Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1927 — Page 24

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WHAT HAS HAPPENED DIANA BROOKS, beautiful daughter of ROGER BROOKS, owne# 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 against the corrupt administration of Catawba City and through the medium of the Times, redoubles his scathing attacks on politicians of the ring and defies the underworld. Later Brooks himself disappears and in an attempt to locate him, DONALD KEENE, lierary editor, and TEDDY FARRELL, Don’s ward and Sob Sister on the Times, meet with disaster in which Teddy saves Don’s life. Out of gratitude, he asks her to marry him. and although she is deeply in love with Don, Teddy refuses. Don believes himself in love with LOLA MANTELL, Diana's cousin. Brooks reappears to find that his newspaper stock is being manipulated. He suspects JOHN W. WALDEN, member of a prominent law firm, of being involved in the plot to wreck the Brooks' organization. Diana attends a dance with JOHN W. WALDEN. JR., who professes to love her. On their way home he makes unwelcome advances and she escapes and phones Don to come and get her. Walden and Don fight and Walden is knocked out. Don takes Diana home and realizes all at once that she is very beautiful and desirable. CHAPTER XXII “Don’t blame me entirely, Brooks. I’d been drinking—both of us had, Cor that matter —an’ I didn’t realize just what I was doing.” The speaker was John W. Walden, Jr. The place was the private office of Roger Brooks. It was on the second afternoon following Walden’s “knockout” at the hands of Diana Brooks when he had heard “the little birdies sing.” He had come, he informed Pop. to explain just how the thing had happened. He wanted Diana to know that he "forgave her in full” —held no feeling whatever of enmity toward her. No, sir—he wasn’t that kind of a fellow. Couldn’t hold a grudge against anybody, woman or man. Was always willing to meet the other fellow half way—to let bygones be by-gones. Os course, he continued with his Ingrowing air of condescension, the circumstances really called for an apology from Diana. But—he knew women pretty well—knew them pretty well, he did. He knew they hated to admit they were ever in the wrong. Mr. Brooks might tell his daughter just how he, Walden, felt about the matter, that he was too broad-minded to ask her to ask her to apologize, etc., etc. Roger Brooks listened to the longwinded panegyric of self-complac-ency without interruption. Finally the question came, equivocally worded, but plain enough for Pop’s interpretation. “I guess you know. Brooks, that I asked Diana once a very leading question—an important question—and she —” “She told you in plain English, didn’t she, that she wouldn’t marry you?” The leonine head had Jerked around with a suddenness that almost dislodged the frayed straw crown. The visitor’s gaze, encountering the look in the gray orbs of the man opposite, faltered, his tongue refusing to function. The stiff white hairs of Pop’s scrubby mustache seemed to bristle The implied something in the other’s tone, his manner of expressing himself and his familiar reference to Diana constituted a whole that had been too much for Roger Brooks. John Waldon, however, had come with a settled purpose in his mind and he was not to be thwarted. His was a stubborn, mulish disposition which, coupled with his monumental conceit, made him an ugly opponent at all times. An angry gleam burned now in his fishy eyes. “She had a right to change her mind,” he replied in answer to Pop’s direct question. “The’ idea was new to her then. If she thought—” He hesitated, his gaze partly averted. Incidentally, J. W., Jr., seldom, if ever, looked anybody straight in the eye. After a moment he went on slowly, with a dogged deliberation. "If she thought—knew it was going to benefit, may be save you from—er—well, from a lot of trouble, she might—er—might be glad—yes, glad—to marry me!” "Say, what in hell are you talking about?” burst from Pop as he half rose in his chair, the fingers of his two hands gripping the sides in a convulsive clutch. “What d’you mean—save ME f’m a lot of trouble? C’mon, now, cut out this innuendo stuff—get down to brass tacks! What is it y’re tryin’ to say?” John Walden had dodged, actually ducked his head at Pop's sudden move with its tentative threat. But he recovered his nerve as he realized the other’s ferocity was not going to include a body chastisement. “Why—er—you know, of course, Brooks, that you’ve got y’rself %n bad with certain dang’rous men,” replied the junior- member of the Walden, Higgins firm, a sly suggestlreness in both his manner and the tone of his voice. "Nobody’d be s’prlsed to hear you was bumped off most any old time!” The big frame in the revolving hair stiffened. “You’re a liar, Walden!” The assertion was made coldly, matter-of-fkctly. "You’re a liar,” Pop repeated in the same calm tone, his gray eyes fixed steadily on his visitor's face, “and you oughtta know damn well that I know it, too. Your dirty gang’ll never get th’ word to “bump me off” as long as I control the Times. And it so happens, by God, that I’m still in control here, despite th’ strenuous efforts th’ Ring lias made to hog th’ works!” The man he addressed Ignored Pop’s plain assertion that he was a liar, but took immediate umbrage to the “dirty gang” allegation. “You got no right to speak that

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way. Brooks,” he came back with an injured air that was pathetic under the circumstances. “I’m not a member of th’ Ring. You can’t show that I am. Neither is my old mna. Why do you say ‘your dirty gang’ to me?” Roger Brooks laughed a loud raucous laugh. “I take it back,” he said, and spat contemptuously in the big brass cuspidor standing close by. The very act in Itself was an insult. It implied a nasty taste in his mouth. He turned back to the man he had tried to insult and failed. “I take it back,” he repeated. “I should have said ‘your old man's dirty gang.’ And I say again—my life’s in no more immediate danger from your old man’s cut-throats. You cAn’t stick me up right now on any such bluff. And you can tell your old man for me that he has shaken down Roger Brooks for th’ last dollar he’ll ever get. Tell him, also, that I’m out to lick him to a frazzle in this stockgrabbin’ deal. When th’ battle's over an’ th’ smoke clears away it’ll SOld Pop Brooks that’s still at th’ er of th’ Times craft. You tell your old man lj said it!”

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But John Walden Jr., refused to -be mtimidated and couldn’t be insulted. “Os course you know. Brooks, you’re way off th’ track ’bout us—my old man an’ me,” he stated ponderously. “But there’s something else I want to say,” he added hurriedly. “It is this: When th’ dam breaks and you find yourself engulfed, helpless, remember John Walden. He may be able to pull you outta your trouble. You think you’re safe —protected. But—you wait. You haven’t gotta chance in th’ world to —” “I guess that’ll be about all f’m you, fellow!” broke in the booming voice of Pop Brooks. “And now—” he whirled in his chair and picked up some papers—“be careful you don’t stub your toe on y'r way out!” The fight foifc decency and better

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