Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 173, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1926 — Page 8

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SONIA A Story of Dangerous Love

At a party in Stockton. SOMA MARSH, if. and Dretty. ia discovered l ining JOE CARTER in a dark bedroom Through DR. DON STILLWATER. Sonia obtains a position in the San Frailcisco reel estate otiiee of JED THOMAS, hie uncle. MAXINE LARUE, head of her department. invitee Sonia as well as VIOLET. FERfc. JINNY and FRANKIE to her liauor party. . ' After a disagreement, Maxine and her middle-aged friend MAC M GREGOR become reconcilled. ... WALTER D. HENDERSON, a wealthy bachelor of Berkeley, disapproves of Soma living with Maxine. ... Sonia quarrels with BERT DONOHUE because of her infatuation for FRANKLIN CRANE, whom he says is a periodic drinker, and retains his position ill their office because his wealthy lather was a friend of Jed Thomas, but Crane explains that he ts absent to take his invalid mother on long auto trips A threat from Bertie worries Sonia. Crane admits he lovre Sonia, but sa.vs he is a Iraki their hanniness cannot last. Maxine chides Sonia for offending Henderson. aUudlng that she is wasting her time with Crane because his mother dispenses her money cautiously. Maxine notices Jed Thomas unusual interest In Sonia. _ Crane comes hack to ooiiia after a quarrel over an expensive emerald ring .vhieh Henderson offers her. While horn- for Christmas. Soma visits her sister * ItA An o I I -io'.’n. TOM UNDERWCoD who I- ■ gaged to SIDNE'S Ji _^ >-t , — __ mm•

CHAPTER XXII The tree At Vera's on Christmas j eve was . a huge success. Sonia found herself a little hored with the noisy clom" , . v t 'Mt on of the children, i Or. pc haps, il was Paul's capers in whiskers and great coat as Santa. The bells he persisted in shaking jangled upon her nerves. That he could be so playful and full of spirit, while Vera looked scarcely able to stand, seemed unfair to Sonia. But her family’s gratitude for their Chinese gifts touched her, as did their generosity. They had put their money together and bought her a fur. She knew the price of that gift was genuine sacrifice. “I must be better to them." she thought. “The least T can do is tell them about my good times." At midnight she walked home, arm-in-arm wish her father. His blue eyes were brimming with hap piness. “It’s so nice to have you back, honey." lie whispered, klss’ng her good night. Alone in her room she immediately forgot all of them. There was only time then for Franklin Crane. With his wrist watch ticking against her cheek, she fell asleep. Christmas day Sonia remembered her resolution. She helped her mother with the dinner, which had been neglected the day before that Anna might finish a dress for the minister's jvife. Sonia made cranberry jelly. helped stuff the turkey and set the table. “For once in its life the sewing machine is goifig to be closed all day," she said, gayly. Ail the scraps of material were col lected and put out of She hid the pincushion In a drawer. She decided that no amount of cleaning could make the living room anything hut ugly. The drab wallpaper and faded green and brown carpet, were past any rejuvenation. “Yet mother loves beautiful things, too." she thought, with a lump in her throat, watching: the slim, well-shaped figure bustling about the kitchen. “I could make a dress." her mother said, nervously, “easier than T can cook this dinner." Sam .sitting in dissipated nbam don at 9 o'clock of a Saturday morning, smiled' genially. "This is something like it. eh, mother? To have our girl with us again and be able lo stay home ail day?” He smoked his pipe and read his weekly religious paper. “Seems to me you’re looking mighty sweet this morning,” he said to Sonia. She kised the top of his thin hair. “Don’t 1 always?” He seized her hand and pulled her around in front of him. ' "Where did you get that, Sonia?" That's a pretty fine watch, ain't it?” "Isn’t it pretty? One of the salesmen in the office gave it to me." Instantly he took alarm. "Pretty expensive present. What kind of a man is this salesman?” “Now. daddy, just a nice young man.” "What's his name?” She told him. feeling the color surge into her cheeks. "Well, I don’t think much of a girl’s accepting presents like this from a man unless she's engaged." “Don’t be silly, darling. It doesn’t mean anything* All the girls do It." He regarded her with anxious eyes. “You aren't engaged, are you Sonia ?’’ “I should say not!" "Well, then, mother, what do you think of it?" “I don't think it matters much," Anna said, slowly, “so long as she behaves herself.” “Well,” lie said, proudly, sucking in on his old pipe, "I guess our Sonia does that.” Always they came back to that, Sonia sighed. She wondered why nothing else seemed to really mat-

At noon Vera and her family came. The children dragged armloads of toys with them. Paul was bright and cheerful in anew tie his wife had given him. Even Vera seemed less exhausted than she had the day before. "You sit down in that chair.” commanded Sonia. ‘‘And don’t let me catch you in the kitchen or running after the children. This is to be your day of rest.” So Vera sat by her father in the living room, looking through her mother’s magazines, asking constant Questions of Sonia. “Are the wearing their di-esses awfully short in San Francisco?" "What movies have you seen?” “Sonia did sou hear about Sidney?" Altogether it was a satisfactory family day. Sonia drank deeply of :he potion of love they held to her. it was nice to be so interesting and so admired, even if it was a little wearing. "T haven’t had a chance to think

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washing the dishes at 10 o’clock that night. She was to leave the next afternoon on the 6 o’clock boat. She had telephoned Sidney that she wished to see her before she left. She was anxious to make it clear to her that their friendship could not be injured by Sidney’s love for Tom. She could imagine the other girl holding back her confidence, afraid of hurting Sonia. “Although she ought to know me better," she told her mother. Anna and Sam were going to Sunday school. Sonia promised to come in time for the sermon. But shwas still in her long gray dressing gown when a knock sounded op the front door. Holding her negligee together, she ran downstairs. She was wishing for a message ot some kind from Franklin. But she opened the unpretentious door of her parents’ home to Walter Henderson. She stared at him, at a loss to know what to say. “Aren't you going to ask me in. Sonia?" His eyes were grave and Sonia realized that he had not come in a 1 light mood. She opened the door, saying, slowly: "I can't believe-it's you." "Are you glad to see me?" * “Os course.” He put his hand upon the arm that wore Franklin’s Christmas gift. "Are you alone?” She nodded. “Sonia, T can't give you up un- I til you definitely ask me to. I love you. I want you to marry me.” Utter amazement Ailed her green eyes. She had not dreamed he even considered marriage. Still holding her arm he drew here closer to him. "You don't dislike me, do you. dear?” "L like you awfully well,” she answered. sincerely. “You and Franklin are not engaged. are you. Sonia?” With litthi* shivers racing up and down her spine, she shook her head. "I thought the way lie acted the other night that you might be. Then I decided I might be mistaken. You simply didn't want him to misunderstand. was that it, Sonia?" Fearing to betray some tiny ray of her beautiful hidden secret, Sonia replied, cautiously. “T shouldn't want any one in the office to think I jvouid accept such an expensive present." “That's what I thought. But, Sonia, you'd accept it as an engagement ring?" "if I were engaged, that would he different.” „ He drew the rink from hi pocket. Once more she gazed upon the gtor■om. sparkling .level. In *pite of ■ herself, she gasped a little. "I can have it reset in a ring for jour other finger. It is mpde for you. Sonia, as you are made for me. You interested nte the nlclit I met you at M,axino.i; later I was amused at your pretensions of experience. Then—l beg your pardon, dear—l really began to believe you were trying to vamp me. You tried so hard to convince me of your sophistication and you were living with Maxine. • • • Sonia stiffened. She dared not betray her friend's confidence. yet Maxine's words buzzed in her ear: “I had my first affair with Walter Henderson when I was 19." He misunderstood her withdrawal. “Can’t you forgive me. Sonia? 1 was a stupid fool. But I knew instantly when .vou refused my gift that, you were the real thing. Men can scarcely believe in a girl like you. They are too rare.” “It doesn’t matter.” Sonia said, coolly, “what you thought of me.” He pulled her closer. “Does that mean you'll marry me?” Her eyes were skill c|ixed but there .was. no hesitation In her an swer. “I can't, Mr. Henderson. It's aw I fully sweet of vou to ask me. But I can't." (To Be Continued)

NEW THEORY IN MURDERf Believe Outsider May Have Killed Man and Five of Family. Bn United Pret* MARION, 111., Oct. 26.—Casting aside the theory that \V. O. Potter, former United States attorney for the southern district of Illinois, had murdered five members of his family and then killed himself, authorities today started an investigation into the six deaths on the supposition that the entire family was murdered by an outsider. The -first supposition was that Potter, after killing the other five with a heavy furnace shaker, drowned himself in a cistern, and the probi was started today when an undertaker reported that there was no water in Potter’s lungs. A fingerprint expert also reported that the fingerprints on the bloodstained furnace,. shaker were not Potter’s. ' Potter is known to have made many btiter enemies.

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LOCAL MEN FOR JURY Three Among Forty-Five Summoned on Federal Petit Pan - !. Three Indianapolis men are in the petit jury panel drawn for the Nov 4 term in Federal Court. Federal Court Clerk Wiiliapi P. Kappes and jury commissioners have drawn forty-five names. United States Marshal Linus P. Meredith has served the summonses on the prospective jurymen. Only minor criminal cases are on the docket The local men drawn: Joseph C. Schaf, 4101 N. Pennsyljpania fTt.; Russell'H. Sullivan. 1431 N. Meridian St., and Frank S. C. Wicks. 11l E. Forty-Fourth St. 4 BROTHERS TO PRISON Sentences! Passed on Guilty Pleas to Robbery - and Larceny. Four Negroes, brothers, were sentenced to ten to tw’enty-one years in State prison and fined SI,OOO each today on charges of robbery and grand larceny when they admitted iheir guilt before Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Those sentenced are Luther, Olden, Chester and Virgil Mitchell. Nine hold-ups are credited to the quartet, including that of the Log Cabin barbecue. Thirty-Eighth St. and Keystone Ave., where the loot was nearly S7OO. The trial had opened when pleas of not guilty were?' changed to guilty. Charges of burglary and grand larceny are still pending. VIEW HAAG SUSPECTS • * Witnesses of Slaying Here See Men Held in Chicago. Witnesses to the slaying of Wilkinson Haag. May 17 at the Green Mill Gardens, were in Chicago today to view the alleged slayers. T,ew:-'ce .1. Ghere and Arthur C.

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GUILD GAINS 13 LOCAL BRANCHES Plant, Fruit and Flower Organization Grows. The National Plant. Flower and Fruit Guild has sent word from its headquarters in New York City that thirteen cities have organized local branches during the summer and fall. The branch in Indianapolis was organized in'September by Mrs. George E. Hill, field secretary. Mrs. Hill is now organizing groups In southern cities. The object bf the guild Is to provide a central station to which flowers, fruits, ‘ vegetables and similar articles can be sent and from which they will be distributed to invalids, shut-ins and hospitals. As the work develops, it Is hoped that It may include the beautifying of church grounds, cultivating of children's gardens and distribution of plants. J. T. Holcomb is president of the Indianapolis branch and Mrs. Chris\opher B. Coleman, chairman of the executive committee. The portico of Christ Church has been offered by the trustees as, a depot for the reception and distribution of flowers and otheY articles. At the first distribu tion last Thursday a large amount of fruit apd cut flowers was received and distributed The next distribution will be made next Thursday morning, at the portico of Christ Church.

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