Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1926 — Page 8

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, ... , - V - ■ P'/V.juggg ’Kisses” By BEATRICE BURTON Author of “Gloria, The Flapper Wife”

The names in this, story are purely fictitious and are not to be taken as referring to any particular person, place or firm.

READ THIS FIRST FLOSSIE and MARY. HOSE MIDDLETON are two pretty listers, the daughters of a widowed mother. They both work for the Dexter Automobile Cdbv Party. \ Mary Rose is secretary to the sales manager. JOILS' MANNERS, and is in love with him. although the office gossips say he's engaged to a girl of Wealth. DORIS HINIG. Because of her feeling for him. Mary Rose refuses a repeated offer of marriage from BR. TOM FITZROY, who has been in love with her for years. Flossie, a. born flirt, keeps the office files with the help of her flapperish little ehum. ALICE JAMES. They do the job very badly. x . / Mary Rose discovers that Flossie is carrying on a love affair with the head of the company, HILARY DEXTER, although she, is engaged to Dexter’s secretary* SAM JESSUP. Mary Rose forbids her to go out with Dexter, who is married, and orders her to return some jewelry that hes given her. Then for a long time the affair seems to be ended. But one day Mary Rcse comes upon Flossie in Dexter's arms, and when slis scolds her about it Flossie says it’s not her fault if men find her so attractive. One night John Manners asks MaryRose to go home with him to read aloud to his invalid mother. Mar.v Rose goes and itr—a. few day's has a visit from the jealous Doris Hinig. who tells her that she is shortly to marry Manners. That nighl Flossie does not come -home until dawn, and when she does come she-is much the worse for drink. Mary Bose and her mother put her to bed aid MRS MIDDLETON decides to take Flossie in hand. She tells Sam Jessup he must, get her home before 12. and when they arrive she sees Flos- • sie's lipstick and throws it into the garbage can. She remarks that “when a girl starts to paint her face, the rest comes easily—drinking and smoking and staving out half the night." Sam wants to know what, she means. He tells FlosS'e that Alice James told him something oncer about her staying out half the night, only that morning. Flossie asks Htigrilv what Alice told him. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ' CHAPTER XXX Sam took another bite of wich before he answered. He chewed it as if it were filled with gall and wormwood. “Why, what Alice told me was this —” he began, and stopped. "Gogh all hemlock, I forgot. She tola me not to mention it to you. I promised—” Flossie stamped her small foot in its blonde satin sflTrper. Under her rouge her face had gone white with anger, and her blue eyes were almost black. She shook all over in one of the storms of temper that her mother called “Flossie's little barf fits." “I should worry what you promised:" she cried. ‘‘You just tell me what she said this instant, Sam Jessup, if you know what's good for you. d'you hear?" "All right, here goes?’ Sam answered, with the desperate air of a man who leaps-, from Brooklyn bridge. "She told me you were out with a gang the other night—you know, the night you broke your date with me. And that some married man who's hipped on you, gave you too many cocktails— ’’ "Did/ she say who the man was?" Flossie rasped out, and when Sam shook his head, she drew a long, audible breath of relief. “Os course not!" she went on, her voice choked with fury. "She makes up a yarn about me, to get me in, Dutch with ydu, because she’s always had a case on you—and you, you poor simp, believe it! All right, go ahead and believe it, but never dare to speak to me again, as long as you live—" She picked up his Prince of Wales hpt from the table and threw it at him. Then she dashed out of the kitchen, and Sam dashed out after her. 1 As Mary Rose quietly put the kitchen to rights and carried the baked beans and the butter back to the ice box in the pantry, she could hear the two of them wrangling in the front hall. “So little Alice told on you:” she remarked to Flossie when she went -up to bed a half-hour lpier. "I always told you she was no friend of yours, didn't I?” * Flossie, brushing out the cloud of her soft, golden hair before the mirror, nodded sulkilj-. “Yes, and you just watch her lose her job next week!” she said with energy. Her face was set to the mood of hate. “Miss MacFarlaneJost hers because she got fresh with me, and off will go Alice's head the same way! Andi to t>ink' I trusted her, too! Well, thank goodness, I can get her fired. It's pretty nice having a drag with the boss, just the samey!” AnTf*sure enough, on the next Saturday. little Alice lost her job with the Dexter Company. She never knew how it happened,.either. For Flossie, who had a sharp little brain under her shingle bob. was sweet and friendly to her all week! * # * August and September came and passed. The days ticked by with the slow and steady ticking of an old-fash-ioned clock. Every morning MaryRose said “Good morning, Mr. Manners,” when she went into his office, and he answered her as stiffly* —"Good morning, Miss Middleton.” She worked all day like a perfectly running machine, and went home at night to sew or read, apd then go to bed. Tony Fitzroy stuckßo his promise not to call up—and sometimes Mary Rose, in her loneliness, almost 1 reached the point where she was ready to phone him. and ask him to take her to the movies. Anything to lift the load of loneliness. But she didn’t.

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Two or three nights a week Flossie came home an hour or so late for supper. But whether she was with Mr. Dexter 'at those times or not, Mary Rose didn't know, for sure. But she was' afraid she was— October came with its golden days and blue, blue skies. One night at half past-' 5, when Mary Rose took the last of the day’s letters into Manners’ office to be signed, he turned in his chair and looked" up at her. "This young doctor who used to call you up time —what’s become of him?” he asked. Mary Rose gave a gasp of surprise—to think-that ho noticed who called her up and how often! She looked out of the window at the sunset behind the black roofs opposite, thinking absurdly how very yellow it was—like a Glolre de Dijjon rose. Her brain refused to form an answer to his, simple question. It had taken away her presence of mind. Then, quite clearly, she saw that the only thing to do was to Jell him the truth,. There was nothing to be gained by hedging—ever. "Nothing’s become of him. I mean’s he’s still at the hospital,” she said, clasping and unclasping her long fingers. “But —he decided not to call me up any more. We both thought it would be best.” He made no answer for four or ifive seconds. Then he said, "I see,”, in a puzzled sort of way, as if he didn’t see at all. Mary Rose realized that she had said either too much or too little—she didn’t know which. She stumbled on: “You see, Tom would like to get married, and I don’t. That’s about the size of it.” “Do you care so much for' your job, Mary Rose?” It was the first time in weeks that he had called her Mary Rose. She stood there, silent and confused, and watched him take his pipe and tobacco out of his drawer. It was then that she saw Doris Hinig’s photograph, lying face downward in the drawer —the, picture that Doris had brought there to be framed and set on his desk. “I like my work,” she answered shortly.

She caught* sight of her face in the little mirror that hung above the washbowl across the room. It was flushed and the deep blue eyes were starry. “This Is the way I when I’m with him.” she thought, "because I’m happy.” She was, Irr, a way. just then. It made her happy. just to be near him. John Manners lit a match and held it to the tobacco in the bowl of his pipe. Mary Rose liked the little “put-put” sound that he made as he drew on it. She liked everything about-him. There was nothing that he was. nothing that he did that wasn't wonderful and fascinating to her. She wondered what would happen if she should tell him the truth —if she should say, “I like my work because it's work for you. And I love you.” The thought was terrifying. She picked up her papers and turned to go. But he held her with another remark: , “If it’s jijst a question of work or marriage, I should advise you to get married. Every- woman should be married, and have her husband and her family. That’s Nature and God and wisdom.” He laughed, and werjt on. “T may ‘sound like a dictionary or a. sermon when l say that, but it's the truth just the same “You’re the type of girl who should be married, Mary Rose.” "■\Yho knows that better than I do” thought Mary Rose, but aloui she said: “It isn't just a question of marriage or work. I'm not-r-I don’t—l don’t believe I care for Tom —quite as much as I should. I think we ought to wait a while.” ’ Manners got up, fidgeted with the window shade and walked back to the. desk with his hands in his pockets. "Y'ou think, then, that you will care for him later on?” he asked,looking down at her. Mary Rose faced him bravely. “I never will,” she said clearly. “I’ve fallen in love with somebody else.” After she had said it, she was sorry she had. She felt a hot blush of shame run over her, and with her knees shaking, she managed to get herself out of the room. She sat down at her own desk and covered her face with her hands, thankful that the big outer office was deserted. \ Presently from the tail of her eye, she saw him come out of his office with his hat In his hiand, and a light overcoat slung over his arm. She dreaded to look at him, but he came and stood beside her desk, v "Why did you tell me that, just then, Mary Rose?” he asked. "I don’t know,” she answered in a muffled voice. “I wish I hadn’t." “Why?” She put her hands down from her face then, and looked squarely at him. “Well, why should I?’’ she

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