just now. when Dick had faced him with that deadly anger of his. Glory had seen the fear In Stan’s eyes, even when his lips were curled into a sneering smile. Here she was . . . riskjng everything to be with him, ’ and she Wasn't even sure that he loved her. She couldn’t make him say that he cared for her! Despair swept over Glory. Ah, if she only knew! If she could only be sure that Stan loved her . . . nothing else would matter to her then! Nothing! Glory threw the buffer down among the silver boxes and brushes on her dressing table. She unlocked the door of the bedroom. Without making a sound she crept clown the stairs to the landing. She leaned over the banister and listened. The two men were just coming out of the living room. Dick was talking in that same cold monotone. Glory caught the end of a sentence. • . never again so long as you live.” he was saying. “And now. get out!” Wayburn came into Glory's range of vision. She could see that he was still smiling. Outwardly he waq debonair. “Very well, I'll go,” he said in a slow, leisurely way. Glory heard the front door close behind him. (To Be Continued)

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