Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1927 — Page 14

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r WHAT HAS HAPPENED DIANA BROOKS, beautiful daughter of ROGER BROOKS, owner and publisher of the Catawba City Times and a chain of nine other newspapers, had been kidnaped and then released. Her father is engaged in a persistent fight again* the corrupt administration of CatawDa, City, and through tne medium of the Times redoubles his scathing attacks on politicians of the ring and defies the underworld. , Later Brooks himself disappears and after five days is released. In an attempt to locate him. DONALD KEENE, literary editor, and TEDDY FARRELL, his ward and Sob Sister, are entombed for fifty hours in a sub-cellar. Teddy save Don's life and out of gratitude "he a3ks her to marry him. She refuses, knowing that he does not love her. although she loves him deeply. Roger Brooks, on his return, finds that Brooks' newspaper stock is being manipulated and suspects JOHN ,\V. WALDEN, member of a prominent lawfirm. of being involved in the plot to wreck the Brooks' organization. Don proposes to LOLA MANTELL, Dianas charming cousin, who makes her home with the Brook's. Lola gives him an indefinite answer when he tells her that he will not come into his inheritance until after his mother's death. Diana is strangely perturbed and also skeptical of her cousin's insistence that Don's inheritance does not matter. Diana knows that Don s mother has the power of changing the contingency in the will, but withholds the knowledge from Lola. NOW GO ON CHAPTER XIX Mrs. Keene had said but little more at that time about the inheritance. But she had pressed a kiss on Diana's forehead and ended the chat with the remark: “I wish Don would fall in love With someone like you, Diana.” To the girl it seemed almost as if Don's mother had told her this In the hope of influencing her to consider him in the light of a possible husband. But such a premeditated arrangement would have been embarassing to Diana. Why. she had played with Donald Keene when they were kids. There wasn't any glamour or illusion on the side of either about each other. And yet—yeti * „ all that evening, ever since Don had come, Diana had felt herself in the grip of a strange restlessness. . (*: r For many days preceding its event the social columns of the newspapers of Catawba City had heralded the announcement of the Bradhurst Country Club dance. Beyond the club’s sacred portals, however, none might pass whose name was not entered in the social register. Society editors described the coming affair with each colorful phrases as "brilliant” and “marking the.most significant period in the opening of the summer season." One report carrying the names of the elect scheduled to attend included Miss Diana Brooks, daughter of Roger Brooks, prominent publisher; Miss Lola Mantell, niece of Roger Brooks; Donald Keene, eligible bachelor. and John Walden Jr. of the firm of Walden, Higgins and Walden, attorneys. No mention was made of. Teddy Farrell nor of Dinny Morrison. Their stations in life were not high enough to bring them on a level with members of the country club. As mere reporters they did not "belong.” Despite this, however, both were elected to be present as guests of their friends. When the long-anticipated night

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“I think that speech is entirely uncalled fer, Lola!"

finally arrived Teddy had managed to overcome, in a measure, her almost fanatical concern for her beloved “job.” Waiting on Dinny to call for her she pirouetted before the narrow mirror on her dresser and worked herself into a nervous state wondering if her much worn frock would look shabby. She attacked Mrs. Speed, broad Celtic mistress of the rooming house where she lived. "How do you like it?” she asked that lady, flouncing the skirt of peach-colored taffeta. Mrs. Speed's flint-like armour fell from her for the moment as she appraised the boyish figure. Teddy’s cheeks glowed with excitement and anticipation. "Stunnin’, I’d say. Steppin’ out. be ye?” "Dance —at th’ Bradhurst Country Club!" Teddy’s brown eyes flashed with regal importance. "In swell society, eh? Some people have all th' luck. Yez moight

land a foine. wealthy husband —no tellin', wid th’ chances yez hov!” "Oh, I'm not looking for a husband, Mrs. Speed! Besides, no one takes me seriously. I'm just ‘Teddy, th' sob sister'!"’ Mrs. Speed thought she heard a little gulp, a sob-like sound in the throat of her pretty roomer. "Oh, well now, yez are young. Ye’ve got all th’ wor-ruld before yez!” The warm-hearted old Irish woman uttered this hackneyed encouragement impresssively. "But, tell me honestly—" Teddy reverted to her former gayety—"that I don’t look too out-of-date in this dress. Th’ debs who are going to be there, you know, will all have on dresses they’ve never worn before. Some of them won’t even wear the same dress again!” "Don’t ye worry, me darlint"’ Mrs. Speed hastened to assure her. “Yu’d be all roight in a kitchen apron: ye're pretty 'nough. If only min' ■wu'd hove th' sinse to 'predate real looks instid of clothes. Butr you’ll be all roight, honey. Don't yez worry!" The ringing of the doorbell at this instant interrupted their talk. Dinny Morrison was waiting. Teddy made a final dab at her chin with the powder puff and ran down stairs to meet him. It was a big night for Dinny. too. He kept his gaze on TMdy’s animated face as much as possible all the way to the clubhouse. The young reporter felt a swell of power as he guided his decrepit flivver coupe over the hilly country roads. Once his free hand fumbled over Teddy’s. She pushed it gently away. "None of that stuff. Dinny,” chc admonished him mournfully. The young man drew himself up with dignified rigidity and clamped both hands on the steering wheel. "It certainly does beat everything,” he observed, carefully avoiding any semblance of emotion in his voice, "that you won’t even give me a tumble. But then,” he added, even more casually, “so long as

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there isn't some other guy, I’ve got a fighting chance. I'll wait. You'll like me some day, Teddy—maybe!" "What a wonderful breeze! Open that other window, Dinny, please” said Teddy. “Yeh-uli, just like that —always! •She changes th' subject—won't even give me an audience!” muttered Dinny, as he turned the crank to open the window. They rode the remainder of the distance, breaking the silence only with occasional commonplace observations. Dinny’s mouth was set In a stubborn line and his eyes were bitter. % Teddy sat back relaxed, except when the ancient car became afflicted with temporary wheezing and spluttering, until Dinny performed some hocus pocus B?at with its mechanism. These little "eccentricities” in Dinny’s “car” were quite diverting, Teddy assured him. She had not observed that her escort was all togged out in an evening dress suit—his "soup and fish,” he called it. Instead, the glare of the car's headlight on the road ahead merged into the picture of someone else—how HE would look in evening clothes. But she knew how he would look—the smile of almost womanly sweetness danced before her mental vision with a vividness she could not shut out, She lived again in a swift flash of memory those hours in the sub-cel-lar. Then on fancy's sereeen she saw herself standing at his bedside in the hospital, heard him telling her once more that he wanted her to marry him. The poignant heartache that lay in the recollection of that hour was too sharp. And later, when she had gone back and told him he was free—that she could not marry him with the love all on one side. And he . . . "You're a fool," she whispered to herself, “a poor, eilly fool. You're Just his ‘little kid pal’ and will never be anything else!” And in her eyes, too, that night there glimmered the shadow of a heart-hungering bitterness. "Did it in half an hour," Dinny announced, as they drew up before the rambling veranda of the Bradhurst Country Club. “Wonderful! You might enter th’ old buggy in a century race, Dinny. You wouldn't be morn’ a couple of laps behind at th' finish." laughed Teddy. It had been arranged that Donald

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Keene and Lola Mantell were to watch for the two reporters at the door. Donald was waiting and led Teddy inside while Dinny parked his asthmatic flivver. The dance had already started. Teddy drew in her breath with a quick little grasp of sheer delight at the splendor before her. The sobbing tones of the violins and the moan of saxophone touched a responsive chord in her young breast. "Well, she arrived at last!” Lola Mantell swept Teddy's boyishly pretty figure with a deliberately scornful glance. "Don is so considerate, you know her voice wag a drawl. "He just didn't have th’ heart to take any chances on letting you people get turned away. It's so easy, you know—not being know r n, as in your case. It would have been —" “I think that speech is entirely uncalled for, Ix>la!” Donald Keene broke in, a rasping note in his voice that fairly startled his nearfiancee. His face was flushed with indignation, unaccompanied now hy the customary smile that usually played about his lips. "You'll have to wait, I'm afraid," he went on swiftly, "for still another dance, Lola. I'm taking Teddy for a drink!" An almost murderous gleam shot from Lola Manteli’s black eyes as her glance followed the retreating 666 I* a prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue* Bilious Fever and Malaria. It kill* the germ*

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