Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1925 — Page 16

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A IVTTVT A Story of a Modern Girl J \| i.\| TjL. and a Million Dollars

SYNOPSIS With nrmsuaJ solemnity. Mr. Harknees buyer in the silk department of store, summons Joanna anners. beautiful clerk, to ajjpear fore Mr. Graydon, owner of the store. Joanna shudders at the thouarht of possible dismissal and thinks of tbs bill that have been aocumulatof reproaching her. Graydon delivers an overwhelming messcae. Someone whose identity she is not to know nas placed $1,000,000 on deposit at tue mu it opuiittiii tHUiii SviOjoot to her personal check. Graydon assures her "there are no, strings tied to the proposition." and has his chauffeur take her t othe banker, Andrew Egrrleston Graydon a old friend With SIO,OOO. her first withdrawal, in her purse. Joanna leaves the banker's office with his nephew. Francis Brandon, who tells her his attentions will he ardent. Joanna purchases an expensive wardrobe for herself and promises to buy some smart new clothes for Georgia her chum. , „ . Mrs. Adams, her landlady, is dumfounded when Joanne gives her a crisp SSOO bill and asks her to keep the news quiet until ehe sees John, her fiance, with whom she has quarreled, but that evening when she hopes to see John alone, she finds Brandon also waiting for her in the draawing room. • By H. Li. Gates i CHAPTER VII A Shattered Dream

i“jOR one brief minute Joanna P stood at the foot of the Li I stairs, just out side the drawing room door. The eagerness, the exhilaration which had wrapped her face as in an aura, had gone out of it. She closed her eyes tightly, the gold of their over-plucked brows making thin, straight lines. She steadied herself with her hand against tha newel post. All the doubts, the confusions, the mysteries and the stupendous wonders of the day crashed down upon her. A little while before she had revelled in her own beauty, and in the glory of John’s surprise, his eestacies, all the questions he would ask her and she couldn’t answer. They would plan; she would be glad with him over every thought of the future either of them could conjure up. There would be no more tempers and insipid quarrels; no more fighting at each other. This time, when he put his arms about her, and kissed her, she wouldn’t be restless and wish that he’d take her out into the lights, as other hoys did, and romp with her through the narcotic valleys of jazz. That had been what she had looked forward too. Now. as she faced the door, with John just beyond, waiting for her, and with the other man, whose very manner toward her was like a caress, also waiting for her, a premonition stirred her nerves. She felt, somehow, that her fate, the fate that had been so strangely brewed for her by unknown hands, was in there, in the hands of those two men, and that she was in, now, to met it face to face. Foolish, of course' She braced her shoulders, and brought an arrogant dimple into her chin. Smiling, wistfully, she stood in the doorway. She had rehearsed, upstairs, a pose, something graceful after the fashion of one of the especially bred mannequins in the exclusive shop where she had found her gowns, but she forgot to use it. John and Brandon had been talking; that Is, Brandon had been talking to John, easily, lightly. He was very handsome and graceful, In his full evening clothes. He appeared to be as much at home In the humble rooming house parlor as he would have ben in a ballroom. Joanna sensed this; John, whom she had never seen in evening clothes, appeared to be ill at ease. She sensed this, too. Both men gazed at her, silent for a moment, fascinated. The lithe, slim figure and slim breasted girl, with the deep gold bob and the full-shaped Cupid lips, who blushed fui-iousiy and wondered what the strange sensation was, was very lovely. It was a fulltoned loveliness that still was characteristic of Miss Twenty-Seven of the silks, but Brandon’s appraising sense estimated quickly the effect that restraints would leave—the restraints k t hat would come naturally to the girl—or that wouldn’t come, according to the sort of her. f iT was Brandon who spoke j l I first. He moved over to her < *_J and bowed low, with an exaggerated homage. “There is nothing so beautiful,” he murmured, "as the bud that is bursting into a blossom!” He lifted her hand and kissed its slender fingers. Joanna could npt help laughing. She'd always laughed, at the movies, when men kissed the hands of women. It seemed such a silly thing to do. But it didn’t appear ter be silly, with this man, who completely dazed her with his always new gallantries. Each move he made seemed to have the thrill of a kiss in it. She laughed because it was so unexpected and so wholly outside the sentimental amenities to which “Miss Twenty-Seven” had

been accustomed. Her laughing eyes turned to John, ■•'hey sobered immediately. John was not coming' to her; not coming to take her hand and squeeze it, and say: "Some looks you’ve got on, Jo!” or something eloquent, like that. She took her hand from Brandon, who had held it so that her senseless fingers rested on his, and went up to John. When she reached him she realized that he *kept his hands in his pockets; that he did not even go through the slight formality she 666 Is a prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria It kills the germs. Are You Tortured By-Indigestion? There is more real suffering in indiges tioj than in almost any other huraai tilment. Constipation, sour stomach, gai distress, heart-burn, shortness of breath pain and burning sensation In the stomach —all these things pursue the victiir until the very sight of food nauseated him. Viuna has lifted this curse froir thousands of tortured sufferers. It actt upon sluggish bowels, torpid liver, and weak kidneys. Right away, you can tell it’s helping you, and before long you feel like a different person. You eai fearlessly and with appetite, you gel restful sleep, you walk with anew stride, and know what It is to enjoj real health. Will you give it a chancei VIUNA The vegetable regulator

i Million Dollar Letters are swamped, buried, snowed under. Letters from IWJ readers on what they would do" if they should suddenly receive a million dollars have been pouring, into The Times office. We will announce the prize winners as soon as we succeed in digging our way out. Every letter will be read and considered by the judges. Meanwhile,Tead about what Joanna did with her million dollars.

might have expected in the presence of another —an arm thrown around her, a hug and a peck at the lips. He only looked at her, brooding in his eyes. “They have told you, haven't they John?” she breathed, plaintively. “I wanted to explain it all to you, flist. Isn’t it wonderful?” Unconsciously she .-put her two hands on his breast —the trick that always turned John’s thoughts, whatever they were, into fondness. It was a good trick, Joanna perfectly knew. She could never practice it with anyone' but John. It invariably had serious effects. But it didn’t work this "time. John kept his hands in his coat pockets. "Yes,” he said, his tone cold, “Mrs. Adams told me what you told her. I congratulate you.” The girl started as if she had been struck. The carmine lips quivered. She stared into the brooding eyes that met her’s so evenly. As if pleading for light, pleading for someone else to teU her why John was not happy, and eager, and excited with her, she looked across at Brandon. He was standing where she had left him, smiling, confident, watching with a barely restrained amusement. Joanna accused him; “Have you told him anything? Anything that I don’t know?” • * • RENDON was surprised by D this sudden attack. “Mr. Wilmore seemed to know when I came. That is all, I assure you. He will say that I but expressed the hope that whatever was behind your unprecedented good fortune it would bring you a great happiness.” John flashed a glance at Brandon, and then spoke to Joanna, his voice still cold. “Whatever there Is for me to know, will have to come from you Jo. After awhile, perhaps!’’ The arrogant dimples came back into the girl’s chin. She thanked Brandon, in her self-conscious way, for his flowers. He took possession of her easily, and talked with her as if there were not a third person in the room. Once Joanna, remembering turned her face, glowing again, to John, who sat, moodily in one of the big red chairs, but he only muttered his reply to Joanna’s sally. Brandon led her to talk about her clothes—the marvelous things she had bought during the afternoon. He understood how to ta'k about such things, she discovered. He complimented her upon her choice of the frock she had chosen to put on that evening. “Really, you know, that Is why I came this evening,’’ he explained, smiling frankly at her. “I wondered what sort of a change you would make in yourself, in the first few hours of such excitement as must have been yoiir’s. It must be very wonderful, to a girl, especially a glrV who has had so little, to suddenly feel the possession of money—and such unlimited money. If you’ve ever had dreams you may now proceed to make them come true. Can’t you?” Joanna considered a moment a frown across her brow. "I can’t escape the feeling that everything is not going to be right,” she said. “It is foolish, I know. Perhaps that is because I can’t believe things yet.” Unconsciously she glanced at John, and nodded, ever so slightly, at him. He acknowledged the look with: “The world is made up of things that are hard for some people to believe!” • • • |J_|l HE red came Into the girl’s I I I cheeks again, red that was L JL—J deeper than the rouge, and her lips trembled anew. Brandon rose. “I promise Miss Manners that I shall always be ready to believe—whatever she wishes to tell me and that I shall keep myself at her feet, eagerly listening.” Smiling down at the girl, he murmured, softly: "Shan’t we make that a bargain?” Then the caress came into his voice: "Shall we set apart an evening for Puzzle a Day The Postoffice Department has just announced the establishment of 498 new R. F. D. routes. They are divided into five sections, northern, southern, eastern, northwestern and southwestern. In the northern and southern sections there are 221 routes. In the southern and eastern there are 163 routes. In the eastern and northwestern there are 193 routes. In the northwestern and southwestern there are 208 routes. • How many routes are there In each section? Last puzzle answer: I SCOUT SPOUT POUTS POPTS POPES PAPES PANES panel. Here Is' the answer of the person securing the highest score in the spelling test. In each instance a new English word was formed by •hanging onp letter only.

the beginning of my devotions? 70morrow? I petition most humbly!’’ She hesitated, confused, her glance falling. She was about to turn again to John, but Brandon sensed the impulse and touched her wrist with his fingers. She shot her eyes up to his quickly. The touch burned her, but she decided instantly to accept its challenge. He did not give his hand to John, but bowed lightly. Joanna went into the hall with him. Quite suddenly he put his hand on her shoulder and brought her around until she faced him. “Don’t make mistakes, Joanna,” he said, earnestly. If’There’s a destiny before you. now. Your perspective isn’t that of the shop girl any longer.” Suddenly his nonchalance returned. She felt that the smile at his mouth was mocking her again, and that he was really taunting her when he more lifted her fingers to his lips. She tried to persuade herself that he was just a different kind —the difference of breeding, blood and association, from the boys who called her "kid” and asked for a kiss as soon as they happened to be alone. His difference from John—that puzzled her! For John wasn’t like any of the other boys or men, either. He alawys wanted to talk architecture when ehe wanted to dance. She guessed John and Brandon would He much alike if John had had the advantages of money. “The advantages of money! For John?” She hurried back to him; went up to where he had dropped back into a chair, and stood before him. 9 • • IRST, she must do the obvi- [► I ous thing—do obeisance to the I- I etiquette of occasions where anew and strange admirer confronted an old and established one unexpectedly. Girls were always getting into such muddles, and getting out of them. She tried to persuade herßelf that this was all that was bothering John —Jealousy so profound that it obscured the larger events of the day. "I didn’t know .he was coming, John,” she pleaded. “I didn't ask 'him I Just met him today, at the bank, and I didn't want him. I wanted to be with you alone." John got onto his feet, looked down into troubled eyes, and pushed past the waiting form. He went over to a table and picked up a book, fumbled It a moment, and then dropped it sharply. He swung around and faced the girl who was watching him, her slim breasts rising and falling slowly: “Well, Jo! Give me the straight of it!” he demanded, quietly. "Mrs. Adams has given me the story you told her. We agreed, of course, it was fishy. But it may be all right for her. You owe me the truth!” Joanna caught her breath. Her impulse was to cry out, but she checked it. She felt her body growing rigid She stared at the young man who leaned against the table regarding her coldly, cruelly, mercilessly He who was the only link with her childhood, with her mother’s geranium beds, with the school days and birthday party days of the little town which had been her home —their home. He who had come also to the city, to work out his career, and who had found her, sympathized with her occasional moods of loneliness, loved her and hutpored her tempers and her ridicule of him because he was so "slow,” but always wanted to be with her in the home they’d have for their very own. some day; that he would build and make a wondrous thing with his architecture! , “John!” she whispered, the low word meaning, as if it was a pleading out of her soul. He nodded, as if he thought he had caught her thoughts, and, being what he thought they must be, agreed with them. She rebelled against that nod instantly and called to him her protest: “John! What is it —what!” He didn’t move, but spoke in the same even, deadly cold tone: “You mustn’t lie to me, Jo,” he said. "These days are wiiat they are, and you girls are what you are. Money, money, that you can’t explain, doesn’t come—you know when you can’t explain, it is because you /ion’s want to, or somebody doesn't want you to. So drop the pretense, Jo, and for the sake of what we’ve been to each other, and what I’ve hoped we would be to each other, tell me—as much as you dare.” • * • W y r HIDE the girl fought hard to yy ease the pain in her brain, he L— — dropped his eyes, and a sad, quizzical smile touched his mouth. When he looked up he added: "You, cart trust me, Jo; I won’t reveal any of your secrets, or any one’s else.” It was no trick, now, that sent Joanna’s hands beating against his breast. All the trickeries had gone out of her aching little body. It was & girl who was maddened by the hurt he had given her, and who was fighting as a girl fights for the trust that Is being denied her. “There Is nothing more to tell,” she cried frantically, while her hands beat as if to drive understanding into him. “I don't know why the money was given me, nor by whom. You must believe me, John, and help me.” She hurried on, catch, ing her brqath as best she could: “And I want you to share it with me, dear; it Is for you as well an me. It will make everything possible for you, and you will be big and successful, and we shall be so happy together—You’ve lost your head, John—or you wouldn’t think !” He caught her hands and held them so tight that he hurt. But she (fidn't wince; just waited, her

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'ips open, her eyes hungry, for him to speak. . , “I haven’t lost my head. Jo!” he mid. “It's you. . And I was afraid, i was afraid it was coming, sometiling like this. I knew you could never wear your skirts up to your knees, Jo, and flavor your kisses with cocktails, and be as you ought to be. You’ve laughed at me and called me a fool when I've told you that what you and your friends think is smart is only polished dirt. I wasn’t old-fashioned, Jo; it was only that I wanted my girl to be different, and better —and safer! I could never get away with it, though —so whatever it is, it's happened, hasn’t it?” • • * ■"I E had not raised his voice. He |_J had kept his even tone. The * * sorrowful, quizzical smile remained at his lips. Joanna was helpless: every fibre of her was wounded and useless. All that she could say was: "You really don’t mean it—John! You don’t think that I would !” “Think?” he replied. “Think? Why, what I ajn thinking is, that even tonight when you must have known that you would have to tell me something, some better lie than you planned, you meet me, —meet me with this other man here too—in a gown like that! Half bare! True to the last to the morals of your kind, and your crowd!” She heard her own voice, still pleading with him; but it sounded if it were coming back to her from a great distance. The horror in her eyes had spread through her body and numbed it. She laughed, and cried out that he was playing with her. Then she fell into a chair and shook it with her sobs. But, so suddenly that it surprised the man, who watched her, she got onto her feet and faced him. Her.words were very distinct, now: "You said, awhile ago, John, that you couldn’t get away with it when you wanted me to be different than I was—than my kind and my crowd. W r ell, there’s a lot more just like you! You didn’t have anything to get away with. And you’re not getting away with anything now!” She thought, secretly, that he would protest, and that after awhile he would be himself again, and take her into his arms, and ask to be forgiven, and believe and kiss her. She would explain about Brandon, about Graydon and Eggleston, and he would enter Into her mystery with her. But he went out of the room, slowly, put on his hat and coat, and shut the door behind him. Joanna sank to the floor, in the midst of the pretty pieces of the alabaster box In which she had treasured the only jewel she had. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1925, by H. L. Gates.) Tells Women to j | Avoid “Physics” To Dr. W. B. j) seemed cruel that @ ■ pated w ° men anri I DR. CALDWELL tablets, salts, caloATAoees mel and and nast y oils. While he knew that constipation was the cause of nearly all head aches, biliousness, sallow skin, indigestion and stomach misery, 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 for those chronically constipated. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin not only causes a gentle, easy bowel movement, but best of all, it js often months before another dose is necessary. Besides, It is absolutely harmless, and so pleasant that even a cross, ffeverish, sick child gladly takes It. t ,S„ y ," S Dr Caldwells at any store f 1C) that sells modicine and just see for your- MtKim. self.

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