Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1927 — Page 11

MAY 13, 1927

BEAD THIS AND BEGIN THIS GREAT STORY TODAY • DIANA BROOKS, beautiful daughter ot ROGER BROOKS, and publisher ot the CATAWBA CITY TIMES and a chain ol nine other daily newspapers, was kidnaped from the veranda of her home, but released, unharmed. Roger Brooks reduobles his efforts to break the power of the RING and its ally, the UNDERWORLD, then himself disappears. Four members of his loyal staff devote their efforts in searching for him. They are: EDNA (TEDDY) FARRELL, reporter and SOB SISTER: BILL CANFIELD, city editor; DONALD KEENE, literary editor and Teddy's guardian, and DINNY MORRISON, city hall reporter. Diana lias received one clew to her father s whereabouts but learns that he lias been removed from the place of his original concealment. They anxiously await further developments. Teddy, by her actions, betrays her secret love for her guardian. Meanwhile, Don is approached unsuccessfully by a stranger who tells him he lias heard that some Brooks newspaper stock is for sale. Don. surprised, learns that other holders of Brooks stock have been sought out by would-be purchasers. He goes to JOHN W. WALDEN. JR., member of the city’s leading law firm, for explanation of the sudden bull move in the stocks. Walden is evasive, and Don returns to the office troubled and mystified. CHAPTER IV Teddy Farrell passed them at that bioment. Perhaps she assumed that 3Don’s broad smile was for her. At any rate she turned and came back to the city desk. "No word yet?" The interrogation dropped from Iter lips in a tone almost accusative in its sharpness. Both men shook their heads. Donald Keene’s eyes, resting on the girl’s exquisite face, held a tenderness in their brown depths that brought a flush to her cheeks. “Something has happened Teddy,” he said in liis comradely way of talking to her, "that may throw a light on th’ mystery eventually.” He told of his visitor that morning and Pthe subsequent events. As she listened, and listening, watched the play in the lines of his attractive mouth, the winsome wom-an-like smile that showed the perfect white teeth, Teddy told herself she knew why Donald Keene was so universally liked by men and loved by women. "No girl could help loving him if he ever smiled at her,” she whis- ’ pered under her breath. "For a man he certainly has th’ darlingest smile in this whole world!” But little Edna Farrell —to use her baptismal name—had more reasons for loving Donalcl Keene than was indicated on the surface. Watching him as he talked, her thoughts went back along the years to the day more than a decade before when this man first entered her young life. She was just past 12 when her mother, after an illness of months, died, leaving her without a doilar and with neither relatives nor friends to whom she might turn. The days immediately following her mother’s burial were dark days for little Teddy. Homeless, penniless and friendless she prowled the streets of the city half starved, lonely and dirty. Then Don Keene came along. He saw the tiny bit of humanity huddled in the dark jungle of a bleak hallway. It looked to be alive so he prodded it with the ferrule of his umbrella. He heard it whimper,

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The very man Don wanted most to see hailed him as he passed the open door of a down town cigar store.

looked closer and saw two big brown eyes swimming in tears. Then he caught a flash of white teeth shining behind adorable red lips. He stepped near, took another look and —That night little Teddy slept in a bed the like of which her childish imagination had never conceived. And yet it was only a servant’s bed in the Keene home. Don’s mother had taken the dirty little waif, washed her and clothed her in clean garments after which Teddy sat down to a meal that seemed to her a feast any queen might have envied. That was the beginning of Teddy’s life, she always told herself. What had gone before had been just a nightmare. And it was the beginning of her adoration for Donald Keene. He was her king, the knight who had rescued her from the dragon’s teeth of poverty, degradation and filth. Small wonder that, as she grew into womanhood he remained the hero of all her hopes, and dreams. She jerked her thoughts back with an effort to the living, vital present.

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"There’s an ugly plot back of this affair somewhere,” Don was saying, the firm set of his paw indicating the fighting spirit behind. "This is th’ twentieth century and all that and deep-laid plots are supposed to live mostly in fiction. Just th’ same men scheme and rob and murder In real life about as much if not more than in fiction. Big Money is always a lure for crookedness. And God knows Roger Brooks represents plenty of ‘big money.’ ” He spoke dramatically, oblivious that he was talking like puppets in the plays he often scornfully reviewed for the paper. He turned to the city editor. "You spoke this morning, Bill, about running a story about this,” he said. "AVhen?” "T’morrow morning.” replied Canfield briefly. "Just a bare statement of facts; no comments or—anything. Don nodded his approval. Robert Creedy, assistant managing editor of the Times, entered the room at that moment and joined the two at the city desk. Bill Canfield consulted him regarding the proposal to

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run a brief story on the following morning announcing Pop’s disappearance. "You’re right” Creedy agreed when the city editor spoke of his decision to eliminate all spectacular details. “Let th’ mere facts speak for themselves!” There were others in the office, however, who felt that the gravity of the situation demanded "scare heads” and dlore vigorous action. A telephone call from Diana Brooks informed Donald Keene that she had just received word from the wife of the convict —or ex-convict—Copley. "She told me to meet her at th’ ribbon counter in Black & King's department store this afternoon at 2 o’clock,” said Diana over the wire. "She told me she had some information for me. I’ll come right up after I’ve talked with her and tell you all about it.” Donald glanced at his watch. It was then 12:30 p. m. of the third day after Roger Brooks had dropped so mysteriously from the sight and ken of his family and friends. That morning’s issue of the Times had carried a brief story acquainting the public with just the surface facts. City editors of other papers glanced at the story, read it carefully and wondered. Don had two hours to wait for Diana, he told himself. Promptly at 2:30 she entered his cubby-hole of dh office, the place where he, as literary editor of the Times, pounded out his column of editorial comment and reviews of the season’s best sellers. "Another disappointment—or almost!” she announced dolefully. "Which means—almost what?” he asked. “Well, it means everything and — nothing at all,” replied Diana. "It means I have th’ number of a house close to where dad is being held—close, but —. The woman couldn’t get th’ exact number, she told me, but she discovered th’ location. It's one of four houses in K — street be* tween numbers 684 and 688. Is there a chance —?” "Anything is possible. Dia” he put in. “It ought to be easy to locate him unless—” He paused momentarily. Then: "Unless, to use a colloquial term, we ‘give them a tumble' and they spirit him away again from right under our noses. But —let me think.” He was silent for a moment, i weighing the possibilities of a plan | that had suddenly taken birth in his mind. Diana Brooks waited anxious, hopeful. "I’ve got the nucleus of an idea,' he went on finally. "You go home and wait until I call you. But try and prepare yourself, so that in the event of this matter going wrong you won’t feel the disappointment no J keenly. I think my little idea will be | productive of good results. But — we can’t 1011, of course, until we try. I'll do my level best though, Din. You may be sure of that.” "I know you will, dear old friend,” said Diana, the hint of a sob in the throaty tones of her voice. "I know

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