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Dodger By VIRGINIA SWAIN

BEGIN HEBE TODAY BARBARA HAWLEY. 26, Belt-willed and taJenU-d. breaks with her fiance, BRUOE REYNOLDS. and gets a job on the Indianapolis Telegraph in order to see llle. Tivroufli 808 JEFFRIES, polloe reporter. she meets JEROME BALL, man about town, at a dinner at an inn where a prominent local man kill* himsell. and Barbara picks up a red soar! left ill the room by the unknown woman companion of the dead man. Bruce has joined the real estate firm of Manners Stone and Reynolds, which Is promoting - Vale Acres, a mammoth real estate project. LYDIA STACY, a rich widow', refuses to Invest In Vale Acres when Bruce fails to respond to liex blandishments. Barbara rets many letter* from a flrl named Violetta, which she answers In the lovelorn column She reads of Bruce’s marriage to a factory rirl named VIOLETTA CRANBY. and learns that she herself has engineered Violetta's Campaign to win him. Lydia Stacy informs ANDREW MCDERMOTT, managing editor of the Telegraph, of crookedness in the Manners. Stone ft Reynolds firm. Manners leaves town with the firm's bank deposits. Bruce thinks Barbara Is responsible for the newspaper publicity given the affair. Jerome Ball tells Barbara he is going to bo married. Her mother dies suddenly and she lease* an apartment .In town. McDermott asks her to take his young daughter. FANCY MCDERMOTT. to live

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go with you to your new home and help straighten up.” "It’s wonderful to somebody like you to depend on, Bob,” she said, as they waited for the steak. Bob looked at her aulzzically. "I guess everybody needs someone, Barbara.” She flushed. When she spoke again it was upon a different subject. “What happened today, in the Vale Acres story?” “Nothing much,” answered Bob. “Young Reynolds swears he’s not guilty and McDermott is inclined to believe him. Bur they sent me over to talk to that guy, Stone, and I’ll eat my hat if he isn’t as guilty as sin.” “Does Reynolds have a food reputation,” asked Barbara, looking at her plate. “Poor Reynolds. I’m afraid nobody can damage his name much further. The world will always believe he was guilty with Manners." , Barbara pushed her plate away, the food half eaten. “I’m not so very hungry', Bob,” she apologized. "You’ll forgive me for not eating, won’t you? These last few days have been Just too much.” Bob looked disappointed. But he went on eating hid steak without saying anything. At last -the silent dinner ended. Barbara rose hurriedly, as Bob paid the check. “We must rush.” she said, “for all my stuff is standing In piles right in the middle of my new apartment. I’ll bet.” They hurried out of the restaurant. The building in which the new apartment was located was on Pennsylvania St. It was*just 9 o’clock when the racer landed at the door and Barbara climbed over the side. “I’d like to come in and help you, Barbara,” said Bob gravely. “But I’ve been thinking perhaps you’d rather I didn’t. Maybe you want to be alone.” Barbara took his hand impulsively. "No, Indeed, Bob,” she reassured. "I want you to come in. Please don’t mind my jumpy nerves tonight I’m not myself you know.” “Yes, Babs, I do know. And I’m sorry about It all.” The little flat was In exactly the state of chaos that Barbara expected. She gave one look at the

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heaped-upboxes and scattered furniture in the living room and sat down suddenly on the window sill. There were tears In her eyes. "Oh, buck up, old girl,” shouted Bob, diving Into the midst of the .debris. “We’ll clean this up in a Jiffy.” At midnight, the place was beginning to show signs of being habitable. Bob paused in the center of the living-room and, thrusting his hands in his pockets, leaned back and looked at the pictures that Barbara had hung. “Every single framels. crooked, Babs," he sr.id. Barbara descended from her ladder aqd stood beside him. “So they are,” she admitted ruefully. “Well, I never was meant for a picture hanger, anyway.’’ “Man was not made to live alone,” quoted Bob, "and woman wasn’t, either. You need a little male picture hanger all of your own, Babs.’’ Barbara smiled at him. “Are you proposing to rrje, Bob?” Bob turned and fled. At the door he turned back. “I should say not. Heaven forbid. Gosh, no!” , “Well, that’s not so complimentary, either," reproached Barbara. '•But come back and all will be well. I promise not -to accept you, even though you should propose.” Bob returned cautiously on tiptoe, and stood beside her, pofsed for flight. “Nope, Babs,” he said so! emnly. “I’m not a marrying man. I'll never fall. I believe firmly in the institution, but not for myself. I love to stand off and see my friends get married, and say, ‘Bless you, my children,’ and then go on about my nice independent business.” “You are always urging domesticity on me, though,” retorted Barbara. "Why should anybody want to settle down with one man, when there are so many good travelers around, Just waiting to be friends for a while and say good-by without regrets?” * Bob was rubbing a bruised finger. “But there’s the trouble. Babs,” he said. “You Just And one of these good travelers and she decides to travel away. It’s such an uncertain arrangement. But, anyhow. It’s better thkn the ball and shackles.” He climbed the ladder, whistling.

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When he had gone whistling away, a little after midnight, Barbara sat down in ofte of the living room chairs and looked about her. This place was hers. No echoes would sound through It save from her own i Steps. r.f Barbara went back to the living room and lay down on-l the couch. It must have been art hour later that the door bell rang. Barbara leaped from the couch and ran to the window*. A taxicab was standing in front, under the street lamp. She went to the door and opened, it. A girl stood In the hall. She (was richly dressed carried a smart traveling bag. Hfcr eyes were blue undeg the little velvet hat. She held her fl&nd out to Barbara. “I'm Fancy McDermott,” she said. “Dad didn’t expect me for two weeks and he’s out of town. But I Just got tired of walling, and here I am.” • • * r-~ARBARA recovered from her Q astonishment enough to meet the proffered hand. ' “How do you do. Miss McDermott?" she said. “I’m glad to see you.” Fancy picked up her traveling bag and almost danced into the room. “My, it's nice to he here, Miss Hawley,” she exclaimed. “I’m sorry you find the place in such a mess,” apologized Barbara. “I only moved In today.” “Oh, that doesn’t matter. I’M help j you fix it up. Shall I?" Barbara looked at the eager face j and the childish eyes. "Not. tonight.” j she smiled. "You'd better turn bis ; right into bed.” Fancy skipped through the livjng room and into the kitchen. “It's perfectly awful of me,” she giggled, "but I'm starved. Do you suppose you have i a crust of dry bread in the bread box?” “The bread box has not yet been j unpacked,” answered Barbara, i somewhat taken back. “But I guess we can find something in the refrigerator.” “Don’t go to any oother,’ f cried the girl. “It’s a terribly unladylike thing to do so soon, but it was too late to go to a restaurent, and I’m hungry as a bear.* Barbara foraged in the ice box

and brought out crackers and cheese. The pantry provided fruits preserved the summer before by Barbara's mother. Fapcy sat on the bed In her room, clad in an amazing pajama outfit of Chinese blue. She munched crackers and talked gaily to Barbara between mouthfuls. '“Gee, it's peachy *of you to take me In here. You don’t know how scared I was that father’d pick some old fright of a grandmother to look out for me. You see, he still has that _ old-fashioned notion that girls need to be looked' out for. Isn’t it silly?” Barbara smiled. “I don’t know, my dear," she said. “Perhaps they do. But lam too busy to do much Interfering with your life. You’re to be mostly on your own, you know'. I think your father understands that.” “Hope so,-” answered Fancy. “If le doesn’t now, he soon will:”

ORK at the Telegraph office \U went on as though the world had not turned over for Barbara Hawley. She found herself rushing from assignment to assignment, snatching food at odd hours, chatting with Bob and dealing with Miss Badger—altogether unable to give time to grief during office hours. That night she found the little apartment in’ chaos. Every light lr the place was burning. iA long box lay on the davenport. Its wet tissue paper hanging over the velour upholstery, where Fancy had left it when she snatched the flower* out of it. * • In the kitchen Barbara found two tiny unfamiliar glasses on the sink. She picked them up and smelled them. Her frown deepened. She went out into the bedroom. Here was the summit of disorder. A dress lay on the floor by the bed, a silk stocking was wound around the bed post, powder was spilt across the dressing table and a chair was overturned. Barbara stood looking at the ruins. Finally she shook her head and began to straighten the room. After two hours’ steady work she at last sat down to a dinner alone in the kitchon. The chop and the

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salad she had planned for Fancy remained in the ice box. When she had eaten she washed the dishes and put them away. Then she lay down on the couch in the living room to read. Some,time later she awoke with a start. The lights were still on and the book slipped to the floor. Her body was stiff With cold. She went into her bedroom and got a large silk shawl to wrap around her shoulders. Out In the living room, again, she consulted her watch. It was nearly 1 o’clock. With a start she turned toward Fancy's room. She switched on the lights there and found It empty. Then she ran to the front window and looked out. The street was quiet. A policeman strolled past, swinging his club. There was no other figure In sight. It seemed to Barbara that she stood by the window for many hours. Now and then a belated automobile would round the corner and come down Pennsylvania St. Barbara held her breath each time, expecting it to draw up in front of the

DE JARNETTE, If I Muncie bootblack, says flreL—U men no longer come Into the barber shop where he Is employed. He beats them too badly at checkers. Bloomington banks at the last bank call had an aggregate sum of $6,8-64,326.95 on deposit. It’s never too late to make a change, said John Brumbaugh, 85, of Bluffton, who has sued his 70-ycar-old wife for divorce. During the last cold spelt, the Are engine up at Montpelier. The city council 'is considering installing steam heat in the city hall as a result. The hardest man in Evansville to see is Mayor Males. It takes a clever ruse to _ get by the door, says Martha Thompson, his secretary.

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apartment building. But they all passed on. Once Barbara left the window nnd ran to pick up the telephone book. She ruffled through the leaves hastily and suddenly laid the book down again, • She regained her post by the window. A car was swinging in at the curb, Its powerful lights flashing for a moment through the room in which she stood. Barbara was faintly aware that the lines of the ear were familiar. But she hail no time to ponder the matter. Assisted by a man, Fancy alighted from the automobile and started up the steps. Half way up the man put his arms around her and kissed her. Then he ran back down he steps and clinuied !mo the car. Barbara pressed her face against the pane, watching him drive off. Tripping footsteps sounded outside. Barbara turned toward the door just in time to seo it open and admit Fancy. She was pale and her eyes burned. One lock of fluffy hair fell from beneath her hat across her face. (To Be Continued)

HOOSIER BRIEFS

7“7|ENR\r L. WaLDKOETTER I—l and his son following tracks ___J in the snow trapped a mink and a gray fox In a tree on their farm. They chopped the troe down and killed the animals. Walter Kavanaugh, new police chief at Ft. Wayne, has issued an appeal to the public asking cooperation in enforcement of the law, Lewis Smith, 48, Wabash County farmer, is paralyzed from the waist down, due to a fall from a hay mow. North Manchester weather experts deny the prediction another cold wave is coming. They report seeing geese flying northward, a sign of spring. * Mr. and Mrs. U. B. Cline and Mr. and Mrs. IT. L. Oldfnther of Silver Lake, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversaries.