Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 103, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1926 — Page 8

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Wlßi 0 W° W, Business Kisses - By BEATRICE BURTON Author of “Gloria, The Flapper,Wife’ 1 ’

The names in *,hts etory are purely fictitious and are not to be taken as rs ferring to any particular certfon. p>ce or firm.

CHAPTER LIV When night came and it was time for Sam to take his bride home, Flossie refused point blank to set foot outside her mother’s house. "What do ypu want to do? Stay here all nighH” Sam asked and she nodded her beautiful head sulkily. "But Is there room here for the two of us?” Sam asked, nervously biting of his tiny new mustache that he was growing in imitation of John Gilbert’s. Flpssle batted her eyelashes at him in mock surprise. "Oh, yes. there’s plenty of room for us here,” she said airily. “But I don't want you to stay! You fan trot back to your boarding hou'se, alone. I'm sick of the sight of you!” Sam blushed painfully under tne sting of her words and turned to Mary Rose, his sole friend and ally In the Middleton house, now that his wife had turned against him. "Wouldn't I look like a fool going back to my boarldng house alone, when they all know I’m Just married'.” he asked her. ‘‘Why,’ they’d kid th* life out of me!” "I should worry whether they kid you or not,” Flossie '‘drawled, and, yawning elaborately, she started up the stairs. SrPm looked at her retreatirp? back with unhappy, puzzled eyes. “Wop’t you tell me what I’ve done to make you Ice like this?” he appealed. "If you're still sore .because I couldn't afford to buy you a S2O hat, you must be crazy!” Flossie turned and her eyes blffzed at him like blue rockets. “Crazy am I?” she asked. "Well, I may be crazy, bifc enough to show you where to head In! You just keep your darned old money to yourself. If you want to—and I’ll keep myself to myself, see?” She disappeared around the curve of the stairs.' "Aren't you even going to kiss me goodnight?” he called after her. miserably. There was no answer but the steady tap-tap of her high little heels, followed by the banging of her bedroom door and the turning of a 'key in a lock. "Bang! Goes the honeymoon!” Ton} Fitzroy remarked, with his croo\ed smile, a minute later when the front door closed smartly behind the hapless bridegroom and his bags. "This marriage is turning out exactly as I knew it would.” Mrs. hilddleton shook her head with her best I-told-you-so air. “But there’s this about it—now that she’s married Sam Jessup, she can’t stay here. A wife's place is with her husband!” And she bustled up the" stairs after her stubborn daughter. A quarter of an hour afterward,’ when Tom had gone, she came down again, defeat written on her face. “Well. I can’t do anything with her," she tpld Mary Rose. "She says that she won’t live with him ever again urijess he lets her handle all the moneV. You go up and see If you can make her listen to reason.” Mary Rose found Flossie sitting up against the' pillows of her narrow white bed. combing out her spun gold "Now. don’t stand lecturing me about, going back to Sam!” she began angrily the minute her sister stepped Into the room they had shared for so many years. "I'll teach him a lesson he yon’t forget! Telling me I’ve got to get.along on%so much a week! Why, the poor sap never would have got that $lO raise of _his If It hadn’t been for me! Dexter gave him that extra money *or meif Sam only had brains enough to see it!" - Mary Rose raised her level black brows. "No, I don’t think he did,” she answered coolly, bringing her firm lips together. 'I think he’d' have given it to him. no matter what girl 'he’d married. He seems to be very fond of Sam—” "Nonsense! He’s very fond of me!” cried Flossie, looking Admiringly at herself In the mirror across the room. Mary Rose yawned. "I don't see how you can keep on thinkingnhat, after the way "lie treated you' that night, when you walked home,.” she ' said rather brutally. "He showed you that night that the one women he (Joes care for ft his wife. Besides tjjrat, he told me to tell you

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that he doesn’t want you to work for him any more. He, said he didn’t even want to see you at the oft ice!" Surprise whitened .Flossie’s faM. "He did?” she gasped. "Yes, and he seems very glad that you’ve married Sam. He wants to give you a silver coffee service for a wedding present," Mary told her. "So if I were you, I wouldn’t worry poor old SaAi with any more talk about going back to work for Dexter.” There was a long silencer Flossie sat very still, looking at the little gray “Gigolo” hat that had spoiled her honeymoon with Sam. “I never really intended to go back to work at all," she said presently with a laugh. "I Just threatened to do, to razz Sam for being so darned stingy about that hat!” Mary Rose didn’t know whether to believe her or not. Flossie had her own ways of dressing up the naked truth. "I married Sam, Just" because I wanted to get away from, the Dexter Gompany, so why shoujtfl want to go hack to it now?” Flossie as she'went on with that confession that is said to be for the soul, “I wag peeved at Dax that night when he got wild, and I couldn’t face the of looking up anew Job. You know how I hate t work, don't you? So, anyway, I just married Sam! It seemed to be the only thing to do.*' “But ypu love Sam!” Mary Rose's tone was sharp. "You talk as If you’d married him for a meal ticket. And you know you're crazy about him.” "Yes?" Flossie drawled. "That’s why I-sent hifn back alone to his boarding house tonight—because I adore him so! Hmm?” She drew the covers up around her soft little chin, with Its deep dimple, and closed her eyes. After a few seconds she opened them again. “So Dex doesn’t want me to work for him any more?” she asked, mischievously. “Now. let me tell you something—ls I went back to for him, he'd be so glad he'd crack under the'strain: He may care for his wife, but little Flossie can wind him right around her finger just the same!’’ “I'm not going to try to do it," she added, sleepily, “but I could If I wanted to IT

Early ( the next morning. Mrs. Middleton tolling up the stairs with a cup of hot coffee In one hand and the society section Sunday paper in the other. 'There's a piece in here about your Mr. -Manner*.” she said breathlessly >as she hanied it-to Mary Rose, who was putting on her shoes. The coffee was for Flossie. She loved a cup of It before shw'gdt out of bed !n the morning. 1 "What’s Manners done—monied that long-faced baby doll „of his?” asked Flossie, sipping daintily .from her stream ing cup. * . "Ncis-he's engaged,” Mary Rose answered in a vole/ that sounded to her as If it came from fftr axtayj She felt as llj someone haa given her a stunning how On the head , Os course, she knew that John Manners was going to marry Doris Hinig. She had known fhfor month#' But to >now it and to seethe fact printed in a newspaper were two entirely different things. The *ords seemed to dance before her eyes. "Here, let’s see what it. says, for the IoCV of Maude”—and Fldssie pulled the paper from her. She read aloud, in a high affected voice: “Mr. and Mrs. Schdltz Hinig announce the engagement of their daughter, Doris Louise, to Mr. John Manners. Mr. Manners was a cap of infantry in the Great War and Miss Hinig is well known here for her excellent work In the Red Cross. The wedding will be,an event of early June.” * “The wedding will ha an event o! early June—” the words said selves over and over In Mary Rose'? brain.— In June—in that'happy time ol roses and romance—this wedding that was the tragedy of her whole life would take place. She thought of last June, of the blossoms, sun shiny days when -she hgd been sure that John Manners was beginning to care for her—when the tfery look In his eyes was like.a kiss on\her face. What could have happened to change him? "My htars, Mary Rose' Don’t take it so hard!” she’heard Flosslte’s careless voice saying to her. “You'sit there, looking as if you'd lost your last friend.” “He was—my very gdod friend,” her sister answered with a visible effort. She was white to the lips. “Your veryjmpfi friend? Hah. you make me You were absolutely cuckoo About him!” chirped Flossie with her little giggle. “I used to see you looking at him like a dying calf down at the office. You can't fool me. Frozen Pudding. I saw you melting!” She threw back her golden head and laughed with /til her soul. Mary Rose could have slapped her with pleasure. But she betrayed no emotion. None at'all. , ‘'Yes, I did like him rather well,” she said so'calmly that she sffrprised herself. But withfti her her heart fluttered, like a wounV>d bird. After Flossie had dressed and gone downstairs, she picked up the tosspd leaves of the newspaper and cut out the piece about Jotfn's engagement to Doris Hinig. Vesy quietly she tip-toe.d up the dusty put it away in a drawer of the doll's dresser w>ere she kept some other treasures—an. old doll named Mandy Lee. her first dancing slippers and a handkerchief that. Johw had left on his SUMMER COLDS are lingering and The vary first flight apply Oeer IT MWnn Jar, Vmxt Y*nb-

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desk one night, and a note that he had written to her months ago—a terse, business-like little note: "Going out of town unexpectedly for two or three days. Try to see my mother while T'm gone, will y(3\j? She will be lonely." She folded the note and the clip 'pitWS together and hid them both in the toe of one of the old dancing slippers. \ / "Souvenir!” she said with at# attempt at lightness, at careless gayety. But a tear glistened on the dusty top of the battered little old s |dresser for a long time after she' had gone downstairs to face her family with a hard brightness that betrayed nothing of her heartbreak and hopelessness. She found Sam sitting at the breakfast, table eating calf's liver and bacon wiih little appetite Across from him Flossie was ing up the ads "You’d better not waste your time doing that!" her mother told her sharply. "You'd better be looking up some flats. Because you’re not going to stay here another night, young lady. You’ve maSe your bed and you’re going 'to, lie on it—in your own home!” Sam glanced up dn surprise. He had npt expected this -support frpm his mother-in-law. Flossie pursed up her mouth that always looked as if it were waiting for a klsi. “All right. I’Jk sleep on my own bed in my own house—if Sam will promise to let me handle -his /salary,” she said with honeyed stubborfless, turning tbe battery of v |jer blue eyes updn him. ' . )

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• Sarh laughed suddenly, put hand back to his hip pocket, and threw a black leather wallet across the table. From the* edge of’ it green bills peeped out like leaves of wilted lettuce. “All right, you win!” he said “You can do the family spending, if you want m! We’ll probably both* land in jail for passing bad .checks but it’ll be better tha'h landing in the divorce court, I guess—” His words were smothered in kisses that Flossie dropped upon his mouth like scarlet petals. She cud died up on his knees and almost strangled him with hugs. "I knew you’d give in. you old tightwad!” she said at last, leaning back with flushed cheeks and shin ing eyes. “Why, I just married you so I’d have some money to spend without working for it!’ , “I really adore him,”, she con fessed to Mary Rose late that night, when she was putting on her hat to go Sam to his room at the boarding house. “Only I'm going to kspend the money! To-morrow you and I’ll go bouse hunting and then wo can start sight in to buy furniture. can’t we? Oh, it’ll be glorious, having a painted tea wagon of my very own and canary-colored sofa cushions and little dinned parties and things—Wheel” All ready she' was spending' the mone^! She seised her sister/ by the shoulders and glanced with <her around the little room uretfh they were out of breath. "I wonder if you know yoif’re the luckiest girl In the world?’’| Mary Rose asked her solemnly, “parried

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to the man you love’—” Tears started ttj her eyes. “Now,you're thinking of that stiff of a Manners again!” Flossie accued her. “For heaven's sake, forget him, forget him! I’ve no patience with you!” Forget him? did Flossie know of the Mary RSse who would have shared an attic aftd a crust with the man she loved and rejoiced in it? (To be continued) * Hope for Mary Hose vanishes, while Floaete finds her honeymoon flat In tomorrow’s installment. Marriage Licenses o*c*r Glnn 26 90 N. Senate, and Vte let Gray 19. 319 W. Sixteenth^j?l. Elaie Brown. 21. .128 8. Temple, and Betty L. Baker. 18. 388 S. Temple . Jessie Hadler. 32. 961 W. TwenW-Sev ■inth. and Lillian A. Speiaht. 35. 835 5, California Iran Harold Blair. 23. Louisville. 11l . apd Lucile LaVerne Sterchi. 20. 747 E. Terrac* Bruce Morphy Graham. 28. 8837 'Grace-' tend and Car aline Lucile Stark. 26. 1421 King. - Taylor Allen Balge. 22. 2434 N. Sherman and MaryjC. MoncHef. 18. 446 H N Highland Kenneth McDotHld. 25, 1926 S Tal bntt. and Nellie Beatrice Redding. 28 f 1914 Madison. Virgil Leßoy Hoffman. 21. 26°6 James and Helen Wilson. 20, 2201 N. Gale. Benzol Lemon. 24. 742 N. Tremont. and Ethel Edna Maseey. 19. 730 n! Tremont. "Charley R. Lark. 19. 517 Smith, and Violet Rose El’.en Bahker, 19. 3238 Shelby. v Herbert K. Fatout Jr.. 21. 3107 Ruckle, and Lucille Poe. 19, 536 Sutherland If: iffi SS&i:

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