Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1927 — Page 18

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30,000 CARDS PILE UP; FAULT IN ADDRESSES Clerks Face Mountains of Woe, Seeking Correct Names, Streets. Woes of postal workers, frenziedly working to deliver the last-minute deluge of Christmas mail, were augmented today with the problem of completing addresses of 30,000 improperly addressed greeting cards and several hundred Christmas packages. The cards bearing incomplete addresses are stacked in large piles while the “nixey” clerks dig feverishly through city directories. New Card Record Set Most of the cards lack either the street number or the street itself. More than 5,000,000 greeting cards will have passed through the Indianapolis postoffice by tonight, it was estimated, each year bringing an increasing number. Christmas packages with illegible addresses or none at all, are opened by special clerks in the hope of finding clues to the addressee or sender. Where no clues are found and the package is not identified by anyone', it is sent to the dead letter office. Among articles found in such packages are penknives, ties and socks of all descriptions, bath salts, powder, hand-embroidered pillow cases, boxes of home-made candy, a lavender leather purse, stationery addressed only to “Cousin Marion,” many ladies’ handkerchiefs, including one from “Aunt Alda and Uncle Ed to Virginia;” fountain pens, an “Eastern Prayer” picture from “Grace and Francis” and many other similar articles. No Silk Teddy for Mary “Mary” will probably never receive a silk teddy and bloomers tagged “to Mary from Mother.” A boudoir lamp “for Dad and Nellie” lies between two sleds with no addresses and a package of advertising plates with the wording, “Only 24 more days to Christmas." “Aunt Mary” may never know her little niece or nephew sent her a powder puff with a doll attached, six handkerchiefs and a linen doily. Most of the lost packages are the result of wrapping them in paper easily torn, such as tissue paper, placing heavy articles in flimsy wrapping and insecurely tied tags. In every case, postal clerks work for days and exhaust every resource before giving up hope and sending the packages and letters to the dead letter office.

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BEGIN HERE TODAY When Diana Farwell’s mother overhears talk of love between her daughter and a schoolboy friend, she is fearful that Diana will “go wrong” like her sister. Vivian, who ran away from home fuor years before. So the mother hastens a marriage of Diana with Arthur Vane, some years older, a successful San Francisco lawyer. Diana is only IS and goes into marriage believing “Arthur is so different from other men he always Will be satisfied with merely spiritual love.” But, after months of loveless wedded life, he tells her she has wrecked his life. Some time after her mother dies, Diana leaves Arthur and finds her long-lost sister, Vivian, preparing for a trip to New York. Diana rents a room at the home of Mrs. Burton, widowed friend of Diana’s mother, and enrolls In Seton’s School of Acting. Within a few months she has progressed so well with her school work she is taken by Shepherd Seton, head of the school, as his personal pupil. He arouses in her, in the Impassioned love scenes they rehearse together, sensations she has never had before. Vivian returns to San Francisco and is furious when Diana admits she is in love with Seton. Diana suspects Vivian has warned Seton to leave her alone, so she telephones him to come to her room. Seton and Diana visit a roadhouse together. Diana decides to ask Arthur for a divorce. Diana comes Into Seton’s office to find him making love to his own wife. Diana and Seton call off their friendSh’e leaves Seton to enter Klesalek’s class when someone rushes in with the information Seton has been shot.

CHAPTER LII DIANA stood motionless as Klesalek rushed from the room. She suspected, instantly, .that Vivian had fired that shot.' Vivian, whose hysterical judgment had led her to believe the worst. Why hadn’t Diana gone with her slsjser? She remembered now how Vivian had looked. Her words of the early morning; “I saw him sneaking out of your apartment . . It was terrible! It was her fault. And where was Vivian, now? Hidig or facing every one defiantly? Blazoning Diana’s humiliation to the worlrj? Trotsky had followed Klesalek. There was no one but Diana in the room. She heard the buzz of comment in the hall swelling into excited murmurs ... . Still she stood back against the wall, hands pressed to her frightened heart . . , Was Shepard Seton dead? Had Vivian killed him? . , , After a long time she knew from the awestruck cessation of sound that Seton’s door had been opened. An ambulance had arrived. Footsteps were heavy on the stairs. Diana hid her face. “Oh, God, please don’t let him die,” she whispered. When the door had closed again she forced herself outside. "How did it happen? It he hurt badly?” No one could answer. Seton had been found, unconscious, with his own pistol beside him. His own pistol. Oh, then, it couldn’t have been Vivian. Weeks ago he had exhibited that pistol to Diana. It was hidden beneath some papers in a drawer. Vivian could not have used his pistol. She would not have known where it was. A wave of relief swept her. At any rate her sister was not connected with it. Had he then attempted to kill himself on account of her? But that was ridiculous. He had admitted to Diana that his feel-

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ing for her was a temporary attraction only. Men don’t commit suicide over that. • - No one seemed able to give her any information. Even the whitefaced pupil, who had found him, could tell no more. Feeling as if she were in a nightmare, Diana passed through the door. Ignoring the half-completed sign above the theater, hailing a taxi, sitting tense and very straight. Nothing to. do but go home. Vivian had not confided her address. She could not go to the hospital or wherever they had taken Seton. The tragic incident ma<Je her realize the more how definitely he belonged to another woman. Even if he were dying she would have no opportunity of seeing him. And after death he would mean nothing to her at all. Pressing her handkerchief against her trembling lips she told herself that the scene in his studio that morning had alienated her utterly. She was already thinking of him as someone who had been dead for a long time. “You’re exquisite, Diana God, I want you—Love me then, love me, love me ” Was it only last night he had said that? But it couldn’t be. She was separated from him by eons of time Arrived at her own apartment she went inside to sit, stiffly, on the davenport. Staring at the walls. There seemed nothing to do. She feared there would never be anything to do again When the telephone rang she answered, dully. "There is no one here, Vivian. I am alone.” She waited for her sister, wondering what she would say. She was amazed to hear Vivian cry, in a thin, frightened, voice. "Oh, Diana, he isn’t dead, is he?” “How do you know about it?” Vivian sank on the davenport, beating her fists against the cushions. “I thought I wanted to shoot him until I saw the funny, surprised way be looked But it was too late. I hadl already fired!” “How could you shoot him with his own pistol?” “I waited until he left the room,” blurted Vivian. “I knew he used to keep a pistol in one of the drawers ” Unconscious of the expression on

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Diana’s face she went on: "When he came back Oh, Diana, I didn’t mean to kill him.” Diana shuddered. Vivian?” “When did you know him so well, “Two years ago,” confessed her sister. “Before he was married.” So that was it! Immovable as a statue, Diana said: “You have made a terrible mistake if you shot him on my account.” “But I saw him leaving here. I was afraid you were going to do something wreckless. I drove back this way on my way home . . .” “It makes no difference what you saw," Diana repeated firmly. “We had been out, too. Had just gotten back. But nothing had happened. Nothing would ever have happened!”

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Vivian began to cry. Slow, tortuous sobs that racked her beautiful body. “I didn’t trust him. Because, you see, I knew .. .” “Oh, darling, I’m sorry. Perhaps he isn’t hurt badly.” , “But what will I do, Diana? Oh, I wish I'd never came back. I did this for you, Diana . . .” Poor Vivian, justifying herself even now by the thought that she had played the heroine for “little” sister’s sake. Feeling herself the older, Diana cried, "Well, there is only one thing we can do. I’m going to call Arthur.” In the stress of the moment it did not occur to her was ac-

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cepting Arthur’s own estimate of his superior wisdom. She only knew she needed him. And in spite of Vivian’s expostulations, Diana ran to the telephone and called.

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