Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 145, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1925 — Page 12

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GLORIA

THE STORY SO FAR Gloria Gordon, beautiful flapper, marries Dick Gregory, a strugglinglawyer. Her idea of marraige is fun and fine clothes . . . but no work or children. She refuses pointblank to do her own housework, and hires a maid. But Dick has to let the maid go. because he can't afford to pay her wages. Gloria has swamped him with debts for her clothes and anew automobile. She becomes ibfatuated with Stanley Wayburn, an actor. She lends him money, and when he leaves town to go to New York. Gloria follows him. He spurns her. telling her that he has just married a Russian actress. Then Gloria tries to land a job as a chorus girl and fails. Discouraged, she ocmes horn to Dick. He takes her back, but not as his wife. One night Gloria leaves him to work late at his office with his secretary, Susan Briggs. While Gloria is at home alone, the house is burglarized. Dick doesn't get hom until early morning. Gloria wonders if he was with Miss Briggs all that time. But next morning she learns that he was at the house of Dr. John Seymour, who had killed himself because of the love affair between hi* wife May and Jim Carewe. Gloria goes to Dick’s office to tell him about the robbery, and to make one last attempt to win him again. Dick is out. and Gloria has a long talk with Miss She accuses Miss Briggs of being in love with Dick. By Beatrice Burton CHAPTER LI ISS BRIGGS stood up then, and faced Gloria. The flush in her cheeks had gone, and her eyes were the cold blue of a Polar lake. “What right have you to say such a thing to me?” she asked. Gloria’s laugh was taunting. “Well, It’s the truth, isn’t it? You are in love with Dick, aren’t you?” she said. She could see Miss Briggs’ breast heave under her plain blue dress. “What if I am?” she asked. "I’d never let him know it! It wouldn’t hurt any one. ...” She seemed to be lost in thought for a moment. Then her eyes flashed with spirit. “I am in love with him —you may as well know it!” she cried. “I do care about him!” Gloria wouldn’t have believed that such a tone could have been wrung from the sedate and proper Miss Briggs. It was vibrant with tenderness. "I do love him!” she said, again, as if it gave her a certain fierce satisfaction to say the words she had been waiting to say for years. Gloria blinked with surprise. She couldn't imagine Miss Briggs telling her secret to the wife of the very man she loved. There must be something back of it... .Perhaps Dick loved her. And she knew it, and didn’t care who else knew it! “And Dick?—ls he in love with Iiyou?” Gloria asked. “Does he make love to you down here in this office when you’re alone with him all day?” A queer expression of disgust went over Miss Briggs’ white face. “Oh, no!” she said. "I wouldn’t care for him if he vere that kind of a man! . . . I’m just the woman who works for him. And I’m contented to be just that —for him.” The whole spirit of her love for him was in the words. They filled Gloria with pity for her. “Miss Briggs,” she said. “I’m truly sorry for you. . . . You’d rather hoped to marry Dick all those years when he was a bachelor, hadn't you?” Miss Briggs smiled a wry little smile that twisted her mouth up at one corner. “I suppose I had, without quite knowing- it,” she said. “Oh, let’s stop talking about it .. . you’ll never speak of it to Mr. Gregory, will you? Please. I’d die of shame!” “We —el, I’m not so sure you ought to go on worknig for* him, feeling about him as you do,” Gloria answered. “Do you think you should, yourself?” Miss Briggs looked at her long and gravely. She could scarcely believe that, in her moment of weakness, she had told Dick’s wife that she loved him. “I’ve felt that way for a good many years . . . and it hasn’t done anyone any harm,” she said, miserably. “It has done you harm!” Gloria told her. “If It hadn’t been for Dick, you’d probably have married long figo” “Oh, no!” Miss Briggs cried. “You see, this was my first job. Mr. Greg-

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“"What right have you to say such a thing to me?” she asked

ory’s been my whole life for years. I couldn’t have thought of marrying. . . “That’s just it,” said Gloria. “If a girl happens to work for a young, good-looking man, she’s so likely to fall in love with him! She’s the sort of a day-time wife to him, looking after his comfort, reminding him of his engagements, keeping his pencils sharpened. . . . Oh, I know! I used to be a stenographer, myself, you know.” "And were you in love with the man you worked for?” “Heavens, no! You should have seen him! Old as Methuselah, and crosser than two sticks!” Gloria answered. “Well, I guess I’d better be going—tell Dick I stopped in to see him, will you?” Miss Briggs nodded, dumbly. She looked as if she wanted to say something else. But before she could frame the words, Gloria was gone. • * • S' - “■"J HE sat quietly at her desk, when the sound of Gloria’s high heels had died away down the corridor. All around her was a blankness that left her brain naked to outward impressions.... the loud ticking of a clock In Dick's private office, the clanging sound of the elevator outside the door. “I shouldn’t have told her," she thought at last. “How did I happen to tell her of all people? I must be losing my mind.” She got up and walked, in her small dignity, to the clothes rack, and took down her hat. She closed her desk, and went out of the office. She knew she couldn’t face Dick that day. But she faced the world with a high bravery. She smiled at the elevator boy, and told him it was a lovely day and she was going out to enjoy it —to play hookey for once. From sheer habit, she bought a paper. ....She wondered if she would ever enjoy anything again. Her heart was breaking. And her pride was broken, too. “I suppose I’ll lose my job,” she thought dully. "She’s sure to tell Mr. Gregory. She’ll make him discharge me, sure as death.” It was characteristic of Susan Briggs that she never thought of the man she loved except as “Mr. Gregory.” She never had. • • * t" J" 'I S Gloria -went up the front IA I steps of her house, the l'** I mother of the Donberg twins came across her front lawn toward her. “There was a policeman at your house a while ago,” she said, pleasantly. “What crime have you been committing?” She carried her mending basket in her hands. Gloria could see that she was primed for a neighborly chat. But she didn’t want to be neighborly with Mrs. Donberg. She was the type of woman for whom Gloria had no use... .the home body who talked of nothing but ma.rmalade, marketing, and moth-marbles. “We had burglars last night,” Gloria said, without a smile. “And I’ve been so excited all day that I haven’t done a bit of housework. I've got to get busy now and do It before my husband comes home.” She went into the house and closed the door behind her. There was a musty smell In the rooms. The house needed a thorough airing, as well as a good cleaning. Gloria threw the windows wide open and went upstairs. She took of her hat and went to work.

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Ail the scaled linen came off the beds. She made them up fresh and smooth. Sh? hung a neat row of towels in the bath rooom, and scoured the tub. She began to enjoy her job. It was rather fun to dash around from room to room banging the ashes from the tray on Dick’s bedside table, slapping up the pillows on the window seat in the room where Dick had banished her. Well, she wouldn’t stay In banishment much longer, Gloria made up her mind. She would show Dick that she really did mean to be a good wife to him....and he would taka her back into his heart again. It was perfectly silly for them to live apart this way, under the same room. And unnatural, besides. “And if Dick ever brings up Stan Wayburn again, I'll accuse him of being in love with Miss Briggs," Gloria said to herself. “I’ll tell him she would never have fallen for him if he hadn’t made love to her, first. That’ll shut him up, quick enough!” The more she thought about Miss Briggs the more firmly Gloria decided to tell Dick he’d have to send her packing. To have a secretary around who was in love with Dick was just throwing temptation in his way.... Few men could resist a woman who was crazy about them. She appealed to their love of flattery. And no man was deaf and blind to flattery... .not even the levelheaded Dick. Yes, he’have to get rid of Miss Briggs. That was all there was to it. * * • G r— '“1LORIA ran downstairs. She heated the water in the kitchen tank and washed up the dishes in the sink. She scoured it out, and moppd the floor. It didn’t look much better -when she had finished than when she began . . . but it had the strong, pungeant smell of a good cleaning, anyway. That was something. At least Dick could tell that she had been at work on it! He could see that she was trying her best to be a housekeeper. That, if anything, ought to melt him! At five o'clock Gloria ran upstairs and bathed. At six she looked like anything but a woman who had spent the afternoon cleaning up a house. She was herself, again ... a creature of beauty charged with elegance. Her hair was like molten copper. Her skin was sweet in its sheer cleanness. Apd all around her hung the old fragrance of mimosaflower that had always turned Dick’s head. She was Gloria at her loveliest . . her most alluring. When she heard Dick’s key in the lock she ran downstairs to him, on winged feet. “I was just going out to buy some things for our supper,” she said to him with an adorable smile. “I’ve been so busy all day that I forgot to phone the grocer.” Her voice was as natural and sweet as if it had never uttered a cruel word. It implied that she and Dick were the best friends In the world. “The stores are all closed at this time of night, and you know it,” Dick said to her. “Don’t stall. . . . What do you want to do? Go downtown and eat? Gosh, I’m getting tired of eating in restaurants, though! Try to have something cooked tomorrow night when I get home, will you?” ..‘‘You know I will,” Gloria answered. "I'll even get supper here tonight if you’ll drive me over to the delicatessen. . . . Let’s get some ham and eggs and you can show me how to fry them. That’ll be fun!” “No,” Dick said wearly. “I’m too tired to fuss around. I didn’t have a wink of sleep last night. . . . You heard about John Seymour, of course” Gloria nodded. The feeling of horror that she had every time she thought of Dr. John’s suicide closed down over her like black wings. “Oh Dick,” she breathed. “Wasn’t SAFE FOR CHILDREN Made without opiates, and only of the best California honey and purest ingredients, FOLEY’S HONEY & TAR is safe for children. A trial will prove to you why this has been one of the largest selling cough remedies for over fifty years. "Can’t recommend FOLEY’S HONEY & TAR high enough,” writes Mr. J. R. Dennis, Spiro, Oklahoma. "A sample treatment relieved me of a severe cough and cold.” Refuse stib- • —Advertisement.

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it awful? . . . I've just been sick about it all day!" She waited for him to put his arms around her, to comfort her —as he would have done a few weeks ago. But lie made no move toward her. “I tried to get you on the phone last night when Lola Hough phoned me to go to Seymours’, but Central said you didn’t answer. I guess you were asleep,” Dick said. “Come on let's go.” “I was not asleep!” Gloria answered. “The telephone wires were cut. There was a burglar in this house last night while you were out! He was near enough to me to touch me. ... I even saw him in the dining room!” Dick stared at her, with his hand on the open door of the hall. “What did he take?” he asked. “All the forks and knives and spoons that your mother gave us for a wedding present,” Gloria said. “But that’s not the point. The terrible part of it wag that I was frightened out of my wits, almost. . . . And I’ll never stay in this house alone, again, so long as I live. See?” (To Be Continued) AFTER BABY WAS BORN Mrs. Miles Was Miserable a Long Time —Owes Final Recovery to Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound "After my last baby vu bora 1 was up and around again, but I P—___________ was sickly all : the time and - did not know how to get my m that was the trouble*. Modi■p|pj| cinee did not do ■ 1 " 1 J I wondered what the trouble was, for I could hardly walk and always had euoh i pains in my left side and then In my right side. I found X had Inflammation that caused it. I had jone of your text-books and wu 'reading It. and I thought I would 'take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. After four daye of taking it I began to feel better, so I I took three bottles without ml*ing ;a dose. That helped me more than any other medicine I had yet taken and I always have it handy new. Zt surely did put me on my feet again."—Mrs. James Miles. 419 Cherry Street. Dover. Ohio. ! You must believe that a medtetne that helps other women will help you. For sale by druggists everywhere.—Advertisement. N P EW Lower Prices 110 S. Meridian St. EVERYTHING FOR BIRDS TSV Bird Seed, 2 lbs. for 25c. Bird Cages, Stands and Accessories. We rsCwak carry a splendid line of Cages from $1.75 up. T 0 vk Cage Stands, $3.25 up. W Everitt’s Seed Store 227 W. Wash. 3 and 5 N. Ala. Bert Jaffe Lewis Jaffe 7. N. Illinois St.

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