Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 168, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1925 — Page 12

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Beautiful JOANNA MANNERS, clerk, is summoned by HARKNESS, the buyer, to appear before her employer. Mr. Graydon. who delivers an overwhelming message. Someone whose identity she is not )o know has placed $1,000,000 on deposit at the Metropolitan Bank subjcet to her personal check. Graydon convinces her “there are no strings tied to the proposition,’’ and has Ills chauffeur take her to the banker, Andrew Eggleston. Gra.vdon’s old friend. That evening, when Joanna hopes to talk confidentially with JOHN, her fiance, she finds also the eloquent and wealthy FRANCIS BRANDON, her banker's nephew, waiting in the draw-ing-room. Sensing the situation. Brandon departs, after being assured of a later engagement. Joanna promises to share her fortune with John, but he will not believe her story and departs with utmost coldness. Perplexed, because John, as well as COHEN, the furrier, and even her landlady. MRS. ADAMS, now distrust her. Joanna goes to Graydon. He offers no advice, but hopes that John will apologize. Joanna rjdffenly realizes that only Brandon can show her the way to go. At a brilliant social affair. Brandon introduces her to YVONNE COUTANT. famous society divorcee, whose partner. Roddy Ken/'v orth. admits he will try his hand Set Joanna. He knows Brandon is the one thing Yvonne desires t'hat she hasn't got. Hr H. L,. Gates CHAPTER XI Joanna Is Invited to Yvonne’s HE flush that deepened the I I I hues of Joanna’s cheeks, and I the wrinkle in her brow, did not escape Yvonne when Kenilworth and the girl returned to the table. Brandon, tdo, saw, and divided a quick glance between the girl and the man, who had been dancing with her. . Yvonne, In her fluttering way touched the girl’s hand. “He’s been making love to you! I knew it. Was I right? Didn’t he begin with your eyes?” Joanna’s frown vanished. In the sheer joy of her closeness to the woman whose exotic beauty and fascinating adventures In a world of hectic romance had made her a celebrity, her trouble over the mystery which confronted her In each new association was quickly charmed away. “Am I supposed to tell?” she parried, appealing to Kenilworth, she was nonchalantly lighting a goldtipped cigaret. He answered easily: “Someday, my dear, you will wear your loves like medals on your breast, for your friends to estimate and your rivals to envy. You may as well begin now, I make my confession. I promised to overwhelm you with my adorations. But you must assure the company that I did not begin by paying you compliment.” “I have heard.” Brandon remarked, "that Roddy never compliments a woman.” A dozen of his victims have assured me that he declares his love first and then tells them why. His reasons are, therefore, accepted as being truthful statements of fact, and not flatteries. A woman doesn’t class what is said of her by a man, who Is in love with her, as flattery. She believes it to be a just inventory of her perfections.” “Clever, that!” Yvonne declared. “It proves what I’ve always contended —that a man ought to have a style of his own. It’s positively tiresome to listen to most men go sentimental.” “What weary hours you must spend!” Kenilworth exclaimed. “I promise you complete relaxation if you will take a turn on the floor with me. Miss Manners, here, is dying to ask Brandon what sort of a chap I am, and to ask him who you’re planning to marry next.” “A cocktail, first,” she demanded. A waiter, to whom Kenilworth had entrusted a pair of silver flasks, responded to his signal. Joanna had refused to previous offering and had not been pressed. This time Brandon quietly leached across the table and turned up her glass. * * * h HEN Yvonne, with a nod to her, had moved away for her dance with Kenilworth, Joanna turned to Brandon eagerly. “He seemed to read just what I was thinking,” she said. “Tell me about him—and Yvonne, too. I nevar dreamed that someday I would know her. You see she has been one of those Interesting people we talk about just to prove that we keep up with the news.” “Shall we begin with Roddy?” Brandon asked, and they did. Joanna sought him out on the floor as Largest Trust Company In Indiana things to think of in choosing a bank for your savings: 1. Interest at 4% 2. Protection by the Federal Reserve System jffetdjer Stsi&m anti Crust Corapanp Member Federal Reeervs,Cv|tMi

Brandon explained him —drawing for her a curious picture of a wastre —but a picture she classified as of i romantic Idler In a colorful domain A bachelor lodge at Palm Beach where he was host to that companj of women whose husbands labor at home for the money with which their wives blossom gorgeously and recklessly—beneath the Florida palms, and make their plays at Bai ley’s, America’s great gambling rooms; a wooer of debutantes whose names shone golden in the purlieus of society, and the amused dabbler among the studio moths of New York’s Greenwich Village; a sportsman in England, where he hunted, occasionally, with the hounds of a country lord, and a beau-gallant patron of all the beauty and the bizarre hat is France. "A woman need never fear of being seen with our Roddy in attendance upon her,” Brandon added to his general description. ‘'His affairs are so many no one keeps track of them or becomes interested In anew one. He adds just the proper perspective to any young woman’s background, for to be admired by Roddy is a cachet of extremely romantic worthiness. “But his business —doesn’t he really do anything?” Joanna wanted to know. “He’s of a family, you know. Inherited money. I believe he would explain that it is the duty of heirs who can to help those of the generation who can’t to pay the price of their pleasures. That keeps him moderately busy. He is particularly fond of youth—young youth, such as yours, or seasoned youth, such as Yvonne's. If you are of the mind lo be amused you will find Roddy 1 lost amiable.” * * • r~T““jOANNA thought Brandon was T J challenging her. but he gave 1 J 1 no sign of it. She pondered a minute, the miracle of that cryptic declaration of Kenilworth's at the edge of the dance floor, “I shall play for you, too!” spoken to he!*, Joanna, by one who was unimpressed even by such exquisite women as —Yvonne, for example! A tempest of exhilaration surged within her. In a flash the realization that had so far eluded her, of what had been spread before her by her mysterious money, echoed across her brain. Her heart, which had never lost its uneasiness since her first summons to Graydon’s office, became suddenly buoyant. Something In which she was the stake—that was what Kenilworth had called it—was going on about her. but whatevere its portents, it already bad brought to her two men with quiet, suave promise that they would lay siege to her, that they would sue for the favors of her! And these men—not the dancing boys, “as light in their heads as they try to be on their feet,” she had described them to Graydon, but men of the world, of the world where jewels were real, where gaiety was genuine, where romance need not be marred by the sordidness of constant make-believe! The world that was without the restraints of meagerness. “And Yvonne?” she suddenly asked Brandon. “I wonder If ever I shall be like her?” Brandon’s question came quickly. Afterwards Joanna remembered this, and that it reminded her of Eggleston’s quickness to ask her “What else?” when she promised to buy something else than dancing pumps. “Do you want to be like Yvonne?” was what Brandon asked. ”1 think there is no girl I know who would not give her soul—almost—to be like her,” Joanna replied, so softly, an dsuddenly wistful, that Brandon knew she was, Indeed, echoing a deep yearning. “You see,” she went on, “she is the model we all try to copy. So I suppose she must have all the good things of life that we try to get little tastes of. I don’t know just how to say what T mean, but I know that the store had a copy of one of Yvonne Coutant's dresses, one time, and that I spoiled four yards of two dollar silk trying to imitate it. But I couldn’t do it. I didn't know how. And even the store dressmakers couldn't get the right hang to it. They couldn’t know how, either.” “And you think Yvonne knows hox< —how to be what you have wanted to be?” “That is it! I hadn’t reasoned it out, before, but I know that's it. She must, know how, or she wouldn't be making the best of life.” • • • mHE ghost of a smile that gave cynical expression to Brandon’s face, came to the curve of his lips. For a moment he watched the girl, watched her eyes leaping about the room, watchod them when they rested on Yvonne when she traced her asuong the dancers, and when they hovered about Kenilworth. Then he murmured: “A good many people inlthe world would hive a different analysis cf Yvonne Coutant’s recipe for what you term making the best of her life. Some would pass a different judgment than ’she knows how’.” Joanna regarded him with her defenses quivering at her finger tips. “Os course they would—some would—some would!” she indignantly agreed. “People are always finding fault if you are not just like they Puzzle a Day Behead the following definitions and the initials removed will spell the name of a State. 1. Behead a prophecy and leave people. 2. Behead a port and leave a bower. 3. Behead a perfect pattern and leave a transaction. 4. Behead a jewel and leave a friend. Which State is it? Last puzzle answer: At the dahlia exhibition five flower sections were rearranged forming three sections. Four long and four short' rails were used to make the new arrangement, leaving no projecting points.

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•ire, or like they think you ought to e. What is one’s life for, if not to e enjoyed? And having a good tinu sn't necessarily being wrong about t you know! Is it?” He met at plea for understanding iromptly. “I can imagine no better >argain than unfettered conscience allied-with an unhampered pursuit of one’s own desires, and oldashioned critics be hanged!” “Well,” Joanna considered, "that sounds as if you mean that I have the right idea about things, so J suppose it’s all right. Any how I don’t see why people can't say , their with a smile as well as they can with a grouch!” “To that sentiment, ‘Brandon proposed,’ I suggest another cocktail. He produced Kenilworth’s silver flask from under a serviette and filled her glass. She smiled across at him, while she'sipped, and felt that she had put up another good battle for the rights of youth. When Kenilworth and Yvonne were again at the table Kenilworth begged Joanna to tell him "if Brandon wrapped me in scandal and delivered me as a broken idol” while they were dancing. “That Is something I shall have to consider,” Joanna returned. “He told me you were not at all dangerous, or, at least he gave me that impression. I shan’t be at all afraid of you.” “And that Is both a promise and a challenge. I acept both!” Joanna’s pulses raced when Yvonne proposed to her that she come to her own place and make It her home; “For a time, anyway. You will want to be getting away from your old atmosphere, you know, and I shall love to have you with me — as long as you wish.” What Kenilworth had said flashed across her mind, his prediction of just this invitation. She fancied that she caught a flicker of his eyelids when she glanced at him. For one brief instant the vision of John framed itself among her thoughts, but it faded quickly when she had shaken her head a little, to drive it away. Any thought of John had become unpleasant. It aroused defiance inside of her, rebelliousness. Always, when he appeared in her mind, she saw herself, at first, going up to him, her face lifted, her lips held pleadingly for the greeting that had been so customary between them. This sore of vision hurt, though. The phrase that ran so often across her brain would come back — ] “Would that fit in, now?” This time it was the thought of John coming to her and finding her with Yvonne. There was something about that ■which wasn't right. So she gave that little shake of the head and John drove away. “I’m afraid I would be awfully funny to you,” she said to Yvonne, her excitement at the prospect playing in her voice. “I can't be still, for long, because there is so much I want to do, but can’t think of, that I just run arOund In circles.” "But I’ll help you, perhaps,” Yvonne assured her. “I shall have as enjoyable a time about helping you launch yourself, as you, yourself. There will be a motor car lo buy— j and I’ve never got over my fondness ! for picking out motor cars; and ! jewels, and clothes —It will be a lark, truly!” Joanna would have yielded to Yvonne's suggestion that tonight would he as good as any other time, but while they waited in the.foyer BOATS ROLLS /j cA made with v^msALFßurr

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>f the restaurant-club for Brandon's •ar and Yvonne’s, Brandon mur mui-ed to her: “Decisions made after midnight are not always safest. Yvonne will welcome you tomorrow, as warmly as tonight. And tomorrow will do you just as well. I am going to drive you home.” “You mean.” Joanna said, lightly, “to the rooming-house. Whatever 1 do, or wherever I go, you must remember that I haven't any—!” She waited a while, while she bit at her lips. Then she finished: “That I haven’t had any home, for a long time!” (To Bo Continued) (Copyright, 1925 —H. L. Gates.) TO LAY CORNER STONE Ceremony at City Hospital I'nit Will Bo Dec. 2. Corner stone laying and dedicatory ceremonies for the $385,000 surgical unit at city hospital will he Dec. 2. Talks by Mayor Shank, Sol Schloss, board president and Ben H. Thompson, city council president, will make up the program, Dr. Herman E. Morgan, city health secretary said. FTHMTIRE FIRMS MERGE Merging of the Banner Furniture Company and William Kotteman Company, into the Banner-Kotteman Company, \Vas announced today. Stock of the Kotteman company will be consolidated with the Banner store at 33 S. Meridian St. It is not known what will be done with the Kotteman Bldg., 335 E. Washington St. Resinol has earned its place in every home Burns, scalds, Scratches, chafing, sores, little patches of itching rash and even the more stubborn forms of eczema are so quickly relieved by Resinol Ointment that every housewife should keep a jar convenient for quick application. Daily in thousands of homes it proves itself invaluable for the many ! hurts or ills to which the skin is subject, because it stops itching and smarting almost instantly, allays inflamma- | tion and soreness and hastens the ; healing. Aik your druggist for Resinol.

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