Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 218, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1926 — Page 22

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I'HE STORY SO FAR through DR. DON STILLWATER, pretty SONIA MARSH of Stockton, gets a position in the real estate office of TED THOMAS, his uncle. Believing she has captivated FRANKLIN CRANE petted younx salesman. Sonia allows him to make love to her, crediting his explanation that he cannot niarrv ner because the breaking of his engagement to Genevieve Erickson, a pretty society girl, might prove fatal to nis invalid mother Crane’s drinking causes an auto wreck in which Sonia suffers bruises and aßks for Dr Stillwater to attend her Though Sonia still loves Crane, she is disgusted with him and marries Dr Stillwater. They keep the news from all but their parents. After seeing Crane again on the street, Sonia asks Don for her freedom. Don insists that Sonia go to her pare ents while he makes a four months trip to Berlin, and promisee to release her if she still wishes it when he returns. Before Sonia telle Crane she Is married. he mentions the breaking of his engagement. Sonia says she will be free after Don returns _ Wealthy WALTER HENDERSON whom Sonia refused to marry, is found drowned. At the inquest Sonia's enemy. BERTIE DONOHUE. tells of Crane's threat against Henderson. Crane is suspected, and to save him Sonia falsely declares she was with him that night tn his Marin County shack. , . She sends newspaper clippings of tho story to Don. 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 himself because of her disgrace. Sonia is horrified when her mother tells her that JED THOMAS is Sonia’s father, but Sam Marsh never knew the truth. Sonia decides to return to work. CHAPTER LIX This time they drove to the shack In a heavy rain. It seemed appropriate for the world to be drenched in tears. Sonia grazed solemnly Into the steady downpour. Franklin drove carefully and for the first time since her father’s death she felt the pain in her heart relax. There was mystery in the dripping blackness of the night, Intoxication in the fleeting caress of her lover’s hand. His love seemed the only reality. The shack

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was like a beacon set on a hill. It was their journey’s end and held all the comfort for which she longed. It beckoned with an invisible hand. They ran through the rain Into the house. The air was musty. But she crept Into his arms. He kissed her rapturously. "It’s been so long " “Oh, darling, I love you! Being here Is all that matters." "And tomorrow?” he questioned, pressing her closer to his rough, rain-dampened coat. “I want to forget that there will ever be a tomorrow/' The fire roared in the fireplace. There was healing In the winddriven rain. The monotonous, Insistent dripping was like music. For the first time since the Sunday In Pirate’s Cove, when they had kissed with such clean, sweet joyousness, they seemed to attain perfect understanding. Sonia was no longer tortured with doubt. No one could have made her believe he did not love her. His kisses were long and fierce, but his arms were gentle. They sat together in the one large chair, and he rocked her as If she were a little girl. “These have been hard days for you, sweetheart." She shivered. “Ghastly. I can’t talk about them, even to you. It took something from me.” Sonia was thinking of her mother’s secret. “I’ll never be the same again.” "Yes, you will,” he comforted. “Why, you couldn't be downhearted long. I understand you Sonia. Your moods are like the wind." She pressed the softness of her cheek against his hair.

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“Would you love me sad and un happy?” “Sad or unhappy, ill, even angry —there Is no condition in which I wouldn’t love you." She laughed with the sheer ecstacy of this protestatnons. Even If they were not altogether true. It was delicious to hear him avow It. She trailed a teasing finger inside his collar. "If I were old and feeble? Cross and sharp-nosed?” "Stop tickling I’ll take a bite right out of this ear.” 'Sure I would, although I've no Idea what you said. Kiss me—kiss me—kiss me!” They kissed slowly, to the accompaniment of the rain. Long hours dream filled An island in a storm-tossed sea. Sonia rested as in an Interlude. Eventually life must go on. But tonight...! The next morning Sonia swept the shack and put everything in shining orderliness. It was Saturday, and they decided to stay until Sunday evening. So Franklin descended to Fairfax for food, and Bonia went singing about her work, until tho thought of her father silenced her. Yet In those few -hours her lover had become so incredibly dear even death was powerless beside her infatuation. She slipped her feet inside his bedroom slippers, swaggering about the room. His most inanimate possessions took on physical attributes. She buried her face in an old coat and came up starry-eyed. She told herself, seriously, that he was the most perfect lover In the world. Then she began to worry over the length of time he had been away. When he strode, whistling, Into the small enclosure about the house,

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she flew to meet him, tripping over the slippers she had forgotten to remove. "You precious Idiot, what’s the matter with you?” "You were gone such ages .. ” He dragged her inside and kissed her wildly. "Do you know, I thought I'd never get back! It seemed to me the shack must be blazing with the glory of your presence. What the devil? Take off my shoes'" The enchanted hours slipped by. The rain ceaaod. By Sunday afternoon the trees were shining through silvery veils. She said regretfully. "Well, it’s almost over. We'll have to be going back.” “What are you going to do, Sonia?” "What can I do but hunt for a position?’ "If you’ll come back to the office, I’ll leave. I was quitting anyway in a few days.” She looked up sharply. “When, exactly?" "We had planned to go tho fifteenth of March. But I’ve been putting mother off until you came hack. If I can persuade her to go east for a month, I may be able to put It off Indefinitely.” She studied him. longingly. "You mean you wouldn’t have to go at all?" He did not smile as he answered, "It’s Impossible for me to go now. I .can’t leave you, Sonia." She would have run Into his arms then, proudly, before the whole world. But later, on the boat to San Francisco she asked: "What will your mother think? Won't It make her ill again?” “I don’t care what she thinks. She's better now. Besides. I’m making more money than I ever did in my life. She ought to be glad I'm sticking to business." "And Genevieve Erickson?” she Inquired timidly. "Past history, sweetheart. I was a fool to let mother buffalo me for so' long.” (To Be Continued.)

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stead. Mr. Meskill was & printer by trade, having been employed on old Indianapolis Journal. He leaves two sisters, Miss Anno Meskill. Indianapolis, and Mrs. Mary Connors, Chicago. Among London’s strange occupations are cart-minding, selling ho| water In the markets and palntlngvi door knockers.