Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 124, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1925 — Page 12

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GLORIA

THE STORY SO FAR: GLORIA GORDON, beautiful flapper, marries DICK GREGORY, a ntruMUng young lawyer. Her idea of marriage is fun and flue clothes . . . but no work or children. Dick borrows his mother’s maid, MAGGIE, to tiach her to cook. But rha refuses to learn. Later Maecie leaves, disgusted with Gloria a ‘‘wild parties and jazzy friends. Then Gloria hires RANGIoID SWANSON, although Dick tells her they can’t aiford a muni. And she swamps Dick with debts. He sellß his old roadster to cay for the new car the Insists upon having. Gloria goes riding in it with STANLEY WAY BURN, an actor with whom she was onee in love, and is seen by MOTHER GREGORY ! Next dav Gloria asks Wayburn. MAY SEYMOUR, wife of DR. JOHN SKfMCu'a, and Muy’s lover, .TIM CAREWE. to the house. A jolly party is in progress when Dick returns and puts the guests out. Gloria visits Wayburn in his room end leaves in a tit of jealous anger when she sees dozens of women’s photographs on his walls. Dick is brought home ill by his secretary. MISS BRIGGS, lie hovers between life and death for ten davs, nursed by Miss Briggs’ sister, MRS. O’HARA. Gloria eavesdrops while the sisters talk on the telephone and discovers that Miss Briggs is in love with Dick. To escape the house for an hour or two, Gloria goes for a walk with Stanley Wa.vburn. She tells him how jealous she is of all the other women he knows, and he lau*ti“ at her. ' NOW GO ON W ITH THE STORY CHAPTER. XXX G r— ‘—I LORIA and YVayburn walked on in silence for a few u. .1 minutes. Then Wayburn spoke again. “Look here, Russet! What do you want to bother with me for, any longer?" he asked. "You quarrel with me all the time we’re together, anyway. It doesn’t nuike you happy to be with me any more, does it?” Gloria frowned thoughtfully. “It makes me awfully unhappy not to be with you,” she said simply. "And Stan, I don’t quarrel with you.” “You nag me about other women, though," Wayburn said, "and I don’t deserve it. I’m no sheik.” Gloria brightened- “ You do like me, don’t you?" she asked, comforted. Wayburn nodded. "And there's something else I want to say to you, Russett.... You know, I have a hunch that you care for this husband of yours a lot more than you think you do. What you hate is married life—being tied down. Isn't that so?” he asked. Gloria stopped dead. She turned to Wayburn in a blaze of anger. "So that's it! You’re tired of me!” she declared. "You want to kid me into thinking I’m crazy about Dick, so I won't bother you any more, don’t you?... .Well, maybe I am crazy about him!....But you, you oil can! I'll bet you have some new girl on your string this minute.... some cheap Sonya Chotek or other!” A wild passion of shame and selfdisgust swept over her. She turned to run away from Wayburn. But he caught her by one arm and drew her to his side with a strong steady pull. “You young wild cat!" he laughed. “Who could be tired of you?” But Gloria was not to be so.othad. She jerked herself from Wayburn, and dashed furiously dc wn the street.

r"T~l MINUTE later she was sorry I Zjk I she had lost her temper. * She violently wished that Stan would call her back, or come after her. But he did not. She walked on toward the center of town with her head held high. Hot tears stung her eyeballs. But sho blinked them away. The sun had set. And the chill of early evening crept into the still air. Gloria went into a drug store and bought a theatrical magazine. She read it, sitting on a high stool, as she slowly sipped a chocolate malted milk. On the cover was a picture of Kit Cameron, an Indianapolis girl, who had become a Broadway chorus girl. Gloria knevr Kit Cameron. She and Kit had gone to business college together four years ago. “And here she is on Broadway!” Gloria said to herself, “and I’m still here in the same old rut, wondering what it’s all about!” She looked longingly at Kit’s picture, wishing her own were in its place. Then she raised her eyes to the mirror at the back of the soda fountain. Her own reflection smiled back at her, adorably. “Why, I'm twice as good looking as Kit!” she told herself. “I’ll bet I could land a job on Broadway in fifteeh minutes, if I half tried!” The thought was comforting to her wounded vanity. She felt much better as she left the drug store and stepped out into the darkness. She walked home, trying hard not to think of Stanley Wayburn. When she got home, Mrs. O'Hara was playing solitaire in the living room. She looked up as Gloria came in. "Ranghild left your supper in 1 '*• warmer for you,” she said. “I don’t want it. I just had a malted milk, and T'm so afraid of getting fat,” Gloria answered. “How’s Dick tonight?” “He seems a little better. Wouldn’t you like to stop in a minute to see Puzzle a Day © ® © © fte|j| ji ® o p ©ZZaZ® © © This word square has just been started. Reading diagonally you will find the word coat. Surrounding the square are enough letters .’o complete it. The problem is to place the given letters so as to form eight new words (* running across and 4 running down) without moving the four diagonal letters. I>a<st puzle answer: The Eskimo shipment of fox furs consisted of five winter white fox at S2OO a skin (or $1,000); fifty (or 5x10) summer white fox at SIOO each (or $5,000); and eight silver fox at SSOO a pc-it (or $-1,000). Adcing you find that these pelts cost SIO,OOO, the amount tha agent received.

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him? He's awake,” said Mrs. O’Hara in her sweet voice, that was so like Miss Briggs’ lovely accents. "I think I will,” the girl answered. She went upstairs and took off her wraps. With unfailing coquetry, she powdered her nose and fluffed up her hair before she went across the hall to see Dick. He was lying in bed, perfectly still. Only his eyes moved. They turned to look at her as she came into the room. They lighted up as she came nearer. His lips moved. But he was too weak to speak. Gloria sat down on the edge of the bed. She took one of Dick’s hands in both of hers. Her heart ached with pity for him. She leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, much as a mother might have kissed her sick child. Dick closed his eyes contentedly. That was what he had wanted. In a few minutes he was asleep.On the table beside Dick's bed was a jar of heavy roses that were beginning to wilt. As Gloria looked at them a petal fell from one of them. Then another, and another, dropped down upon the polished wood of the table. . . . Life was like that. One by one the petals fell from it, leaving it bare. First youtli went. Then love . . . and happiness. At that moment Gloria was sure that life was a sad thing. She got up and tiptoed out of Dick’s room. She threw herself down on her own bed and cried as if her heart would break, because she had lost Stan Wayburn . . . Had she ever had him, she wondered. Had he ever honestly cared for her? Really, hadn’t she, herself, pursued Stan? In her heart of hearts, Gloria knew that she had . . . Well, she had learned her lesson! She would never telephone him again, anywhere! . . . She would not even speak to him if she met him on the street! Dick’s recovery was very slow. The town was gold and green with April before he was allowed to sit up in his chair beside the window. At first he was contented to just sit and watch life and movement In the street below him. But as he grew stronger he called for books. So Mother Gregory and Mrs. O'Hara took turns reading aloud to him. • * * One afternoon when Gloria was passing his door he called to her. “Will you see if you can find Stevenson’s ‘Treasure Island’ for me in the book-cases downstairs?” he asked. Gloria ‘brought it. “This,” he said to her, "is the greatest book for boys that was ever written. Wait until I have a kid of my own to read It t 0....” He broke off, and looked thoughtfully at his wife. His response to her beauty quickened every day. He would find sqmething new—a wave in her redgold hair or the long line of her neck—that made an exquiite discovery. He put out a hand now, and closed it around her wrist.

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' “You’re like a litttle flame,” Dick told her. "They said something when they named you ‘Glory.’ You are a glory!” Gloria moved away from him. She was thankful when the telephone rang at that moment. "Hello, Russet!” It was Stanley Way burn’s voice. "Hello,” Gloria cried, trying to keep her sudden gladness out of her own. “I’m homesick to see you,” Stan said frankly. "And I have a fine bit of news for you, too. If I promise to hide all the pictures of my old sweethearts, will you come over to see me this afternoon?” Gloria hesitated. “Come 0n....be a good sport and say, *Yss,’ ” Stan urged. “All right, I will,” Gloria answered. She hated herself for yielding. But her longing to see Wayburn swept everything else from her mind • • • eE greeted her jauntily. He tried to put his arms around her as he helped her off with her coat. But she slipped out of them. "What's your wonderful news?” Gloria asked. She took refuge in a dignity that was new to her. "Nothing, except that I think I’ve landed a job in New York,” he said carelessly, dropping into a chair opposite her. Gloria felt as if he had dropped a bombshell at her feet. “Well, of all things!” she cried. “In New York!” This was the end, then! Stan’s luck had changed.

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Wayburn Tells Gloria That He Has a Job In New York.

He would have his chance on Broadway. And, of course, he would make a hit. And she would never see him again . . . except from across the footlights. "Oh, I can’t bear it. ... I can't bear it!” she cried, suddenly bursting into tears. She put her head down on the arm of her chair and sobbed. Her heart seemed to be breaking. Stan came over to her, and lifted her head. He looked into her tearstained face. "I haven’t gone yet,” he said. “There’s many a slip 'twixt the man and his job, you know! . . . But you do love me a little, don’t you, Russet?” He looked down at her intently. "Do you know you're an awfully sweet little kid?” he murmured Into her hair. Gloria couldn’t speak. There was nothing in the world for her at that moment, but the sound of Stan’s voice, the blue of his eyes that looked down into hers, and his arms that held her. . . . These, and the aching thought that soon he would be gone away from her. “You do care for rae a little,” he repeated. He kissed her long and clingly upon her heavy lips. Gloria didn't resist him. She seemed to be under a spell, an enchantment. Her head drooped like a flower that is too heavy for its stalk. Her eyes fastened themselves on Stan's hand where it grasped her arm so tightly that it had whitened along the knuckles. Suddenly she noticed that the sleeve of his gray coat was shiny and frayed along the cuff. She gave a little gasp of pity. He freed her, and stood looking at it with a rueful smile. “I have a suit for every occasion, and this is it!” he said lightly. Gloria laughed. The spell that held her was oroken. •‘lt's getting late,” she said. “I must go." Wayburn gripped her by both wrists. (To Be Continued.)

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