Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1928 — Page 16

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r THIS HAS HAPPENED NATHANIEL DANN, struggling: artist, la engaged to VIRINIA BREWSTER, whose father is a prominent Wail Street financier. After losing his fortune in speculation, BREWSTER dies suddenly and leaves his daughter penniless. NIEL urges VIRGINIA to marry him at once, but an old family friend, FREDERICK DEAN, and his daughter. CLARISSA persuade her to make her temporary home with them. This This angers NIEL, for he suspects DEAN’S motives and does not lik" CLARISSA. He returns to his work and quarrels with his model, CHIRI, who is jealous of VIRGINIA. Meanwhile, VIRGINIA is puzzled and unhappy in her new home. She resolves to tell NIEL her fears, but when she phones his studio in the evening CHIRI answers. She tries to tight suspicion but she cannot bring herself to call him again. That evening at dinner CLARISSA place VIRGINIA beside her father at the table —to the obvious discomfort of a MRS. FARLEY, who apparently re T sented the presence of VIRGINIA in the DEAN home. After dinner VIRGINIA went to her room, leaving the others to play cards. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER IX. “T’M afraid you will find me dull 1 company this evening, ’ Frederick Dean remarked to Mrs. Farley when Clarissa and Russell had gone. She smiled at him, a superior smile. “On the contrary,” she said evenly, “you are going to be very exciting company.” Mr. Dean allowed a flicker of apprehension to appear in the gaze he turned upon her. He had caught something vaguely portentious, even threatening, in her level tone. “Then you didn’t stay for parchesi?” asked blandly. “When have we ever played parchesi?” she countered. “Don’t pretend to be stupid, Frederick, you are well aware that the game we have played is not so innocuous as that.” “Were we playing a game Helen?” His tones dripped innocence, but his eyes evaded her searching scrutiny of his face. “Yes, Frederick, we were,” she answered unemotionally, “and now I think it is time to declare the winner.” Dean reached over to a near by stand and helped himself to a cigaret from a lacquered box. “Thank you,” Mrs. Farlay said and put out a hand. He gave her the cigaret, and understood that she knew he was disturbed to the point of forgetting his manners. He took another cigaret for himself but he did not neglect to touch ''a match to hers before lighting his own. Thig' was going to be a game of wits, he realized, and he had lost the first point by letting her see that he was worried. For half a minute they smoked in silence. He was the first to speak. ' “Were there any stakes?" he asked, striving to speak lightly. “Important ones,” she declared instantly. “I thought right along that I had more to win than you had, Frederick, but since meeting Miss Brewster I have reached a different conclusion.” “Meaning . . . “That I am sure you regret the game now. Sweet child, isn’t • she?” Then with a sudden show of confidence, she added: “You know, I think I can understand how you feel. It must be like drinking at a fountain of youth to possess a girl like Miss Brewster.” “’What are you thinking about?” he shot at her quickly. “Don’t lose your temper, dear,” she warned him sweetly; “though I understand that, too. I felt angry myself earlier in the evening, but I’m wise enough to know that it will do'no good. I’ve decided we can settle the matter amicably.” “I can’t see that there’s anything

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to settle,” he replied, instantly on guard. “No?” she asked on a singing inflection. “That's unfortunate, for both of us, Frederick, for a scandal would not be any more to my taste than to yours. I can’t afford one.” “Scandal?” Dean fairly exploded the word. “Or proper balm for a wounded heart,” Mrs. Farley announced decisively. “Helen! Good heavens, are you blackmailing me?” “What an ugly word, Frederick! Don’t you think it would be nice to consider that Miss Brewster is worth what it will cost to wipe the slate clean?” “There’s nothing on the slate to wipe off! I’m not a fool, Helen. I didn’t expect anything like this, but I’ve always been careful about women. You are no exception.” “There aren't any love letters, that’s true, Frederick. But there are witnesses at my apartment. And you know, even if I failed to win a breach-of-promise suit, the mere fact that I filed one would be ruinous to you. “You must remember, dear heartbreaker, that I am a woman of your own scandal set, and a little smoke from my tiny blaze would mean more than a bonfire that any out-sider-might ignite. In other words, I am above suspicion.” “But you haven’t a reason for doing anything of that nature,” Dean protested heatedly. “I never spoke to you of marriage, Helen.” “I’ll admit that, Frederick, as w r e have no witnesses, but you know I expected you to. You’d have done it, too, if you hadn’t seen a chance to buy anew model.” “I don’t understand you,” he returned stiffly. “Oh, yes, you do. Frederick. You understand me perfectly, even if I was common. Miss Brewster has lost her fortune and you believe that she won’t bo goose enough to marry a poor, struggling artist if you offer your hand and fortune.” "You must be out of your mind, Helen, to say such things.” “You must be out of yours if you think I’m blind. And don’t you suppose Clarissa knows what you're up to? “That’s why she tilted at me at dinner. She thought she had me down, else she wouldn’t have given me this opportunity with you. But she underrated me, Frederick. I know when I’ve lost. I’m ready to settle the score and call it a day.”

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“And if there is no settlement . . .?” “Scandal! Or perhaps just a word or two to Miss Brewster about certain occasions in the past . . . that might suffice to salve my feelings and spare me the publicity I don’t want any more than you do.” “You win,” he said sharply. “That is, if you intend to be reasonable. For it’s blackmail, whatever you may call it. “You haven’t a shred of evidence and I doubt if Miss Brewster would listen to your confidences, but I realize as well as you do that it isn’t necessary to be proved guilty to be condemned.” “That’s sensible, Frederick. My demands will not be excessive, considering what I have to suffer, for you know, dear, I really was quite fond' of you ... in spite of your wealth.” “Like hell you were,” Dean rasped. “You’ll have to pardon that, Helen, but since you’re acting like a crook you must be prepared to listen to plain truths,” he added bluntly. “Plain figures on your check will do the trick, darling.” White with anger, Frederick Dean went to a desk and got out a checkbook. A moment later Mrs. Farley was calmly tearing a slip of paper to bits. “Double ” she said firmly, “and you’ll win.” Trembling, but forcing himself to silence, Dean wrote out anew check. Mrs. Farley folded it into a tiny jeweled vanity case she was carrying. “I’m truly sorry it turned out this w r ay, Frederick. I was thrilled at the thought of marrying you. “You’re flinty, and there isn’t the trace of a heart anywhere in your well-preserved body, but you had the power to strike Are in me. That’s a great deal to lose.” She was staring away from him, down the years, and for all the brittleness of her exterior there was a wistful quality in her cultivated voice. But it made no appeal to Frederick Dean. He hated her fiercely at that moment; she had bested him, criminally perhaps, but he did not mind her method. The mere fact that he was bested enraged him. He was not accustomed to it. Slowly she got to her feet. “I wish you luck, Frederick, but I don’t imagine you're going to have an easy victory with Miss Brewster.

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Sorry to have spoiled the evening you so plainly desired to have alone with her, but I wouldn’t try to rush her if I were you.” “No doubt your advice is valuable; you have managed your own affairs so capably,” Dean observed ironically. “I think, however, that I shall not require it.” “Perhaps not. Well, give me a parting kiss, old sunbeam, and don’t forget me too soon.” He drew back as she moved nearer to him and she laughed teasingly. “Come along then and see me cut, then,” she invited -and moved toward the door. “You see, I’m determined to please you in some manner, so I'll leave you.” As he opened the outer door for her he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure passing before the house He was helping Mrs. Farley into her car when the figure turned and came back, stopping near him. He closed the door of the car and faced about. “Good evening, Mr. Dann,” he said haughtily. “Nice evening,” Nathaniel returned pleasantly. “Nice for strolling, nice street, too.” Dean appeared relieved. “Oh, then you weren’t thinking of coming in?” he said discuragingly. “I should like to see Virginia,” Nathaniel replied, weakening in his resolve not to call until she summoned him. “She has retired,” Dean informed him curtly. “And there are other streets that are nice for strolling if you are interested in such exploring about. Good night.” “So you’re wise to me,” Nathaniel muttered after him as he mounted the steps and disappeared within the house. "Confound him,” Dean was saying aloud as he made his way back to the drawing room. “He’s shadowing the house, the pig-headed fool.” The thought of Nathaniel on guard out in the street, coupled with his appreciation of the soundness of Mrs. Farley’s advice about not "rushing” Virginia, put him on edge. He began to perceive that Nathaniel was going to be a formidable obstacle to his plan*. “There must be some way of get-

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