Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 118, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1925 — Page 12

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GLORIA

THE STORY SO FAR Gloria Gordon, beautiful flapper, marries Dick Gregory, a young lawyer. Her idea of marriage is fun ard fine clothes . . . but no work (r children. She has hysterics when Deck tells her she'll have to do her own houiework. Dick borrows Maggie. h's mother's maid to teach Gloria t> cook. But she refuses to learn. Gloria gives a gay housewarming, and invites Stanley Wayburn. an actor with whom she was once in love. When he comes Dick is instantly jealous of him. although he devotes all his attention to Mrs. Myra Gail. The wild party breaks up when T.o!a Hough scolds Bill, her husband, for “petting" May Seymour, wife of Dr. John Seymour. Maggie, disgusted, quits her job. Gloria hires Ranghild Swanson as maid, although Dick tells her they cannot afford a servant. Then Gloria buys hundreds ot dollars' worth of clothes and insists upon having a new car In despair. Dick sells his old roadster to buy one for her. Gloria takes Vvavburn joy-riding, and is seen hy mother Gregory, who begs Gloria to mend her ways. Next day Gloria invites Wayburn. Mav Seymour and Jim Carewe. to the house. A party is in progress when Dick returns. He puts the guests out of the house. Mother Gregory manages to have Glor a e’eoted to the Home Women s Club. May Seymour finds that she has been left out of the membership, because of her affair with Jim Carewe. Crushed, she decides to give Jim up. NOW GO ON WITH THK STORY By Beatrice Burton CHAPTER XXIV ARLY the next morning while Gloria and Ranghild were u- busily unpacking the wardrobe trunk, the front doorbell rang three times. “That’s Mrs. Seymour’s ring. Ask her to come up here, please, Ranghild.” Gloria said. Sure enough it was May. May triumphant! In anew spring suit and a felt hat crowned with lilacs! She was freshly rouged and powdered. And there was a flicker of humor in her green eyes....ln short, May was herself again! “Ah, hah. you thought I’d be in sackcloth and ashes, didn’t you?" she asked Gloria in her impudent way, “just because I’d had a turndqwn from a club of miserable old frumps? Not on your eyebrow pencil! Those dames can’t high-hat me. dearie.... I don’t want to belong to their little group of serious thinkers.” May sat down before Gloria’s dressing table and rubbed some perfume under her pointed chin. She grinned impishly. “Are you going to join? I oon’t exactly see you in a Home ’Women’s club,” she said. “You’re hardly a homekeeping type. Glory. I wish you wouldn’t join.... I think you owe it to me not to! Just to show those women that they can’t snub me and get sway with it!” Gloria set her lips firmly. “I’ve promised Mother Gregory I’d join,” she said. She had no intention of being an outcast along with May. There were points where fnendship ceased. This was one of hem! “I thought you didn't care a darn whether you got into the club or not, anyway,” Gloria went on. “You just said you didn't!” May bit her lip. “That was pure bunk," she confessed. "Whistling in the dark to keep up my courage.” May wiped hr eyes and blew her nose loudly. Gloria could see that she was having hard work to fight hack the tears in her eyes. “Between you and me, Gloria,” she said shakily, “it's all hut killed me to hear that they didn’t, want me in that club.... I never used to .care what women said about me, but this got my goat, somehow. You take it from me, It’s no use trying to buck other women. They’ve laid down certain lines, and unless a girl fol lows them, they'll get her... .they’ve almost got me. “Why, this morning when Jim phoned I wouldn’t even let him talk to me....’f raid the phone girl might be listening in. And, cross my heart, there never has been anything really wrong between me ancl Jim ....just a little foolishness.” * * *

G" LORIA was sure that May was telling the truth. “I came in to ask you to go downtown with me. but I can see you're too busy,” May said naturally, after a minute or two. "Don’t forget that I'm having the card-club Thursday, will you? It’s the last time we’ll all see our loving enemy, Myra Gail, before she goes away next week.” / “I thought you liked Myra,” Gloria said, surprised. “Teh, I love her the way you do!” May retorted, making little claws of her two hands. "But just the same I’d rather have her for a friend than an enemy....and she's a friend of all these club women who’ve iced me. besides!” May picked up a hand mirror and studied her face. "Ye gods, I believe I'm getting a line between my eyebrows!” she cried, “or is it just a shadow? . . . By the way, isn't this hat of mine the cat’s kanittens: 1 spent all the money for the butcher's bill on it. . . . Therejs one place where I can knock the rest of the women for a Chicago loop, anyway ... in my clothes.” Gloria’s smile pitied May, She knew that May was far from being well-dressed. Her hat was too garish, her tan shoes too tan, her thin stockings too thin. Myra Gail was the best dressed

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“You poor simp!” Gloria flamed at her, “to make a bid like that when you had a bust hand! ’ ’

woman in town, when it came to that. With a pang Gloria thought of Paris and the clothes Myra would bring home from Paris. . . . After May had gone, she went back unhappily to the job of unpacking the trunk that was destined not to cross the ocean in the hold of a French boat! . . How stingy Dick was not to let her go with Myra! * * * r-r-i I HAT afternoon a letter came. I | a large white envelope with ~—J handwriting that Tiad a certain dash, a careless charm. Gloria knew, somehow, that it was from Stanley Wayburn before she looked at it. A thrill ran through her as she opened it. "Russet, dear,” it said. “There's so much I want to say to you. And yet when I come to write it. it isn’t much . . . just this; I must see you! When? Where? Make it soon. Phone me.” No name was signed to the little note. Gloria didn't like that. It seemed cowardly not to sign one’s name to a letter.... She would have liked Stan to run chances for her. But then, she knew he never would. He never had. "Safety First.” That was his motto. She tore the paper up and threw it into the waste basket. Then, fearful lest Ranghild might piece it together and read it, she took the torn pieces downstairs and burned them in the living room grate. After that she ran upstairs to her room, bolted the door, and telephoned Stanley Wayburn. An hour later the two of them were together . . . speeding along the lonely country roads west of tne town, in the car that had been Gloria's birthday gift from Dick. Gloria’s heart was like a wild bird, suddenly freed from the cage that had bruised Its wings. The eyes she turned to Wayburn were starry with happiness, and wet with tears of relief at seeing hin. again. “I’ve mbsed you so!” she said. Wayburn's arms went around her like a He kissed her hungrily. Gloria closed her eyes. “Lock out!" Stan yelled. He grabbed the steering wheel just In tifne to keep them from swerving off the road into the ditch that ran along It. Gloria straightened her hat, and took a tighter hold on the wheel. “Well," she sighed, "if I have to die in an automobile accident, I'd rather be with you at the time than ar.ione else in the world'" Stan smiled grimly.

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"I'm not so keen on dying just now, so keep your eyes on the road.” he said . . . Under his hatshness, Gloria drooped like a flower. It was blue dusk w r hen they drove hack into town. The street-lamps made golden pools in the wet streets. * * • G* - " - LORIA drove the car into a dark and lonely side-street to i— let Waymirn out. A few days ago this precaution would never Have occured to her. But since May had been black-balled hy the Home Women’s club Gloria was afraid of people, and the things they might say . . . about her and Stan. “Will you meet me day. after tomorrow . . . same time anil place?" Stan asked, opening the door of the machine. Gloria shook her head “Can't,” she said. "That's Thurs day. I've promised May I’d go to the card-club meeting that day.” She longed to ask him why he couldn’t meet her the next afternoon. But she hadn’t the courage . . . She bad a miserable conviction that there was a woman mixed up In everything Stan did, evefy engagement. he had. “Search for the woman," and you often found Stan, at the same time' And Thursday afternoon when Gloria went up the front walk to May's house, she was still wondering with whom Stan's engagement on Wednesday had been. Sonya Chotek had left town. That eliminated her. Perhaps it had been Myra Gail whom . in had seen! A moment later Gloria was kissing Myra in May’s big bedroom, as they took off their wraps "How are you, Myra?” she asked sweetly. "Didn’t I see you downtown yesterday afternoon?” “Not me,” Myra shook her head. "I was out in the country driving all day." Instantly Gloria was filled with wild jealousy. She was sure that Myra had been driving with Stanley Wayburn . . . just as sure as if she had seen them together! Burning with anger, she went downstairs and found the table where she was to play. Lola Hough sat there, waiting. Lola In her old foulard dress, was bright-eyed and excited. These card-club days were high spots In her dull life. “We’re partners." she said to

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Gloria. "Myra Gail and May are going to play here, too.” Glory was sorry she had to start out the game with Lola for a partner. She was a very poor player, and nearly always spoiled her partner's chances for the prize. Myra and May sat down at the table presently. Gloria dealt the cards. She fairly slapped them 1 down on the table as If they were I live things to vent her spite upon! * * * SHE very first hand Lola lost her game. Two red spots of color rose in Gloria’s face. All her anger toward Stanley Wayburn and Myra gathered like a cyclone. In Its path. Iyola stood quite defenseless. “You poor simp!" Gloria flamed at her, “to make a bid like that when you had a bust hand! You must be crazy! I should think you'd learn a few rules of theVame, If you're going to even make a stab at playing bridge!" All the color drained out of Lola's cheeks. If Gloria had slapped her face she couldn't have hurt her more. She put one hand on the table and rose. Every woman In the room was looking at her. "I’m sorry." she said. “Perhaps I shouldn't play cards with people like you, who never forget that there's a prize at the end of the game. I don't play a professional game like yours!" May came across the room. “Please, gir , don’t quarrel," she said, trying to push Lola down In her chair. "Do sit down, Lola, and go on with your game." But Lola was firm. "No," she said with a breaking voice, "I'm going. There's no use In my trying to keep up with you gir15....1 don’t have time to play often enough to keep my wits sharp And I shouldn't have come today, at all. I left my Ironing to c0me...." She went unsteadily upstairs to get her wraps. “Well, let's get on with our game," Gloria broke the cold silence Lola had left behind her. “She really hasn't any business to be playing bridge, anyway. She's the worst player!" Suddenly Myra got up, too. "I think I'll go with I>ola," she said quietly. (To Be Continued)

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