Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 216, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1926 — Page 10

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SONIA

THE STORY SO FAR Through DR. DON STILDWATER, pretty SONIA MARSH of Stockton, gets a position 111 the nal estuto offlco of JED THOMAS, his uncle. Believing she has captivated FRANKDIN CRANE, petted .vouhg salesman, Sonia allows him to make love to her, crediting ilia explanation that he cannot marry tier because the breaking of his engagement to Genevieve Erickson, a pretty society girl, might prove fatal to his invalid mother. Crane's drinking causes on auto wreck in which Sonia suffers bruises and asks for Dr. Stillwater to attend her. Though Sonia still loves Crane, she is disgusted with him and marries Dr, -Stillwater. , , ... 'They keep the nows from all but their ‘’"After seeing Crane again on . the street, Sonia aUn Don for her freedom, Don inißt* that Soma ko to her par; enta while he makes a four mouths trip to Berlin, and promises to release her if she still wishes It when he retl"n'eforo Sonia tells Crane she U married. he mentions tin- breaking of .Ids engagement. Soma says she will be free "‘Wealthy WALTER HENDERSON whom Sonia refused to n airy, is found d ’At'the Inquest Sonia's enemy. BERTIE DONOHUE. tells of Crane s threat against Henderson. Crane in and to save him Sonia falsely declares she was with him that night in his Msrin County shark. , She sends newspaper clippings oi tno Bl °Sonia does not resist when she finds Crane is driving her to his isolated shack They spend the night there. Sonia returns home when she gets news that her father killed hiniamf became of her disgrace. Sonia Is horrified when her mother .tells her that JED THOMAS is Sonia’s father, but Sam Marsh never know the truth. CHAPTER LXVII. Sitting On the floor with her head in her mother’s lap, Sonia faced the truth. The blood of Jed Thomas might be in her veins, hut nil the affection she could ever give a father had been buried with the pitiful body of the man who had loved her more than his own life. Anna had warned her that she was never to repeat her confession to any one. “I’ve kept it all these years. I never want to discuss It again." And Sonia, knowing the reason for her mother’s confession had been a firm belief in her daughter’s guilt, knew that she would never lie able to tell the truth of her own if fair. After all, it really made no difference which night she had spent m Franklin's shack. She had reckoned without Anna’s acceptance of the fact that she, too, was married. ’’Why did you marry Don if you were so in love with someone else, i onia?” Sonia swallowed over the lump In nor throat before she replied, "I .ought 1 could go with him to Ber- " Well, then, why didn’t you go?” 1 couldn't go go on with it. You . we were only playing at being ied. It was more difficult than majjined.” ou mean you were not really n and wife?” h. no!” was sickening to be forced to ain the details of their relans. Well, then,” naked Anna, in a ■ v, practical tone, “what are you ing to do?” \s soon as Don comes home out i'lugc will lje annulled and I’ll ry Franklin.” nna shook her head. onia's voice was angry. “Why, ? I suppose you think he won’t rry me?” Those things don’t happen, SoPoor child, you’ll learn some not to believe in any lover's uises.” ->r spiritless dejection roused •girl to half-hearted defiance. Vou can’t judge every one by ir own experience, mother." >ho felt that her mother should vo known better than to have 1 faith in Jed Thomas. Even if were her father, it was ridlous comparing him to Franklin. Even in youth he must have been o and unsympathetic. \nna continued, quietly: “What t your Immediate plans?” ’Franklin is going abroad with i:• i-i mother." “And you’.’’ ''ntll that moment Sonia had nr on stiro. “Oh. I'm going back to work In Tan Francisco.” Afterwards. lying sleepless in or bed, Sonia wondered at her ' anged state o, mind. Was it the 'suit of her mother’s confession? ' r he knowledge that her weakness had been inherited? She no longer agonized over the tragedy of her father’s suicide. The thought of Ills patient, pleading eyes would never fail to bring the tears. But she felt now it could not have been avoided. Fate had ordained it many years ago. She, Sonia Marsh, who was not even entitled to the name she bore, had been only a link in the chain of circumstances. I low could she have been otherwise, with a mother who had dei cjved her husband for 19 years? Her mother’s sin scorned to her iii< greater. Something pliable and youthful hardened in the girl that night. Anna’s confession had swept her • Tom a course of honest repentance to the shoals of self-pity Eagerly he accepted her mother’s statement that she was not altogether to blame. It hail been easy to adjust herself to the new idea that

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she was more sinned against than sinning. The confession which Anna had brought forth in travail for the salvation of her daughter’s soul bore unexpected fruit. Far from fighting her inherited instinct for excitement, Sonia shrugged thin shoulders and was convinced that it would have its way. Why fight destiny? She said nothing of this attitude to her mother, however. But she surrounded herself with a silence more baffling than before. Anna, Immersed In loneliness and the realization that her husband’s savings account would not cover his burial expenses, was compelled to turn to practical considerations. Sonia went to see Vera’s baby. She spent unpleasant, restless hours watching Vera boll bottles, wash Hannels, measure orange juice, and go through all the maddening routine of a mother’s day. She was not tempted by the plain, wholesome fare her sister put before her family. She did not relish holding a squalling infant while Vera prepared Its bath. The house was filled with a damp, acrid odor, which nauseated Sonia. Babies were darlings in pink and blue bonnets, smelling of sachet, but before they attained that stade. , . . !

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It added to her irritation that Vera plainly considered herself a young Madonna permitting an unholy Magdalene to hold her child. Sonia walked home, taking deep breaths of the moist, spring-haunt-ed air, careless but not unconscious of glances from those who knew. ‘‘There goes Sonia Marsh, whose father killed himself. It was in the papers. . . . “Buzz-buzz When she entered her own home she found her mother back at the machine. “Do you have to do that, Mother?" “Well, I promised it for Saturday. I’d rather sew than to sit here thinking. Besides I need the money.” That was Sonia’s cue. She took it gratefully. “If you don’t mind, I’m going back to work, too. I’m going tomorrow.” (To Be Continued.) EMPEROR SLIGHTLY BETTER Bn Lniteii }‘rt*a TOKIO, Dec. 15.—The condition of Emperor Yoshihito of Japan, critically ill of pneumonia, was reported slightly improved today. Ho was taking food through a tube. American Ambassador Charles MacVeagh called at the Imperial palace at Ilyama today and Inquired about the Emperor's condition.

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