Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1925 — Page 14

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THE STORY SO FAR Gloria Gordon, beautiful flapper, marries Dick Gregory, a struggling young lawyer. Her idea of rtiarriage is fun and fine clothes . . . but no work or children 1 She refuses to cook or keep house. She hires Ranghild Swanson to do it for her. although Dick says they can’t afford a maid. And she swamps him with debts for her clothes and an automobile. Gloria becomes infatuated with Stanley Wayburn. an out-of-wok actor. She and Wayburn. with May Seymour and Jim Carewe make a jolly foursome. Wayburn is offered a job on the New York stage. Gloria lends him S2OO of Dick's money to help him out. Dick becomes ill with pneumonia. When he recovers. Dr. John Seymour, husband of the flighty May, sends him away for a rest. Gloria refuses to go along, because Dick’s mother, whom she hates, is going. As soon as they leave on their trip, Gloria sets out for New' York. She goes straight to Wayburn. But he spurns her. and tells her he has just married his leading woman, Sonya Chotek. For two weeks Gloria tries to land a job and fails. Finally she comes home to Dick. He takes her back into the house, hut not as his wife. He feels sure that she would never have come home if Wayburn had wanted her to stay in New York. One night after her return Gloria finds Dick having dinner in a downtown restaurant, with his secretary. Miss Rriegs. of whom Gloria has always been jealous. By Beatrice Burton CHAPTER XUVI LORIA’S first impulse was to laugh when she saw Miss Briggs and Dick at that halfhidden table in the corner of the littlb restaurant. It was certainly th best laugh of the year—to catch the straight-laced Dick out “stepping” on the sly! To catch him taking his secretary out to dinner without telling his wife about it!....1t was too funny. The corners of Gloria’s mouth went up Jn a malicious little smile. Then Dick turned and saw her. And something in his eyes startled her with its intensity. What had he and Miss Briggs been talking about to make him look like that? Could it be that he was in love with her, after all? All the laughter djied on Gloria’s lips at the thought. IWas she siing to play second fiddle to Miss Briggs in Dick’s life? Was she going to be one of the great army of wives whose husbands are in love with their office girls?... .Well, she just guessed not! Not so you could notice it! With fury in her heart, Gloria marched forward to the table where Dick was sitting with Miss Briggs. Dick jumped up and pullpd out a chair for her. “Well, this is a surprise!” he exclaimed. "Yes —I noticed you looked surprised when you saw me.” Gloria answered with sarcasm that bit. Without a word of greeting to Susan Briggs, she sat down at the table. “Have the waiter bring the rest of my dinner over here,” she commanded Dick. “Unless you have something to say to Miss Briggs that you’d rather not have your wife hear.” She laughed unpleasantly. She took out her vanity case and dabbed a bit of rouge on either cheek. Then she raised her eyes to Miss Briggs. “You don’t have to wear rouge, do you?” she asked. “You’re as red as a beet. You look as if you have a fever, right now!” It was true. Poor Miss Briggs had flushed to a deep, unbecoming red under Gloria’s words. * * * HE looked as if she wished Ii that the earth would open I J and swallow her up. And, as a matter of fact, Miss Briggs was devoutly washing herself out of that little restaurant. She had come there that night alone, ■when Dick had asked her to work late. Five minutes after she had begun to eat, Dick, himself, had walked in. It would have been queer if he had not sat dow r n to share her lonely meal. A friend could do no less, could he Miss Briggs wished now - that Dick would explain the whole thing to his wife. But she knew he wouldn’t. She could see that he was going to let Gloria think anything she wanted to think. And what Gloria evidently thought was that Dick had taken Miss Briggs out to dinner * * * to “show her a good time.” Miss Briggs drew a breath of reMember Federal Reserve System

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lief when Gloria turned her shoulder upon her, and began to talk to Dick. “By the w r ay, dear,” she said with sugary sweetness, “I forgot to ask you if your mother’s better. Did her trip with you do her good?” “She’s much better,” Dick answered. He was puzzled. He knew that the very last person on earth that Gloria cared to hear about was his mother. He knew that Gloria detested his mother * * * What game was his wife up to, now, he wondered. He soon found out. Gloria went on talking to him about things that didn’t matter to her or to him, either. She kept up a How of foolish chatter. Slie spun it out until the meal was almost over. She did her best to shut Miss Briggs out of the talk. She snubbed her. She talked in a half-whisper so low that Miss Briggs couldn’t have caught a word if she had tried. Dick saw the rude and cruel thing that Gloria was doing. And he came to Miss Briggs’ rescue just, as he would have rescued a mouse that a cat was torturing. | “I E leaned across the table 11 —I | toward her. 9 Deliberately he I •*• 1 tried to draw her into conversation. “What did Smithers want to see me about today, Susy?” he asked gently. “About that Parmely injunction case,” Miss Briggs answered with lips that trembled. She fumbled in her purse and pulled out a $2 bill. She laid it on the tablecloth. “That’s to pay for my dinner,” she said “and I think I’ll leave you people now and get back to my work. . . Goodnight, Mrs. Gregory.” It cost Miss Briggs an effort to bid Gloria goodnight. And Gloria knew it. “Good night, Miss Briggs,” she said airily. She smiled, with narrowed eyes. She knew she had spoiled Miss Briggs’ dinner. And she was glad of it! She’d show Dick’s secretary that she couldn’t go dining around with him and get away with it! She’d show her a trick or two worth knowing! Miss Briggs got up to go. Dick rose with her. “I wish you wouldn’t rush off like this, Susy,” he said. “See you later, though. Get together the data on that injunction case, will you?” Wordlessly Miss Briggs nodded. She walked out of the little restaurant, jerkily, as if ’she were pulled by unseen wires. Puzzle a Day At the United States customs office, officials every day discover persons who soil, damage or cut up articles they have purchased abroal in an attempt to evade payment of duty. One woman cut sixty yards of French lace into yard lengths. It took her two minutes to measure and cut each length. How long did it take her to cut up the entire piece? Bast puzzle answer: © Plan of circus cages This Ringling Circus cage contains fifteen animals, center cage, one wild cat; next cage, four tigers; next cages, eight leopards. The puzzle claimed that each cage was built for the .number of animals it contained, therefore, the largest cage has the most animals. Each cage contains an odd number of animals because each cage includes the center cage (1 plus 2 equals 3). (1 plus 2 plus 4 equals 7), (1 plus 2 plus 4 plus S equals 15).

Gloria watched her go, with an amused smile. Then she turned furiously to Dick. “So!” she cried. “This is why you didn’t want me to come downtown, to eat with you! This is why you don’t want to kiss me any more! . . I see it all, now! How long has this affair with Miss Briggs been going on, for goodness’ sake?” "Affair with Miss Briggs’” Dick repeated quietly. "I don’t know what you're talking about. Do you know, yourself?” Gloria stared at him. “Do you mean to say you don't know Susan Briggs is cuckoo about you?” she asked. It would be just like Dick not to be able to see it! “You ought to know it!” she went on. “She doesn’t take the trouble to hide the fact that she’s gone on you. You’ve only got to look at her to know!” • * * *4 T THAT the smouldering JjL anger in Dick burst out. He -J brought his fist down noiselessly on the thickly padded tablecloth in front of him. “You ought to be ashamed of talking about a decent girl that way, Gloria,” he said. “And the way you treated her just now was about the rottenest thing I ever 5aw....” “What do I care?” Gloria cried wildly. "Who’s Susan Briggs that I should bow and scrape to her? She needn’t think she can go jazzing around with my husband, and have me treat her like a tin angel!” Dick looked at her from under his lowered brows. “You think I’m ‘jazzing around’ with Susan Briggs?” he asked shortly. “Sure I do!” G.loria’s tone was airy. “You know I’m not.” Dick said quietly. “You know I’m not the kind of man who chases women. You know I run away from them. If I’d known Susan Briggs was coming here tonight to eat, I’d have gone somewhere else. And you know that, too!” Gloria gave a short, ugly laugh. “You can bet your boots she knew you were coming here, though!” she said. “I’ll bet she even knows where you go to get shaved, and where you buy your collars... .everything about you! i She makes a study of you....And she came here tonight, knowing that you’d show up if she Mother! Don t ! “Physic” a Child | B Caldwell of Montifor 47 years, it seemed cruel that so many constipatchildren had to be cathartic pills, tabR. CALDWELL lets, salts, calomel AT AGE 83 and nasty oils. While he knew that constipation was the cause of nearly all children’s little ills, he did not believe that a sickening “purge” or “physic” every little while was necessary. In Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin he discovered a laxative which regulates the bowels. A single dose will establish natural, healthy bowel movement for weeks at a time, even if the child was chronically constipated. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin not only causes a gentle, easy bowel movement but, best of all, it is often months before another dose is necessary. Besides, it is absolutely harmless, and so pleasant that even a cross, feverish, bilious, sick child gladly takes it. Buy a large 60- T\ /-> ... cent bottle at Ur. CaldwellS any store that TT^ sells medicine Mr and just see for yourself. rfirdlrS

Dick Fails to Return Home and Gloria Wonders Where Her Husband Is.

just waited long enough. And sure enough, you did!” “I hardly ever eat here.” Dick answered, "So she couldn't have guessed I was coming here, in a month of Sundays. Come on, let’s go! I’ve had enough of this!—Do you want to come back to the office with me, or are you going home?” “I’m not going back to the office,” Gloria answered shortly. And left him. She didn’t want to go home, either. After Dick had left her she walked slowly along Illinois St., looking into the shop windows and the lighted lobbies of the moving picture theaters. Suddenly she saw two faces that she knew in the moving throng around her.... little blond Mrs. Wing and Gretchen Geist. The two were chums. Gloria had played cards with them dozens of times. They had been at her house for lunch, often. And now she smiled at them in greeting. But the smile froze on her lips. For both women looked her full in the face for a moment. Neither spoke. Then they looked sharply away. And the coldness in their eyes were like a slap across Gloria's face. She smarted under it. • • * S"-l HE stood, quivering, for a long moment. Here was a new problem! These women must have heard the story of her love affair with Stanley Wayburn... .these women who had been her good friends. Oh, she couldn’t lose them! They were the people with whom she would have to live her life, now that she had come back to Dick! Asa drowning man clutches at a straw, Gloria’s thoughts turned to Mother Gregory. She would have to go to Dick’s mother and ask her to stand by her. As long as Dick's own mother was her friend, no one would dare to believe the story that she had left Dick for Stanley Wayburn! Gloria looked at the clock In a jewelry store. Half past nine. Too late to see Mother Gregory tonight. ....She would go to her first thing in the morning, though. In the meantime, she could telephone May Seymour. May would be sure to know whatever gossip was “out” about her. May was a born news pad. • • • SHERE were scores of people in this town of ours who "knew for a fact” that Gloria Gregory had left her husband, and had run away with a Broadway ■actor named Stanley Wayburn. No one knew where the nasty bit of gossip had started. But it flew all over town on the wings of the wind. Gloria’s card club heard it, and voted Gloria out of the club. Lola Hough heard it and said it wasn’t true. She defended Gloria. May Seymour heard it, and said she didn’t blame Gloria for going. May, herself, would have been glad to escape to New York for a few weeks. For the gossips were busy with her and Jim Carewe again. “Sure they've been talking about y.,„Y’ she told Gloria cheerfully that night on the telephone. "They say you ran away with Wayburn, and that Dick -went down to New York and brought you home.” Gloria sighed dismally. “What a tale!” she said. “If they Back-ache? Pains? May Be Your Kidneys If pains are making life miserable, stop wasting time on little ways of getting temporary relief. Something is radically wrong, some organ isn’t doing Its work. Viuna strengthens weak kidneys, lazy liver, sluggish bowels. The blood starts getting purer, appetite begins to clamor, digestion gets right, and constipation leaves. You feel Its benefit promptly, and soon you’re walking with anew stride, energetic, strong, able to enjoy life. It has lifted thousands out of beds of pain. Will you give it a chance? VIUNA 7'he vegetable regulator

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must talk, why don’t they get things straight?” "Didn’t you run away with Stanley Wayburn?’’ There w - as surprise in May’s voice. She. too, believed the story of Gloria’s desertion of Dick. “Os course not! Don’t be silly!” Gloria said sharply. “ I went down to New York to go on the stage. I didn't even see Stan Wayburn!” “That was a lie,” she told herself bluntly, as she left the telephone. and began to undress, “but it’s my story and I’m going to stick to it!” She w'ould never let any one know that she had followed Wayburn to New York and that he had turned her clown! She could never raise her head again and look people in the eye, If they found that out! Gloria tiptoed out into the hall and half way down the stairs. She thought she heard the sound of Dick closing the door. But no one was in the low - er hall. The clock there struck twelve slowly and boomingly. Where was Dick? Why didn't he come? * • * Surely he and Miss Briggs couldn’t be W'orking until midnight—(To Be Continued)

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