Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 192, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1926 — Page 10

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SONIA

THE STORY SO FAR SONIA MARSH, a small town girl, lsares her secure, dull home in Stockton and comes to San Francisco to live tier life as she pleases. DON STILLWATER. a youiiff doctor, takes a fancy to her and helps her get a job in the real estate office of his uncle, Jed Thomas. ... , , She makes her home with the faststepping MAXINE LA RUE. who is carrying on a clandestine love affair with Mac McGregor, a married man. and falls in love with FRANKLIN CRANE, petted young salesman. She also attracts WALTER HENDERSON, wealthy Berkeley man. who wants to marry her. Crane and Henderson become bitter rivals, she refuses Henderson s offer of marriage, and then averts a serious auarrel between him and Crane. Believing that she has captivated Crane. Sonia allows him to make love to her. crediting his explanation that lie cannot marry her because the breaking of his engagement to Genevieve Erickson, a pretty society girl, might prove fatal to his invalid mother. Stillwater comes to town, and while spending a Sunday with Sonia, proposes •o her. She refuses him. secure in lane's love. Frightened by her faI r s disapproval of such a plan Soma fuses to spend a week-end in Crane s '" arin County shack, even though Maxip and Mac accompany them. then, rowing caution to the winds, consents n ro. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Where is that sweetie of yours, Sonia?” Mac was becoming more jovial. “Call him up. We ought to get started.” “He'll come when he’s ready,” die objected. The girls took off their hats and them on again. They played ' after record on the Victrola. ' Franklin did not come- Mac i e unpleasant about it. 1 •'!' a way to act. Inyite • s on a party and not show • lie'll he here,” Sonia insisted, here’s no hurry, is there?” There are a lot of things I could ve .done if I had known we weren't going to go Until tonight.” Maxine said nothing, Ijut her face 1 1 Tame anxious as the minutes ragged by and Franklin did not appear. At 2 o'clock Sonia said. “Perhaps misunderstood the hour.” He couldn’t have, Sonia. He said self that we’d go as soon as we i 1 get here from the office.” Something’s detaining him, then.” he would not admit the delay to liis fault. But when the clock ock the half hour, she became un- ■ XV. "I'm not going to stand for this,” . iac said, irritably. “Call him up. ■? he’s not coming, I'm off.” Maxine's eyes were full of tears, "er hands were fluttering with ervousness. But Sonia answered scornfully. “I'll call him, hut he '■'oViably won’t be there.” She was correct. There was no nswer. They were staring at each ther uncertainly when the door hell mg a n d Franklin entered. “Hello, soaks! Everybody ready?” “Everybody's been waiting on you since twelve thirty.”

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“Is that so? I’m awfully sorry. New contract held me up at the' last minute. Couldn’t get away.” “That’s obvious,” retorted Mr. McGregor. “Don't get on your ear, big boy. Sonia, come here. Aren't you going to kiss your papa?” She approached him, smiling with relief at his presence. But when she lifted her lips to his, she perceived that he had been drinking. Her eyes met Maxine’s. And she knew that her friend had already

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Maxine had leaped to her death, as the auto plunged over the hillside.

suspected it. She turned away, intensely disappointed. “W'hat’s the matter, sweetheart?” “Nothing. Come on, let’s get But Franklin had spied the halfemptied bottle upon the table. "So this is the way you've v r hiled away the hours?” he cried, joyfully. “Come on. Mac. Give us a drink ” Maxine and Sonia refused, hut the two men drank, following one glass with another until the bottle was empty. And with each drink Franklin’s spirit rose higher. “I'm so happy I could sing.” “Well, don’t try it,” advised Maxine. “Take it out in driving .in-, stead.” • “A good idea, my girl. Let's go!” At last, after all postponements, they were running to Franklin's car, piling in baggage. Maxine and Mac jumped in while Franklin lifted Sonia high in his arms, dropping her into the front seat. “I love you," he whispered, pressing the hand that lay nearest him. She smiled at him, dizzily. She had been hurt when she realized that he had been drinking. But she. could not resist his pleading eyes. He grasped the wheel and they were down the hill with a speed that made them gasp. Off like a streak until they came to traffic which compelled him to drive slowly. Then, crowded upon the ferry, with dozens of other parties crossing for the weekend. • * • Sonia was delighted. She sat beside her lover with the face of a happy child. It was thrilling to be leaving San Francisco for two days with Franklin. Safe against interruption. Once they had arrived at their destination, Maxine and Mac would not bother them. “Just to think, ’ she said, softly. “I almost missed this.” j “Why did you change your mind?” She smiled mysteriously. “Aren’t you glad I did change It?" His eyes, a bit inflamed now, swept over her, possessively. “Oh God. you're sweet." She could not meet the passionate of his gaze. She looked away but the cars lined in front of them blurred. Then she felt the boat pushing from the slip. Her heart gave a frightened leap. She was irrevocably committed to the adventure now. If only he hiui come to her without drinking! Her kisses

I should have been stimulation enough. She asked in a low voice that could not be overheard, "Why did | you do it?” "Do what?" “Take something to drink before I you came?” He grinned at her like a naughty schoolboy. “You had comething to drink without me, didn't you?” “Not very much. And we were wafting for you.”

He moved his arm until It pressed lightly against her shoulder. “Darling, I didn't have much either. A customer offered it to meI couldn’t refuse.” She did not reply. “Sonia.” he asked, anxiously, “you aren't going to be angry with me?” Even her disappointment melted before the eager penitence of his tonei “No,” she answered “Nothing can make me angry w th you today.” CHAPTER XLIII The boat pushed in to Sausalito. Cars rolled out. Franklin made for the highway with a speed that shot them far ahead. The windows of the car were down and the cold, fresh air whistled about their ears. Sonia wanted to go fast- The faster the better! Shai wished they had been in an airplane and could swoop down to the little shack on Manor Heights. But Maxine shouted repeated warnings from the back seat. “Not so fast, Franklin. Please don't go so fast.” “Who’s going fast?" he retorted. “This is nothing, woman. You ought to ride with me when I really speed.” It. was true. Sonia had been with him when he had made the car zigzag across mountain roads, stopping at the very edge. “He’s being good today,” she called reassuringly. Maxine was cuddled in Mac’s arms. Her hat was off and her blonde head snuggled beneath his firm chin. “She’s not so worried,” Sonia chuckled to Franklin. “I love to drive like this. And I’ve never been over this road before. Isn’t the view bautiful? As if it had been painted for our especial benefit!” They were going up the Corte Madera grade, around a cure. Franklin, blue eyes straight ahead, stepped on tne gas. As if impelled by a monster, the car leaped into the air. . . . * • * Someone was screaming. Shrill, piercing cries that begin a long way off then hurtled through the air tearing Sonia's heart. She could not endure the agony of listening to them. “Oh, stop! Stop!” she moaned. “My God, Sonia, don’t scream like that." So it was her own voice. She lay, shuddering, fearing to hear it again. Then she felt herself being lifted. The darkness was suffocating her. "Better keep her head down,” advised someone. After a time the black, swimming

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clouds parted a little. She saw Franklin’s face floating above her. It was terrified. "Are you hurt?” She smiled, wondering why he should have asked. Then waves of sickening, nauseating faintness engulfed Her. She was a paper, tortured by the wind: a leaf swept on a furious streum: a little girl and her mother was washing her face. She sat up, pushing at the hands that would have held her. It was still late afternoon. The sun was shining. The beauty of the landscape was undimmed. Blit far beneath the road where she lay she saw a broken, twisted mass. She shivered. “Franklin?” “Yes, ’Sonia.”, “Oh, you’re not hurt, Franklin?" “No,” he groaned.

But his face was livid. Mac. beside him, had buried his head in his hands. Then she saw two men, moving slowly, carrying something limp and soaked with blood! The world reeled. She pitched headlong back into the pit from w'hich she had no painfully withdrawn. But she fought to*climb out of it. There was something she must find out. Someone . . . but she couldn’t remember the name. When her vision cleared again she demanded bluntly, “Was that Maxine?" Their stricken faces answered her. “But she can’t be dead,” whimpered Sonia. “She was cuddled up in Mac’s arms just a moment ago.” People couldn’t be wiped out like that. Smashed if they were a*i insect! Tears of furious resentment gathered in her eyes. It wasn’t fair. God shouldn’t let things like this happen. B>it no God ‘could endure watching an automobile roll over the side of a mountain. Bumping from side to side, crashing into the sickening heap -out of which they had carried Maxine. (To Be Continued!

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