Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1926 — Page 16

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SONIA

THE STORY SO FAR SONIA MARSH, a small town girl, leaves her secure, dull home in Stockton and comes to San Francisco to live her life as she pleases. DON STILLWATER. a young doctor, takes a fancy to her and helps her get. a job in the real estate office of his uncle. Jed Thomas. . _ , a She makes her home with the iaststepping MAXINE LA RUE. who is carrying on a clandestine love affair with Mac McGregor, a married man, and falls in love with FRANKLIN CRANK, 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 oi marriage, and then averts a serious quarrel between him and Crane. Believing that she has captivated Crane. Sonia allows him to make love to her. crediting his explanation that he cannot marry her because the breaking of his engagement to Genevieve Erickson, a pretty society girl, might nrove fatal to his invalid mother. Stillwater comer to town, and while spending a Sunday with Sonia proposes to her. She refuses him. secure in Crane's love Frightened by her la tilers disapproval of such a.plan . Sonia refuses to upend a week-end m Crane tMarin County shack, even though Max ine and Mac accompany, them, then throwing caution to the winds consents *° Crane's drinking . causes an auto wreck, in which Maxine is killed. Sonia suffers serious bruises and aß ks for Dr. Stillwater to attend her at the hosoit&l. Sonia was indifferent even If those restrictions included Franklin. She was not ready to see him yet. There were a great many things to be considered before she saw him again. She swallowed the powder the lit tie nurse brought to her. Don had promised to return early in the morning. Until then she would endeavor not to think. But try as she might she was nto able to push the tragedy from her mind. The piercing screams which had proved to be her own. Franklin’s ragged voice, hiis limbs trembling, as he stared at Maxine’s bloodstained body. . . . Time after time she was roused frOm the verge of sleep to feel the car pitching over the embankment. Time after time she was reassured by the little nurse, “Don’t cry, Miss Marsh. It’s all over now.” But was it? For Maxine in the San Francisco morgue, it was indeed over. No more scenes with Mac. No mere desire for romance or adventure! It was all over., But for Sonia, bruised and tortured by remembrance. there might be years ahead. Sonia lacked the strength to face those years. Her self-confidence had been shat tered. She was afraid. CHAPTER XLV Day was breaking when Sonin opened her eyes. She looked for Maxine’s blonde braid on the pillow beside her. And realized, with sweeping bitterness, that she would never see it again. Tt was the morning she had hoped to see the sunshine over Tamalphis. Where was Franklin? Was he, too. sleepless with lfunorse, facing a gray dawn? And Mac? Sonia shuddered. She pictured him, more considerate than usual, a model husband, spend ing Sunday with his family. How furtively he would scan the morn ing papers for an account of the accident! While Maxine lay dead, accusing but forever silent! “It isn’t fair," thought Sonia bitterly. She lay listening to the sounds about her. The padded noises of a hospital! The subdued clang of elevators, smothered bits of conversation, smooth-rolling rubber-tired carts —all the business pertaining to illness and death! Emotionless save for the frantic grieving of some nov ice at suffering, called upon to face bereavement for the first time.

A nurse entered for early temperatures. Her professional cheerfulness greeted Sonia. Later came an unappetizing tray. Sonia drank the hot coffee and pushed it aside. The conviction grew upon her that she must get away. She would be really ill if she were forced to remain. Long before time for Don to return she began watching the door, listening for steps which might be his. The wrist watch Franklin had given her had been shattered in the accident. She was compelled to guess at the hour. When his lean, dark figure appeared she could have cried with relief. “How are you, Sonia?” >T'm all right. Only I can’t endure staying here. Please, Don. make them let me go home." He held her wrist, counting the pulse, which she could feel hammering with unusual rapidity. When he had finished she held his hand, pleadingly, over hers. “Don’t leave me here any longer. I’ll be ever so much better if I can get up. It’s lying here makes me so nervous.” CHAPTER XXXXV CONTINUED "It’s the shock that has made you nervous,” Dr. Don corrected, gently, ‘t think you can leave tomorrow. Where will you go?” For the first time it occurred to Sonia that she must return to rooms haunted with Maxine. “I can’t go to the apartment.” “Don’t you think yon had better go home for a little while?” - Bewildered as she undoubtedly was, his question astounded her. "Back to Stockton?” “Back to your mother and father.” But she refused. “They’d drive me mad with questions. How did it happen, what were we doing out with these men, etc.” lie smiled at her. wistfully. “You haven’t had enough excitement yet?” “I never want another thrill as long as I live,” she said petulantly. “But neither can I endure the life at home.” He said then. ‘'Your sister, Vera, has another baby. A boyt this time.” “I’m glad it’s over. You talked with mother?” “Yes. I tried not to alarm her. And I promised you would call her yourself tomorrow.” “That’s fine. You’re such a neach. You remember I told you I’d call on you if I got into trouble?” “I remember “I didn’t dream I’d have to call so soon.” She saw the color mounting In his cheeks.

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“Sonia, if you’re feeling up to It, I’d like to talk to you.” Her smile was mirthless. “You mean preach.” “No, indeed,” he replied, with decision. ‘‘l have nothing to preach about. This is as much my fault as yours.” Her green eyes widened with surprise. “I fail to see where you come into the picture at all, Don.” “Well, I do. It was I who insisted upon your coming to San Francisco." "I had decided to come long before you suggested it.” “Perhaps you had, but how much chance did you have of coming without the position I hastened to secure for you? Without my rather impertinent interceding with your parents?” His voice was so bitter she did not attempt to reply. “I felt like a dog calling them up to teli them you had been in an accident, I meant well, but I was all wrong. You should have stayed at home.” “Don’t think for a moment that 1 would. Eventually I would have reached San Francisco without any one’s help.” Don was frowning. “You’re too young. My idea was to. get you away from Stockton. But it was a mistake. Whatever has happened lam artly responsible for it.” Sonia half rose to her flat, smooth pillows. “It’s ridiculous of you to feel that way. I’ll shoulder the blame for my own mistakes, thank you. Besides, what can either of us do about it, now?”

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His brown eyes stared at her hungrily, as if they were begging more than his lips could voice. “You laughed at me Sunday and I swore I’d never mention it again, but every resolution I’d made was jarred by this accidenC’ Sonia, it might have been you. Won’t you tell me if you love me, now?” She was touched by the honest passion of his words. Yet he would have gone away without seeing her again. He had come only because she had sent for him. Oh, but he was strong. Unbreakable. Like a stone wall! “Won’t you answer me?” She sighed. “What can I say? I think you are the best man I ever knew.” “But you don’t love me?” She could not bring herself t<y an open denial. She was surprised to find so much affection pleading for him. “Supposing I do?” she faltered. Light swept over his countenance, lending tt a sudden, magnetic beauty. “If you do, honey, our problem is all solved.” “How do you mean?” He held her fluttering, restless hands in both of his. “You can go to Berlin with me. You need never face anything alone again.” * * * Siie wanted to do it. She longed to put her tortured, aching heart beyond the reach of further wounds. Don coulif protect her. He could keep things from hurting. But Franklin’s sweet, reproachful esey, his lips, hurt and wistful, pushed between them: “I wish I could,” she said, “But I’m afraid it might not be fair.” “Why wouldn’t it?"

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“I’m still young and silly, you know. I should be sure to get into trouble of some kind.” “I wouldn’t give you a chance.” "I don’t feel as if I would ever take another chance of any kind,” she admitted. "But, oh, Don, Ixan't promise. I wish you’d decide it for me. Why don’t you make me marry you? It would be the best thine that ever happened to me.” He answered grimly: “I’m no cave man, Sonia. If you marry me it will have to be because you warn to.” But the idea of making another decision frightened her. She was still so weak. So shattered mental ly! As if her will had been broken into bits. When he rose to leave her she clung to him, crying, "Don't go!” “I must, honey, I’ll be back tomorrow.” “May I leave then?” “Yes, and in the meantime you must make up your mind where you want to go.” “But I can’t go back to the apart ment. . . He was very patient with her. “That’s nerves, dear. But my ad vice Is for you to go home.” (To Be Continued.) * BRITISH LIBERAL SPEAKS Urges Anglo-American Alliance as War Preventive. Anglo-American alliance in world finance and natural resources was recommended as the greatest of all war prevention measures in an address at Third Christian Church Thursday night. The speaker was J. W. Black, Leicester, England, for mer Liberal member of Parliament. He talked of the war debts and the British arrangement for settlement. Black is here as a represent ative of the Churches of Christ. To day he addressed the Butler Univer sity students.

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