Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1925 — Page 10

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Beautiful JOANNA MANNERS, a New York clerk. is advised by MR. GUA) - DON that someone whose identity she is not to know has deposited 51.000.000 for her in ANDREW EGGLESTON'S bank. Joanna oilers to share her fortune with JOHN WILMORE. her finance, but ha 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 OOUTANT, Bfciety divorcee, whose partner, RODDY KENILWORTH, rich, romantic idler, admits he will try his hand for Joanna. . , , He knows Brandon is the one thinsr Yvonne desires that she hasn t g-ot. In Egvleeton’s library hang’s a large old painting of a girl who resembles Joanna. A year o f frivolity parses with Yvonne at iVlla Amette in rPance and still Joanna has not lost her heart to any of her admirers—not even PRINCE! MICHAEL. , John, who has become a celebrity, arrives in France. While Brandon Inspects the structures being erected for Joanna’s forthcoming festivity, he confesses he cares for her, but has been waiting for her to find BETTY WAYMOUTH asks Joanna to give up her brother, LORD DORMINSTER. , „ , _ Asa result of Yvonne s efforts. John becomes ardently devoted to her and breaks his engagement with Joanna. She is heartbroken. . Though a heavy mist fills she air she (goes with Kenilworth to a resort at the top of La Turbie mountain. Brandon hears and determines to follows. A sudden resolve arises in Yvonne’s mind when she learns of this. By H. L. Oates CHAPTER XXXII La Turbie VEN as Brandon watched the pt slim figure in black, from his table, the orchestra struck up a waltz, a slowly rhythmed, exotic melody that chanted like a song of passion. The figure in black rose. The man across from her whom Brandon had recognized easily, despite his domino, as Kenilworth, was on his feet with her. A woman who had become careless breezed up to Brandon Just then and boldly commanded him to take her onto the floor. He eyed her coolly and shook his head. ‘‘l’d rather watch them,” he said, and motioned to the vacant sent at his table in invitation to the unknown to sit out the number with him. The unknown declined. ‘‘l want to waltz,” she said. “Any one will do—if not you, a more gallant knight will humor me. It’s the only time I ever think—when I’m waltzing.” "An odd condition, that!” Brandon taunted her. “Sounds so, doesn’t It?” she returned. ‘But it isn’t, you know. Women think while they waltz; all women do. It reminds them of foolish dreams they had when they were very young.” With a flirt of her hand across his shoulders the unknown disappeared. A moment later he saw her, among

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the dancers, and saw that she was dancing silently. And he saw, too, that Joanna, a striking figure In the colorful maze, danced silently; as If she, too, were thinking. He saw, tod, that Kenilworth was holding her tightly. When the music died in a plaintive bar, the dancers stood, expectant of the customary encore. The lights, which had been dimmed, flared, however, and a roll of the orchestra drums announced an unwonted interruption. From the balcony railing a voice called, “Monsieurs et Madumes!” All who were In the room glanced up, curiously, at the club house host, who stood at the rail, leaning forward over the dance floor. “I am desolate, my friends,” the functionary called out, “before the necessity I must urge upon you all. I mu3t ask you sorrowfully to make your departures from my hospitalities as soon as may be convenient for you. The mist, of which you must have taken ndte as you so kindly came up to our club house earier in the evening, has risen fast and densely. Soon your car lamps will be of no use to you. Even now you must go down very carefully. If there be any of you whose humor it is to remain with us until day light, when the sun will chase the fog away, I assure you of my welcome. Those of you who feel it your duty to descend before the night has passed, must go at once—and very, very cautiously. In a Httle while it will be too late.” There was an instant babel of voices and the rustle of those who, for their various reasons, must attempt the descent rather than remain at La TUrbie during the night. Brandon, who had risen from his table, watched Joanna and Kenilworth. He saw that both of them turned immediately toward the foyer where Joanna had left her wrap. Then he slipped out the door and went to the big car in which Antoine awaited. "As I expected,” he said to the Monegasque, “she will not remain. Bo ready to pull out when they approach their car. We want not more than two or three cars between us.” —• • • * * Gyjß HEN Kenilworth and Joanna yy | came out, many of the cars I in the yard had already vanished in the fog, their horns echoing up from the road monoton-

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ously. An attendant was ordering departures, insisting upon an interval of two minutes between them. Brandon waited until Joanna, her wrap held close about her, her mask in her hand now, had climbed into, the seat beside Kenilworth. Then he touched Antoine's arm, and,‘at the next signal from the starter, the big car slid away. In the smaller car Kenilworth remarked, grimly; “It’ll be a test of nerve, but we’ll make it if anyone does.” The girl seemed to detect a note of dejection in his tone. She slipped her hand under his arm. ‘‘l’m sorry, Roddy,” she said. “You were wonderful, and I am conceited enough to think you meant all that you said. But you just didn't sweep me off my feet as I thought you might. I suppose there must be something old-fashioned about me after all. Your arms are awfully comforting, my dear, but I couldn't have the feeling that the thorns would just have to grow on them. I know you think I’ve treated you rotten, but I couldn't help it. I feel better, for It, too. I’m sure of myself, anyway.” ‘‘l don’t know,” he said, “hut what you’ve got the right idea at that. Better 1 than mine. I almost asked you to marry me, and that’s wholly against my principles.” “I’m glad you didn’t,” she returned. "I’m afraid I might have given in to that.” The starter appeared at their run-ning-board and • asked them to proceed. They crept noiselessly out of the parking yard. Until they came to the first turn, some sixty yards away, the flickering lights from the clubhouse aided them. Then, when they had swerved sharply to the left they were wrapped in wet, almost impenetrable obscurity. Ahead they could see only the faint glimmer of their own headlights/ Twice they bumped into cars stalled at the inner side of the road. Each time they were called out to by members of a party going back afoot —even women in fragile 'slippers and delicate gowns already soggy from the damp—rather than fight the descent any longer. The red car, nosing downward at a snail’s pace, struck a stump. ✓"lt

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was foolish of me to let you attempt to go down,” Joanna declared. “Before we are too far away we must walk back. The car will be as safe at the side of the road as are the others being abandoned.” “If we have to walk,” Kenilworth replied firmly, “It will be straight ahead. I’ll get you down If I have to carry you.” “But it’s utter folly!” she protested. At that moment another group, two women and a man, stumbled by them, feeling their way back to the “See,” she exclaimed, "there are more who have given it up. We can walk back, dry out and for daylight. People will understand.” He stubbornly negotiated another corner. When the car was crawling along again he spoke, grimly: “There isn’t enough charity in the whole world —In that part of It you and I inhabit —to make room for any sort of decent understanding of how a pretty woman might be caught and remain till daylight on La Turbie. You can stand a mysterious escapade in the night with Prince Michael, but not with me in the mist at a mountain top clubhouse, where you have to wear a mask to save your face. Some could; with some it wouldn’t matter, you couldn't and you can’t.” She hit her lip. and was silent. With a petulant gesture she brushed away the moisture that hung in great, glinting beads on her eye lashes. Suddenly she was startled by a light that appeared weirdly In the middle of the road almost at their front wheels, waving slowly to the right and left. “Somebody smashed. I supposed,” Kenilworth muttered and. Jamming on his brakes, brought the car to a stop. Heavy, forbidding faces .emerged from the,fog on either side of them. Joanna cried out. Kenilworth with an oath, lunged across her at the head of a man who reached in to her, but his arms were seized in an iron grip and twisted dexterously behind him. A guttural voice, speaking a mixture of Monegasque and French, commanded : “Monsieur and Mademoiselle will be good enough to step from the car!”

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

“Like —!" Kenilworth exclaimed, and struggled, but the grip on his arms left him powerless. The lantern was brought closer. By Its pale light they saw that a dozen men surrounded the car and that fire arms gleamed dully in their hands. • * * FTER her first cry of alarm Joanna sat rigid. Something J of her fright shone In her eyes, and Kenilworth was conscious that her face was pale. Otherwise she gave no sign. The gruff voice of the leader of the evil crew was heard again. “It was ordered that you both descend. We have rfct great patience. The mademoiselle need not fear.” Kenilworth advised Joanna to step out quietly. “We must go through It, I suppose,” he grumbled. "They probably will rob us with a thousand pardons and then politely let us go. These mountain brigands are thorough gentlemen as a rule.” The one who had been holding onto Joanna's wrists released them when she was In the road. She ran around the car to Kenilworth’s side and from this position glared defiantly at the footpads who surrounded them. One of them oaught the red sparkle of the enormous ruby that lay against her throat, from which her wrap had fallen. She instinctively flung up her hand to cover It. The bandit smiled and bowed gallantly. “A pretty thing, mademoiselle,” he said in the native patios. “Mademoiselle’s neck does not require such an ornament however!” Kenilworth cursed at him, which only brought another ironic bow. The men closed in around the pair and they were ordered to walk with them. They were marched off the road past a hut which Kenilworth recognized as the one before which the big car ahead of them for the flfst portion of their assent,' had stopped and dropped behind them. Behthd the hut they entered a cluster of, pine trees and then crossed an open spec© of soggy bush stub. A low barn like building loomed out of the mist before them, and they were ushered through a narrow door. Inside the building was a startling scene. In the dim light shed by

a dozen lanterns placed about the earthen floor they saw half a dozen men and women whose costumes and dominoes proved them to have been revelers at the club house, lined up against the walls, the men standing stiffly at one side, their hands bound behind them, the women in an excited group. Armed ruffians guarded the women at one side, and the sullen men at the other. Kenilworth was ordered to take his place among the men. For a brief woment he gave sign of attempting fight, but Joanna murmured a reassuring word to him and without awaiting the command from their captors, moved over to join the group of women. As Kenilworth had prophesied, the bandits robbed their victims with profuse apologies uttered in their guttural tones. They seemed however, to be strangely inefficient in their plundering. The man whose hands explored Kenilworth’s inner pockets did pot discover his wallet, in which was a sizeable sheaf of bank notes, nor his platinum and diamond studded watch in the watch pocket beneath his waistcoat. A few gold louis, and an English pound note in his change pocket was confiscated. His pearl dress studs were not noticed. Curiously, he observed ’ that the other robbers, relieving the other men of obvious valuables, ignored costly pearl studs. On the lapel of one victim, a tiny decoration built around a huge diamond, was unnotifced. • • * HHE same Incongruous carelessness prevailed at the plundering of the women. Their fingers brushed lightly over gleaming throats; they begged a pardon for every jewel, of which they took only those that sparkled flagrantly. A pretty young woman —a very pretty young one with the small, angular face and smooth eyelids of an early madonna, dropped to her knees hysterically when a rough hand reached to a sapphire pendant which hung deep on a bare chest from which, in her excitement, she had almost torn the already scant reach of her grown. “Please,” she pleaded to the bandit, “do not take my necklet. It is of small value. I have hidden dla-

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monds that I will give you. My necklet is a reminder of my husband.” The evil fellow gave her his fingers and helped her to her feet. Then he bowed with a comic opera sweep of his wide brimmed hat. “I would not disturb the gift that reminds such a charming lady of something she should not forget,” the bandit said. Joanna, who was standing near, glanced quickly at the common, vulgar fellow, whose breath was strong with garlic and whose hands were gross and awkward. Then she looked at the girl, aTid shuddered a little. The brigand who appeared to be the leader of the robbing company, the one whose voice was particularly gruff, stepped into the middle of the floor and announced: “We are most sad to interfere with such plans as the messieurs and mesdames have made for their return to the more comfortable thresholds of their homes below, but there are circumstances which may not be avoided. It becomes a necessity to invite the gentlemen to remain within the hospitality of this isolated barn which we have borrowed for the evening. The ladles will be returned to the clubhouse, where they may be so happy as to find other partners for the merry dances of the waning night. You will be reunited with the morrow, doubtlessly. When the ladies are deposited at the clubhouse we shall leave you. Messieurs the police will find us well disappeared by the time you gentlemen ease your wristlets and find your way to the cities below. The men against the wall stirred and swore, but firearms menaced them. Some of the women blanched at the prospect of their doings of the night becoming wildly reported tid bits for the spicy enjoyments of sensation mongers along the Riviera. The pretty girl who had protected the souvenir of her husband shrieked. An amused and Ironical smile formed about the pleblan mouth of the bandit who had sensed her predicament—her sudden thought of the consequences of being detected by that same husband in her clandestine visit with another man than he to the club house that is out of conventional bounds. Despite all protests the women

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 9,19U5

were herded out of the barn escorted [ across the soggy open space, through the pines, and onto the road. There they were instructed to climb into a big gray car—Joanna thought; she recognized it as the one they had passed on the road, but was not sure. A silent figure sat at thej wheel; one who knew every trick of the road and picked his way surely through the mist to the final turn whien revealed the dim lights of the club house Just ahead. Here the car stopped and the women were ordered to descend and proceed alone to the club house. “The telephone wires have been cut,” the man who had driven the car said to them when they were all In the road| “You s may he prepared to wait until the; mist lifts or your escorts find their way below and send for you.” With the reappearance of the hold-; up victims, draggled and suffering from their various reflections upon becoming, as they surely would be, heroines of a widely-told-about night on La Turbie, pandemonium broke out among the revelers who bad, elected to remain and who, by that time, had made serious Inroads upon their host's store of champagne. The sense of the reception of those who had thought it necessary to brave the mist for a return to their plaoesl below, by those who heeded no such convention, was that each one of the robbers’ victims had, by the unexpected circumstance, become “one of 118.” Joanna sat apart from the ribald scene that Immediately shaped itself.! She made no pretense of restoring l her mask to her face—by now all! masks were openly discarded. Even! the mask that restrained the club-j house itself had been dropped, and! the revelry was unbridled Outside, after an hour, the hlg gray car, which had disappeared after depositing the women, slid up again to the parking yard and found place, to stand. This time Brandon, still muffled In his great coat, got out. leaving Antoine, aa he hud earlier in the evening. He threw his coat, back Into the car, arrange,! his domino, and without his face mask went directly into the house. He saw Joanna alone at her isolated table and went directly up to her, (Copyright. 1925, H. L. Oates) 1 (To Be Continued)