Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1925 — Page 12

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Beautiful JOANNA MANNERS, clerk, is summoned by HARKNESS. the buyer. to appear before her employer. Mr. Gr&ydon, who delivers an overwhelming message. Someone whose identity she is not to know ha- n ,w " on deposit at the Metropolitan Bank subject to her personal check. Graydon convinces her “there axe no strings tied to the proposition.' anu nas mi chauffeur take her to the banker. Andrew Eggleston. Graydon’s old friend. That evening, when Joanna hopes to talk confidentially with JOHN. her fiancee, she finds also the eloquent and wealthy FRANCIS BRANDON. her banker's nephew, waiting in the draw-ing-room. Brandon departs, after being assured of a later engagement. Joanna promises to share her fortunes with John, but he will not believe her story and departs with coldness. At a brilliant social affair. Brandon introduces her to YVONNE COUNTANT. famous society divorcee, whose partner. Roddy Kenilworth, rich, romantic idler, admits he will try his hand for Joanna. He knows Brandon is the one thing Yvonne desires that she hasn't got. Joanna learns from her ehum. Georgia that John is willing to apologize since speaking with Eggleston. She sends a note. , . . Joanna goes to live with Yvonne, where she meets IX)RD TEDDY DORMINSTER. Ry H. L Gates CHAPTER XIV Across the Threshold |OTH Joanna and Lord Teddy were startled by Vvonne’s peal of laughter. “Now, Teddy, you know what everybody thinks when you’re around,’’ she declared. “You must really make up an answer some time.” Turning to Joanna she informed her: “He’s not always so bad-mannered, you know. I fancy you’ll get along famously. I’ll present him as Lord Dorminster, but you must just call him Teddy—it fits him better.” To the man, who struck Joanna as something of an overgrown youth, she added: “This Is my new protege, one I’m going to be very fond of—Miss Manners. After awhile you’ll be calling her Joanna.” Lord Teddy was all embarrassment and contrition. “Oh, I say!" he fumbled, “I thought it would be someone who —ah—you were having to sing, or dance, or do something like that, you know, tomorrow night, perhaps! Didn’t know she was a friend. Sorry, terribly!” Joanna, who had scant ideas of what one does at a meeting with a lord, even a Teddy sort of one, scrambled desperately for what she would have termed, concisely, the right come-back. She was disturbed, too, by that apology for supposing her as one who had come to sing, or to dance, “or. something like that.” It implied something she didn’t know what, but something, about her that wasn’t as it should be. Yvonne shot a frown at Dorminster and went to her rescue. “Run along, now, Teddy,” she commanded. "There’s tea or alcohol, whichever you prefer, in the garden. You know everybody in there. Miss Manners will remember, anyhow, that you were perfectly in earnest, despite your rudeness.” He wanted to add something to his apology, to straighten It out, but Yvonne bustled him off unceremoniously. To Joanna she said: “He’s a dear, is Teddy. He follows me around the world. He says wherever I am some husband’s wife needs consolation and it his duty to be on hand. And he declares he’s perfectly sincere about it.” She talked on, saying things that were meaningless to Joanna, the obvious things that had to do with the beginnings of anew friendship, and the prospects of a “jolly” time for the girl in anew life. A trim, lace-aproned and white head-dressed maid answered Yvonne’s summons and replied to her mistress’s question that Miss Manners’ apartment was in order. “I’ve a little bedroom and a cozy sitting room for you, not too far from my own,” Yvonne explained.” “I hope you will be no end comfortable.” * * * i * | T A finger touch a gold panel I ZV I in the wall of the reception ULaal hall slid back, disclosing a tiny gilt elevator of the kind that is automatic. The maid followed them into the lift and pushed the buttons that sent it climbing to an upper floor. Joanna was strangely tremulous. She wanted to say bright things to the older woman who was ushering her into these new and luxuriant surroundings, but her mind was in an uneasy turmoil. “Why was everything happening as it was? So naturally, so swiftly, so smoothly? Should she trust herself to Yvonne Coutant?” She stole a glance at the woman who stood so close to her, and comprehended her extraordinary fascination, the hair that was as black as vulcanite, the magnolia-white face contrasting sharply with the two luminous black eyes, and the lips that were full and red without the exaggerations of lip stick contours. The fear that vibrated through her at times with Brandon the indubitable fear that seemed so unreasonable, gripped her for a second. Then her thoughts flashed to what Teddy Dorminster had said in the room downstairs: “A singer, or a dancer, or something like that?” What was there wrong about her? She had put on her grey tailleur and the mink coat. And her smart, gray cloche hat was from a famous avenue shop. Did she still remind one of the silk counter? And If she did, what of it? Weren’t the imitations of the silk counter all right? 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soaltion because of them. But, of course, Yvonne had ncrt been serious! It was just a manner of talk; the small talk she would have to learn. All of these things flashed through the girl’s agile mind while the tiny gold elevator lifted from the first floor to the third. When the car had stopped, and the maid had slid open the narrow grilled door and stepped out, Joanna had dispersed her doubts with a determined wave of confidence. The arrogance came back into her eyes and to her lips. “She’d get on, or she’d take an dwful wallop trying!" It was difficult for “Miss TwentySeven” to understand, for a time, that the exquisite miniature drawing room, rose shaded and satin hung, with windows looking down upon an open garden, was too be exclusively her’s. With John, through such evenings as she had consented to stay in with him, she had planned, or, rather, listened to him plan, the house that he would some day build for themselves. They had endowed this dream house with many idle fancies, but in her vision there had been no such splendors as the "little” room, with its rose bedroom and canopied bed beyond the softly draped doors, which Yvonne had prepared for her. And Yvonne was saying: “You will want your own maid, of course. But I haven't engaged one. You will want to engage her yourself. I fancy Walker can send you a collection of them—he has a way of producing them when they're needed. I shall advise a French girl, or an English one. The first will be more skilfull, the other more loyal.” Joanna couldn’t stifle her laugh, “You’ll have to tell me what to do with a maid,” she explained. Then something like a phantom of tears hovered suddenly In the deep brown eyes. "You know, I feel terribly alone,” she said, “and terribly afraid —of myself, I mean.” * * * SVONNE swept the girl’s face with a quick glance. She spoke quietly to the maia who fluttered about the room. The maid went out, closing the door be hind her. To Joanna Yvonne said: “Come and sit down,” She indicated the divan beside her. “If you'd like one there’s cigarets in the box on the tabouret. I think I’ll have one too.” Before she spoke again she drew a contemplative puff and allowed the smoke to curl slowly from her lips. Joanna watched her silently. Her first words were abrupt. “There are a great many people who enjoy themselve3 talking about me,” she said. “And some of them take an especial delight in talking in whispers. What do you know of me?” These were tactics that would not disconcert Joanna. She was too accustomed to making sudden attacks herself, or defending them. “Only what everybody knows,” she replied, frankly. "We read about you, you know, and your pictures always are in the newspapers. I’ve thought more of you than I ever did of a motion picture star, and that's a lot.” “Why?” This was more difficult. The girl hesitated, faltered. Again Yvonne's voice, clear, bell-like, clipped the one word: “Why?” “I think,” Joanna ventured, “it’s because you make people talk about you. Wherever you go, and whatever you do, people talk about it. It : s being famous and, besides, being famous yourself, not for what you do. And you have such a wonderful round of pleasures!” Yvonne contemplated ner clgaret again, following the lazy drifting of its wraith of smoke. "No,” she said, “that is not the reason you have been interested In me; and it is not the reason you were so willing to come to me, when I invited you.” A smile suddenly played at her mouth and she nodded at the girl on the divan beside her. "Is it?” she insisted. Joanna smiled back at her. "No, I don’t think it is, altogether,” she •'Treed brightly, “but that is as close as I can put it into words. You see, all my life, that is, since I’ve been alone, and making my own way, I’ve had to fight hard to keep up with the crowd. I’ve wanted things that cost money, and I’Ve wanted things that you can’t have, or enjoy, when you’re skimped. The things you need to make a show. The best I could ever do was owe somebody Installments on a dress or a wrap or my shoes, an 1 keep my eyes open for runs in my stockings. I’ve looked all right, and I’ve laughed a lot, but things have always happened to make me cry, too.” Again that bell-like voice of the elder girl clipped off a question: "What, for example?” Joanna studied a moment, her eyes looking out into the room. “They were such little things,” she protested; “things you wouldn’t understand.” "I think I would understand,” Yvonne persisted. “But you wouldn’t,” Joanna argued. “One like you simply couldn’t. I’ve cried my fool eyes out, often, because some ■ man—some boy, I •liked, wouldn’t stay square. And I’ve had nobody to talk anything over with. Mostly, people who are worth while to talk to, make me Puzzle a Day Here are three square garage buildings. All are the same size. They are leased by the city for $5 a square yard annual rental. According to the lease the total number of feet around the three buildings is exactly the same as the number of square yards in the area of the three buildings. From this information can you discover the annual rental of each building? < Last puzzle answer: AAAAAEEEIOOOUU CCDHKNNN RTTTVYY forms the proverb, “You cannot eat your cake and have it.” The two words, “you” and “your,” should have been easy to discover, and aftJr that the rest is sure to follow.

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tired—l mean, they don't know. When I cut my hair they thought I cut off my morals, and if I go off alone on a party they think I ought to be 'in a harem. When they tell me I don’t act like the girls of yesterday I have to say who cares a hang about yesterday when there's so many todays, and then I’m told I'm just plain had. Once in a while I get so cut up about it that I have to have a cry.” She thought she finished lamely. She smiled a little at the futility of her explanations. But Yvonne displayed no amusement. She said, very quietly: “And don’t you think that I am cut up a bit, now and then, when the people who are worth while, as you say of them, interpret me as both plain bad and fancy bad? Perhaps I am. There are different ways to view everything, but —well,” she broke off, and was silent for a brief moment: “Well, you see that I do, understand, after all,” she added. And then: “You were glad to come to me because you think I am of today, and not yesterday; that I am the proof of all your little theories of what a woman ougiht to be today—isn’t that it?” Joanna’s reply was eagerly grateful. “Yes. That is what I tried to say. I want to be able to do as I please and not be criticised." • * * SVONNE ROSE, and crushed the fire from her cigaret. “That’s all the talk we shall need, I think,” she said. "We shall enjoy each other tremendously, I imagine. Shall we go down to the winter garden? There will be somebody, besides Teddy Dorminster still there.” Joanna was conscious of something having been said, of some confidence reached out to her by Yvonne, which she had not fully understood. She was puzzled, as if she had been confronted by some subtle challenge that masked a strategy. For an instant she was at the point of breaking away, of running away regardless of the two trunks, a shining new one and a shabby old one, which had been lifted down from her taxicab. This impulse subsided Immediately, however. She decided that after awhile she would understand Yvonne, perfectly. And after awhile, a long time after, Joanna did! In the winter garden the group that Yvonne had left around the stone table had broken up. Only Teddy Dorminster and two others remained. One of these was a swarthy, dark haired, dark eyed man, who might have been of any age from twenty-five to forty-five. He was presented by Yvonne as Pendleton. Joanna thought him a very grave, and unaffable person. The other besides Dorminster, was a woman, who was easily more than twenty-five but could not possibly have been forty. Yvonne Identified her as Mrs. Marks. "Jove!” Lord Teddy exclaimed when Yvonne had named Pendleton and Mrs. Marks for Joanna. “Ive thought of something clever!” “Think it over carefully, Teddy,” Yvonne admonished him, “before you reveal it. “You’re so often mistaken.” “But this is excellent,” the irrepressible Lord Teddy insisted, “Postively ripping. Pendleton, here, and Doris, Doris Marks—don’t you see?” “Only that both are of a mind 1 that alcohol is* better than tea, and that you agree,” Yvonne informed him. “And also that the tea I have poured for Miss Manners is waiting to be passed!” “A thousand pardons, Miss Manners—by the way, is it quite all right for me to repeat now what I let escape from me a fev r minutes ago? About you’re being a* devlish pretty girl, you know? I was telling Pen here —Ah, that clever thing 1 thought of. I must tell you what it was before I forget it!” “One thing at a time, “Yvonne insisted. “What were you telling Pen?” “That I’d just seen the kind of a face that no man could ever forget after he’d once held It close to him. Isn’t that what I said, Pen old boy?” “You said absolutely nothing of the sort, or sjjoke of any face whatever,” Pendleton gravely assured him. “Perhaps I didn’t,” Teddy admitted. “But I thought it, and meant to say it. So Miss Manners will consider that I did.” Here the woman Yvonne had called Mrs. Marks interjected. “If

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