Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 185, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1925 — Page 28
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Beautiful JOANNA MANNERS, a New York clerk, is summoned to HARRNESS. tho buyer, to appear before her employer, MR. GRAYDON. who delivers an overwhelming message. Someone whose identity she is not to. know lias deposited $1,000,000 for her in ANDREW EGGLESTON’S bank. Joanna, offers to "hare her fortune with JOHN WILMORE. her fiance, but ite is determined to earn his own way as an architect. At a brilliant social affair, wealthy FRANCIS BRANDON. the banker's nephew, introduces her to YVONNE COUNTANT. society divorcee, whose partner RODDY KkNILWOR’I'H. 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 goes to live with Yvonne, where she meets MRS. DORIS MARKS, a MR. PENDLETON and LORD TEDDY DORMINSTER. who loses no time In courting Joanna. John attends Joannas coming out party and realizes that her new setting has placed a great abyss between them. In Eggleston's library hangs a large old painting of a girl Vho resembles Joanna.
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A year of frivolity passes. at Villa Ame.tte in France ana still Joanna,-has not lost her heart to any Os her admirers—not even PRINCE MICHABH,. Joanna reads that John, who has become a celebrity has arrived iu I ranee. He enters the Casino while she is losing heavily at roulette. That evening while they are guests of LADY WEYMOUTH at the opera.. Yvonne strives to hold John's attention. While Brandon inspects the structures being erected foiw Joanna's forthcoming festivity, he confesses he cares for her. but has been waiting for her to find herself. By H. L. Oates CHAPTER XXVIII Lady Weymouth A*” —“I CAR turning in at the Amettff gate and rolling up the v___J road to the veranda of the villa, reminded Joanna that Lady Weymouth, Teddy Dorminster’s sister had telephoned early In the mom ing that she would like to come out
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for a chat. “Something rather personal between you and me, my dear,” she had said in.her impulsive staccato way. “You may give me a cup of tea and a brandy and soda and when wo’ve had a chat shtow me over the grounds, if\you will. I am all excited by what I hear of the preparations you are making for your big affair.” Brandon frowned when Joanna got up from the bench and insisted that she must go to the house to greet her visitor. “But we were just beginning to get somewhere,/ weren't we?” he protested. , “Were we?” gfie asked, looking at him coolly. "You were telling me that Yvonne is following the only honest path for a women to take; that she is going straight to the goal of her desire. I believe you said \hat she must see some promise of novelty in stirring John's madness, and satisfaction in proving that she could go in where only an angel .would be welcome. You had gone so far as to advise vne that It was time I drop my pretenses and take love as I find it. I didn’t know you were particularly trying to get anywhere.” Brandon, who had remained on the bench when the girl stood, rose. If there were a mask to drop his fell for a. fleeting moment. He caught Joanna’s arm and swung her about until she stood close and looked up Into his face. But when he spoke his voice was like the smoothness of the motor in her Daimler car. It purred. And it was insolent. “I said all of that, and more,” ht murmured. “I said that you were a cheat, an imposter in the order you have chosen to enter. You are playing every night and day of your life with flame, and foolishly think you aren't being burned, but you are. deadliest burning, you know, is the kiss of an invisible fire that goes deep before It pains. You are being scorched by the ridicule of those w,ho know that you only pretend that you don't understand Kenilworth, Michael, and the others, and the contempt they have for one who tries to be discreet, but Is only deceitful. We had got that far.” For an instant anger flamed In the gold brown eyes that looked up
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into his: she trembled, and the tangerine glow came into her cheeks. Then she was calm, again, and inscrutable. “But what futile progress!” she mocked hint. "You read me a lesson from a book I learned by heart, long ago—when I was twenty-seven of the silks. It used to be, you know, that we needed to be told that if we invited we would be expected to accept: that if we made ourselves Into a welcome sign we might as well say ‘come In.' We’ve learned all that now. And we know when to say ‘come In’ and when to say ‘go to the devil.’ How muoh farther did you think to go?” * • * H - ~"J E STILL spoke softly: still reminded her of the low num of tl\e motor In her car. “Far beyond all of that, my dear Joanna! Up to the very edge of all your make-believe.” Suddenly his manner changed. He dropped the hand he had held with a tight, nerveless clasp. His smile came back to the corners of his mouth. He spoke alrfly. “But the moment has Red, hasn’t It?” he exclaimed. “One must not profess love and make Its demands and propose its bargains when tempers are out of tune; should they?” She regarded him from half closed lids before she spoke. Then she said: "You are the cheat, you know. Because you hadn't said anything about love! You’d been trying to get wherever you were starting for with that part of It. Next time, remember. Neither Roddy nor Michael were so clumsy as to forget.’’ And she turned away and left him. Lady Weymouth, a sprightly, ecstatic young woman of>that English sort which possesses two distinct characters, the one that shows and the one that Is hidden, often as opposite as the poles, greeted Joanna effusively when the girl reached the villa verandas, where the visitor had chosen to wait. Joanna was fond of Teddy Domainster’s sister, but It was a shy fondness that she never quite revealed Betty Weymoutlff was different, someway, from others of the crowd that flitted from villa to villa, that
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shone resplendent with its jewels and its velvet backs at the Casino opera, or rode. In pairs, through the quiet lanes that wandered back from the main roads by the sea. She professed, openly, to be ever at the verge of indiscretion; but one was quietly confident that she never was. She was barely thirty, but repeatedly announce)! that she was in imminent danger of being arrested, or fined, or something like that, for having deliberately lopped off two years from her birth certificate. "One must knock off at least a year with every baby,” she liked to declare, “and I’ve already got two'.’ She was desperately unconscious of any attractiveness or worthwhileness upon the part of the earl, her brother, but often sat ahd talked with him for an hour at a time. Which is seldom the way between brothers of the Teddy Dorminster type and sisters of the Betty Weymouth kind. Joanna would have liked to have Lady Weymouth realize how fond she was of "her, but was ever afraid Betty Weymouth would not take such appreciation seriously. “I am all eagerness to know about your fete,” the visitor said at once,” for that is all I hear whispered about. It’s terribly exciting, you know, to be doing something, or about to do something, that is whispered about. I've been trying ever since I came down from London to get someone to drop their voices about me, but they won't. I put on a scandalous affair with Michael, that night you were with us at the Opera, whet| you presented Mr. Wilmore, but I’ve never heard an echo. You're so fortunate! The night before you took just a little dash in a car with him and whispers were so thick you could cut them.” “A whisper doesn’t count for much, though does it?” Joanna asked the ebulient Betty Weymouth. "It’s rather like a cocktail without the gin in It. When there's really anything to say folks talk it right out loud, as a rule." "That's quaint!” Betty exclaimed. "Positively quaint. And so wise! I shall not be content, now until people are talking out loud.” Joanna rang for the butler and ordered tea. “May we have It served inside?” Lady Weymouth asked.
“Some place where Brandon, whom I saw just now with Yvonne and Mr. Wilmore over there on the lawn, or the others, won't pop up to us. I’ve really something to say, you know.” • • • HILE they waited for the maid to wheel up her tray VT and arrange the service, Joanna proffered Lady Weymouth a cigaret. For her own she found, on a table, an exquisite new holder that Kenilworth had sent her the night before. She had others set with emeralds or rubies. This one was of bqmboo in which some Chinese workman had fixed tiny bits of camphor ja*>. “How gorgeous.” Lady Betty cried. "Trust Roddy Kenilworth to search the ends of the earth to sate the whims of his lady loves.” She was instantly mindful of that slip of the plural—his lady loves. And, being an English woman, she was never at a loss to turn her own slips into an advantage. “I’m sorry I said that, my dear,” she said gently. “But It Is just as well, perhaps, because It will open up my way. I want to talk to you about the kind of love that is spoken of in the plural." Joanna glanced at her sharply. This was anew Lady Weymouth. “Or, It may be that it is love that Isn’t plural I will begin about," Lady Betty went on, after a moment's contemplation of the smoke that curled lazily from her lips. “It's about Teddy, you know. Teddy and you. dear. Teddy’s an awful ass, I know, and he’s kissed the hem of a thousand garments when he should have stopped at the fingers. But he’s always said that no woman Is ever approached, by a man she doesn’t beckon to, and I’m sure he ought to know.” Again she waited to watch the nebulous trail of the smoke wraith that lifted from her cigaret. Joanna’s jade and bamboo holder was poised midway between her Upt’ and the table. The brown eyes had become Ivory black. Her lids were drawn close, until they shaped into two straight lines. "You mean.” she said, “you want me to stop beckoning?” nady Betty was so startled that
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her cigaret slipped from her Angers to the floor. A maid appeared out of her forgotten proximity and recovered it. Lady Betty did not soe the hand that he'd the retrieved .tobacco. "We mustn’t make it a skirmish, my dear.” she said to the girl who looked her full in the eyes. "I’m not come as a wife with a bargain to propose to her husband’s mistress. I'm just Betty Weymouth dropped in to tea to ask her 'friend, the Golder Girl, if she won’t be chummy and generous and let a good chap down—let him down easily, hut let him down. He loves you, dear, and he wants you. I’ve always said that (there wasn’t a reason in the world any man oughtn’t to have any woman he wanted —if she’d let him have her. That’s gone for my own brother, too. But he wants you for keeps. That’s different, isn’t It?” "Yes, it’s different,” , Joanna agreed. “Women are so fbee to be had these days that it’s strange any man would want one—for keeps. And you think I’m not the kind he ought to have —in that'-way?” • • • BADY BETTY smiled, and reaches for anew cigaret. “My dear, you are so unexpected,” she exclaimed brightly. “One plans a speech, or a sentiment, and you twist it into something that doesn’t sound right at ail and hurl it back before it’s given.” She was earnest again. "I mean only thrff it wouldn’t be fair to me, to my brother, to our family, and least of all, to yi*b dear girl, if you married Teddy. It would be hell for you, in fact. And % worse than everything else, it would be hell for him. I love my brother, Joanna. He’s a good sort. Throw him over, won’t you, like a good girl?” “Really, you know. I’ve never taken him on,” Joanna reminded Lady Betty, and then added: “But I might, most any time. As you say, he’s a good sort. And I like him tremendously. He’s asked me to marry him, you know, and that’s made him fearfully Interesting to me. You must tell me why ” She stopped. With her eyes she signaled the maid to serve the brandy and soda. Neither woman spoke while the Ice was served and the mixture made. Then Joanna asked:
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“Will you tell tna why T am not. worthy of your brother? lie know? nte. You don’t. You and 1 tire common birds of prey,' seeking thv same game. You hunt in your wna I In mine. .Your thrill may be tii ferent than mine, but we’re womefi —or, at least, if you are a woman, I’m a girl, which is the same tiling. U may, or it may not l>e, that I shall want Lord Teddy. Why not?” “A Dorminster always has women,” the other woman roturned, "mill he always puts them aside for a wife. The wife must be clean and good. Are you both, my dear? You're modern, you know. You’re beautiful and lovely, and, I think, honest. But you’re all body. I’m all body, too, Vit T haven’t the tv'rve that you have. You're not ashamed of it. A Dorminster must be ashamed of It. It's a Dorminster convention. Surely I won't have to say any more.” “No, you Won’t!” Joanna agreed. “Neither shall I. Teddy would rather have his final answer from mo. than delivered through his sister, I know. And, I fancy, he’ll know quite well what a Dorminster wants—and needs, Perhaps he'll get It. Perhaps not. Shall we walk through the grounds? I think you said you’d like to see something of the prepare Uons I’m making. While we ar* about It I hope you’ll choose the place for your seats in my pavilion theater. I’m staging a little pluy that I know you'll love.” They spent an hour on grounds. It was as if they had fofl| gotten their time at the tea tnblnV Lady Betty was ecstatic again, and enthused anew at each foretasto of the enfete thrills prophesied by each preparation piade by the workmen on the Amette lawns. At the pillared pavilion she was sympathetic with the mystery Joanna spread about the plans which were to have their climax there. “I shall have Teddy sit close te me to protect me from whatevei deviltry this pa/fcin temple shall unfold,” she threatened. ”1 shall wunt him to be very close to you,” Joanna agreed. And I-i Ody Betty looked al her quickly. There was something 'inwonted in the voice of the Goldon Ulrl. (Copyright. 1925, H. L. Gates) (To Be Continued)