Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1928 — Page 14

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! THIS HAS HAPPENED NATHANIEL DANN. strueffling artist, gives a party at his studio in honor of his fiancee, VIRGINIA, beautiful daughter of RICHARD BREWSTER, Wall Street financier. NIEL’S model. CHIRI, is jealous of VIRGINIA and tells him that he will •poil his career if he marries a wealthy girl who cannot appreciate his art. VIRGINIA’S' father dies suddenly of heart failure and she is prostrated with grief. The doctor advises tha death ■ was caused by worry and shock, and it is later revealed that BREWSTER had lost his fortune in speculation. NIEL urges an immediate marriage but his pleading is interrupted by FREDERICK DEAN, an old family friend, who persuades VIRGINIA to come and live with him and his daughter CLARISSA, who is a girlhood chum of hers. He wins her over by saying: that to marry NIEL. now that she is poor, would wreck his career and be disgracedful to her father’s memory. NIEL is furious when she tells him her decision, for he susbects DEAN’S motives. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER IV, (Continued) When he opened the door of his Studio he saw that his reading light was turned on. A cup and saucer stood beside a smoky coffee pot on the teakwood table. He looked around and saw no one. It occurred to him that one of his friends who knew where he kept his doorkey had been, entertained him- ' self with coffee and gone out, leaving the light burning. Nathaniel had eaten practically nothing at dinner, unable to enjoy food, while Virginia left her’s untouched. The sight of the coffee pot stirred an appetite for a cup of the stimulating beverage. He carried the pot to the cubbyhole that the real estate agent called a kitchen, put fresh water to boil and went into his bedroom for his lounging robe. He snapped on the light, dug his robe from the closet and turned around to remove his coat. Then he saw, for the first time, that his visitor had not departed. “I might have known it was you,” he scolded, shaking the sleeping girl by the shoulder. She nut up a feeble hand, brushed futilely at his fingers, turned her head on the pillow and relaxed into slumber. Nathaniel noticed that the bed was made, the extra blanket folded neatly at the foot. He glanced back at Chiri. There was a smudge on her unrouged cheek —now and then she eschewed makeup completely just to show her friends that she was human, she said—and on the arm that she had thrown up over her dark, hit and miss bob. Nathaniel felt a moment of softness for her. ‘‘Poor little donkey,” he murmured. He stood and looked at her sleeping for a while, then turned, reached for the blanket and threw it over her feet. The studio was a bit chilly, as the weather had turned unexpectedly cold for late spring. A little later, over his coffee, he mused on the ways of women, particularly women of Chiri’s sort. An inspection of the place had acquainted him with the reason for her deep sleep. Apparently she was dead tired. The studio had been scrubbed from en fl ’-•’t in a way that the dust that gathers so quickly in woiuu not uiSvL-.ro his work. Only the Village had been removed. Scattered papers were still scattered. He felt warmly grateful and more than a little annoyed. Surely Chiri nothing by slaving for him. Yet, must know that she could gain on the other hand, he appreciated what she had done. Hired cleaning women made so much bother. Still he could not let her spend the night there simply

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i because he was grateful to her. But she had looked so darned tired. It wouldn't be necessary to turn her out until he was ready to retire. There was a pile of new novels on the table. Nathaniel turned his attention to them. He came to one that promised to absorb his interest and began to read. He read only occasionally, but when he did he liked to finish whatever it happened to be—novel or article. He read on and on, forgetting both Chiri and time. But he did not reach the end before his lids had drooped many times, finally to settle down firmly in overpowering sleep. The book slid unnoticed to the floor. He was awakened by the ringing of his telephone. He was half aware that it had been ringing for some time. The instrument was on a small stand near his bedroom door and before he could stir himself to answer it Chiri appeared, took the receiver off the hook and greeted the caller -with a lazy “hello.” At first Nathaniel did not grasp the significance of what she w r as doing. Those who live in the Village are not given toward consideration of appearances. But his first thought naturally was of Virginia, and then he realized in a flash that she would scarcely understand being answered by a feminine voice when she was calling him in the middle of the night. He sprang up hastily. "Who is it?” lie called. -“I think it is Miss Brewster,” Chiri told him. CHAPTER V Nathaniel groaned. “Get away from that phone,” he ordered, but Chiri only turned her back for answer. Putting the mouthpiece to her lips, she said: “Mr. Mann is not in. What’s that? Walker 8726?. No, it isn’t. I guess you’ve got the wrong number. I understood you to say you wanted Mr. Mann.” Nathaniel strode over and took the instrument out of her hands as she replaced the receiver. “If that was Virginia she’ll probably call again. For Pete's sake, Chiri, keep quiet if she does, will you?” “You wouldn’t deceive her, would you?” Chiri mocked. “I’ve got to. She wouldn’t understand your being here at this time o fnight.” “Night? You’re looney. It’s morning.” “Then get out, will you? I want a bath and ... yes, yes, this is Walker 8726. Virginia? Os course, it’s Niel . . . my voice? O, I only just got up . . . yes, I slept a little. Didn’t you? Worried? Please don’t do that, sweetheart ... of course I understand . . . I’ll be right up.” “One of those clocking females,” Chiri muttered scornfully. “Expects to find you just where she thinks you ought to be every time. That’ll be sweet when you get over being gaga.” “I ought to pitch you out on your head,” Nathaniel told her, “but I suppose you’ve earned your breakfast.” “Is that so? Well, I wouldn’t eat with you if that’s the way you feel,” she flared back at him. Nathaniel saw he had touched her pride—that vagrant pride that he never could prophesy. “O, come, Chiri, don’t be silly; I’m no end pleased you got the old place In shape for once, but you mustn’t expect gratitude from men. “And you will get me In a hole with Virginia, you know, if you keep this up. She simply couldn’t understand your sort.” “I should hope not! Narrow little soul, squeezed up in tissue and mothballs.” “You don’t know what you’re talking about, Chiri.” “Well, isn’t it narrow to think a Iqt of dirt simply because I spent the night here? That’s what you’re afraid your Virginia would think if she knew, isn’t it?” “No, it isn’t. I mean she wouldn’t

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be able to understand your staying here as an unwelcome guest. She would think I wanted you.” “Well, what if you did? Hasn’t a man a right to have the people he wants around him? We haven’t harmed any one, have we?” “It’s all a matter of viewpoint, Chiri. That’s the only real difference between any two people. You and Virginia are like the East and the West simply because of the way you look at things.” “I suppose I’m the East. Well, thank the gods that be that the sun rises in me.” “Now that we’ve, settled that will you cook us some breakfast while I take a bath?” Nathaniel asked with evident relief. “The sweetest breakfast you’ve ever had, humbly says your slave.” Nathaniel felt less depressed than he had since Virginia first told him she meant to accept Mr. Dean's offer of a home. She had .called him I up to say she had worried all night about making him unhappy He could tell that she really was anxious for his consent. It soothed him to know that he mattered so much to her. _ “Anyway, I’ve got a crust to ask her to pass up a home like Dean's j and cramp herself up in the kind j of apartment I could afford,” he ar- ! gued with himself, trying to down j the persistent feeling that it was a j bad move for Virginia to go to the Deans. He couldn’t tolerate Clarissa and he couldn’t see how Virginia could, either. “Unless it’s because, having I grown up with her, so to speak, she : overlooks her faults through force j of habit,” he thought, “or because I she learned to like her before the j age of discrimination.” He hurried through his bathing ! and dressing, partly so as not to j keep Chiri waiting, and partly to get an early start to Virginia. She j had said she needed his help with! some packing. But he noticed as he knotted his; tie and brushed his coat that the sounds from the cubbyhole and studio had ceased. He sincerely | hoped Chiri hadn’t been more deep- j ly offended than he had thought, j She was a kind-hearted little “mugg,” but quite a bit dangerous, too. as “freed” people are apt to be, he felt.

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She was gone. He made sure of it and then set sbout to prepare his own breakfast, but he discovered that she had left everything ready for him on the table. A napkin was spread over the toast and eggs to keep them warm. Thoughtful kid. The grapefruit looked tempting, so nicely cut and juicy. Nathaniel attacked it with eagerness and a bent spoon. Whew! What the devil? He sputtered, picking up his coffee cup and dashing wildly to the sink. Salt! And lots of it. He pushed the grapefruit aside and started in to breakfast on toast and eggs, but when he lifted the napkin he found only a couple of slices of bread that had been burned black and an egg that looked as if it had started to fry itself on a redhot coal and then changed its mind. “That’s what I call a fiendish trick,” Nathaniel raved. There was nothing left now but the coffee, and he had little faith in it. He was entirely justified in his belief as he learned when he charily took a sip of the most vile-tasting stuff he’d ever beheld in a cup. His nearest guess was that Chiri had boiled coffee and tea together. “Well, she got even,” he granted, “if she had a grievance.” He got a cup of coffee at a coffee shop where he knew there wouldn’t be any of his friends to engage him in conversation and delay his getting to Virginia's apartment. When he arrived there he was prepared to endeavor to make her believe he had come round to her

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enough for you, Niel, to do as you ask,” she said. “I did doubt you a little,” Nathaniel confessed, but the way he said it revealed to Virginia that he no longer doubted her. “I called you early this morning because I was afraid you wouldn’t want to come and I had to know if you felt like that,” she hastened to confide. Nathaniel laughed at her. “Do you think my love is made of selfconceit? That if I can’t have my own way I will stop loving?” “No, but I want you to know that I don’t love you selfishly, either. I want to give in to you with all my heart, Niel, darling, but that would be selfish because I know it isn’t best.” Nathaniel compressed his lips over an impulse to argue with her.

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After all, he had nothing but a groundless objection to her plan and his own disappointment to back him up in opposing her. And he wanted to make her happy. “At least you will promise to marry me soon, Virginia? You ought to go fifty-fifty with me on giving in, you know.” “I know I should, Niel. You’re being very good. Just let me get over this terrible blow and then perhaps I won’t be so fearful of the future. I’ll try to see things as you do.” They sealed their agreement with the seal of the ages between men and women and then Nathaniel asked to be put to work. There were a few books and pictures that Virginia felt entitled to take away with her. and these she and Nathaniel packed into a couple of suitcases. They had to go over

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the place carefully to make sure that nothing she ought to take, such as papers and personal belongings was left behind. Nathaniel glanced frequently at Virginia, watching solicitously for signs of a breakdown. It was a sad task, this saying good-by to a home and a happy part. Nathaniel’s own eyes smarted more than once as he saw Virginia surreptitiously press a beloved object to her heart and then replace it with reluctant hands. For what he felt would be the only time in his life he welcomed the presence of Clarissa when she appeared with a demurring young man in her wake. The call would serve to take Virginia’s mind off the past, he hoped, but a moment later he had cause enough to regret his credence. (To Be Continued)

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