Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 182, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1925 — Page 10
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Beautiful JOANNA MANNERS, a New Vurk clerk, is summemed by HAB.X--NBBB. the buyer to appear before here employer. MR. GRAYON. who delivers n overwhelmlnir meseape. Someone whose identity she is not to know has deposited $1,000,000 for her In ANDREW EGGLESTON’S bank. Joanna offers to share her fortune with JOHN MILMORE. her fiance, but he is determined to earn his own way as an architect. At a brilliant social affair, wealthy 'FRANCIS BRANDON. the bankerh nephew, introduces her to YVONNE OOTTNTANT. society divorcee whose partner, RODDY KENILWORTH, rich, romantic idler, admits he will try his hand for Joanna. He knows Brandon s the one thing- Yvonne desires that she hasn't got. . _ Joanna goes to live with Yvonne where she meets MRS. IX)RIS MARKS ", MR. PENDLETON and LORD TEDDY DORMINSTER. who loses no time in courting Joanna. John attends Joanna s coming ouh party and realizes thta her new setting has placed a great abyss ■between them. In Eggleston’s library hangs a large did painting of a girl who resembles Joanna. A year of frivolity passes at iVlla Amctic in France and still Joanna has not lost her heart to any of her admirers —not even PRINCE MICHAEL. Joanna reads that John, who has become a celebrity, has arrived in France. By H. L Gates CHAPTER XXV When Joanna Gambles |_’ i ENILWORTH would have | I guided his companion around 1 the big Casino building to the pigeon field which lies between It ;ind the sea, but Joanna preferred to go onto the white terrace and into the gambling rooms. In Roddy’s manner there was every sign of the truth of Yvonne’s observation in the Trianon summer house at Amette; that he was wor-
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ried by the reappearance of John in the girl’s schemes of things. Secretly she was disturbed by him. During the months in New York, before her departure for London and France, he had been a supercilious admirer, graceful in his devotions, impressing her as a man of the world who had decided to affect enthusiasm over anew toy. Then, suddenly, his attitude and his purpose had altered. He had deliberately followed her and Yvonne to London. It was then that circle of men and women which revolved about men of his kind, young men who are old enough to be discreet and rich enough to be idle, began to take stock of the seriousness of Roddy Kenilworth in his pursuit of the young American millionaires, Joanna Manners. Therer was a great deal of boudoir grief over this state of affairs, for Kenilworth was known as one who went from one affair to another at slight provocation, but always magnificently, generously. It was felt that if he were definitely lost to his world of sub rosa romance it would, be disastrous. It was generally wished that the young American, whose fresh youth had proved an irresistible charm, .where charm is translated in terms of flesh, would succumb to the inevitable—or, to Roddy’s determinations—and in the usual course, free him for his next feminine engage-
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ment. “For,” said one young woman to her dancing partner at the fashionable Embassy Club, “Roddy looks as though he were going to be serious, this time; he hasn’t had a serious affair since the early days of Yvonne Coutant. He won’t be a free agent until he gets over this attack, and the American is delaying matters.” Joanna liked Roddy Kenilworth. She hdd heard, as people do hear, that Yvonne had been of his making. How much to believe and what to discount she didn’t know, nor care. She gloried in her ability, she who had cbme out from behind the silk counter, to bring the green tints into his eyes whenever she was of the whim to make him take note of her. She knew Roddy was in a continual fight with himself over her. Dorminster was always her slave. Brandon served her whenever she asked, but he remained aloof; she couldn’t sway him —or, rather, she wouldn't dare. But Roddy made an occasional effort to baffle the spell of her, and to thwart him was like quaffing champagne. But, just now, with Prince Michael’s sudden surrender to her creating anew undertone, and with the coming of John to irritate him, she was restless beneath Kenilworth's intent appraisals. And she didn’t want to be cross-examined about John, She hoped she was concealing from Roddy the constant searching of her eyes along the vistas of the Terrace and into the Casino Square which fronts the crowded tables of the Case de Paris, for a familiar figure. • • • mN THE atrium, the red and gold foyer of the Casino, Yvonne and Michael were awaiting them. “The rooms are crowded,” Yvonne observed. “I’ve decided to hunt a plg.ee at the roulette tables.” Around each of the tables were crowds four or five deep—the late afternoon company of curious visitors to the world’s gayest shrine of sin, tourists, cocottes seeking monsieurs for the evening, and Old women hangers—on holding' chairs with the hope of selling them to aft-er-dinner habitues. All of these last, the old women of the gambling rooms, knew each one of the party that crossed the wide polished floor
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of the splendidly decorated rooms and glanced about for places. Croupiers, too, gave little sings to each other at the entrance of the sleek Yvonne and the lovely young American. Both had been the heroines of sensational plays that had become Casino legends. Yvonne dropped Into a chair Michael bought from an old bag for a fifty franc note. Kenilworth guided Joanna to another and won- a courtesy from the ancient dame who surrendered it by the size of his tip. Joanna plunge-d immediately into her play, Kenilworth standing close behind her. When Joanna gambled she lost herself entirely. The color came into her cheeks as the red and black, divided its favors. Others played with gold louis, or ten franc notes, counting their plaques nervously after each turn of the wheel; Joanna tossed thousand franc notes onto her colors or numbers or columns with feverish excitement. When she lost, and the croupier's wooden rake drew her stake away from her, she made pretty, grimmaces. When she won, and the rake pushed toward her fingers its pile of gold and silver #nd notes, she clapped her hands and turned to smile up at the man who stood over her. On this afternoon she made her first plays listlessly, as if her enthusiasm had been left with the hats of the men in the Atrium; but with one or two winnings she had forgotten everything, seemingly, but the cry of the croupiers and the spinning of the wheel. Bandon, strolling through the rooms as was his daily afternoon custom, came upon them. He pushed his way arpong the spectators who always gathered about the Golden Girl when rumor spread through the rooms that she was playing, and stood with Kenilworth. Joanna, conscious of his presence, lifted her ungloved fingers over her shoulder for him to touch them. Kenilworth observed to the newcomer; “She’s in a reckless mood. But she's winning!” Asa rule the Caslna rooms clear with the first pallor of twilight. Only the inveterate gamblers remain through the quite hours when tourists hunt their ten franc table notes and the members of the fashionable
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company disappear for dressing and their more interesting dinner ren dezvous. Yvonne could keep a crowd about 'her, however, and so could Joanna. Three times'in succession Joanna lost the maximum, fifteen thousand francs. Then she won a sweep of the columns twice. By now she was playing only the limit —fifteen thousand francs at each play. And across her shoulder, at her Insistence, Roddy reached down at every play to touch with his fingers an added play of six thousand francs which therotically registedel him as a player and the extra maximum as his own gamble. By this subterfuge the Golden Girl was avoiding the rules and staking, on every turn of the wheel, double the maximum. Brandon and Kenilworth exchanged glances. A chef de pagtie, the official who supervises each table for the Casino Administration quietly took a stand beside the croupier. Mademoiselle had won a quarter of a million francs in an hour of play. And seemed to be unwearied. The official gave a hidden sign. Attendants in the quiet uniform of the Casino silently rolled up a square box set upon wheels. Out of the box they lifted cases of money which they put in the receptacles ati the croupier's hand. Once, in just such a mood as she evidenced now, Mademoiselle Joanna had broken .the bank. When she played the double maximum for an hour and had a winning streak, the chief de parties provided early for emergency. • • • ERINCE MICHAEL and Yvonne afte ra time of desultory playing left their chairs and moved over to stand writh Brandon and Kenilworth behind the girl at the table. Joanna felt their presence and called over her shoulder to Michael. "You've got lots of pockets. Please empty my lap off of money. My bag is filled and I can’t take care of it all. And you can play with me as Roddy’s doing." It is so clearly against the rules for a player to go beyond the maximum play that the croupier, worried already by the obvious trick of Kenilworth’s merely touching the Becond
15,000 francs in the girl’s stakes, glanced sidewise at the chef de partie for his approval of this added evasion. Joanna caught the glance and treated the aged chef de partie with a warm smile that captivated him. He bowed to the croupier and Prince Michael, having emptied the pile of notes and gold which Joanna had scraped into her lap into his various pockets and overflowing it Into Kenilworth’s, reached over her other shoulder to help make her play 45,000 francs at a time. Yvonne, standing now edged against Brandon, suddenly felt, his hand on her arm. When she looked up at him he signaled, with a look a presence In the room. She turned and glanced about among the marble pillars along the corridors. She saw a flgtlfw already in dinner clothes standing idly between the columns where visitors loiter to take In the always thrilling scene about the roulette tables. The boy, for he was hardly more than a boy although he had the air of one who had grown big in the midst of something that counted, appeared to be undetermined whether to pass on, and out onto the Terrace, or turn into the Salle de Roulette and investigate the reason for the crowd that hovered, with dense faces, about the middle table. Yvonne, when she had took In every detail of the figure in dinner clothes, glanced at Brandon. He nodded at her quietly. She threaded her way out of the crush and crossed the chamber. The young man between the columns had decided, evidently, to pass on. But as he was turning into the corridor his eyes caught the woman who was approaching him. He moved to meet her, a glad smile in his face. Her two hands reached out to him. impulsively. Awkwardly he took them both, and would have dropped them but they held onto his. "We knew you had come,” Yvonne said, "and so I am to be the first to tell you what wonderful things you have been doing and how happy I —we are! You are quite the same John TVllmore we left in New York! The “we” was emphasized. John noticed that. It confused him. And the woman was still holding his hands.
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sudden stubbornness overwhelmed her. “En plein!" she called again, and swept her 45,000 francs —$6,000 — onto the table. Again she lost. Whispering In the crowd behind her ceased. Necks craned to see her next play. “En plein!” she called, and tossed another $5,000 onto the green cloth. The crowd of watchers at the table gasped. Deathly silence fell. Even Yvonne, who had been chatting feverishly with John, was silent. Kenilworth started to murmur a caution, but Joanna threw up her hand jerkily and wilfully. If ever “en plein” wins Immediately after losing it becomes one of the legends of Monte Carlo. It turns up one out of 400 plays, according to the average struck after many years. Again tho croupier raked in the stake and called for the next play. "Make your game, Mademoiselle!” Her bag was empty. She signed over her shoulder to Michael for her money from his pockets. Again $5,000, and again! The watchful chef de parties went away. At last, with a shrug of her shoulders the Golden Girl leaned back in her chair. She smiled up to the croupier: "Merci, M'sieur,” she said, “that is all. I have no more.” The croupier, as there was no one else playing, permitted himself the rare pleasure of an exchange with Mademoiselle Joanna: "I am desolate that Mademoiselle should have been so unlucky!” She shook her head, still leaning back in her chair, and smiling at him queerly: “Merci, M’sieur,” she said, “but I am not unhappy. Unlucky at play, you know, lucky at love. I want to be very lucky today, M’slour—at love!” She got up, then, and locked up at Kenilworth and Michael, who were standing transfixed by the suddenness of the piling up of her tremendous losses. She put a hand on tho sleeves of both of them and shared between them that persistent, quizzical smile. She was about to chaff ‘them when her eyes found Yvonne and the man beside her. Both Kenilworth and Prince Michael felt, and look a different lesson, from the sudden gripping' of the fingers that had rested so falrylike upon their arms. (.Copyright, H. L. Gates) (To Re Continued)