Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 316, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1927 — Page 14

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SYNOPSIS JOYCE DARING is left homeless when her parents separate. She gets work as a telephone operator at a hotel. Her mother disappears and her lather, penitent, goes in search of her. Joyce is befriended by MRS. EVANGELINE MALTBY, very wealthy widow, for whom she has done a great service. Introduced into society, she makes a friend of FRANKY STARRET. and an enemy of CATHERINE SHERWIN. who is jealous of CARTER DELANDS attentions to Joyce. Deland asks Joyce to roam the world with him. and sin sends him packing when he refuses to marry her. Two other boys. DAVID TOMPKINS, a childhood sweetheart and HENRY DEACON, want her to marry them. Young Deacon is ini mersed in a business left in poor shapi by his father's sikness. and she is left pretty much alone. She devotes more and more of her time to Mrs, Maltb.v. and becomes all but a child to her. CHAPTER XXXVI Shadow of Death “Well, what have you done with Carter now, Miss Joyce Daring?" Joyce looked up from her work in surprise. The voice was strange to her and for a moment she did not recognize the face. Then she exclaimed, “Why, Catherine Sherwin! When did you get back? I haven’t seen you for a month. I thought you were still at Palm Beach.” “No, I got back yesterday, called my Carter up and found he'd run away. I asked Mattie here where he was and she said you would probably know.” The girl s tone was hostile and she looked at Joy, wearing her headpiece and busy with calls, contemptuously. “I don’t know anything about Carter,” said Joyce, a, little stiffly. “He went to the Bermudas a little before Christmas and T haven’t an idea where he is now.” “But you hear from him. don’t you, Miss Daring?" broke in the acid voice of Matilda Truesdale. “That is strange when you were so intimate just before he left." Mies Truesdale attempted a smile and Joyce thought, "She'd like to poison me, I believe.” But aloud she said, “Sorry I can't help you out. His club would probably forward mail to him." “Is that where you send your letters?” Catherine asked spitefully. “I don’t write to him.” said Joyce, quietly, busying herself with some report slips on her desk and hoping to end the interview in this manner. “Well, I'll see yon later,” said Catherine, moving away and apparently a little ashamed of herself. Joyce stared after them. Carter! She misled him. there was no use denying it. Life had been a pretty drab affair of late. After the Christmas holidays Deke had buried himself in his work. Franky was making preparations to sail for England within a week and only ran in to see Joyce for a few minutes at a time now. Davey was out of the city a great deal and was very silent, almost gloomy when they were together. Joyce missed the companionship Carter bad given hoc. Their long talks about books, his graceful wa ( v of discussing clothes, his grand mnr - ner when he took her places. The memory of his proposal that she become his traveling companion without benefit of clergy grew dim. More and more vivid became Ihe thousand little acts of kindness, of real friend ship, that he had shown her. At first she had wondered a little over his not writing her. but in time ahe set It down to real penitence over having offended her, and from becoming a breach of good behavior on his part, his silence turned to a powerful proof of his real sorrow. A few days later Franky came in to drive her out for a morning reading to Mrs. Maltby. "Say, honey,” Franky said when they were speeding out toward the .'Jaltby home. "What have you done to Katy Sherwin?” "Katy Sherwin?” Joyce repeated. “Why, I’m sure I don't know. Why?” Then she recalled Catherine’s appearance at her desk a few days previous. "I do remember that she came in the hotel to ask me

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if I knew anything about Carter, but I don’t see why she should hold it against me that I couldn't tell her." “So that’s it?” said Franky. “Well, she just poured vitriol all over poor you at a dance the other night. Someone mentioned your name and you should have heard her.” "Why did she say?” Joyce asked with interest. "O, just that you had Deke all lined up and threw him over when you heard he wasn’t going to have any money any more, and that your sending Carter away was just a stall to get your reputation back and that you were holding out for more than Carter cared to give you in the realm of cold cash and diamonds She threw in a few other little facts for good measure.” "Why—why—the idea." Joyce stammered indignantly. "Oh, of course, we all knew it was trash. She's been crazy aboul Carter for two seasons now and he 1)1* ys around with her sometimes beciUise she flatters him a lot. I told her she was a damn liar and let it go at that.” “Thank you, Franky,” said Joyce, knowing that Franky had probably used even stronger language at the time and grateful for her loyalty. “I'm for you, honey. 1 want you to marry Deke, of course. He’s the salt of the earth, but you take your own sweet time. Deke's so busy now anyway that he's getting ihin as a rail.” "1 tell him not to work so hard," said Joyce in a troubled tone, "but he won't pay any attention to me. Tell me, Franky. do you know, are things really in a bad way for the Deacons?” Franky shot her companion a keen glance. She put no credence in the talk of Joy's mercenary intentions, but she wondered why the question was asked. "f guess they are. A lot of people are trying to get rid of their stock. My father says it's a shame lo withdraw their money when Deke is working so hard and all he needs is a chance.” "If I thought Deke really needed me." said Joyce shyly, “I'd ask him to let —well, let me help him more.” "Marrying him. you mean?” Franky asked. Joyce nodded. “Don't do it.” Franky advised. “He needs to keep his mind all on his work now and you'd just distract his attention. You stand ftv for a few months more and then we'll celebrate a double victory. Deke will get you and his old factory all in running order all at the same time.” They said little more on the ride and Franky drove on after dropping Joyce at the Maltby residence. Mrs. Maltby welcomed the girl in her usual kind manner. They were well into the last part of "Vanity Fair” now and Joyce was enjoying the talks about the hook that followed the leading, intensely. Now. as she considered Becky's persecution of poor Amelia she thought with a start of her own situation. When the reading was over for the day she asked Mrs. Maltby a question. ’Do you think one girl ever really has it in for another girl over a man. the way Becky does lu this story?” “I’m afraid so,” said Mrs. Maltby. "Women are often very cruel to each other, crudest where a man Is concerned. There seems to be no limit to the things they will say and do to injure someone they are jealous of. Why do you ask?” Joyce told her of the gossip Catherine Sherwin was spreading. Os late she had made a constant confidante of Mrs. Maltby and treasured the manner in which the older woman listened and made wise comments without imposing advice. “I wouldn’t worry about that a great deal if I were you," she said now. “So long as there isn’t any truth in it. not even enough to give it color, you have nothing to fear from her. She is constantly carry•lg tales about people and no one ■ its much faith in what she says, die is in danger of growing into i second Matilda Truesdale, I fear." "How true that is!" Joyce ex- ■ '.aimed. “I’d never thought of that before. Why, they are like sisters, only of course ICaty ia much pret(ier. I didn’t know they began so young,” she finished naively. Mrs. Maltby laughed. “Gossips of (hat type are born and not made, my dear,” she said. Joyce dismissed Catherine Sherwin's malice from her mind Hnd thought of it only occasionally when she saw the girl in the lobby, usally with Miss Truesdale or with Mrs. Fitz-Simmons, that perennially good natured busybody who believed that every one in the world was generous and kind. The habit grew on Joyce of accepting invitations from transient guests at the hotel. Several evenings a week now she would meet someone of the men. who was lodged there temporarily and accompany him to dinner, to the theater, or to a semi-private dance. Sometimes the. men were married

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and told her all about their wives and showed her pictures of their babies. Sometimes they were unmarried and under the spell of her pretty face would write back to her from other towns. Once in a great while one of them would attempt, under the influence of several helpings from the invariable flask, to make love to her. This Joyce always found disagreeable. She had developed a distaste for being handled and even Deke found her disinclined to the milder forms of petting, hand holding and the like. She would often meet Miss Truesdale as she was leaving with one of these escorts and that lady would subject her to a sharp scrutiny. Once, when Joyce was talking with some of the girls at the reading club, Mattie paused at her side to say, "And how do you find it going since you have ceased being so exclusive?" Joyce had stared at her and Helen Powers had said gaily, "Explain yourself, Mattie.” "Ask Miss Daring,” Mattie had said, with a triumphant glance at Joyce. "I suppose she refers to my going out with men in the hotel once in a while," Joyce answered, shrugging. On this particular evening Joyce had promised to go to the theater with a bond salesman who was stopping- at the Statler for several weeks. She liked him. He was a friendly young fellow, devoted to a girl back home who wouldn’t promise to marry him. He had poured the tale of his woes into Joy's ears more than once, and she toilful him a pleasant and harmless way of spending an otherwise tiresome evening. She was starting to meet him in the usual place at the far end of the lobby when a voice called her pame. Turning she saw Judge Perkins hurrying after her. “Have you an important engagement for the evening, Miss Daring?" he asked. “I have an engagement,” Joyce answered, “but it can wait for a few minutes if there is anything you want." She thought perhaps he had some particular telephone connections he would like to put through. “It’s very Important,” he told her, gravely. “I must ask you to give the whole evening to me. My dear friend Mrs. Maltby is very ill with pneumonia and is asking for you.” "I can't believe It,” Joyce cried. "I saw her just two days ago.” "It is true, nevertheless,” answered the judge. "Can you come at once?” Joyce hurried over to her waiting escort. t “I'm awfully sorry, Jack,” she told him. "but a very dear friend of mine is ver r g ick and Judge Perkins

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wants me to go out to see her right away.” “Sorry, too,” said the young man good naturedly. “We’ll make it some other time. So long,” and he strollgd back into the lobby to hunt another companion for his evening's pleasure. Joyce rejoined Judge Perkins. With no further word they made their way to the waiting Maltby limousine. “I have been out there all afternoon,” the judge explained. "She is very anxious to see you." "But is she so very sick?" Joyce asked, incredulously. "I doubt if she has much longer I to live,” answered the judge, j graVely. TOMOKKOW : Thr imminent iDatli of | Mrs. Maltby threatens to take the last prop upon whlrh Jujrre Dm rim* has leaned, since her mother's > suppeuranee. the departure of her father, the expul- i sion of Carter Deland and the immersion : in business of Ifenry Deacon. With a heavy heart she toes to attend her dyint friend. Read tomorrow’s fasclnatint in- i stalinent of "JOY,” the love story of an I American girl.

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