Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1928 — Page 8

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And Crystal, crinking her eyes and twinkling them at Nils Jonson. who sat in an enormous chair with Cherry perched upon his knee, recrossed her pretty feet and very carefullly arched them so that the slim ankles showed to the best possible advantage. “What are your plans, Crystal?” Faith was asking in her soft, contralto voice, to which motherhood seemed to have added a vibrant, musical undertone, to perfect it for the singing of lullabies. “I don’t mean your very immediate plans, of course, dear, for I hope you’re going to make us a long, long visit. But I mean—what do you plan to do with your life? But you’re probably a little bewildered,” she hastened to add, as Crystal fixed her now childishly wide and mournful hazel eyes upon her. “Cherry and I—and Joy and dad, of course ” and Faith flashed a fond glance at her 10-year-old little sister and her father—“we’re all at sea when mother left us.” “That’s exactly how I feel, Faith,” Crystal answered, in her best-little-girl voice—genuine enough for the moment, for she had loved her mother passionately and missed her sometimes so desolately that she truly wished to die.

“All at sea! A lost child, and no policeman in the world can find me and take me back to mother. I’m afraid she babied me terribly. I really haven’t the least idea what to do with myself. “Os course,” and she laughed her affected little trill, “I could marry one of my suitors—by the way, what is the 1928 slang for suitor? —but I’m so terribly young to tie myself down to a husband and babies and everything—” “Let’s see, Crystal,” interrupted Cherry, who had been silent a long time. “You’re about Faith’s age, aren’t you?—twenty-two? Bob’s thirty, and he says he was eight when you were born.” “Meow!” Nils Johnson mimicked a cat, as he tugged at a cupper-and-gold curl over Cherry’s pink shell of an ear. “Not quite twenty-two,” Crystal denied hastily, color sweeping over her cheeks and bringing out tiny brown freckles surprisingly. One of her really beautiful hands, of which she was extremely vain, went to her marceled light-brown hair and patted it nervously. Even as her heart was aching with the realization that she had failed to charm at least- one of Bob’s

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THIS HAS HAPPENED BERTIE LOU WARD marries ROD BRYER, who had previously been engaged to LILA MARSH. The only shadow on the bride's happiness is Lila's persistence in broadcasting to their friends that she was Rod’s first love. A position in New York is offered Rod by TOM FRASER and he accepts. Anxious to make a good impression, they live in an expensive hotel while looking for an apartment and Bertie Lou finds it hard to resist when MOLLY FRASER urges her to buy more than she can afford. Lila visits Molly and meets a rich MR. LOREE. Lila surprises them by marrying Loree, and she asks Bertie Lou to forgive the past and be friends. She showers favors Upon them with such sincerity that Bertie Lou Is deceived. But keeping up appearances with thejr crowd is a severe strain on Rod's finances. Lila finds him depressed and persuades him to accept a high-salaried position with Loree and induces Bertie Lou to Indulge in an orgy of spending and mov# to more luxurius quarters. She gives Rod her jewel case to put in the office vault while Loree was away and a few days later asks him to bring it back to her. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXIII p OD climbed the winding stain of the Lorens’ duplex apartment in a small embarrassment. The butler had told him Mrs. Loree would receive him upstairs in her boudoir. Boudoir! In Rod’s mind the word was closely associated with bedroom. But rather than send up word to Lila that he’d prefer her to come downstairs, and possibly have her read his mind and laugh at him, he went up to her. The doer was open and Lila called to him in greeting as he reached the landing. “Good of you to bother to bring them yourself,” she thanked him when he handed her the jewel case. He felt a little less uncomfortable after his first glimpse of the room, which was in reality a private sitting room. Lila was dressed for the evening and not in negligee as he had half feared. Even if he had wanted to Rod could not have found anything here that suggested an attempt to break the conventions. If someone had told him at this momwnt that Lila was a dangerous enchantress he would have swept the assertion aside. To him she was a benefactress, and a devoted wife io her wealthy husband. His uneasiness dispelled, Rod made no objection when she said they would go down and have a cocktail. “Wait until I put on my necklace,” she added, and started to open the case. “Let me,” Rod offered, and Lila handed him a small key. The key stuck a bit in the lock. Rod asked if the lock was out of order. Lila said no and held out her hand. Rod returned the key to her. “I don’t want the bracelets tonight,” she said, fussing with the lock, “but since you didn’t have a key to the case . . .” Her words broke off abruptly. The case was empty! For one devastating momen Rod was without a thought. Then the full import of the empty case burst upon him. He looked, without realizing how idiotic it was, beside the case and on the floor. “They’re gone!” It was the merest whisper in which Lila uttered the words. Rod turned to her with the dawning of a solution in his mind. “Maybe you didn’t put them in the case,” he said hopefully. Lila nodded emphatically. “Yes,

family of in-laws, her mind, which never forgot her personal appearance, was wondering if the heat was flattening out her marcel. If only her hair were naturally curly! And if that was asking too much, why hadn’t God been good enough to give her hair that would keep a marcel Hov weeks, as some girls’ would? “You’re a bad boy, Bob, to go telling on me like that!” She pointed a finger at him archly: “I wonder if you’ve tola Faith about the summer when I was 13 and you were 20? Oh, Faith, it was too funny! “I was quite a big girl for my age, almost as big as I am now—which isn’t very big, is it?—and Bob was the best looking young college sheik you ever saw! He’d just finished his sophomore year at state university, and you know how sophomores are! They think they know it all! But Bob was different! I’m going to tell everything!” “Shoot the works!” Bob laughed, but Faith, who knew him so well, saw that he was irritated. His blue eyes, half-amused, halfcontemptuous, exchanged a glance with Cherry, who was wholly bored and scornful. “Well!” Crystal rearranged her printed chiffon skirt, so that a little more knee showed, then laced her pretty white fingers under her chin and looked up archly at Bob.

“Bob spent part of his vacation with us—Dad was living then, and we had the most gorgeous old homestead, big farm, and everything. Mother simply adored Bob, although she was only his aunt by marriage, and I think she wished there was no reason why first cousins shouldn’t marry, when Bob declared I was his little sweetheart and beaued me around to all the country dances and picnics and things. “Didn’t we have fun, Bob? Remember when we played that inyAiy, old-fashioned game—postoffice—and you would not kiss any of the girls but me?” Faith broke in, for Bob was literally squirming. “Bob has told me all about that delightful summer, Crystal, and I’ve been so awfully glad he had such nice relatives. He was rather lonely sometimes. And now—tell me, dear, what do you think of doing? I don’t mean to pry—” “Oh, you couldn’t pry, Faith!” Crystal protested warmly. “It’s just as you said—l’m all at sea. “You know, of course, that there—

J did. There’s no question about mat.” , “Please look around,” Rod urged, his anxiety revealed in the rapidly rising excitement of his voice. Lila moved over to a safe in the silk-paneled wall. “They’d be here, but I know they’re not,” she said tonelessly. “I put them in the case myself, just before I gave it to you to take to the office.’ ’ Lila’s words, and the gesture she made when she turned back from the open safe empty-handed, roused Rod to a true appreciation of his terrible predicament. His face paled under the stress of it. “Then they’ve, been stolen,” he said slowly, reluctantly. “But how could they?” Lila cried, apparently recovering from the numbing shock of the discovery. “You didn’t let anyone else have them, did you, Rod?” “No, of course not,” he answered. “My God, Lila, don’t you see how it looks for me?” “What do you mean?” she asked, in a small, strained voice that echoed his own emotion. Rod could see that she harbored a frightening thought. “You know,” he said more quietly. “I am responsible for them. The safe wasn’t robbed. There were other articles of value In it. A thief would not have left them.” “Isn’t there anyone down there who could have taken it? Perhaps you left it unguarded a little while on your desk or some place before you put it away,” Lila suggested, with an air of seeking to refresh his memory. Rod’s face shadowed with deepening trouble. “No one touched them,” he asserted firmly. “Couldn’t someone have taken them out of the safe?” Lila pressed, a little breathlessly. “No one has the combination except Cy and myself,” Rod explained. Lila was silent for a few seconds. “How did you come up here?” she asked then. “sty taxi. I didn’t want to risk being robbed in a crush,” Rod smiled ruefully. “A fine precaution that was.” “Haven’t you any idea when . . . when they were lost?” Lila said, ignoring the jibe at himself. “You mean Wfcen they were stolen,” Rod corrected her. “They haven’t been out of my possesion except when they were in the safe,” he went on. “We’d better inform the police at once.” He turned toward the telephone, but Lila interrupted him. “Wait a moment,” she urged. “You don’t know what your’e doing.” “Well, I’ve got to do something. And you ought to notify the insurance company without delay,” Rod advised her, reaching for the telephone again. “Rod, wait,” Lila insisted as she put a hand on his arm. “A few minutes won’t make any difference,” she added quickly. “And I think you’re too disturbed to see how this thing is going to end if you call in the police” Rod hesitated. Lila shoved the instrument aside. “Sit down,” she said and pressed him into the chair at the desk. She touched a button. “Don’t misunderstand me,” she began, when a maid had come and gone. “But if everything you say io true, Rod, I mean if you really 'didn’t give anyone a chance to rob you, while the case was out of the

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safe, then we can’t take this mess to the police.” Rod stared at her. "Wait until you’ve had a chance to inspect the safe,” she went on. “Perhaps it was tampered with.” Rod started to speak. “I know,” Lila interrupted him, “you, said nothing else was stolen. That means . . . well, we’ve got to face it, Rod. It means that some people at least are going to suspect you.” “I know that,” Rod admitted. Rod moved nervously and glanced at the telephone. Lila pushed it farther away. “Rod, listen,” she burst out suddenly. “Cy mustnt’ know about this. I asked him to help you for Bertie Lou’s sake. I was sincere and that satisfied him, but he knows about .. . about us. That was all right, too. But don’t you see? If you can’t prove your innocence, you’ll be under suspicion. And you know human nature. I’m not saying he will, but Cy might turn against you. “Think of what you would lose through no fault of your own.” She paused and Rod asked her why she didn’t belbieve he had stolen the jewels. “Oh, rot,” she returned impatiently. “I’m not a complete fool. And I got you into this.” “But if you don’t notify the police and the insurance people at once you’ll lose your jewels,” Rod pointed out to her. She smiled. “I know that,” she admitted, “but they aren’t worth so much to me that I’d sacrifice you to get them back.” “Lila, you’re a thoroughbred, but I’d be a fine kind of cur to let you protect me.” “Now wait a minute,” Lila hurried on, “I’m thinking of myself, too. I boosted you with Cy. If you get in trouble is gives me a black eye. “Why go through all that? Let’s get a private detective. I know one. Investigate before you go rushing into a cloud of suspicion. If we can find out who took the jewels before Cy learns about the theft you will be saved a lot of sorrow. It’s worth a try.” Rod grimaced. “I’d rather take a chance on Cy giving me a break.” Lila shrugged. “I know Cy better than you do. In some ways he’s bigger than any man I know but in others he’s . . . well, he’s got a queer streak, Rod. He’s unreasonable about some things. If it entered his head that you had robbed him he would send you to the penitentiary if he could, no matter how warm your friendship had been.” Rod winced. “But he’s got to know,” he said dully. “No, he hasn’t. No one has to know. I’ve got a string of pearls just like the genuine and copies of the bracelets. They’re very good, too. No one will know the difference. “If we lose time trying to catch the thief ourselves you may never get back your real pearls and the bracelets,” Rod cautioned her. “What if I didn’t?” Lila exclaimed impulsively. “They aren’t worth more than a few thousand dollars. That’s nothing to be compared to your future. If this should become one of those unsolved mysteries you’d be ruined forever, Rod.” Watching closely, she saw the expression in his face that she had hoped for. _ (To Be Continued).

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